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[Abingdonboy]

Nope. They are not. Name the spokesperson of the Govt. Without searching on Google.

To be honest I have no idea.

 

[Star Wars]

actual vote share

 

[Spectre]

That's like 18 years of my life man. Not counting the solo ride I did around the country on my Bullet in 2004 winter. This was 14 states in 13 riding days. I was on the road for 21 days, and covered 8500 kms, Pune to Pune.

North Bihar I smashed my bike and had to load it on to a train and take it to Delhi, where I got her repaired and headed to Himachal and then the return leg through Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, back to Pune.

No ticket, sitting next to the door near the toilet. With a sadhu baba chain smoking ganja chillums for company. Slept on newspapers on the floor. In my riding jacket and boots and pants and gloves. This is end December in north India, so you would imagine the cold.

Oh yes, I was riding along the same coastline (Chennai to Kolkata) which got hit by the tsunami just hardly days later.

Good days.

Amazing!! Anecdote about sleeping next to toilets and Sadhu Babas reminded me of my earlier train journeys. I always preferred unreserved in sleeper than in general class as the lines were too long in general.

As for bike rides couldn't afford the bullet but Yamaha RX-100 served me very well. So many long trips across Jharkhand on it. Still occupies the place of pride in my Garage despite it being all busted.

Thanks man for a trip down the memory lane though

 

[Echo_419]

I am sincerely hoping AASU deals a hue and cry about NRC before this elections.If Congress sides with AIUDF on this(which we all know wants to squash it) then pretty much all Assamese people will be demanding blood of Congress.Also don't rule out Himanta Biswa Sarma yet.That dude is comparable to Lalu in playing dirty poltics.Even muslims in his home constituency are gonna vote for him.That's my first ground report on Assam.

We need to win Assam at all costs

 

[Bitter Melon]

Bihar polls: In BJP war room, caste, only caste is the winner | The Indian Express


It was 9 am, some TV channels had jumped the gun to project a BJP win and party chief Amit Shah, the architect of the Bihar campaign, left his 11, Akbar Road, home to greet L K Advani on his birthday. In less than an hour, as he saw the Grand Alliance lead steadily climb to more than 70 seats, Shah, his aide told The Indian Express, got the first intimations of defeat.

By the time he returned home at 10.30 am, it was almost over — a resounding defeat for the man who had invested a blistering eight months in Bihar with three-hour sleep and a fasting blood sugar of 230. His refrain on the campaign trail: “No one has a real idea of how much urja (energy) we have invested in Bihar.”


With that energy nowhere evident in the final tally today, the party’s chief strategist — his icons are Chanakya and Veer Savarkar — had failed. And failed spectacularly.

On his return, he walked up to his mother’s photograph and stood there for two minutes. She passed away in 2010 and Shah, aides said, prayed for her blessings “to withstand the crisis.”

With the defeat confirmed, his campaign comrades Ananth Kumar, Bhupendra Yadav and Dharmendra Pradhan joined him. Once the Grand Alliance crossed the 140-mark, Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh dropped in.

The consensus of their huddle: this was “caste, caste and caste-based voting.”
They had two key arguments: One, “Until he starts enjoying the fruits of economic growth, the poor voter at the bottom of the social pyramid will continue to put his trust only in his caste leader who he thinks will deliver.” And, two: “We always knew RJD-JD(U) and Congress had arithmetic in their favour. Their caste base was known. When we tried to mix development with Hindu sentiments we found that castes like Yadavs were looking at their own chance to get power. We used certain Hindu idioms to break caste nexus but we failed.” A Cabinet Minister who attended Shah’s lunch said: “The defeat shows that we could not enhance our social base in Bihar at all.”

Sources said BJP spokespersons have got the message from the “highest level” to “defend RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat (some in the party have expressed reservations about his comment on quotas) and not speak against his comments in any manner on TV shows.”

At lunch, Shah downplayed the defeat. “Lokshahi mein haar-jeet chalti rahti hai. Have your food,” he told party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya. And told his deputies that he would convene a meeting after Diwali to discuss plans for the West Bengal poll campaign. He asked his deputies to call all defeated candidates and district BJP chiefs in Bihar and tell them not to be “depressed.” He told one of the many who called him today: “I have the energy to work for the next two lives.”

Right through the day, his phone kept ringing with calls from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Baba Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and his family members and relatives, too. His most common reply: “I have not lost courage. I will try and understand what happened on the ground and how. We will move on and recover fast. You don’t worry. Keep praying to God.”

Even though Shah claimed that the party had not lost confidence, there is little doubt that the defeat has hit it hard. Some in the party attribute it to the “forwards vs backwards” formulation of RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav. Indeed, Shah, aides said, thinks that the Yadav voters wanted the “Yadav raj” back and that’s why voted for Nitish Kumar with their feet.

Many BJP leaders claim that the beef issue had little impact. “Is there any doubt that Muslims would not have voted en masse for the Grand Alliance? BJP raised cow and such issues only after Phase 3 and Phase 4 of voting was over. We have got 12 seats out of 23 so how can you say voters rejected us for mentioning cow and beef?

- See more at: Bihar polls: In BJP war room, caste, only caste is the winner | The Indian Express

@Abingdonboy @Rain Man @saurav

Exactly my reading of the situation.

 

[Spectre]

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what is the proportional share population wise of Muslims and Kurmis in Bihar? The chart though sadly shows what was the Bihar election was all about.

Complete split along communal and caste lines

 

[Levina]

This is a fault of all RW

what is RW?

 

[heisenberg]

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is this data correct...i mean except koormi, yadav and muslims, nda got maximum vote share..btw what was actual vote share difference b/w nda and mgb

 

[arp2041]

what is RW?

Research & Analysis Wing!

 

[The Huskar]

We need to win Assam at all costs

Assam is a very tough nut.In some cases even harder than Bihar.Every high level political Machiavellian approach is needed if BJP wants this state.But once Assam is gained,all NE states expect Tripura will fall like dominoes.

 

[Echo_419]

Just wanted to post this one pic:-

@saurav @Rain Man @Echo_419 @Abingdonboy @kbd-raaf @Nair saab
THIS came out just yesterday after MGB was winning!

& this chap is just a college student!! Wow....

@JanjaWeed @Jason bourne What does @jha ji say? I mean the post-poll scenario & future for Bihar..

Biharis have made the right choice

 

[Star Wars]

what is RW?

Right wing

 

[ranjeet]

We need to win Assam at all costs

WB, Assam and Punjab won't be going BJP's way.

 

[The Huskar]

Biharis have made the right choice

I sincerely hope that BJP brings some kind of labor law where state people get first preference for industrial jobs.Would love to see reaction of Bihar's people then.

 

[Levina]

Research & Analysis Wing!

Don't you think the alphabet A is missing?

Right wing

Thank you.