Cevno Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Oh and we need governance reforms and end to political patronage far more than even economic reforms.
Cevno Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Any media reports about this? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jqFdjxNcY]Ahmedabad : Protesting AMC workers dumped garbage on street - Tv9 Gujarat - YouTube[/ame] Though to be fair such games are played before elections.
G_B_ Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 With a transparent and honest mechanism FDI will come in more. Do you think foreign companies likes paying lobbyist as has been revealed ? And btw, who will end politicization of all our PSU's ? Air India has been driven into financial ruin thanks to politicization when in fact it could make profit for the country. Scams and crony capitalism has ruined 2/3 sectors already. Anyways, FDI is not really a major factor in Delhi either way. Hmm lets see i am a foreign investor and i see anarchy on the streets of delhi organised by its CM. I am going to keep miles away from Delhi and invest in gujarat...... corruption is only one aspect of investors putting their money in.
G_B_ Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Oh and we need governance reforms and end to political patronage far more than even economic reforms. yes with the economy barely growing at 5% and the rupee sliding more than ever we need more dharnas. I think the AAP Admi should change its name to Populist aadmi
Cevno Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Hmm lets see i am a foreign investor and i see anarchy on the streets of delhi organised by its CM. I am going to keep miles away from Delhi and invest in gujarat...... corruption is only one aspect of investors putting their money in. What anarchy on streets of Delhi ? A 2 day protest ? Meanwhile they were all fine investing in Gujarat when Babu Bajrangi and Maya Kodnani types were roaming free doing what ? This is a absurd line of thinking. They will invest where they find it easiest and see oppurtunity. Yes political factors are considered as well but no foreign investor is perturbed by a protest. Then BJP would be useless calling Bharat bandhs every 6 months which is far more hurtful to economy than CM sleeeping 1 night on street protesting against Police. Hilarious argument.
Cevno Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 yes with the economy barely growing at 5% and the rupee sliding more than ever we need more dharnas. I think the AAP Admi should change its name to Populist aadmi Governance reforms includes electoral, police, adminstrative, judicial reforms and all will benefit clean business and also remove vested interests. Plus we need to depoliticize our existing public sector units as well.
jalebi_bhai Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Though to be fair such games are played before elections. It's been running for 20 days? Seems fishy........
Cevno Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 It's been running for 20 days? Seems fishy........ Such politically motivated protests happen regularly before elections in almost every state, but only make national news when it is against AAP govt which has just been in office 20 days.
jalebi_bhai Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Such politically motivated protests happen regularly before elections in almost every state' date=' but only make national news when it is against AAP govt which has just been in office 20 days.[/quote'] Because unlike the rest of the tainted parties, AAP is the most honest and truthful party.......and its members are incapable of misdemeanor....... It's simple really.......when you keep thumping your chest and set incredibly high moral and ethical standards for yourselves..........you should be prepared to face the brunt of the ridicule and scrutiny you are likely to be subjected to when you eventually slip up........
ravishingravi Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Because unlike the rest of the tainted parties, AAP is the most honest and truthful party.......and its members are incapable of misdemeanor....... It's simple really.......when you keep thumping your chest and set incredibly high moral and ethical standards for yourselves..........you should be prepared to face the brunt of the ridicule and scrutiny you are likely to be subjected to when you eventually slip up........ Exactly. Like Imran Khan's PTI, they came with hope and optimism, and now look increasingly paranoid, naive and not ready or governance responsibility. Like PTI fanboys, they feel compelled to play off this tried and tested narrative.
adi B Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 :haha: congress made a joke of themselves today :cantstop:
BlackMamba Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 NaMo - All set for PM. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BJP-poised-for-best-ever-tally-Narendra-Modi-set-to-be-PM-say-polls/articleshow/29322215.cms NaMo Namah! NaMo Namah! Har Har Mahadev!!
cowboysfan Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BJP-poised-for-best-ever-tally-Narendra-Modi-set-to-be-PM-say-polls/articleshow/29322215.cms NaMo Namah! NaMo Namah! Har Har Mahadev!! i would hold off on the celebrations,we have all seen similar rejoicing from BJP faithful before only to come crashing down to earth.
