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Actually I think this is the most appropriate video of the times.
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Actually I think this is the most appropriate video of the times.
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Aspirational admi
Which is more effective? The Congress party’s pro-poor, aam admi campaign? Or the Modi-led BJP’s anti-poverty, growth-oriented strategy?
The Congress’s pro-poor campaign raises the inevitable question: after almost 60 years of Congress rule – punctuated by relatively brief periods of other governments – why is it necessary to have all these special pro-poor schemes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the food security Act? Despite decades of slogans like Indira Gandhi’s ‘Garibi hatao’ why are there still so many hundreds of millions of citizens of this republic who continue to be abysmally poor?
India’s pro-poor programmes are in actuality pro-poverty schemes, designed not so much to eradicate poverty but to perpetuate it, and with it perpetuate a vote bank of the poor who for the sake of a few handouts near election time will cast their ballot for a mai-baap sarkar.
In sharp distinction, even critics of the BJP – particularly as represented by the socially divisive image of NaMo – might concede that Narendra Modi’s campaign which emphasizes the need for growth, development and prosperity is more effective as a popular crowd-puller. Modi’s campaign has not been anti-poor; it has been anti-poverty. In this sense it is not a negative, but a positive approach.
Unlike the Congress campaign, it does not imply that India is a poor country, and will continue to remain poor. Instead, Modi’s campaign asserts that India is a country of potentially productive and prosperous people who have been kept poor by faulty policies and defective governance.
Modi seems to have intuited an emerging truth of contemporary India: that within every so-called aam admi there is an aspirational admi struggling to come out. Yesterday’s have-nots – who were kept appeased by subsidies and freebies of various kinds – are fast becoming today’s will-haves, who do not supplicate the government for a better deal for themselves and their children but demand it.
Unlike yesterday’s have-nots, today’s will-haves aren’t satisfied with the crumbs of the cake the sarkar might give them; they want a sizeable slice of a larger cake of national wealth which they want to help to make.
Modi’s promise of prosperity addresses the aspirational admi, the will-haves, who – inspired by the consumerism they see all around them and watch reflected on community television screens – want not just roti, kapda and makaan, but roti, kapda, makaan and motor car. Or, at least, a two-wheeler.
Can the BJP, spearheaded by Modi, deliver on its promises to the aspirational admi, the will-haves? That’s an entirely different question. As a deliverer of development, Modi is as controversial a figure as he is for his alleged communal bias. His so-called ‘Gujarat model’ of growth has as many detractors – who question its social indices, particularly among minority communities – as it has supporters.
But one thing NaMo has unquestionably done: he has taken the genie out of the bottle. He has taken the will-have, aspirational admi out of the have-not aam admi: And no one will be able to put the genie back into the bottle again.
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/jugglebandhi/entry/aspirational-admi
Which is more effective? The Congress party’s pro-poor, aam admi campaign? Or the Modi-led BJP’s anti-poverty, growth-oriented strategy?
The Congress’s pro-poor campaign raises the inevitable question: after almost 60 years of Congress rule – punctuated by relatively brief periods of other governments – why is it necessary to have all these special pro-poor schemes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the food security Act? Despite decades of slogans like Indira Gandhi’s ‘Garibi hatao’ why are there still so many hundreds of millions of citizens of this republic who continue to be abysmally poor?
India’s pro-poor programmes are in actuality pro-poverty schemes, designed not so much to eradicate poverty but to perpetuate it, and with it perpetuate a vote bank of the poor who for the sake of a few handouts near election time will cast their ballot for a mai-baap sarkar.
In sharp distinction, even critics of the BJP – particularly as represented by the socially divisive image of NaMo – might concede that Narendra Modi’s campaign which emphasizes the need for growth, development and prosperity is more effective as a popular crowd-puller. Modi’s campaign has not been anti-poor; it has been anti-poverty. In this sense it is not a negative, but a positive approach.
Unlike the Congress campaign, it does not imply that India is a poor country, and will continue to remain poor. Instead, Modi’s campaign asserts that India is a country of potentially productive and prosperous people who have been kept poor by faulty policies and defective governance.
Modi seems to have intuited an emerging truth of contemporary India: that within every so-called aam admi there is an aspirational admi struggling to come out. Yesterday’s have-nots – who were kept appeased by subsidies and freebies of various kinds – are fast becoming today’s will-haves, who do not supplicate the government for a better deal for themselves and their children but demand it.
Unlike yesterday’s have-nots, today’s will-haves aren’t satisfied with the crumbs of the cake the sarkar might give them; they want a sizeable slice of a larger cake of national wealth which they want to help to make.
