asterix Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Rahul baba (and his advisers) trumped both BJP and AAP on the recent agitation of the Municipal Cleaners agitation... He "intervened" at the right moment and forced the stupid Netas of BJP & AAP to go on streets for a cleanliness drive while the HC ordered AAP Govt. to release the salaries.. The workers are now thankful to Rahul baba for supporting their cause and making things happen.. :nice: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger80 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Modi, Kejriwal just making empty promises: Rahul Gandhi http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Modi-Kejriwal-just-making-empty-promises-Rahul-Gandhi/articleshow/47704493.cms Today Rahul gandhi said " Kisaanon ki zameenen chhen ke F-1 track bana di" I don't know who is mentoring RG but looks like he don't even remember that F-1 track was constructed in UPA regime :cantstop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desi Cartman Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Today Rahul gandhi said " Kisaanon ki zameenen chhen ke F-1 track bana di" I don't know who is mentoring RG but looks like he don't even remember that F-1 track was constructed in UPA regime :cantstop: :haha: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkt.india Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Today Rahul gandhi said " Kisaanon ki zameenen chhen ke F-1 track bana di" I don't know who is mentoring RG but looks like he don't even remember that F-1 track was constructed in UPA regime :cantstop: sharing it on FB :giggle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Rahul Baba will spend his birthday in India for the first time in 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_B_ Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Today Rahul gandhi said " Kisaanon ki zameenen chhen ke F-1 track bana di" I don't know who is mentoring RG but looks like he don't even remember that F-1 track was constructed in UPA regime :cantstop: that was the bsp regime right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 that was the bsp regime right? Yes. In fact IIRC Rahul Gandhi also went to some kind of agitation over the Noida Expressway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger80 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 that was the bsp regime right? But at center it was UPA, I don't think BSP constructed it without clearance from center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_B_ Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 looks like RaGa has gone down the neo left path... i personally feel they need to tie up with the bsp for 2017. but atleast he looks like he is going to give this a good shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger80 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Yes. In fact IIRC Rahul Gandhi also went to some kind of agitation over the Noida Expressway. He thinks he is always in opposition , how come UPA did not block the project if it was anti farmer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someone Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 So today was a important day. An International Yoga day led by India, and our dear Congress leaders, the 3 Gandhis are suddenly gone out of India. They really don't have any shame and are completely neglectful about our ancient history. They really should explain the frequent reasons for their trips to the public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asterix Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 So today was a important day. An International Yoga day led by India, and our dear Congress leaders, the 3 Gandhis are suddenly gone out of India. They really don't have any shame and are completely neglectful about our ancient history. They really should explain the frequent reasons for their trips to the public. This should be highlighted as much as possible... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someone Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 The Congress decision to boycott a global celebration of India's genius on Yoga Day is, therefore, puzzling at the very least. Is it a touch of bile in the brain? Or is the problem elsewhere? Has Congress under Rahul Gandhi got Anglicized in the 19th century sense, where "native" knowledge is considered regression? Or is Congress, once again, merely pandering to extremists among minorities who get more support from media vehicles eager for provocative sound-bites than they get from their community? I hope one is not mixing metaphors when one notes that Congress leaders are getting into all kinds of contortions in their effort to explain the inexplicable and defend the indefensible. Communists share this sneering attitude towards Yoga Day, but then they would deride anything that Karl Marx forgot to mention. An Indian Mao Zedong, however, might have understood the need to correlate Marxist thought with Indian culture. Political parties, in any case, should have the sense to keep a sharp eye on public opinion. Indians, across the board, have supported Yoga Day with enthusiasm. Mamata Banerjee, who gets a larger share of the Muslim vote in Bengal than Congress has got in five decades, is joining the celebration. Mayawati, who needs Muslim votes in UP in order to get seats, has welcomed the event, albeit with an acerbic comment about BJP in the codicil. Kerala's Congress Chief Minister Oommen Chandy is a clever politician who wants to satisfy public opinion and appease his leader Rahul Gandhi; his state is on board, but he has taken the day off. Even the vituperative Azam Khan, in Mulayam Singh Yadav's party, has moderated his stance. Learned scholars from Deoband have found nothing wrong with yoga, as long as Muslims do not repeat "Om". Fair enough. There should never be compulsion. The issue is not religion but syncretism, an indelible part of India's composite culture. We all gain by offering that which can be shared; together we create an Indian bouquet of flowers from different gardens of the same land. This creative harmony blossoms in philosophy, poetry, art, attitudes, fashion, food. There is nothing new about this. Muslim rulers of the Delhi Sultanate bathed in water from the Ganges, which was transported by ox-cart: this did not make them irreligious or non-Muslims. Hindus bow at the shrines of Sufi saints like Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer: this does not make them non-Hindus. Every male Prime Minister from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi, with the exception of Narasimha Rao and Deve Gowda, has