Manmohan out of favour, Rahul top choice for PM

[Imran Khan]

PM: Modi
deputy PM: Advani
President: Swaraj
HM: Jaitley
MEA: Ravi Shankar Prasad
DM: JFR Jacob, Jaswant Singh, JJ Singh, or Naik
FM: Yashwant Sinha
Rural Development: Nitish Kumar
Urban development Navjot Sidhu

it can be if your name was king maker lolz

 

[LiberalAtheist]

it can be if your name was king maker lolz

if i had a bottle with a genie!!!! ^____^

 

[thebrownguy]

Everyone seems to be in favour of a BJP led coalition but how did they get beaten a few years back if they are so popular.

That is a very good question Cardsharp. One of the reasons is most of us "educated" folks voice our opinions here on defence forums, but are too busy to f**ckin cast their votes. Its shameful really. Many of us propagate democracy but never give importance to the power of voting. Please vote my dear friends. (against the congress ) And make sure everyone around you does that too.

 

[harpoon]

At the end of day Indian politics are fought on the basis of local issues. We may be very much concerned about the 2g scandal, but a common man in rural area (where much of India lives) does not know what 2g is and what the fuss is all about. Promise him a tv, grinder or some other populist measures like road, drinking water etc and he will happily vote for you. Another problem is the vote bank politics practiced by the so called 'secular' parties which is based on fear of minorities about their safety.

I'm from Kerala and by the look of it Congress will win the majority of seats in 2014.

 

[Manas]

Make anyone PM of India, but NO Ghandhi(fake Gandhi) family pls.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Make anyone PM of India, but NO Ghandhi(fake Gandhi) family pls.

all along seeing your avatar i thought you were pro congress

 

[Tripathy]

He is going to be the PM someday. How much we crib here, is not going to be a drop in the ocean of Indian democracy.

Whether Congress should come to power or not, that is a different thing. Congress was written off after 1996 also.

By the way, I want to see Rahul as the party president and a man like PC, Montek or Sibbal as the PM.

 

[Manas]

all along seeing your avatar i thought you were pro congress

Is it difficult to grasp that's a caricature of Rahul Gandhi ??

 

[Tripathy]

That's what has been happening in India till 1980-19990s but now if you make a party aimed a specified religion it won't work. In fact their candidates won't even get their deposits back. lool

So now BJP has thrown out their far right Hindu nationalist ideology and their new menifesto is full of social, economic and anti-corruption agendas. Plus BJP government has proved this is many states that's why they're favourite.

is there a lokpal in Gujurat?

 

[Black Widow]

In this Independence Day week, State Of The Nation brings you an exclusive opinion poll across 20 states with 18,000 respondents. The first big finding is on what the country thinks of its leaders. Is Manmohan Singh still a popular prime minister, have Rahul Gandhi's ratings improved as a national leader, who is the Opposition's most credible face and who is the most well liked chief minister?

Rahul Gandhi's sudden rise to the top of the preferred Prime Minister chart is a significant moment, perhaps a turning point, in our recent history. The Hindu-CNN-IBN State of the Nation Survey carried out by the CSDS records a sharp erosion in the popular acceptance enjoyed so far by Manmohan Singh.

Sonia Gandhi's ratings continue to fall steadily since she has opted out of the race. But the Congress General Secretary occupies much of the space vacated by these two. Thus the combined rating of Sonia-Manmohan-Rahul have not suffered.

The BJP, however, has steadily lost ground in this respect. LK Advani could occupy less than half the popular space vacated by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

As of now, the next generation of BJP leadership adds up to just half of the popular space occuped by Advani in 2004. Ironically, just when the political class faces a crisis of credibility, the ruling party occupied the top three slots in the race for the top job.

Being named by 19 per cent of the people as the most suitable Prime Minister is in itself not a spectacular achievement for Rahul Gandhi. He is still far behind his mother's rating in 2004 and is just about halfway of Vajpayee's popularity at its peak.

Yet a major shift has taken place in the last two years: Rahul Gandhi's rating has jumped three-fold from a mere 6 per cent in 2009 and he has overtaken the PM and the Congress President for the first time.

Other indicators confirm this: two-thirds of the people interviewed had heard his name and knew who he was, his general image is that of a sincere and pro-poor leader, no other Congress leader poses any challenge to him and the proportion of those who want him to take the top position right away is as much as those who would want him to wait or never take this position.

Contrast this with the sudden and sharp erosion in the public image of Manmohan Singh. Though not a mass leader, his popularity was gradually rising from 2004 to 2009. This trend has been reversed for the first time.

His approval ratings as Prime Minister are more adverse than at any other point in the last seven years. The positive image of an honest man is now giving way to that of someone who stands helpless in the face of corruption. Most significantly, those who want him to continue as PM are outnumbered by those who want him replaced.

Yet this loss of the credibility of the Prime Minister does not seem to be helping any of the opposition leaders. For the first time in the last fifteen years of continuous tracking of the Prime Minister choices by the CSDS, no opposition leader records double digits.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has improved his position, and is way ahead of his nearest competitor Sushma Swaraj among the BJP voters, but with just 5 per cent of the people naming his as their first choice he has a long way to go.



Manmohan out of favour, Rahul top choice for PM - Politics - Politics News - ibnlive

IBNLIVE is dalla of Kongress. Sagarika ghosh blabber what her masters ask to.. It doesn't worth a place in PDF..

