urbestfriend Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 With due to respect to Jaswant Singh , he has little too much ego and cant take a "no" to a seat and seems to be very hurt. It is the time for likes of Jaswant to quit politics and do some other forms of samaj seva.
diga Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 LOL! Desperate attempts to show "secular" mukhauta. Maybe they can kick out their PM candidate as well to show they are serious. Dinkar shetty of the same shri-ram-sene joins congress.. secular mukhauta or congress wants to show its communal face Src : NDTV
diga Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 hes a rajya sabha member from assam. didnt contest in 2004 and again in 2009 but still congress managed to increase its seat tally by about 60 I meant : will he continue as an active politician?
ravishingravi Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 Dinkar shetty of the same shri-ram-sene joins congress.. secular mukhauta or congress wants to show its communal face And the tail falls for the lizard. Some break from internet.
The Outsider Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 Dinkar shetty of the same shri-ram-sene joins congress.. secular mukhauta or congress wants to show its communal face Possible. Since all the right wing loony vote is cornered by Saheb. Maybe, some Congress supporter will be able to tell you better.
seedhi Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 Possible. Since all the right wing loony vote is cornered by Saheb. Maybe' date= some Congress supporter will be able to tell you better.Looks like you were a watchman in previous life .. or maybe this life ?
The Outsider Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 Looks like my fan club who keep pressing Ctrl + R on their keyboards waiting for my posts have arrived.
diga Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 Union minister Salman Khurshid was booked for alleged violation of Model Code of Conduct in his parliamentary constituency in Farrukhabad, police said. The FIR was registered last night against Khurshid and his two supporters after a vehicle, loaded with solar lights and some other equipment purportedly meant for distribution among villagers was caught. According to Kumpal Police Station in-charge K V Singh, a tractor laden with solar lights, poles and other materials meant for distribution among villagers was seized last night by the police near Baura village. During questioning, driver of the vehicle told the police that he had brought the equipment from the cold storage of Khurshid, who is also Congress candidate from the seat, police said. On suspicion that the equipment were being brought to Farrukhabad for distribution among the villagers, a case was lodged against Khurshid and his two supporters Jaan Mohammad and Bablu.
sachin34357 Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 I meant : will he continue as an active politician? if UPA forms the government (very unlikely) then he'll be a cabinet minister
seedhi Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 Sri Ram Sene member Dinker Shetty joins Congress' Mangalore unit: reports A day after controversial activist Pramod Muthalik's entry into the BJP became a huge head-ache for the party, it seems to be the Congress' turn to face embarrassment for a similar induction today. The Congress' Mangalore unit today reportedly took into its fold Dinker Shetty from Mr Muthalik's Sri Ram Sene, which is accused in the 2009 Mangalore pub attack case. Women were dragged by their hair, slapped and manhandled by Sri Ram Sene activists, who accused them of "loose morals." Mr Shetty was the Sri Ram Sene's legal advisor then. Today, Mr Shetty, according to local reports, was inducted into the Congress in the presence of senior partyman Janardhana Poojary, who is a candidate from the Dakshina Kannada constituency. However, Dr G Parameshwara, president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, says he is unaware of Mr Shetty's induction. "Dinker Shetty's induction has not been authorised. Janardhana Poojary may be senior leader but any induction requires Pradesh Congress Committee approval and only then is it authorised and official ," Mr Parameshwara told NDTV. Yesterday, the Karnataka unit of the BJP had welcomed Mr Muthalik into the party, only for the decision to be withdrawn by the BJP's central leadership in five hours. Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley told NDTV that leaders in Delhi were taken aback by the Karnataka BJP's decision, but corrective measures had been taken. "The Karnataka state unit has no idea that India has changed," Mr Jaitley had said. http://www.ndtv.com/elections/article/election-2014/sri-ram-sene-member-dinker-shetty-joins-congress-mangalore-unit-reports-499670?pfrom=home-lateststories
Texan Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 I don't have much sympathy for Jaswant Singh' date=' but the notion that he was responsible for Raje losing the 2008 elections is laughable. He has never commanded that kind of influence over the cadres nor has been remotely close to being a mass leader to be able to influence results at the state level. He'll even struggle to win Barmer as an independent.[/quote'] He was over-rated by Vajpayee and put on a pedestal. He became politically irrelevant after Vajpayee and subsequently his mentor Shekhawat quit active politics. But, for some reason, he wanted to make a point by contesting elections from his birth place even though he has never contested from there in the past. His insistence is analogous of a little kid who is fixated with a toy that belongs to another kid. Even when the parent tells him that I will get you another toy, he insists that "No, I only want that toy and nothing else!"
someone Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 Think this deserves to be posted here. These kind of media should not be allowed at all.
diga Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 [ Think this deserves to be posted here. These kind of media should not be allowed at all. probably fabricated.. but that line of questioning is what incites the mob & divides the country :((
Detonator Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 Looks like my fan club who keep pressing Ctrl + R on their keyboards waiting for my posts have arrived.