worn churidar pyjamas: where did the churidar come from? Equally, we do not consider Rao or Gowda to be any less Indian because they preferred a dhoti, worn in different styles. The evolution of India is a creative marvel rooted in the hearts of the people. Indians reject one thing, and have done so through the thousands of years of our recorded civilisation: the closed mind. There have been phases during which the closed mind has prevailed, particularly in our social behaviour, but the correction has always been internal, through reform led by savants whose head was high and mind was free. http://www.sunday-guardian.com/analysis/yoga-in-my-family Now, that's something which the Gandhis should explain, why such hatred? Are they really even Indians and proud to be one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diga Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 So today was a important day. An International Yoga day led by India, and our dear Congress leaders, the 3 Gandhis are suddenly gone out of India. They really don't have any shame and are completely neglectful about our ancient history. They really should explain the frequent reasons for their trips to the public. why only Gandhi's? how many non-bjp leaders did participate in yoga day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doof Warrior Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 So today was a important day. An International Yoga day led by India, and our dear Congress leaders, the 3 Gandhis are suddenly gone out of India. They really don't have any shame and are completely neglectful about our ancient history. They really should explain the frequent reasons for their trips to the public. gandhis very well know that they will be overshadowed by Modi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_B_ Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Rahul focuses on strategy for a No NaMo 2019 Sources involved in planning the political strategy of soon-to-be Congress president Rahul Gandhi say that the 45-year-old Congress heir's objective is "to ensure that Narendra Modi become a single-term Prime Minister", rather than Rahul himself becoming the fourth member of his family since 1947 to become Prime Minister. A key adviser said, "Rahul has age on his side, he can wait till 2024 before taking over the government." His strategists say that "the willingness to hand over the baton (of Prime Ministership) to another leader from a different party will give an advantage to the Congress in the post-poll negotiations likely to follow the 2019 verdict". What has changed for Rahul Gandhi is that "The CP (Congress president, i.e. Sonia Gandhi) has finally woken up to the fact that the veterans advising her are out of tune with the times". These sources claim that "during 2013 and in the run-up to the 2014 elections especially", Rahul Gandhi was "deeply frustrated by the adherence of his mother to the counsel of the traditional politicians surrounding her". Things began to change after the May 2014 defeat, "the scale of which convinced Sonia Gandhi that it was time to divest the traditional politicians in the party of their power" and trust Rahul Gandhi. "The rise of Modi showed that the culture of politics in India has changed, yet throughout the rise of the Modi phenomenon (during 2011-2014), the Congress functioned as though it were back in the 1970s". The party organisation therefore "failed to connect with the aspirational middle class voter, while the Manmohan Singh government was in their perception disconnected from the poor", thereby losing out on both voting blocs. Rahul Gandhi's strategists believed that the party's pre-election focus on Modi was a "mistake", and that it was done to "consolidate the minority vote", which instead went in several states to other parties. However, they feel that a concentrated focus on the Prime Minister will now pay dividends. "The goodwill for the BJP is concentrated on Narendra Modi, and if this goodwill disappears, so will that for the party", said a key strategist, who pointed to the Delhi Assembly election results as indicating that "confidence of the electorate in the BJP is falling". The effort will now be to show that "Modi's words do not match his deeds, and that once in office, this has become obvious". They will constantly remind the electorate of promises made and not kept. Strategists for the Congress heir (many of whom are non-political) speak of the "boomerang effect" of using the Prime Minister's own campaign rhetoric against him, especially on the issue of black money and crony capitalism. They claim that a steady stream of scandals will surface in the coming months about the workings of the Central and state governments, warning that "people's patience is over". A network of friendly officials is believed to be silently at work collecting material from inside the government to try and prove that corruption and favouritism are still rampant. They say that the data collected will be released in stages. Honesty and efficiency are the two factors which attracted voters to the BJP, and the effort of Rahul's aides will be to show that neither is present in the BJP-led government, which took charge on 26 May 2014. It is in such a context that "Rahul vetoed the suggestion by four senior advisers of Sonia Gandhi to work out a compromise (during the last session of Parliament) that would allow important bills to get passed with Congress-drafted modifications". The three top aides of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kamal Nath and Ahmed Patel have each excellent connections with the BJP, including at the highest level. However, "since the 2014 debacle, Sonia Gandhi has decided to go with Rahul rather than reject his views as was done often in the past". From the start, "Rahul has been in favour of a confrontational stance inside and outside Parliament, so that bills get stalled and the government is shown to be ineffective". These sources say that the "decisive moment came just before the last session of Parliament, when Sonia Gandhi rejected advice from key advisers to seek cooperation with the BJP and instead backed Rahul Gandhi's aggressive approach towards the BJP", in particular the Prime Minister. These sources say that Rahul Gandhi "has a deep personal conviction that the country cannot afford a second term in office of Prime Minister Modi, and has therefore made his removal (rather than Rahul's own assumption of the job) the priority". Hence the accommodating posture towards anti-BJP regional parties in Bihar, which Rahul strategists anticipate will be followed by an alliance in UP with either the