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[The Huskar]

Hope our mota clown Shah has learned the importancce of creating and sustaining alliances and will try to rope in AGP plus some heavy anti immigrant rhetoric will do the trick in Assam

Very heavy voter polarisation is required to win Assam.And also Congress-AIUDF love affair,if possible,must be broken.That jodi is even worse than MGB.

 

[Echo_419]

Even at 74 he is more agile than Arun Jaitely and say what he is well acknowledged for his no nonsense attitude towards sickulars and he is even blessed with intellectual capacity to back his attitude. How can Modi really thinks of engaging sickulars in intellectual circuits without deploying BJP's tested warhorses ??


We need both.

I agree,gods budha hogaya hai magar dam hai

https://twitter.com/x/status/664444685402836992

Intellectuals backing Modi

We even a have a 'gali'(abuse) for these kind of people in Delhi

So clown landed in UK for dramebazziiii .... waiting for selfie....................

Looks like u have to use that gali for you

 

[magudi]

They will be hunted down.

Here you go :

Great strategist - BJP Gen seccy - inducted directly from Sangh top brass

 

[skyisthelimit]

Reading some columns n blogs today.

Seems like media is now forecasting and expecting when BJP will have infighting between ignored oldies and young guys.

Some even go to extent of party will split and NAMO will go away because of that.

@sandipghose on twitter. He thinks Modi will split BJP like Indira did to Congress in past. Make his own team with purged baggage (oldies and RSS) and start from scratch.

Do you guys think, he can do something like Indira, purify himself of the dirt left behind and start new.

 

[magudi]

Reading some columns n blogs today.

Seems like media is now forecasting and expecting when BJP will have infighting between ignored oldies and young guys.

Some even go to extent of party will split and NAMO will go away because of that.

@sandipghose on twitter. He thinks Modi will split BJP like Indira did to Congress in past. Make his own team with purged baggage (oldies and RSS) and start from scratch.

Do you guys think, he can do something like Indira, purify himself of the dirt left behind and start new.

He should ideally be doing that

But unfortunately , unlike Indira, Modi is a practicing Hindu

Cowardliness runs through his veins

 

[IndoCarib]

Why Mangalore’s Catholics are joining RSS against Tipu Sultan | india | Hindustan Times

 

[Bitter Melon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/664461525151707137

 

[Darmashkian]

Here you go :

Great strategist - BJP Gen seccy - inducted directly from Sangh top brass

This genius can't even win a municipal election in his hometown. Forget winning, nobody even knows him & he is an electoral strategist for the BJP.
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@Rain Man @ranjeet @Mike_Brando @Nair saab
An excellent article from Praveen Patil. Hope nobody attacks him this time.
Has The BJP Diluted Brand NaMo? | Swarajya

Has The BJP Diluted Brand NaMo?
It is now high time that state-level leaders of the BJP, especially in north India, stood up and assumed responsibility of party campaigns. Else, brand NaMo risks getting diluted and trivialized.

Of the 1600 chairs put up by the organizers nearly a quarter had remained empty, so the desperate local BJP leaders had to rush to a nearby slum in order to somehow convince the people there to come and be a part of the “function”. Since most men in that slum were out for work, the women folk were the ones available for occupying the chairs. But the they demanded their pound of flesh; they wanted “Modi to grant legal status to their illegal slum”!

The rest of the story is quite mundane as the politician made his ‘promise’ and was able to get some 200 odd women to occupy the empty chairs while Union Minister for Rural Development, Chaudhary Birender Singh (the grandson of Sir Chhotu Ram, the first Stephanian to be knighted by the British government), addressed the small gathering on Haryana day this November 1st in Sirsa. To his credit, Chaudhary Ji realized that the crowd was restive and gave a small speech which essentially highlighted the need to build the party in the Jatland. After his speech was over, the women once again asked the organizers to pass on their demand to PM Modi.

On the same day, Abhay Chautala, the leader of the opposition in the Haryana assembly, addressed a huge gathering of slogan shouting, chest thumping Jats in Rohtak (accompanying him on the stage were the deputy CM of neighbouring Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal, a supposed all weather NDA ally and K.C. Tyagi of the JDU, a former ally turned bitter foe of the NDA). Chautala egged on the Jats not to pay their electricity bills till Modi – a euphemism for the government – “withdraws the hike in tariff” only to get wild cheers from the audience. Then he went on to make an even more populist promise (to an even louder cheer) of providing a 10% reservation by creating a ‘Special Category’ in the OBC list for five communities – Jats, Bishnois, Jat Sikhs, Rors and Tyagis – if the INLD were to be voted to power. [Bloody rogues!]

The man at the centre of all these demands and expectations and accusations and frustrations of different sets of people, Prime Minister Modi, was himself busy throughout the day campaigning in the other side of north India —in Seemanchal, Bihar. He was trying desperately to change the narrative on reservations by counter-accusing the opposition of trying to steal a section of OBC quota.

In Bihar there are 1.41 crore young voters in the age group of 18-29 who are dependent on quotas for any hope to get some education or a job beyond the barely sustainable agrarian sector. These young backward and Dalit voters were suddenly scared into believing that their quotas would be in danger if BJP were to come to power, just a few days before the state went to polls. BJP simply failed to read the young voters’ anxieties in time until finally the Prime Minister had to himself step in to address these concerns directly.

In fact, the PM addressed an unprecedented 40 rallies in Bihar this winter to take BJP’s campaign to every nook and corner of the state. The entire saffron strategy was aligned to this top-down approach of Modi addressing the voters directly to convey the message – a strategy that had worked brilliantly during 2014. What is happening now is that the PM, a leader who is supposed to govern a vast country with nearly 1.3 Cr population, is expected to micro-address the concerns of every smallnukkad in India.

