ravishingravi Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 No, I do not want everything done in 30 ( or 49 , for that matter) days. But so far, and in their last stint as the ruling government the BJP has done nothing apart from waiting for the right numbers about the Uniform Civil Code. They've just made a lot of noise about it before the elections. Like I mentioned, they've been all talk. Hopefully, they would do something about it. Would looove to know specifics here.
ravishingravi Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 He derided gravity in his gaavty accent. I feel offended as urban pseudo secular elitist.
coffee_rules Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/rajdeepsardesai/1/3392/modi-mandate-myth-and-reality.html Rajdeep Sardesai's blog after Modi's victory in 2007. Good that he doesn't predict cricket matches, or perform like his dad did.. To project him as a future prime minister in waiting is equally mistaken. The claim that Modi represents a new India, yearning to break free from feudal snobbery and liberal hypocrisies, is to confuse a Gujarat state election verdict with a national mandate. With its double digit growth that is relatively evenly spread across the state, industrious work force, strong congregational folk Hinduism, large NRI presence and rapid urbanization, Gujarat is ideal Moditva territory, a bit like an extended sect in which everyone talks a similar language and where Modi has been elevated to the status of a regional folk hero. India is far more complex and heterogeneous, with each state presenting its own set of socio-political challenges, and every state election throwing up distinctive trends. .. Modi too may find that not every state electorate will embrace him with the readiness that Gujarat and the blogosphere has. Ironically, Modi's position today is not too different from the original Hindutva posterboy, L K Advani, a decade ago. Then, it was Advani who was being showcased as the ideological mascot of a new India, as a leader who would finally rid the country of its soft underbelly, a politician who would challenge the old Nehruvian order. And yet, when it came to the crunch, it was the BJP's saffron Nehruvian, Atal Behari Vajpayee, who was the most acceptable prime ministerial candidate to the ruling coalition. Quite clearly, Advani's national ambitions have remained trapped for years under the debris of the Babri Masjid demolition just as Modi has been haunted by the ghosts of post-Godhra. It has required Mr Advani to virtually re-invent himself as a less ideological, and more consensual politician before he could be formally anointed as a potential prime ministerial candidate of a national alliance. Modi too, will need to re-invent himself if he is to be seen as more than just a Gujarat regional satrap. The challenge is to do so without losing his iconic Moditva branding that is his original USP. .... Narendrabhai may have captured the mind of Gujarat; winning the soul of India is a different matter altogether. Hindsight is a b1tch!:giggle:
diga Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 any ideas where the husband-wife duo are headed? Chutti lambi ho gayi:--D
Sachin=GOD Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 Sher ki soorat, khargosh ka kaleja Narendra Modi's fans expect him to extend his Gujarat model of development to all India. They think Modi's "tough love" will lead to hard decisions that hurt immediately, but later yield handsome dividends. They believe Modi will, as promised in his campaign pledges, treat Indians not as recipients of doles and subsidies but as aspirants seeking the jobs and opportunities created by rapid economic growth. Alas, a series of Modi's decisions last week were so populist, dithering and spineless as to make Manmohan Singh look a lion by comparison. In February, Singh proposed an increase of 14.2 % in rail fares and 6.5% in freight rates, and set the cost of a monthly suburban pass at the equivalent of 30 journeys a month, up from the earlier 15. The Election Commission postponed implementation till after the general election. Last week, the government said the Congress-proposed rates would be implemented from June 25, but backtracked after protests. Experts say passenger fares need to rise 50% to break even. Suburban passengers working a six-day week typically make 56 journeys a month, but pay for only 15 journeys through monthly pass. Relatively well-off urban commuters gain most, above all those of Mumbai, India's best-paid city. Populist railway ministers have for decades levied ultra-high freight rates to subsidize passengers. This has artificially inflated industrial costs and eroded export competitiveness. Now, Modi's election campaign promised massive rail expansion, including an expensive quadrilateral of bullet trains. India needs to increase rail investment almost tenfold to catch up with China's $90 b per year. This requires the Railways to be run as a commercial business. When, as expected, commuters protested against the new fares, Modi should have explained that the increases were not only inevitable but grossly inadequate for creating a world class rail system. Instead, he surrendered without a fight. Second-class fares up to 80 km will be exempted from the fare increase. Monthly pass will remain massively subsidized at the equivalent of 15 journeys, not 30. Why? Because Modi wants the votes of Mumbai's railway commuters in the coming Maharashtra state election. This is as cynical and cowardly as anything the Congress can be accused of. Modi is providing greater rail freebies than Singh had proposed. So much for tough love. ndia's sugar industry has long been a mess because high 'state advised prices" bear no relation to costs or economics. They aim simply to buy the votes of cane farmers. Sugar mills suffer huge