Indian General Elections - 2014

[JanjaWeed]

His dreams of being the prime ministerial candidates are fading fast, this was bound to happen. I think BJP should let him loose, might not help In the short term but it at least will not bog down BJP in the future.

That's true. BJP will be better off without JDU.. & it will work well for them in the long term. If JDU breaks of with BJP... they'l have to fight for the same turf as Cong, lalu & LJP. Everyone will be fighting under same political ideology!

Nitish Kumar is just trying to push his luck as far as he can. I'm sure he is clever enough to understand who will be the eventual loser in this political game if he carries on with his rhetoric!

 

[SamantK]

That's true. BJP will be better off without JDU.. & it will work well for them in the long term. If JDU breaks of with BJP... they'l have to fight for the same turf as Cong, lalu & LJP. Everyone will be fighting under same political ideology!

Nitish Kumar is just trying to push his luck as far as he can. I'm sure he is clever enough to understand who will be the eventual loser in this political game if he carries on with his rhetoric!

Yeah he should stop pushing his luck, I liked the political game he played, not giving much but sending some serious signals.. However, he would do better to not antagonise the BJP's top brass by going overboard, they both need each other if the polling pattern was as someone posted before.. It was indeed an eye opener, I'm wondering why Nitish does not understand.

 

[anant_s]

Politics is everywhere........it's in your shirt, in your pants...............

@Dillinger @Ayush @samantk @kurup @anant_s


He just stopped short of saying - it's in your underwears

Yes everywhere expect in his brain

 

[arp2041]

That's true. BJP will be better off without JDU.. & it will work well for them in the long term. If JDU breaks of with BJP... they'l have to fight for the same turf as Cong, lalu & LJP. Everyone will be fighting under same political ideology!

Nitish Kumar is just trying to push his luck as far as he can. I'm sure he is clever enough to understand who will be the eventual loser in this political game if he carries on with his rhetoric!

Mate, the issue is not if the BJP will be better without JDU or not.

The issue is about an Important state like Bihar & it's people.

We all know that Bihar is on the right path (maybe) the first time in the history of Independent India.

If something goes wrong now, than we will be back to the lalus & Paswans of Politics.

And than any progress which Bihar has made will be brought down to ZERO.

So, whoever wins, ultimately the people of Bihar will LOSE.

We have to think about them also.

 

[Dillinger]

Mate, the issue is not if the BJP will be better without JDU or not.

The issue is about an Important state like Bihar & it's people.

We all know that Bihar is on the right path (maybe) the first time in the history of Independent India.

If something goes wrong now, than we will be back to the lalus & Paswans of Politics.

And than any progress which Bihar has made will be brought down to ZERO.

So, whoever wins, ultimately the people of Bihar will LOSE.

We have to think about them also.

Lakh rupe ki baat ki hai! Dooba denge state ko, man if UP and Bihar, oh and WB do not progress quickly then India will remain a "poor" nation for the foreseeable future.

 

[Ayush]

Lakh rupe ki baat ki hai! Dooba denge state ko, man if UP and Bihar, oh and WB do not progress quickly then India will remain a "poor" nation for the foreseeable future.

up,bihar,bengal,jharkhand yes,coz thats where 33% of our population is...

 

[Bang Galore]

His dreams of being the prime ministerial candidates are fading fast, this was bound to happen. I think BJP should let him loose, might not help In the short term but it at least will not bog down BJP in the future.

The BJP has no capacity to think long term, that is what has characterised their behaviour after tasting power. Unlike Vajpayee & Advani & the leaders of the BJP then, the present lot worries primarily about power. Heck, most leaders of the BJP are secretly jostling for power hoping that Modi gets shot down & they can be the PM. This from leaders who have no idea how to win an election. They all want to be PM, no one wants to work for a BJP government to be in place first. It also explains why the BJP opposes without reason even policies that it should normally be in support of.

The BJP has shown in U.P. a complete lack of common sense, getting boxed into a corner & now being rendered impotent. They are actually counting on offering Mayawati a dy PM post if she gets about 25-30 MP's. that is how they work. Long term thinking is not their cup of tea at all, too much to expect it of them in Bihar. The mess in Karnataka is proof of that. Had the BJP taken a tough line & sacrificed the government for probity, their chances of coming back to power would have been fairly good. They didn't & are now reduced to wondering whether they can bring back all the tainted chaps back to their party to save then from an election debacle. It wouldn't have worked no matter what they did.

 

[Rangila]

The BJP has no capacity to think long term, that is what has characterised their behaviour after tasting power. Unlike Vajpayee & Advani & the leaders of the BJP then, the present lot worries primarily about power. Heck, most leaders of the BJP are secretly jostling for power hoping that Modi gets shot down & they can be the PM. This from leaders who have no idea how to win an election. They all want to be PM, no one wants to work for a BJP government to be in place first. It also explains why the BJP opposes without reason even policies that it should normally be in support of.

The BJP has shown in U.P. a complete lack of common sense, getting boxed into a corner & now being rendered impotent. They are actually counting on offering Mayawati a dy PM post if she gets about 25-30 MP's. that is how they work. Long term thinking is not their cup of tea at all, too much to expect it of them in Bihar. The mess in Karnataka is proof of that. Had the BJP taken a tough line & sacrificed the government for probity, their chances of coming back to power would have been fairly good. They didn't & are now reduced to wondering whether they can bring back all the tainted chaps back to their party to save then from an election debacle. It wouldn't have worked no matter what they did.