ganeshran Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 Rs 9,000 crore is a lot of money. But that is the cost that the denizens of Gujarat will have to bear for the adventures of their Hriday Samrat Narendra Modi. Not for all his adventures, but one particular adventure, or rather misadventure. Surprised? Read on. About eight years ago in mid-2005, Mr Narendra Modi, who many ill-informed souls think is a shining example of good governance and epitome of brilliant economic administration, called for a sudden press conference on a Sunday evening in Apnu Amdavad. Over chai and pakoras, Modi made a momentous announcement. He said that the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC), an arm of his government, had literally struck gold. Exploring 1,700km way in the Krishna Godavari (KG) Basin – off the coast of Andhra Pradesh – the GSPC had made a significant find of gas. The gas was to the tune of 20 trillion cubic feet (tcf), an astounding find valued at $50 billion. Modi’s men, used to exaggerating the prowess of their boss, told newspersons on the sidelines of the conference that CM sahib was being conservative and that the find could be much more! Anyway everybody was excited. If this was not Gujarat’s gaurav, what else was? So far from Gujarat, the brilliant men of Modi had conquered even the east coast and the Bay of Bengal! And what was the Andhra Pradesh government doing off whose coast Modi men had struck gas? Nothing really. When the block (size: 1,850 square km) was offered under the third round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) in 2003, the AP government headed by Chandrababu Naidu had not bothered to put in a bid. And yet, everybody called Naidu a great liberalizer. Buoyed by the find, Modi and his men went hyper. If they could discover gas off the east coast of India, they could find it elsewhere too. So began the big exploration rush. Egypt, Australia, Yemen, Indonesia, wherever oil blocks were being offered Modi’s men rushed to take them on (either on their own or through joint ventures). Money was no consideration and if it was, then nobody seemed to care But where would the money for all the exploration come from? Modi men decided they would borrow from the market. What after all were the markets there for? Of course, the interest they would pay on the borrowings did not bother them. After all the gas they would find would make the GSPC enormously rich and not only be enough to pay back the interest and the principal but also make huge profits. But the bubble has burst now. The whole gas exploration affair in the KG Basin in the Bay of Bengal turned out to be a damn squib. The gas find in the KG Basin in the block (called the Deen Dayal west field after former Jana Sangh president Deen Dayal Upadhyaya) being explored by the GSPC is merely 2 trillion cubic feet – that is one tenth of that claimed in 2005 originally. What is worse, nobody is sure whether this gas is recoverable and experts say that the cost of recovery is going to be very high and would require a very high level of technical expertise. Meanwhile GSPC has run debts of over Rs 9,000 crore, possibly closer to Rs 10,000 crore. GSPC on its site has not posted its annual report for 2011-12 though we are coming close to the end of financial year 2012-13. The latest report on GSPC’s site is that of 2010-11, a financial year that ended two years ago in March 2011. As per this report, GSPC had loans amounting to Rs 7,126.68 crore on March 31, 2011. A significant part of the loan – Rs 2,980.32 crore was unsecured (that is loan not backed by any collaterals). The total loan was somewhat lower in the previous year: on March 31, 2010 it amounted to Rs 6,383.83 crore. Probably Modi is scared in putting up the report for 2011-12 because that will expose him and show how incompetent his own men are making projections of the future. Of course, there has been no press conference to announce how Modi’s oil exploration adventure has gone phut! All that the section of management discussion and analysis in the annual report of GSPC for 2010-11 says is: “KG block in Deen Dayal Field is a high temperature, high pressure, tight and deep gas field with a complex structural/stratigraphic trap involving separate fault blocks associated with rift geology…” In other words, getting gas out of the field is no easy proposition. In the meanwhile GSPC has gone into allied businesses and set up subsidiaries for gas trading, gas transmission and city gas distribution among other things. This is to buoy the overall performance of the company and allow it to earn some money to pay for the loans. But if la affaire GSPC is not a good example of the poor managerial prowess of Narendrabhai Modi, what else is? http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/masala-noodles/entry/narendra-modi-s-rs-9-000-crore-gas-misadventure
Sachin=GOD Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 p1nBPAfwVRA this might have been a good show if they had someone other than Chetan Bhagat as the narrator.
