Are you for real ?
The MahaGhatbandan showed the world how the BJP can be stopped. By a potent mix of Caste politics.
Its to BJP's luck that there are no tall leaders in the opposition who could unite them to form this front.
Those are not in play here. This was a grudge match that Amit shah lost.
Ahmed patel threw him in jail and when Amit Shat tried to get back at him, Ahmed patel outsmarted him once again.
You might not be able to see this, but the rest of the word can see it without any ambiguity.
If that was not the case, then a single RS seat from Gujarat would not have made it to National news and we would not be here discussing it.
Prestige is a play of perception and perception is everything in politics. And CONgress just won the battle of perception in this instance. Amit Shah stuck his neck out and so did Ahmed Patel. Amit shah just lost, ahmed patel just won.
End of the day, Jo jeetha wohi Sikander.
LOL.... Dr. Swamy is in political limbo who is fighting his own personal battles and alienated from the larger body of BJP politics.
BJP has done its best to render him impotent, Is only Dr. Swamy's tenacity and strength that keeps him relevant. BJP has not "placed" him anywhere (except the RS), Dr. Swamy has placed himself in a position where nobody can ignore him. No thanks to the BJP.
There are no "friends" in politics. Even within the same party. Most of your "friends" will back stab you without a moment's hesitation. That is politics. Only someone Naive will use terms like "friends" in politics.
Its convergences of common interests that brings people together in any party. Dr. Swamy is no different from NaMo or Amit shah in that matter.
The only person who is making a fool is YOU with your repeated attempt at DENIAL and pretending that there is "nothing called prestige"
I would rather have facts and the TRUTH , than a nudge and a wink and Hypocrisy. So there is no point in asking me to "understand". I am not the "understanding" type.
Playing dirty is a dangerous game and if one does it, one has to make sure they WIN.
Otherwise you end up looking like a dirty pig.
Its not difference in opinion that makes "hubris", its denial of reality that makes "hubris".
CONgress is a spent force in Gujarat, so this battle was never about Gujarat.
It was about the might of the BJP vs the Might of the CONgress in a Battle of WITS. Guess who won that one.
This will continue to give hope to the opposition that CONgress can still pull a miracle from their hat. It just strengthened opposition moral. The very opposite of what BJP was trying to achieve.