surajmal Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 For the anti modi/pro advani-sushma crowd: A law for a vote bank This piece is being written in the hope that by the time you read it, the BJP will not have changed its mind on the communal violence Bill. I say this because past experience shows us that the BJP’s senior leaders are very good at stalling Parliament with a lot of sound and fury for a day or so and then quietly letting pass every new piece of dodgy legislation that Sonia Gandhi puts before them. If they do exactly the same with this new law, then they will be doing India an unforgivable disservice. The law was hatched by Sonia’s gang of jholawala do-gooders in her National Advisory Council (NAC) without serious thought being given to its consequences. So, if you get an autocratic, authoritarian prime minister after the 2014 general election, he will have licence to topple state governments on all kinds of specious grounds. Akhilesh Yadav would have been a goner after his abysmal performance during and after the violence in Muzaffarnagar. But the law’s ability to be misused is only part of the problem. The real problem is that it is completely unnecessary because, under present laws, communal violence can be stopped if political leaders want it stopped and officials who fail to stop it can be punished. If this has not happened in the past, it is only because political leaders did not want it to happen. How else can we explain that the Hindu population of Kashmir was ethnically cleansed when the state was under direct rule from Delhi? When governor Jagmohan failed to provide them with the security they needed at the time, why was he not punished? When more than 3,000 Sikhs were butchered in the streets of Delhi in 1984, was a single official punished for criminal dereliction of duty? When uniformed thugs from the Provincial Armed Constabulary opened fire on Muslims in their custody in a truck near Meerut in 1987, was anyone punished? Of course not. But not because India’s laws do not have provisions to prevent these things from happening. Derelict officials have got away with their evil deeds only because they have been protected by political leaders, who have used violence and mass murder as weapons to keep vulnerable communities in their toils. In the case of the Muslim community, this strategy worked so well that till the Babri Masjid was destroyed under a Congress prime minister, they always voted for the Congress. Their faith was shaken after that ugly episode but the ‘secular’ parties which began to woo them used Congress methods to continue to keep Muslims in their toils. The BJP bogeyman was resurrected every time they showed signs of wavering in their loyalties, and it is the BJP bogeyman from Gujarat that is now making the Congress seek new ways to restore its Muslim vote bank. The newest of these ways is this communal violence Bill. It has been devised by Sonia’s advisors with the specific intention of showing Muslims how much Madame cares for her Muslim subjects. Some of these advisors, incidentally, have made extremely lucrative careers out of expressing sympathy for victims of communal violence. Huge funds have come from foreign donors to set up NGOs that supposedly take care of these victims. And who cares if it’s only tokenism? After the Assam riots, an NGO showed up with victims from Gujarat to comfort the new victims. An utterly bizarre exercise if you keep in mind that they would not have had even a language in common. As someone who has been constant in my opposition to the NAC on the grounds that it is an extra-constitutional body, may I say that my opposition has deepened on account of the laws that it has imposed on us. Not one of them has been worthwhile and the BJP should be ashamed of itself for having happily gone along with passing them after the token amount of sound and fury. If this is what happens once more with this insidious new piece of legislation, then it does not deserve to ever come to power in Delhi. The Congress has done much harm to India in the name of ‘secularism’, but the BJP has done as much harm in the past decade for being an opposition party that has worked virtually in absentia. If they want a degree of redemption, let them stop this Bill from becoming a dangerous new law. This is no longer about Muslim ‘appeasement’ but about trying to ensure that, forever and ever, Muslims think of themselves as separated from the mainstream of India by a mostly mistaken sense of grievance. This Bill is of a piece with Rajiv Gandhi’s decision, under pressure from Islamic fundamentalists, to uphold the Muslim personal law. Let us remember the divisions and violence that came afterwards. http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/a-law-for-a-vote-bank/
surajmal Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 Why Modi is popular The closer the election, the clearer it becomes that this is the most important general election since 1977. In that distant year, Indian voters were offered a choice between a dictator and her son on one side and a raggedy, disparate caboodle of crusaders for democracy on the other. They chose the caboodle mostly because they had learned the hard way what losing democracy meant. This time the choice increasingly appears to be between the past and the future, between an old idea of India and a new one. Those selling the old idea, in their different ways, are the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party and the ‘secular socialists’ who banded together last week as a third front. What is the old idea of India? It is the one bequeathed us by Nehruvian socialism whereby we have created India as she is today. A land in which a vast infrastructure of politicians, officials, clerks and peons govern badly an angry and restless populace that no longer understands why basic needs are so hard to meet. A land in which young people demand to know why the sons of officials and politicians live like billionaires while they hunt desperately for jobs in a market that in the past 10 years has dried up. So crony capitalism is a favourite catchphrase with the AAP lot, without them noticing