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[VeeraBahadur]

Shouldn't Modi too go for interview ?? Never mind if it is in hindi. But I would appreciate if such a move is made by BJP. PM in waiting should be scrutinized .

Dam hai NaMo mein ???Then prove it that he is really worthy of becoming PM .On other occasion he had left the interview mid way.

 

[kbd-raaf]

LOL Congress Bots (literally, a tweet script)

Wololol

Congress bots:

Twitter / Search - hatts off to him..!!!

 

[JanjaWeed]

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[JanjaWeed]

BJP close to unveiling 400cr ad blitz for polls

MUMBAI: Advertising decibels are on the rise in a year when more than Rs 2,000 crore of ad money will be spent by various political parties on poll-related communication. While the Congresskicked off its campaign last Friday on a somewhat controversial note thanks to the ad's tagline, "main nahin, hum (not I, we)", the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is close to finalizing its ad agency to commence its campaign, which will be centered around its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.

TOI has learnt that the principal opposition party is zeroing in on McCann Worldgroup, led by lyricist & adman Prasoon Joshi, to handle its creative duties. A WPP agency, Contract Advertising, is also in the fray to grab the hotly contested Rs 400-crore account for the 2014 general elections, said sources who did not want to be named as a formal decision is yet to be taken. While McCann and Contract are in the reckoning for the creative duties for BJP, sources said the media buying mandate is likely to go to Lodestar with other agencies, including WPP's Group M and Sam Balsara's Madison, not having been ruled out completely.

The Congress party, on the other hand, has given its Rs 500-crore account to Dentsu and Taproot while its public relations is being handled by Genesis Burson-Marsteller.

JWT was given to handle the party's outdoor activation activities.

When contacted by TOI, Joshi, executive chairman of McCann Worldgroup India, said as of now his agency has not been picked for any election-related work for any political party. Sources said McCann had also pitched for the Congress account along with a slew of other agencies. A spokesperson from the BJP said they were yet to finalize their agency. Shashi Sinha, CEO of IPG Mediabrands, which runs Lodestar UM, said they were not working with the BJP for the general elections.

The 2014 general elections, scheduled to be held around mid-2014, will also see the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal give a fight to Modi and Gandhi. AAP has largely stuck to communicating on social media and use outdoor activations programmes, steering clear of any mass media campaigns for the elections.

Last week, BJP accused the Congress of copying a Modi tagline (Main nahin, hum) from 2011 for its campaign. Congress started the first leg of its campaign with print ads showcasing the party's chief campaign manager Gandhi at the forefront. AICC media head Ajay Maken tweeted on Saturday a picture saying that slogan figured at a mushaira (poetry) event featuring Congress workers in Indore in 2010, much before BJP's "chintan shivir (introspection session)" in Gujarat in 2011.

Besides, the Rs 500-crore ad blitzkrieg which the Congress has planned, the ruling United Progressive Alliance is parallely running the 'Bharat Nirman' campaign. The Rs 100-crore campaign, being handled by ad agency Percept/H, is run from the budget of the information & broadcasting ministry headed by Manish Tiwari.
BJP close to unveiling 400cr ad blitz for polls - The Times of India

Waste of money, if you ask me. Why does BJP needs to spend this money when they have Pappu doing it for free of cost for them?

 

[ranjeet]

BJP close to unveiling 400cr ad blitz for polls


Waste of money, if you ask me. Why does BJP needs to spend this money when they have Pappu doing it for free of cost for them?

Complete waste of money to be honest (if this news is true), but i guess BJP really wants to kill the competition in their strongholds by such moves.

 

[JanjaWeed]

Complete waste of money to be honest (if this news is true), but i guess BJP really wants to kill the competition in their strongholds by such moves.

This might work out to be a wise move though. They need to peak at the right time close to election days... so they might go for full blown all out media campaign from now till the election time. It's just that they need to keep the tempo going...

 

[JanjaWeed]

Donno if this was posted before... found it pretty funny though

Ek Bar Kejriwal, Modi, Sonia aur Kareena Train se ja rahe the.

Tabhi ek Goofa Aayi aur Kissing aur thappad Ki aawaz aayi.

Jab train bahar aayi to Kejriwal ka Gaal Laal tha,

Sab ke Sab Chup..

Sonia soch rahi thi Ke AAM ADMI paagal hote hai, Kejriwal Ne Kareena ko Kiss Kiya Hoga, aur thapad khaya Hoga.

Kareena soch rahi thi Ke Kejriwal ne Mujhe Kiss Karne ke Liye galti se Sonia Ko Kiss kar diya hoga aur thappad Khaya.

Kejriwal soch raha tha Ke Modi ne Kareena ko kiss kiya Lekin, Kareena ne Mujhe Samajh kar mujhe thappad Mara..