Modi’s promise of prosperity addresses the aspirational admi, the will-haves, who – inspired by the consumerism they see all around them and watch reflected on community television screens – want not just roti, kapda and makaan, but roti, kapda, makaan and motor car. Or, at least, a two-wheeler.
Can the BJP, spearheaded by Modi, deliver on its promises to the aspirational admi, the will-haves? That’s an entirely different question. As a deliverer of development, Modi is as controversial a figure as he is for his alleged communal bias. His so-called ‘Gujarat model’ of growth has as many detractors – who question its social indices, particularly among minority communities – as it has supporters.
But one thing NaMo has unquestionably done: he has taken the genie out of the bottle. He has taken the will-have, aspirational admi out of the have-not aam admi: And no one will be able to put the genie back into the bottle again.
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/jugglebandhi/entry/aspirational-admi
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NC may support Modi in Delhi
Members of Parliament of the NC can support Modi in Delhi and that he would get NC’s support in terms of issues and development. We will not barter our stand neither will we compromise our principles but we will support him in the larger interests of the State,” NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamal on November 4 said in an interview to a local news agency, Kashmir News Service.
Members of Parliament of the NC can support Modi in Delhi and that he would get NC’s support in terms of issues and development. We will not barter our stand neither will we compromise our principles but we will support him in the larger interests of the State,” NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamal on November 4 said in an interview to a local news agency, Kashmir News Service.
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Bro, your video is too good,
but think, what is happening around? China and pakistani incursions everyday? what did we do? what is the use of Such weapons and army if we cannot maintain our boundaries? what did your Minister say " acne on the face" and etc. What is this? is this the way to respond? People are fed up of such spineless government, they see a roaring Lion in Gujarat, his name is Narendra Modi!You want nation first or party first tell me? My nationalism swings in favour of country first and rest later, what is yours?Congress got crap now,RG is crap,his mother suffers from pancreatic cancer , underwent Whipples surgery do you know the survival rate of pancreatic cancer not more than 1.5 years at best ,you might say she hasn't got pancreatic cancer, i know from sources.Steve Jobs of Apple Corp had pancreatic cancer, how long did he last? the best of the best can only prolong life before they died.
Ask any best surgeon about pancreatic cancer.
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WASHINGTON: The US would be willing to work with BJP's prime ministerial candidateNarendra Modi, if the party is voted to power in the next general elections, senior Obama administration officials here have said, asserting that the enduring bilateral relationship is to continue irrespective of the poll results.
"We will work with the leader of the world's largest democracy. There is no question about that," a senior US official on Thursday said when asked about the prospects of working with anIndian government led by Bharatiya Janata Party's PM nominee Narendra Modi.
Dismissing visa as a non-issue, the official said it was largely a creation of the Indian media and not at all an issue in the US government.
"You said you have very strong relationship with Prime Minister Singh. If Modi become the Prime Minister next year, would that be problematic for the United States?" the official was asked.
"I think that the United States had a very strong relationship with the previous Indian government when it was under BJP leadership," the US official said.
"I think the relationship between the United States and India is an enduring one, it is a bipartisan in the United States, irrespective of who is in office. And we believe that (in a ) multiparty (system) in India that it is supported by all political parties, we expect that relationship to continue," the official said.
According to another US official "there is not a lot of angst about him (Modi)" in the US government, but it is believed that the administration has decided to maintain the status quo on this issue for the very reason that it might be seen as an interference in the internal domestic polity of India.
Any change in the status quo, might be used as political parties to politicise the issue ahead of the elections, sources said, adding that the US would be working with any leader who is elected as the Prime Minister of India after the next years general elections.
"We will work with the leader of the world's largest democracy. There is no question about that," a senior US official on Thursday said when asked about the prospects of working with anIndian government led by Bharatiya Janata Party's PM nominee Narendra Modi.
Dismissing visa as a non-issue, the official said it was largely a creation of the Indian media and not at all an issue in the US government.
"You said you have very strong relationship with Prime Minister Singh. If Modi become the Prime Minister next year, would that be problematic for the United States?" the official was asked.
"I think that the United States had a very strong relationship with the previous Indian government when it was under BJP leadership," the US official said.
"I think the relationship between the United States and India is an enduring one, it is a bipartisan in the United States, irrespective of who is in office. And we believe that (in a ) multiparty (system) in India that it is supported by all political parties, we expect that relationship to continue," the official said.
According to another US official "there is not a lot of angst about him (Modi)" in the US government, but it is believed that the administration has decided to maintain the status quo on this issue for the very reason that it might be seen as an interference in the internal domestic polity of India.
Any change in the status quo, might be used as political parties to politicise the issue ahead of the elections, sources said, adding that the US would be working with any leader who is elected as the Prime Minister of India after the next years general elections.