Media and the Dilli-centric intelligentsia want Modi to not only condemn but also apologize on behalf of Hindus for an act of crime in a village in Uttar Pradesh (currently under an SP government) because they believe Dadri is important to their ideologies.

Slum women in Sirsa want Modi to regularize their illegal make-shift dwellings because it is important to their geographic survival.

Housewives in Lucknow want Modi to clear all the garbage in front of their house because they believe Swachh Bharat was a campaign designed to keep their neighborhoods clean and it is failing big time.

Young Dalit college students in Begusarai want Modi to address not only their concerns about Mohan Bhagwat’s ill-timed statement on reservations but also provide a clear roadmap as to when would they get reservations in the private sector (private sector reservations could well emerge as the biggest political demand after Mandal in the next few years as the glimpses in Bihar campaign suggest).

This is North India from Sirsa in west to Bhagalpur in east and all the geographic expanse in between where ordinary voters have defined their own personal pursuits as targets for Modi to achieve. This is north India where BJP won nearly 60% of its mandate of 2014 and will face the real anti-incumbency some 3 and a half years from now. Brand NaMo is slowly but surely getting diluted here because of trivial vagaries of everyday life (no, not just the 200 rupees’ dal or 80 rupees’ onion but way beyond that). Yet, one cannot blame the voters alone for this trivialization because the BJP and Modi also seem to have made the classic mistake of over-leveraging a brand in a fast saturating market.

After the hectic 2014 campaign, the PM has addressed nearly a hundred election rallies in the last year and a half. Not only that, he constantly speaks about every minor municipal election victory from Madhya Pradesh to Leh Ladakh. BJP does not hesitate one bit to use Modi as the sole face of the campaign even for BBMP elections. So why shouldn’t a voter in Bangalore want to complain about the non-disposal of garbage in front of their home in Jayanagar (one of Asia’s biggest middle class colonies in Bangalore), for they have voted for Modi rather than the local corporator for all purposes and intents?

Brand NaMo needs to be reinvented and reinvented fast. This whole top-down approach is now suffering the usual wear and tear of the law of diminishing returns. BJP as a party of governance needs to evolve into a more horizontal structure where in local faces can also be held accountable – what use is a towering leader like Chaudhary Birender Singh if he cannot command the presence of merely 1600 people for a public meeting?

In states where BJP has powerful local leaders like Shivraj Singh Chouhan or Vasundhara Raje or even a Yeddiyurappa, voters are willing to bet on the local leadership to solve their problems, but in vast expanses of north India, brand NaMo is slowly facing the challenges of triviality and this is where the horizontal integration of local brands to complement tireless Modi campaigning is most needed. In fact, the Prime Minister himself ought to use his campaign presence sparingly over the next 2-3 years and instead concentrate more on providing the right vision for governance, else brand NaMo will face the same dangers that brand Rajiv faced in the late 80’s when a nation lost all her hope and an entire generation of Indians began to believe in coalition governments where no leader or party was fully trusted to govern Bharat.

Why Mangalore’s Catholics are joining RSS against Tipu Sultan | india | Hindustan Times

As I said, Tipu is hated by both Christians & Hindus from Mangalore to the Malabar.

@mooppan anna- could u verify?

 

[magudi]

This genius can't even win a municipal election in his hometown. Forget winning, nobody even knows him & he is an electoral strategist for the BJP.
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These are the kind of intellectual strategists they have

Btw excellent analysis by Praveen ,BJP clueless as always

 

[Bitter Melon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/664458645019602944

Oh their personal lives and sexual orientation should not really matter. They remain our esteemed public figures. Jai Ho Secular India Ki.

 

[skyisthelimit]

These are the kind of intellectual strategists they have

Btw excellent analysis by Praveen ,BJP clueless as always

Analysis and head banging sessions will go on as we head bang here.

The problem is BJP doesnt have much good friends in media. They never take pains in cultivation of good journalist who will write about NDA achievements n support them in any good or bad decisions.

bjp needs to focus on above to create good image for 2019.

People like Praveen patil can give good insights and strategies for elections considering how accurately he cud justify bihar elections with limited manpower and money

Poor guy went bankrupt with no money left for last 2 phases of bihar elections

 

[Bitter Melon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/664446900561539076

 

[Tridibans]

How are you friends? Posting after 2 days

A very happy and prosperous Diwali to you all

@Star Wars @JanjaWeed @arp2041 @ranjeet @SarthakGanguly

So.... Bihar is over.... But everything to fight for in the next 3 years

One thing I have noticed most right wingers are 'pu$$ies' and are depressed easily (me included).... look at the leftists and Congressis.... even after 2014 debacle how they are manipulating the media and the society at large....

Bihar is gone but we have India to look after. In fact, we got 35% of Biharis who had faith in Modi's development. Unfortunately, its us vs all from now on I am afraid.

As @magudi said, we need to now plan accordingly. Include more and more allies.... even if that means giving them extra space in the respective states (read Shiv Sena or TDP @Darmashkian ). Afterall, our aim is to have Modi again in 2019-2024.

 

[skyisthelimit]

Happy Diwali to you too @Tridibans @Star Wars @ nair saab @magudi @SwAggeR @SarthakGanguly @ranjeet @Marxist @Joe Shearer @Guynextdoor2 @ marxist @Bitter Melon

Everyone whom i missed too.

 

[magudi]

Happy Diwali to you too @Tridibans @Star Wars @ nair saab @magudi @SwAggeR @SarthakGanguly @ranjeet @Marxist @Joe Shearer @Guynextdoor2 @ marxist @Bitter Melon

Everyone whom i missed too.

You missed me

Shows i am irrelevant here

Bye forever