Showing posts with label BJP. Show all posts
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Friday, May 10, 2013

Who Says Modi Bhai and Rahul Baba are the only choices for Prime Minister?

Congress leaders were triumphant after results of the Gujarat assembly elections were announced. Senior leader P. Chidambaram said in virtually as many words that Congress had won because it had restricted Modi and BJP to barely 115 out of 182 seats. For Modi fans, the script was entirely different. His third successive election victory made him a strong contender to be the BJP candidate for Prime Minister. In Jaipur recently, nervous Congressmen heaved a sigh of relief and shed tears of joy when Rahul Baba finally agreed to lead the Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Since then, we have seen an overdose of articles and columns comparing the two as potential prime ministers. If you go by excitable media reports, 2014 could well be an American Presidential style election where voters will have to choose between Modi Bhai and Rahul Baba.

But I most humbly disagree. If you look deep and hard, India has literally a wild variety of choices when it comes to who should be the Prime Minister. Come on, if Deve Gowda, the late I. K. Gujral and Manmohan Singh can become Prime Minister, surely almost anybody can. And I am not talking about the likes of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Nitish Kumar and Jayalalitha as strong contenders. In the true spirit of democracy, I cast my net wide and far and came up with a very rich catch of choices. Here is a not so comprehensive list of gifted, talented, visionary and messianic Indians who have superb qualifications to be the next Prime Minister of India:

Asaram Bapu: Who better than this fountain of Vedic Wisdom and champion of gender equality and female empowerment. I am not so sure about what his domestic and economic policy agenda would be. But I am absolutely convinced this great man will do a superb job of making all our borders safe and secure. You see, almost all his female devotees will be dispatched to our borders. Dancing to the tunes of devotional songs, they will all keep asking real and alleged enemies to treat them like sisters. The Pakistani soldiers will be so inspired that they will start beheading themselves. The Chinese would be so shell shocked that they would promptly give up all claims on Tibet. And there will commence a citizen movement in Bangladesh that will demand the return of all illegal migrants from India. Each cabinet meeting will be a Satsang where Asaram Babu will drop further pearls of wisdom.

Akbaruddin Owaisi: This mind blowing orator and contender for the Nobel Peace Prize will firmly have a simple domestic agenda. His first decision as Prime Minister will be to declare the birth anniversary of the last Nizam of Hyderabad as a national holiday. His second decision would be even more historic. He will decree that all police stations in India be shut down for 15 minutes once every week. That will enable the 25 crore Muslims of India to show the 100 crore Hindus of India who the real Boss is. Even as Hindus and Muslims indulge in a new national pastime and sport called This Week in Riots, the new age Nizam will go to London as a medical tourist. This will greatly improve relations between the former Imperial Power and the new Caliphate. Owaisi will also announce a weekly award worth Rs.100 million for a slogan writing contest where you will be encouraged to denigrate Hinduism. Hordes of media celebrities and secular activists and academicians will literally kill each other to become participants


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2013.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Can she deliver victory?

Only aam admi, inclusive growth, and effective delivery systems can help the Congress win elections in 2009

“It’s the only strategy that can work for the Congress. Moreover, it has been forced upon the party,” says a political commentator, who has worked for the party for years. What he is talking about is the fact that the Congress today has no option but to fight on the growth and development planks. In a sense, aam admi, ‘inclusive growth’, and building an efficient and effective delivery system are critical for the future electoral success of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Consider the current vote-bank scenario for the moment. In several states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, regional leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav have snatched away the Muslim votes from the Congress. The rise of Mayawati’s BSP is slowly gnawing away at the Dalits and backward classes votes in several northern and western states. The Brahmins had long ago opted to side with the BJP; in recent times, they have decided to ditch the BJP and forge an alliance with Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh.

So, where does it leave the Congress? “It is now a party with no die-hard supporters. It depends on regional alliances to come to power, as it did in the 2004 elections,” says another Delhi-based political analyst.


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Monday, November 05, 2012

India’s number one family

Without a shadow of doubt, it is India’s number one family

After his death in a plane crash, the mantle fell on her elder son, Rajiv, then a pilot with Indian Airlines. Starting out as a reluctant politician in 1980, Rajiv became the PM four years later, when his mother was assassinated. Despite his wife Sonia’s reluctance, he took over as Prime Minister. But after Rajiv’s death, in 1991, Sonia was firm in her resolve, not to enter politics.

The resolve melted in 1998, when the entire party – humbled by regional satraps & the BJP – implored her to take over the leadership. Again, this was not typical dynastic succession. She led the Congress unsuccessfully in 1999 & became leader of Opposition. “She hears all of us patiently and then brings up certain points which we had overlooked. She is always prepared with backgrounders & is never wrong on facts,” says Congress leader Jitendra Prasad. She led the party to elections for the second time in 2004, but, rejected prime ministership. She emerged as an altruist politician – a rarest of the rare breed. Sonia has already kid-gloved her son Rahul into politics, making him AICC general secretary. Though he failed to lead the party to victory in UP Elections and largely stayed away from Gujarat, the party has loads of expectations from him and his mother. But can Rahul ever become the Prime Minister of India?


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