that this is always a creation of the state. In the eyes of AAP, it is corporate India that is to blame. What is most depressing is that if you talk to leaders of the parties in the old India club, the solutions they offer are no different to the ones we have already tried. In their campaign speeches, they talk of secularism and socialism, poverty alleviation schemes and empowering women. On corruption, the Lokpal is a ‘new’ idea that has been around for 40 years. They know that they offer nothing new, so they throw in dark references to the man they most fear and loathe. Narendra Modi. The reason why they fear and loathe him is because his popularity, according to recent polls, has increased dramatically despite repeated attempts by the old India club to remind voters that he is a ‘maut ka saudagar’. A merchant of death as Sonia Gandhi famously called him. What they seem not to have noticed is that his popularity has increased because he has succeeded in selling voters a new dream of India. In a sales pitch to businessmen in Delhi last Thursday, he offered a detailed account of what his priorities will be if he becomes prime minister. After making it clear that he believed that India’s strengths were “democracy, demography and demand†and its weaknesses were serious deficits of governance, trust, morality and hope, Modi made the case for what he thinks can be done. He said nothing could improve without “good governanceâ€. He did not say in so many words that by this he meant massive administrative reforms, but used anecdotes from Gujarat to make this point. Then he talked of needing to improve “the quality of life†for the average Indian. It was vital to make India a country in which young people could live with hope and dignity, he said, and for this they needed jobs and the amenities that remain mostly unavailable to rural Indians. Electricity, clean water and a standard of living that could be described as a standard of living. He said, “We need in rural India to keep the soul of the villages but provide people with the utilities and services available in urban centres.†He reiterated that he saw urbanisation not as a problem but as an opportunity. What touched my own cynical soul to its core was his suggestion, when talking of healthcare, that we pledge to make India clean and sanitary by the 150th anniversary of Gandhiji’s birthday. This was the best tribute that could be paid Gandhiji, Modi said, because he had worked so hard to convince Indians of the importance of sanitation and hygiene. In modern terms, Modi emphasised, the benefit would be a huge reduction in India’s healthcare bills, because it would shift the emphasis to prevention from cure. He talked of many other things and in talking of them made it sound as if there was no reason at all why they could not be done. Listen to the whole speech on YouTube and you may discover the real reason why Modi leads the race to become India’s next prime minister. He offers hope in a time of deep despair and he offers a dream of prosperity at the end of a decade when the Indian economy has sunk to its lowest ebb in recent memory. The old India club offers only ‘poverty alleviation’ to people sick to death of poverty. http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/why-modi-is-popular/2/
Crookbond Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 Arvind Kejriwal wins, Election Commission defers gas hike http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140325/nation-current-affairs/article/arvind-kejriwal-wins-election-commission-defers-gas-hike
seedhi Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 From a die hard anti-Modi journo .. In Varanasi, it's Modi vs local, not Modi vs Kejriwal Arvind Kejriwal is travelling to Varanasi to hear what it has to say to him. Well, the narrow streets of this town do indeed have a message for Kejriwal – but it might not be one he wants to hear. “Delhi’s people gave him a job to do,” says Ramesh, who sells vegetables on the street near Dasaswamedh Ghat. “But he quit that job. Why should I give him another?” To the rest of the country, the battle between Narendra Modi and Kejriwal in Varanasi is being sold as just that – one of the big battles of the 2014 election. On Tuesday, Kejriwal has a rally planned in the temple town. Just over a third of Varanasi constituency is urban; one would think he had a chance at least there. But, by and large, his pretensions are being met by derision here. Certainly, there’s anger against the United Progressive Alliance, and a generous smattering of the cynicism about politicians that is Kejriwal’s raison d’etre. “The government sells the country to the rich types,” grumbled one seller of maps. “I sell to foreigners because I have to. What is the sarkar’s reason?” But converting that dissent to votes will be impossible. The reason is simple: Kejriwal himself. Kejriwal faces this problem across eastern UP. In fact, this should have been a target area for the AAP. In Poorvanchal and Bihar, power is respected; the ability to deal with the state shows you’re a serious player. And, by some estimates, half the AAP’s 28 winning candidates in December’s Delhi polls had origins in Poorvanchal or Bihar. As sitting MLAs, they could have fanned out across their places of origin, explaining the party’s plans — with the aura that here hangs about those who can deliver on their promises. That opportunity has been lost. In Salempur district, one voter who might otherwise have been sympathetic to the AAP said “those who run away from the battlefield do not win”. Elsewhere, near Gorakhpur, an angry young man riding a Bullet said: “power is no small thing”, meaning that there was little respect for someone who just abandoned it. From many of his potential voters in Varanasi there was, simply, derisive laughter. ............... http://www.business-standard.com/article/elections-2014/in-varanasi-it-s-modi-vs-local-not-modi-vs-kejriwal-114032400785_1.html I just hope Kejru decides to contest and gets delivered the slap of his life. He will most probably end up behind the candidates of all major parties ...
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