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Anand Sharma hits out at Goldman Sachs for "messing with India's politics"
NEW DELHI: Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has hit out atGoldman Sachs for "messing around with India's domestic politics" in a rare noholds-barred attack by a senior minister on a global investment bank, after it suggested that BJP-led NDA could win the next general elections.
"I think banks such as Goldman Sachs should stay focused only on doing what they claim to specialise in," Sharma told ET in an interview.
"Goldman's latest report on Indian economy and its eagerness to push the case of a particular political leader and his party exposes two things — Goldman is parading its ignorance about the basic facts of Indian economy; and it also exposes its eagerness to mess around with India's domestic politics," the minister added.
Leave it to Voters, says Sharma
It only makes Goldman's credibility and motives highly suspect," Sharma said. Earlier this week, Goldman in a report titled "Modi-fying our view", raised its rating for Indian markets to "market weight" from "underweight" , citing optimism over political change. "Equity investors tend to view BJP as business-friendly , and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as an agent of change," analysts at the bank said in a note to investors.
While the note was not an endorsement of Modi or BJP, it nevertheless had the effect of sanctifying a growing narrative among stock market participants about a likely Modi and BJP victory in the 2014 elections. Such talk cannot be pleasant reading for Congress-led UPA and its ministers, who say the headwinds facing the economy were triggered by international factors and the government had done everything to mitigate them. Sharma said topics such as elections and politics were best left to voters.
"It is time banks like Goldman realise that over 800 million Indian voters alone shall decide the future of Indian politics and elections. And these Indians will not be influenced by the motivated campaign by agencies like Goldman , which have, in any case, left behind a graveyard of their failed predictions and projections," he said. "They will only expose themselves further by trying to mess around with Indian politics," Sharma added.
NEW DELHI: Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has hit out atGoldman Sachs for "messing around with India's domestic politics" in a rare noholds-barred attack by a senior minister on a global investment bank, after it suggested that BJP-led NDA could win the next general elections.
"I think banks such as Goldman Sachs should stay focused only on doing what they claim to specialise in," Sharma told ET in an interview.
"Goldman's latest report on Indian economy and its eagerness to push the case of a particular political leader and his party exposes two things — Goldman is parading its ignorance about the basic facts of Indian economy; and it also exposes its eagerness to mess around with India's domestic politics," the minister added.
Leave it to Voters, says Sharma
It only makes Goldman's credibility and motives highly suspect," Sharma said. Earlier this week, Goldman in a report titled "Modi-fying our view", raised its rating for Indian markets to "market weight" from "underweight" , citing optimism over political change. "Equity investors tend to view BJP as business-friendly , and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as an agent of change," analysts at the bank said in a note to investors.
While the note was not an endorsement of Modi or BJP, it nevertheless had the effect of sanctifying a growing narrative among stock market participants about a likely Modi and BJP victory in the 2014 elections. Such talk cannot be pleasant reading for Congress-led UPA and its ministers, who say the headwinds facing the economy were triggered by international factors and the government had done everything to mitigate them. Sharma said topics such as elections and politics were best left to voters.
"It is time banks like Goldman realise that over 800 million Indian voters alone shall decide the future of Indian politics and elections. And these Indians will not be influenced by the motivated campaign by agencies like Goldman , which have, in any case, left behind a graveyard of their failed predictions and projections," he said. "They will only expose themselves further by trying to mess around with Indian politics," Sharma added.
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From what I've heard is that he is pro-China. Pakistan should worry.
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Waaaa ha ha ha ha ha HAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! This particular 'media creation' meant pujya fenkuji could not go beyond domestic airport if he ever tried to go to amreeekaaa!!!!! aha ahahahahaha!!! Despo despo!!
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Dull response to Rahul's UP rallies sends UP Congress into a tizzy
LUCKNOW: Flustered by the "less than satisfactory" public response to Rahul Gandhi's first few campaign rallies in Uttar Pradesh, theCongress pushed the panic button on Tuesday, drafting its UP in chargeMadhusudan Mistry to ensure a better turnout in the next phase of the Amethi MP's election rallies.
Mistry, who has called for a special meeting of zonal in charges, coordinators and senior party leaders on November 9, will also strategise ahead of the next rallies, identify gaps and plug the lacunae.
Although the Congress hasn't announced a final plan, Rahul is expected to hold four more campaign rallies in November. Of the four rallies he has held at Aligarh, Rampur, Hamirpur and Salempur so far, party leaders labelled the turnout at Aligarh and Hamirpur as "less than satisfactory" - only around 20,000 people or less were in attendance. In contrast, Rampur and Salempur saw 50,000 people turning out, with party sources claiming a gathering of over a lakh.