Sachin=GOD Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 Clogging The Ink The Modi wave is quietly battering free expression When Thiru Veerapandian expressed the sound idea that people must think before they voted for the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, he would not have imagined he would lose the prime-time programme he had been anchoring on Sun TV for 17 years. But since December 20, he’s been waiting for the channel to call him to conduct Vibhada Medhai, his daily debate forum. “I said people should think—not vote for Modi just because there was a Modi wave,” says Veerapandian. “I said they should remember that, if they voted for Modi, they might well have to live with that decision for the next 15 years.” He did not make the comment on the programme either. He made it in his private capacity, at a forum that had nothing to do with the channel: it was an in camera discussion on November 25 of a committee report on the Muz*affarnagar riots. But it was posted online and led to demonstrations by the BJP’s Tamil Nadu unit. The party’s state secretary Sarvothaman complained to the channel in December that the comments were divisive; its leaders threatened not to participate in any Veerapandian programme. The axe fell. All of a sudden newspapers and television channels have become wary of offending Modi. He interacts with the media minimally and selectively. But his name is being breathed in talk about top-level editorial changes in some media houses. Reporters are being asked to pipe down; editors are losing their jobs; prime-time programmes are going off air; commentators are replacing vitriol with neutral ink while writing on Modi. Such is the ‘M’ effect on the media, some believe that proprietors and decision-makers are using it as a convenient handle to control editorial expression. They are often able to justify such decisions by citing the fusillade of harsh, even obscene, online and social media feedback that greets anything anti-Modi. What’s more, in an increasingly corporatised media, political alignment is swivelling like a wind-vane rather than a compass needle. Says Siddharth Varadarajan, who had to quit as editor of The Hindu in October, “Proprietors are by nature risk-averse. Given that Modi is averse to a critical press, it shouldn’t surprise us that most proprietors don’t want to get on his wrong side. How that impacts the editorial side depends on the DNA of the individual media house. Sometimes there may be explicit instructions. There’s also self-censorship, which is more insidious.” Varadarajan had fallen foul of a new board of directors at the newspaper. He had set rules on the coverage of political personalities in the light of the forthcoming general elections. The new editor-in-chief, N. Ravi, it is learnt, did not approve of how the Modi avalanche was being underplayed. Many were surprised this ever happened at The Hindu, staid and generally stable in stance. And its ombudsman (or readers’ editor) A. Paneerselvan had dissected the bandwagon effect thus: “(It) generates fear to dissent, apprehension to have a different perspective, discourages dissonance with the manufactured spirit of the time and deviates from first principles. It forces many to think they should not be caught on the wrong side even when they do not really believe in the information avalanche.” Asked to comment on the changes at The Hindu, editor-in-chief Ravi said, “We have been editorially opposed to Modi, but this never refl*ected in our news coverage. We had to restore professionalism, and in my view, the emergence of Modi on the nat*i*onal scene was not being properly covered.” Sometimes, there are no explanations of the sort Ravi offered. On October 27, the Hindi daily Divya Bhaskar had screeched in a banner headline: ‘Nehru didn’t attend Patel’s funeral’, a statement attributed to Modi. In fact, Nehru did attend the funeral. So Modi’s bloo*mer (some call it a mischievous lie) and the newspaper’s front-paging of it was subjected to heavy-duty criticism on television channel discussions. Two days later, the newspaper simply retracted the report. No elaboration. Hartosh Singh Bal, former political editor of the weekly Open magazine, wasn’t directly told why he was losing his job or how his proprietors felt about his work. While his articles have been critical of Modi, they have equally scorched Rahul Gandhi of the Congress. “It was conveyed to me by my editor that my exit was due to political pressure,” says Bal. The magazine had put up a cover online with a photo of Modi on a pile of skulls and Rahul on the shoulders of his parents (to indicate dynastic rule). It went viral, after which the staff was told to take it off. Whispers were that the Modi camp had exerted pressure. The magazine has now had a change of guard. A rightward swing at Network 18 is being attributed to its takeover by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance group. Former editors of Forbes (India), one of Network 18’s magazines, have commented on instructions to go soft on Modi. Four of them, including Indrajit Gupta, quit last year. All television channels, magazines and the online paper owned by the group are learnt to have been instructed to carry material promoting