What is yr choice for BJP candidate for PM?

 

[RangerPK]

If BJP wins and modi becomes the PM of India.

What sort of policy do you imagine modi would take against Pakistan.

Would he try to improve his relation with Pakistan or he would be aggressive towards Pakistan?

 

[Dillinger]

If BJP wins and modi becomes the PM of India.

What sort of policy do you imagine modi would take against Pakistan.

Would he try to improve his relation with Pakistan or he would be aggressive towards Pakistan?

Depends, trade- assuming that trade is desirable as far as Pakistanis are concerned- then favorable.

security and strategic interests, specially terrorism- conceivably tough and rigid.

 

[Dillinger]

@arp2041 @samantk @KRAIT @Ayush

Got the down low on Gujarat from dad:-

1) Electricity and potable water in almost all villages- true!

2) Clerical level, mid and low level corruption, impacting the common man directly down- true, in fact to a level which is unprecedented in India. Due to Modi? Yes VERY MUCH SO!

3) Women's health and nutrition- bad, not much work on that front despite talks about it.

4) Education- comparatively bad but improving.

5) Roads- sturdy, well built and wide spread- true!

6) Higher level corruption- still the same- Modi complicit partly:- specifics:- Large tracts of land sold at criminally low prices to industrialists and large sums pocketed and transferred to party coffers as elections funds, saving grace:- land is largely un-populated- no forced evictions or direct degradation of people's lives. Still illegal though since land is govt/public property and should not be sold off in this exact manner but also the same is responsible for a lot of industrial growth with quite a bit of money being fed back into public infra projects.

7) Opposition from RSS? Very much true.

8) discrimination and fundamentalism- still being propagated but not as party policy and largely due to VHP and RSS elements which are still autonomous and not under Modi's control nor is he trying to exert any further control since the RSS core nucleus at the center of BJP already gunning for him.

All in all a mixed bag BUT better than any other developing state in the nation atm. He's working exclusively in Gujarat atm in a personal capacity.

 

[Ayush]

@arp2041 @samantk @KRAIT @Ayush

Got the down low on Gujarat from dad:-

1) Electricity and potable water in almost all villages- true!

2) Clerical level, mid and low level corruption, impacting the common man directly down- true, in fact to a level which is unprecedented in India. Due to Modi? Yes VERY MUCH SO!

3) Women's health and nutrition- bad, not much work on that front despite talks about it.

4) Education- comparatively bad but improving.

5) Roads- sturdy, well built and wide spread- true!

6) Higher level corruption- still the same- Modi complicit partly:- specifics:- Large tracts of land sold at criminally low prices to industrialists and large sums pocketed and transferred to party coffers as elections funds, saving grace:- land is largely un-populated- no forced evictions or direct degradation of people's lives. Still illegal though since land is govt/public property and should not be sold off in this exact manner but also the same is responsible for a lot of industrial growth with quite a bit of money being fed back into public infra projects.

7) Opposition from RSS? Very much true.

8) discrimination and fundamentalism- still being propagated but not as party policy and largely due to VHP and RSS elements which are still autonomous and not under Modi's control nor is he trying to exert any further control since the RSS core nucleus at the center of BJP already gunning for him.

All in all a mixed bag BUT better than any other developing state in the nation atm. He's working exclusively in Gujarat atm in a personal capacity.

i ve stayed in ahmedabad for 7 years...

 

[Rangila]

playboy nehru.

 

[arp2041]

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's family seeks Narendra Modi's help in solving the 'mystery'

Family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have sought the help of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for declassification of all secret files concerning the iconic leader.

"Netaji belonged to the entire nation, so we extend our appeal to you for your kind support in demanding from the Prime Minister that the Central Government must release in public domain all records to help unravel the mystery about his fate and bring a closure to the issue," read the letter written to Narendra Modi .

Demanding declassification of secret files concerning Netaji's death, Netaji's grand-nephew and family spokesperson Chandra Bose had met Modi during his visit to Kolkata last week.

The letter handed over to him is signed by Netaji's nephew D N Bose on behalf of 24 members of the family.

"We are constrained to bring it to your notice because the Central Government's approach has been rather hostile. The report of the Mukherjee Commission, for instance, was dismissed by the UPA government without assigning any reason in the Action Taken Report tabled in Parliament," the letter said.

It claimed that the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry, set up in 2006, had concluded that Netaji did not die in a plane crash in 1945.

"Modi was very receptive while receiving the letter, and he promised to help," the family said in a statement today, adding, they were constrained to approach the BJP leader after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee "completely ignored" their similar appeal made in December, last year.

"The family felt hurt when the Honourable Chief Minister did not even show the basic minimum courtesy to acknowledge the receipt of the letter," said their media statement.

In a disclosure under the RTI appeal made by 'Mission Netaji', a Delhi-based research trust, the Prime Minister's Office had earlier said that it was holding 33 secret files concerning Netaji.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's family seeks Narendra Modi's help in solving the 'mystery' - Indian Express

 

[Rangila]

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