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THEATRE OF POLITICS
Rahul show in far-off US
Malladi Rama Rao The, Rahul show in the
United States did not
set the Hudson River
on fire as the acolytes
may have thought. But
the choreographers
are enjoying the adulation that is
coming their way.
Arun Jaitley and Narendra Modi
Nonetheless, it is difficult to
disagree with Rahul Gandhi's
prognosis of Moditva. After threeyears
on the Raisina Hill, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has
become a monumental
disappointment. As a master
magician, he offered dreams and slogans by the dozen to dazzle the
voters and make them sing his
paeans with his Gujarat Model as
a peck in the sky.
Modi-Jaitley's inflation-centric
monetary policy may be good
elsewhere but not in India where
mismatch between supply and
demand fuels price rise. Failure to
anticipate such a mismatch or
inability to bridge the gap in the
shortest possible time frame
compounds the miseries of
farmer and consumer alike. Rahul's show in the far away Eldorado does not let the impression that he has read the pulse of the nation correctly. Nor Lalus and Mamatas and Kejriwals for that matter. Only Mayawati seems to know her onions.
Good governance cannot come
from the ramparts of the Red Fort
as Narendra Modi is realising
slowly but steadily.All text book
prescriptions, like demonetisation
cannot wish away blackmoney
more so as India fights elections
with black money. Solid
homework and a fine tuned
delivery mechanism are essential
to make "Garibi Hatao".
The party in power and the
government must not only appear
to be on the same page but also
work at tandem. Not Swatch
Bharat Photo-ops, nor waterless
toilets that are ending as
godowns by the dozen lead India
to a new dawn. Advani's Hindutva was designed to help BJP shed its untouchable status. That goal was achieved when Atal Behari Vajpayee realised that his comment to The Illustrated Weekly of India that he had wasted his life in the Parivar was a misplaced lament.
Amit Shah
It may appear as blasphemy to
equate the assassination of
Narendra Dabholkar, Govind
Pansare, MM Kalburgi and now
Gauri Lankesh with the blood bath in God's own country but in
the land of Gandhi and Buddha,
where religion is deemed to be a
personal matter and a way of life,
a killing is a killing, by whatever
name it is called, and it should be treated as such.
There is no other way if
India believes in and continues
to subscribe to values that
have made it survive for thousands of years.
Advani's Hindutva was
designed to help BJP shed its
untouchable status. That goal was achieved when Atal Behari
Vajpayee realised that his
comment to The Illustrated
Weekly of India that he had
wasted his life in the parivar was
a misplaced lament. Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav Well, the game has yielded the expected dividends – the liberal press giving front page and edit page treatment to the new chorus. The saturation coverage has diverted attention from the Modi failures. Talk of the town is not job loss due to demonetisation nor no jobs even after upgrading skills. This is what the Modi managers had set about to achieve. And succeeded. What helped them in the way? It is pseudo secularism, an expression coined by Advani et al in the wake of Shahbano case. Mamata Banerjee and Sonia Gandhi Gandhis pursued minority appeasement politics that were designed to help them at the hustings. According to one school, the credit for ushering in this practice goes to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the tallest leader of Indian Republic. There are still some others who trace the malady to Mahatma Gandhi and his championing of the Khilafat movement.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
History will be a better judge
on Nehru and Gandhi. Also on
today's politicians.The fact,
however, remains that the Modi-
Shah combine with able support
from the parivaar has cashed in
on the ground level mood to
hijack a public discourse for their
survival. History will be a better judge on Nehru and Gandhi. Also on today's politicians.The fact, however, remains that the Modi-Shah combine with able support from the Parivaar has cashed in on the ground level mood to hijack a public discourse for their survival. the tone for a new debate. And made others to follow her lead in denouncing the Modi Raj. Surprisingly, Rahul Gandhi's Congress did not follow her for long and settled for the time tested talking shops called Opposition Conclaves. The inability of the anti-BJP camp to encash the openings is something incredible. To the glee of the Modi camp. And it is going about to put its act together. Will it succeed? Time for astrological pandits to return to their charts and stars. |