This man is much more capable that sick Raol gandhi

Arvind Kejriwal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Bang Galore]

Compare who is leader of youth :
Arvind Kejriwall:
Education From IIT Kharagpur
Job Former IRS resigned from the Govt job
Awards Various Ashoka Fellow, Civic Engagement.
2005: 'Satyendra Dubey Memorial Award', IIT Kanpur for his campaign for bringing transparency in Government
2006: Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership.
2006: CNN-IBN, 'Indian of the Year' in Public Service
2009: Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kharagpur for Emergent Leadership.
2010: Policy Change Agent of the Year, Economic Times Corporate Excellence Award along with Aruna Roy.
Fighting against corruption

Rahul Gandhi :
Education- failed to secure passing grades in National Economic Planning and Policy graduated by any how
job: Got ancestral political power and running through it
Award: he is making awards not getting it
Fight against Indians sentiments

Neither Rahul nor Advani is fit for the Prime Ministerial candidature... I strongly believe someone much more educated and down to earth person should be suitable for it someone like Arvind Kejriwall who understands the growing India's problem and has personally experienced it....

The education argument is a losing one. Arvind Kejriwal might have gone to IIT but so did Jairam Ramesh who also went To Carnegie Mellon & MIT. Half of the Cabinet studied in the top universities of The U.S. or U.K.
Chidambaram - Harvard MBA
Kapil Sibal - Harvard Law
S.M. Krishna - Fulbright scholar, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and The George Washington University Law School
Salman Khurshid - Oxford
Jyothiraditya Scindia - Harvard & Stanford
Sachin Pilot - Wharton Business School

My point here is simply this. No amount of educational qualifications stops you from getting yourself into a mess. The proof of that is the UPA government led by Dr. Manmohan Singh & filled with the above gentlemen.

The BJP has a top leader who graduated from IIT - Manohar Parrikar who also has a reputation for being very honest & efficient. Unfortunately he is kept out by the "syndicate" of the BJP - Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Venkaiah Naidu, Ananth Kumar. The BJP's cupboard runs bare after this. Jashwant Singh & Yeshwanth Sinha are both getting on in age themselves & can hardly be youthful alternatives. Arun Shourie does not want anything to do with the BJP anymore & Narendra Modi will be all at sea when he has to deal with a disparate coalition. It is easy to be strong when you have a full majority but dealing with allies requires a different kind of leader.

Everyone seems to be in favour of a BJP led coalition but how did they get beaten a few years back if they are so popular.

Unfortunately for some of our friends, it seems that the BJP is more popular on the internet than in the real India.

The BJP's downfall is largely due to economic liberalisation. In the 90's the BJP had built up its support base on the Hindu/pseudo secular factor based on the very real pandering to the minorities by the Congress governments. When caste was brought into the equation with the topic of reservations through the Mandal report (to fragment the BJP's support base), the BJP went hammer & tongs on the Ayodhya/ Ram temple issue which consolidated Hindus behind that movement. Following liberalisation in the 90's, for the first time Indians, especially the middle class began seeing a great chance at economic upliftment for themselves & their families. As the reforms started to deliver results in the early part of the first decade of this century, the middle class were less interested in the religious discourse & were more keen on getting on with economic growth. The BJP's loss in the 2004 election was actually a freak occurrence due to prominence of local issues in some states & did not necessarily reflect public sentiment accurately. The BJP thereafter, having lost their charismatic leader Vajpayee (due to ill health) were at a loss to come to terms with their defeat. They alternately opposed Manmohan Singh's policies (foolish because MMS was the darling of the Indian middle class) & kept poking their fingers into stirring up religious sentiments now & then but their opposition to the nuclear deal with the U.S. was an unmitigated disaster. The BJP itself had pursued a deal which was not nearly as liberal & opposed the deal only because of sheer cussedness which lost them even more of the middle class support for whom America was no more the bogeyman. (the proof is that the BJP was wiped out of every major city except for Bangalore which was due to local factors).

The next election will almost certainly result in a nightmare scenario with the BJP nowhere near forming the government & with a definite possibility of the Congress too falling short. The poor governance that we see today will pale into insignificance with a bunch of parties participating & running the government with the two major parties being considerably weakened.

 

[Swati Shukla]

Rahul is the "favourite" because NDTV and few other english language channels are sell-outs of Congress, people. How else do you think overnight a stupid survey nationwide showed that "Rahul is the main choice"? This joker went to party out the day 26/11 happened. You think he'd handle the country? Even Zardari would look like a national hero in front of this loser.

He's not coming anywhere near that chair of PM.. not in Hell.

please add hindi news channels like STAR NEWS, NDTV, Rajiv shukla's NEWS24 etc. to the list.

 

[Swati Shukla]

He is going to be the PM someday. How much we crib here, is not going to be a drop in the ocean of Indian democracy.

Whether Congress should come to power or not, that is a different thing. Congress was written off after 1996 also.

By the way, I want to see Rahul as the party president and a man like PC, Montek or Sibbal as the PM.

BTW Kapil Sibbal is the same great secular person who claimed that SIMI is a cultural organisation.. right?

 

[tallboy123]

i don't think so
india with rahul as pm..
india will be heading to fall from a very high waterfall

by the way no sensible indian wants a corrupt party like congress in center again

any one here support congress to come again in center?

 

[xTra]

What I can say from my experience, their are lots of ONLINE support for BJP but OFFLINE Congress has more support.