Samajwadi Party or the Bahujan Samaj Party, "forged in a spirit of compromise according to the MGR formula", where the Congress makes concessions on Assembly seats and gets rewarded by the allocation of a higher number of Lok Sabha seats in any alliance of which it is a party. Rahul strategists believe that a "defeat in Bihar will affect the BJP in the 2016 polls as well as help ensure a bad performance in UP" the next year. "Once both Bihar and UP are lost, the Modi government will become a lame duck entity", these sources say, adding that, "even before, the effort will be to show that there is no performance and only hype in its functioning". A key strategist was scornful of the Swachh Bharat and yoga initiatives of Prime Minister Modi, saying that "not yoga postures, but jobs matter to the voter, and in this, Modi and his government will fail". Rahul's strategists say that their sampling has shown a marked decline in confidence within the electorate that the promises made by the BJP in the 2014 campaign will be honoured, and that the Congress "will build on this distrust". They repeat that the objective in the 2019 polls is "not to ensure a Congress government or even a Congress-led government, but to keep the BJP out". The objective is to "reduce the BJP tally to a maximum of 150 Lok Sabha seats and to raise the Congress score to at least 175 Lok Sabha seats so that the party will have a dominant influence in the next government". A source pointed to the 1970s' Kerala experiment, where "the Chief Ministership was conceded by the Congress to the CPI, even though the former party had more seats". He added that "Rahul is not in awe of the Prime Ministership and has shown this during 2012-13, when it was his for the asking". He rubbished reports of a disconnect between Priyanka Vadra and Rahul Gandhi, saying that "the entire family is close to each other" and that any talk of differences is "motivated". He was, however, evasive about Priyanka's political plans, saying simply that "a decision on this has yet to be taken". However, he indicated that it was "very likely" that Priyanka would contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, presumably from Rae Bareli. Congress sources say that after the lapse of a year, "action on corruption charges against our people will lack credibility", referring to the ongoing CBI investigations into Virbhadra Singh in Himachal Pradesh and Shankersinh Vaghela in Gujarat. A top strategist pointed out that "the window of opportunity (to prosecute UPA influentials) was during the first six months (May-October 2014) in the glow of public adulation for Modi and discontent with the UPA. Now that window has closed and action will invite public doubt rather than support". A source claimed that "We have been kept informed by honest CBI officers that a top BJP functionary is in constant contact with the organisation to influence investigations", and added that "proof of such interference will be made public at an appropriate time". No proof was offered to substantiate such a charge of interference. "A year has gone by without any charges being made by the Modi government (against UPA leaders), so to do so now when the Congress led by Rahul Gandhi is boldly opposing the BJP, will be shown to be vindictive and we are not afraid", the key strategist warned, adding that "dirt will be met with dirt" and that "those living in houses with stained glass windows had better be cautious while throwing stones". Clearly, Rahul Gandhi has ensured that the Congress is in a fightback mode, just a year after its worst-ever defeat in a Lok Sabha election in what his strategists say is a repeat of 1977, when in less than two years, the Congress won back the public support it had forfeited in that election. However, Narendra Modi is not Morarji Desai, although both are from the same state, and can be expected to respond to the challenge posed by a Rahul-rejuvenated Congress soon. http://www.sunday-guardian.com/news/rahul-focuses-on-strategy-for-a-no-namo-2019 This is what i feared. There is a saying in marathi "na mala na tula, ghal kutarayla" (I dont gain, but i take you down with me so you dont gain and some third person gains). Its more about stopping Modi than becoming king yourself. The congress will strategically weaken its structure (like Bihar and UP) in order to keep the BJP out. Rahul is right in assuming he has time on his side. He will be 49 in 2019 and 54 in 2024. The like of Jayalalitha or Mulayam becoming a joint CM candidate just became real for 2019. Keeping this in mind its about time the BJP stop fighting with its allies and make attempts to gain new allies. Make friends..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_B_ Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 One place where this assumption falls away is on the economy. The modi government has been wise enough to realise that jobs will win them the election next time. Which is why they are pushing for the big ticket reforms much earlier in their term. The way i see it even the global economy will return to full health by 2019. The USA and the EU are not in the rudest health atm. If the global economy is growing by 4-5% then i am pretty confident India will be at 8-9 without many reforms. Affecting the BJP performance in 2016 is one thing. But Kerala the second largest state governed by the Congress in coalition with smaller parties they will be defending against the CPM. Rahul despite scoring with the BJP will not look too clever if he loses this state to a left wing party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seedhi Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Wonder who this could be? How many Indian VIPs are escorted by Black Cats abroad? In Italy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asterix Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 ^ The Gandhis... Nice place for a vacation... :nice: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_B_ Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Left Likely to Align with Congress to Take on Mamata http://www.newswala.com/Hyderabad-News/BJP-stakes-claim-on-Warangal-Lok-Sabha-seat-165537.html how fudged up is this going to be. Fight with congress in WB and fight against congress in kerala at the same time? If i was the congress i would take this deal. I mean feck it CPM+Congress would mean no need for the likes of the Indian union muslim league. Also explains why Bannerjee seems to be less obstructive towards the BJP. From holding yoga day to giving their nod to GST..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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