losses, cannot pay farmers, and so farm arrears of tens of thousands of crores pile up periodically. This insane system needs scrapping. Instead the Modi government last week increased subsidies for sugar exports, increased import duties on sugar, and increased the amount of sugar-based ethanol that has to be blended with petrol from 5% to 10%. These freebies and distortions are aimed at somehow enabling mills to pay cane dues of farmers. Far from reforming a monumentally stupid system, Modi has kept it alive through additional stupidities. Why? Because Maharashtra is a big sugar producer, and Modi wants to ensure that the state's farmers will vote for him in the coming state election. The Congress government had screwed up enough courage to virtually double the price of natural gas from April1, bringing it closer to global rates. This would have made it economic for companies like ONGCBSE 0.00 % to produce gas from high-cost offshore deposits. Implementation here too was postponed by the Election Commission. Modi has now postponed gas price revision till September. Manmohan Singh was willing to bite the bullet, but not Modi. The government's exploration contracts offered to global bidders had promised that any gas discovered could be sold at the market price. Now, a market price should be discovered through open auctions. But in India, the "market price" is determined by Rangarajan Committees and Cabinet meetings, not the marketplace at all. The Supreme Court has ruled that natural resources like spectrum and coal must be auctioned. Gas must be treated the same way. Modi can justify dithering on gas only if he ultimately accepts the global reality of high energyBSE 4.97 % prices, stops trying to subsidize gas by hook or crook, and auctions gas like any other natural resource. Modi must not be judged solely by spineless decisions in one week. We must give him more time to prove that he can indeed reform India. But that means matching slogans with actions. If instead he only talks tough and then retreats into dithering populism, he will deserve the Hindi epithet, "Sher ki soorat, khargosh ka kaleja" (looks like a lion, but has the liver of a rabbit). http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/comments--analysis/Sher-ki-soorat-khargosh-ka-kaleja/articleshow/37436511.cms
asterix Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 ^ "Manmohan Singh was willing to bite the bullet"? When?
Yoda-esque Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 Sher ki soorat' date= khargosh ka kaleja http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/comments--analysis/Sher-ki-soorat-khargosh-ka-kaleja/articleshow/37436511.cms Idiotic article
ravishingravi Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 Idiotic article Hmm. Tailor made title for detractors. Or should I use the word haters.
Sachin=GOD Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 Hmm. Tailor made title for detractors. Or should I use the word haters. Any comments on this - http://www.indiancricketfans.com/showpost.php?p=2995711&postcount=38
surajmal Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 ^That is racist. But don't expect anything better dumb donkeys.
surajmal Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 Namo is going to have to do something about this CONgi media. Putting them on ignore or sealing up the leaks will just make them manufacture more BS. Time to get Swamy to open up some tax cases against these scumbags.
asterix Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 Namo is going to have to do something about this CONgi media. Putting them on ignore or sealing up the leaks will just make them manufacture more BS. Time to get Swamy to open up some tax cases against these scumbags. He's going the ABV way... Delhi babus hoodwinked him... Hes actually giving competition to MaunMohan Singh in keeping silence on many issues...
coffee_rules Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 10 years of misrule, and the haterz want action within 2 months of BJP rule.
Number Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 10 years of misrule' date=' and the haterz want action within 2 months of BJP rule.[/quote'] As Tavleen Singh says first they said Modi wont be PM candidate. Then they said he wont win a single seat outside Gujarat. Now the same people are telling us he will be as bad as UPA.
Yoda-esque Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 As Tavleen Singh says first they said Modi wont be PM candidate. Then they said he wont win a single seat outside Gujarat. Now the same people are telling us he will be as bad as UPA. They keep making the same mistakes lol
coffee_rules Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 As Tavleen Singh says first they said Modi wont be PM candidate. Then they said he wont win a single seat outside Gujarat. Now the same people are telling us he will be as bad as UPA. And counting all the setbacks his campaign had...
JaiRamesh2 Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Indian nurses in Iraq safe, to arrive in India on Saturday http://www.firstpost.com/world/indian-nurses-iraq-safe-arrive-india-saturday-1603523.html?utm_source=FP_HP_CATEGORYRANK Good job by Modi government.:nice:
diga Posted July 11, 2014 Posted July 11, 2014 Narendra Modi got more votes than anyone in universe, says David Cameron "I won't forget my conversation with Prime Minister Modi congratulating him on his victory. I picked up the phone and said, 'It's great to be talking to someone who just got more votes than any other politician anywhere in the universe'," he said. Cameron disclosed his private conversation with India's newly-elected leader during an address to Britain's Indian community at an annual event hosted by the Conservative Friends of India here.
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