Modi; voices of protest are learnt to have been stifled or silenced. Modi-backing—like mouse click-driven Hindutva—finds vociferous expression in the social media. Its fury recently found a target in Raheel Khursheed, Twitter’s head of news, politics and government in India. A few old tweets of his, now nowhere to be found, were dug up to demand his removal. In one, he alle*gedly said (in a retort to @NDTV) that Modi “oversaw mass murder for fun”. Like Bal, Khursheed has been equally critical of Rahul, calling his political interventions “insipid and uninspiring”. He seems more anti-establishment than anti-Modi—he tweeted in support of a Tahrir Square in Srinagar and said of the UPA’s crackdown on protesters in December 2012, “India banega Kashmir”. But all that is lost on the likes of Sachin Dixit (@India_MSM), who started a campaign and gathered some 5,000 ‘signatures’ to have Khur**sheed sacked. Khursheed did not respond to texts seeking comment. If such is the influence on the media at the national level and online, in Gujarat, of which Modi is chief minister, the attempt to control is exerted to a greater degree. The management of a top business magazine was informed that their state correspondent was not welcome to do the cover story on the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit, a bi-annual event meant to showcase what Modi has done for business and industry. Months ahead of the jamboree, bureaucrats fan out across the world to garner participation and presence. And in Gujarat, hardly a week passes anyway without the government doling out print and television ads countrywide, showcasing Modi’s dramatic plans, such as one for installing a tall statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Advertisement staff of publications and television channels are homing in on Gujarat to make the most of the splurge. While it cannot be said that this has always eroded the wall between advertising and editorial, its effects are indeed visible. In tandem with Modi’s asce*ndancy, they form a potent field-force, one that is changing how the media is being run. Sadly, first principles are being abandoned, heads are being buried in the information avalanche instead of being used to critique it. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?289263
ganeshran Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 p1nBPAfwVRA this might have been a good show if they had someone other than Chetan Bhagat as the narrator. So Satan Bhagat is the new item girl for the chaddi brigade. Hope he stays busy and doesnt write any more books.
bulbul Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 ^typical con party supporter talking :hysterical:
ganeshran Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 For Narendra Modi, working on world's tallest statue, a new order is placed http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/for-narendra-modi-working-on-world-s-tallest-statue-a-new-order-is-placed-475848 Ahmedabad: Building the world's tallest statue - with donations of cash and iron from farmers and others across the country - is one of the mission statements being emphasized in the campaign of Narendra Modi, the BJP's candidate for Prime Minister. The statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India's first Home Minister and the deputy of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is expected to cost 2500 crores, will be double the height of the Statue of Liberty, and will be installed on a river island in Gujarat, the home state of both Mr Modi and the iconic founding father, who belonged to the Congress but whose legacy has turned into hotly-contested territory. (Read: Modi flags off trucks for iron collection for Sardar statue) While Mr Modi and the BJP have positioned themselves as the defenders of a founding father ignored by the Congress, they have a new interest group to contend with. Dalit organisations in Gujarat have come together to demand an even taller statue of their leader, BR Ambedkar, the father of the Indian constitution and the country's first Law Minister. On Republic Day, several leaders including Dr Ambedkar's grandson, Prakash, met at Bhatt village, about 30 kilometres from Ahmedabad, and decided to launch a high-decibel campaign to pressure Mr Modi . "We now need to examine whether religion or constitution holds an important role..that's why there is need for such a statue..which could serve as an icon for the youth and provide them an insight into the contribution of Baba Saheb Ambedkar,'' said Prakash Ambedkar. Paraphernalia to popularize the cause includes matchboxes and candles inscribed with messages promoting Mr Ambedkar. These are being distributed in villages. Dalits constitute 17% of the population, and if the movement gathers momentum outside Gujarat, Mr Modi may find himself confronting a new and large dilemma. (Watch: Sardar Patel - A contested legacy) Aur banao statues :giggle: 2500 crores for a statue :WTF:
adi B Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 So Satan Bhagat is the new item girl for the chaddi brigade. Hope he stays busy and doesnt write any more books. why are u pappu supporters so disappointed and insecure :giggle:
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