Modi soch raha tha ek bar fir gufa aaye aur Main fir se kiss ki awaj Nikal kar fir se kejriwal ko thappad Maaru… “Abhi sale ne INDIA ki politics dekhi kaha Hai…. ”

 

[ranjeet]

This might work out to be a wise move though. They need to peak at the right time close to election days... so they might go for full blown all out media campaign from now till the election time. It's just that they need to keep the tempo going...

Yes, they must go with all guns blazing, there is no need to take the foot off gas.

 

[CorporateAffairs]

This opinion poll could not have come at a worse time. BJP local leaders have old habit of getting lazy and stop working . These coming 3 months are going to be very very crucial. I hope BJP leaders do not let the momentum come down.

Breaking people from Parties like JD-U in Bihar , Congress + JVM in Jharkhand , Congress + Left in WB etc. and forming alliances with smaller parties are going to be crucial.

Not with Modi at the helm

BJP likely to win all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi: Vijay Goel | NDTV.com

This is his personal view.

Recent opinion poll says, BJP 2-3, AAPCong = 5-6

Arvind Kejriwal slammed again for 'endorsing' a controversial tweet.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's retweet of a music director's apparent observation about the BJP's Narendra Modi and the Congress' Rahul Gandhi has hurtled him into another controversy.

A little before 11 last night, Mr Kejriwal retweeted music director Vishal Dadlani, who had said on Twitter, "Stuck between a moron and a murderer....what now, India!?"

Mr Dadlani's tweet came soon after an interview of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was aired by a private TV channel, and was part of a stream of reviews on Twitter.

It was an apparent reference to Mr Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate and Mr Gandhi, who has not been named his party's prime ministerial candidate but is largely seen as the man who will get the job if the Congress retains power in the general elections due by May.

The music director, a prominent supporter of Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party, has made provocative comments before, but it is the Delhi Chief Minister's endorsement of the tweet that has raised eyebrows.

The BJP's Nirmala Sitharamam censured Mr Kejriwal saying, "He has no business to retweet and strike this language on a public domain...he is not doing public discourse any favour." She warned the Chief Minister that he must be "careful about what he tweets."

His one month in office, which he marks today, has seen more controversy than governance. The 33-hour protest in the heart of Delhi after two of his ministers were involved in public altercations with policemen and his staunch defence of his law minister Somnath Bharti, who has been accused of vigilantism and of being racial and sexist, have earned Mr Kejriwal flak.

 

[kurup]

Watching Pappu's interview. He is not answering any questions but going round and round.

Who in their right mind watches Rahul Gandhi's interview ...........

 

[CorporateAffairs]

Under Kejriwal, Delhi a dysfunctional anarchy

Stripping the AAP's aura as a pro-poor party of do-gooders, the President on Republic Day eve warned against forces that may fracture the Lok Sabha mandate, and leave the nation hostage to whimsical opportunists

Overwhelmed at the sheer diversity and apparent chaos of India, American economist and envoy John Kenneth Galbraith dubbed it a “functionary anarchy”, a description that has evoked smiles over the decades. It has taken less than a month of the Aam Aadmi Party to turn the national capital into a dysfunctional anarchy. One can only shudder at the fate of the nation should the party’s karmic trajectory transport it to greater heights.

The AAP’s opening move of distorting its electoral promise about the water crisis was bad enough; the subsequent incidents of vigilantism and the brazen dharna at Rail Bhavan have caused disquiet in many quarters. By ridiculing and threatening to derail the Republic Day celebrations, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal failed to appreciate that he was no longer a disgruntled activist (recall his attempt to stage protests at the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and then BJP president Nitin Gadkari in August 2012), but was holding a constitutional office. The universal values of justice and fraternity had already taken a battering with the racist attacks on Ugandan nationals, on grounds that proved to be false, and shamed India before the African Union, besides making us the laughing stock of the world.

Little wonder that President Pranab Mukherjee (who as a Union Minister had disapproved of Anna Hazare’s fast over the Lokpal Bill) used his annual address to the nation to caution, “For those in power, democracy is a sacred trust. Those who violate this trust commit sacrilege against the nation”.

Agreeing that corruption is a “cancer that erodes democracy,” the President reprimanded, “Equally dangerous is the rise of hypocrisy in public life. Elections do not give any person the license to flirt with illusions. Those who seek the trust of voters must promise only what is possible. Government is not a charity shop. Populist anarchy cannot be a substitute for governance. False promises lead to disillusionment, which gives birth to rage, and that rage has one legitimate target: Those in power”. Explicitly debunking the AAP’s governance model, the President added that aspirational young Indians would not forgive betrayal.

Stripping the AAP’s aura as a pro-poor party of well-meaning do-gooders, President Mukherjee in a brief but politically loaded speech cautioned against forces that might work towards a fractured mandate in the forthcoming parliamentary election, and leave the nation “hostage to whimsical opportunists”. Ever since the AAP exposed its national ambitions, many believed its real purpose was to win enough Lok Sabha seats to checkmate the ascent of Mr Narendra Modi. The Presidential disapproval of such a perverse game-plan naturally sent shockwaves along the political spectrum.