The lack of numbers, especially at Hamirpur, was apparently noticed by Rahul. Although Jhansi MP and MoS for rural development, Pradeep Jain, along with Congress MLAs Gayadeen, Vivek Kumar Singh and Daljeet Singh, were entrusted with gathering crowds, the party was unable to fill up the rally grounds. Defending the poor turnout at Hamirpur, one leader said, "All efforts were made to mobilise the crowds. However, the show was poor because most people were busy because of post-harvest work in the area."
With Rahul expected to hold four more rallies across UP in November, Mistry has called upon senior leaders to discuss strategies for all eight zones of the state unit. The review meeting will be attended by zonal chiefs, coordinators and senior party leaders. For better results, the UPCC, sources said, has now moved a proposal to hold no more than one campaign rally a day to ensure larger crowds are mobilised and monitoring of preparations is easier.
Each of Rahul's four campaign rallies were politically crucial because the Congress party was attempting to regain lost ground from the 2009 general elections, when the party came second in three places, Hamirpur, Salempur and Rampur, and third in Aligarh, where Chaudhary Brijendra Singh got 23.95% votes but lost to BSP's Raj Kumar Chauhan.
In Rampur, Begum Noor Bano lost to Samajwadi Party's Jaya Prada, in Hamirpur, Siddha Gopal Sahu finished second after BSP's Vijay Bahadur Singh while in Salempur, Bhola Pandey lost to BSP's Ramshankar Rajbhar.
In this light, Rahul's rallies at Aligarh, Rampur, Rath, Hamirpur as well as Salempur, Deoria, was being seen by political observers as the party's attempt to improve its position ahead of the 2014 elections. An early start and high decibel campaigns, with Rahul as the Congress's star campaigner, were not only meant to drum up support for UPA-II's schemes but also to mitigate the Modi effect believed to be denting the party's fortunes.
Dull response to Rahul's UP rallies sends UP Congress into a tizzy - Times Of India
LUCKNOW: Flustered by the "less than satisfactory" public response to Rahul Gandhi's first few campaign rallies in Uttar Pradesh, theCongress pushed the panic button on Tuesday, drafting its UP in chargeMadhusudan Mistry to ensure a better turnout in the next phase of the Amethi MP's election rallies.
Mistry, who has called for a special meeting of zonal in charges, coordinators and senior party leaders on November 9, will also strategise ahead of the next rallies, identify gaps and plug the lacunae.
Although the Congress hasn't announced a final plan, Rahul is expected to hold four more campaign rallies in November. Of the four rallies he has held at Aligarh, Rampur, Hamirpur and Salempur so far, party leaders labelled the turnout at Aligarh and Hamirpur as "less than satisfactory" - only around 20,000 people or less were in attendance. In contrast, Rampur and Salempur saw 50,000 people turning out, with party sources claiming a gathering of over a lakh.
The lack of numbers, especially at Hamirpur, was apparently noticed by Rahul. Although Jhansi MP and MoS for rural development, Pradeep Jain, along with Congress MLAs Gayadeen, Vivek Kumar Singh and Daljeet Singh, were entrusted with gathering crowds, the party was unable to fill up the rally grounds. Defending the poor turnout at Hamirpur, one leader said, "All efforts were made to mobilise the crowds. However, the show was poor because most people were busy because of post-harvest work in the area."
With Rahul expected to hold four more rallies across UP in November, Mistry has called upon senior leaders to discuss strategies for all eight zones of the state unit. The review meeting will be attended by zonal chiefs, coordinators and senior party leaders. For better results, the UPCC, sources said, has now moved a proposal to hold no more than one campaign rally a day to ensure larger crowds are mobilised and monitoring of preparations is easier.
Each of Rahul's four campaign rallies were politically crucial because the Congress party was attempting to regain lost ground from the 2009 general elections, when the party came second in three places, Hamirpur, Salempur and Rampur, and third in Aligarh, where Chaudhary Brijendra Singh got 23.95% votes but lost to BSP's Raj Kumar Chauhan.
In Rampur, Begum Noor Bano lost to Samajwadi Party's Jaya Prada, in Hamirpur, Siddha Gopal Sahu finished second after BSP's Vijay Bahadur Singh while in Salempur, Bhola Pandey lost to BSP's Ramshankar Rajbhar.
In this light, Rahul's rallies at Aligarh, Rampur, Rath, Hamirpur as well as Salempur, Deoria, was being seen by political observers as the party's attempt to improve its position ahead of the 2014 elections. An early start and high decibel campaigns, with Rahul as the Congress's star campaigner, were not only meant to drum up support for UPA-II's schemes but also to mitigate the Modi effect believed to be denting the party's fortunes.
Dull response to Rahul's UP rallies sends UP Congress into a tizzy - Times Of India
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