Although the Congress tried to minimise the significance of the address, the Rashtrapati Bhavan incumbent made clear his anxiety — “2014 is a precipice moment in our history” — that India might lapse into anarchy if she “does not get a stable Government”; he emphasised the responsibility of each voter not to let the nation down. As the Republic Day speech reflects the President’s personal opinions rather than those of the Union Cabinet, observers read it as an indictment of the ruling coalition at the Centre and a yearning for single-party rule.

The President’s early warning is most timely. After projecting itself as a party of the articulate and aspirational middle classes, supported by slum dwellers desiring accessible and accountable leaders, the AAP quickly shed its benign mask on assuming office. Founder-member Prashant Bhushan called for a referendum on the Army presence in Jammu & Kashmir, an issue for which he was once bashed up in 2011.

Shaken by the backlash, Mr Arvind Kejriwal quickly distanced the party from this opinion, but much damage was done. Pakistan’s Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Barjees Tahir said India should heed the AAP and conduct a referendum in J&K. Mr Bhushan, meanwhile, went on to demand a referendum on the deployment of security forces in Maoist-affected areas. Not surprisingly, Binayak Sen, found guilty of colluding with Maoists and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Raipur court in 2010, is a prominent member of the AAP.

Political scientist and psephologist Yogendra Yadav, possibly the party’s éminence grise, has a disturbing connection with Maoist groups. Mr Yadav was one of the main speakers at the Third Vinod Mishra Memorial meeting held in December 2002; Mishra, as is well-known, was general secretary of the CPI-ML and the brain behind the ‘red terror’ on West Bengal campuses during the 1970s.

As the Ford Foundation has awarded some of the leading lights of the Lokpal movement, part of which morphed into the AAP, discerning observers feel the party is being used to engineer a coloured revolution in India, at par with Western attempts to destabilise sovereign independent countries, of which Ukraine is a notable current example. This would explain the migration of prominent anti-native, pro-Western elites to the AAP.

This is the crux of the matter. Mr Kejriwal, the AAP, and their band of fellow travellers are simply an amalgam of all the variants of the old Left who are viscerally opposed to native ideas and institutions. Schooled in the old colonial ideas by successor trainers in India and/or the West, they are generously funded by the neo-colonialists through awards and grants to their NGOs. The AAP is best understood as a primal asuric force drawing together all anti-national forces to stymie the rise of a home-grown leader like Mr Modi.

Nevertheless, there is no need to exaggerate its appeal. India’s civilisational ethos shuns mindless violence, which is why contrived violent revolutions cannot succeed here. The AAP attracted a Delhi electorate opposed to a corruption-ridden Congress and largely somnolent local BJP, which nevertheless emerged as front ranker due to the charisma of Mr Modi. The AAP made an impressive debut with 29 per cent of the vote, but this cannot translate into seats that can checkmate the BJP at all-India level unless it makes seat sharing arrangements with other parties, particularly the Congress. Once this happens, the AAP will lose its shine as the party of anti-corruption crusaders.

The AAP’s governance record has already triggered anger among MLAs who hoped to govern Delhi and oppose the plan to use the city as a springboard to catapult to the national stage for an altogether different agenda. Faster than anyone could imagine, the bells are already tolling for the Aam Aadmi Party.

 

[HariPrasad]

Thanks. My ancestors are buried in this soil and i will die defending it. India is best place for Muslims on earth.

My only opposition is against fake poundage and hype of Modi. Its not Hindu-Muslim thing.

If BJP make some one else like Arun Jaitly as PM candidate i will support BJP. Because he is all real, educated and experienced in running central govt. and experienced as an MP for decades.

I thanked your post.

If education matters, Who is more qualified than Manmohan.

Delhi-6/7, Tamilnadu-2/39, Assam-4/14 these look tuff

An alliance with VIKO is in place. VIKO used to win 3 to 4 seats on his own in Tamilnadu.

 

[CorporateAffairs]

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An alliance with VIKO is in place. VIKO used to win 3 to 4 seats on his own in Tamilnadu.

Along with Vaiko we need, Vijaykanth, Ramadoss.

 

[HariPrasad]

Along with Vaiko we need, Vijaykanth, Ramadoss.

OK

pahelese fix honge q and A ....

Yes Like MM's interview was fixed and rehearsal was done.

who will be the pm then.......
for ex.....sp wont support bsp and vice versa....
tmc and left
lalu and nitish.....

this is not possible....

NDA will be short of 40-50 seats for sure......this is where they need the support of regional parties........the parties which will support NDA are aiadmk,bjd and trs/ysrc

Maya and Mulayam will also support because of CBI fear.

 

[45'22']

Maya and Mulayam will also support because of CBI fear.

support whom???

we were talking about a third front govt. backed by congress.......jo rule karega uske haath mein cbi hogi......and bsp and sp wont support each other