Snoop-gate Will Not Benefit Congress In 2014

If gulail.com and cobrapost are going to replace Tarun Tejpal in the Congress ‘ attack dog kennel then they need to do better. The so called snoop gate is not going to yield any political dividends for Congress. Think about it. We are a nation beset with multi-crore rupee scams. Rapes are a daily occurrence. Our borders are breached by the Chinese on a frightening frequency equal to that of Pakistanis breaking the ceasefire across the LOC. UP voters have face more Hindu-Muslim riots since the SP rule than the rest of the country. Maoism, naxalism and other forms of tribal unrest (instigated by missionaries and leftists) are just some of the problems facing the eastern parts of the country. The lesser said about inflation and resulting price the better.

For Congress to divert attention from such problems, they need much bigger guns. They just lost their biggest stick to beat Modi and Amit Shah (BTW: the fact that they could not stop the CBI from giving a clean chit to Amit Shah till the elections tells me that the CBI babus are seeing the writing on the wall and may not be dancing to the Congress’ tune now). Now we all know that the whole snoop-gate charges have been leveled by these two websites on the basis of statements by two absolutely corrupt brothers who are beneficiaries of the Congress’ largesse because of their anti-Modi stance. From what we have heard, the charges are completely bogus.

However, for the arguments sake, let us assume that the snooping charges are real. One thing is clear that this snooping has not resulted in any financial benefits for Modi. Any sexual angle has been ruled out. So the only thing left is the possible invasion of privacy. Now that is a big deal in the western democracies. In England the phone hacking was a big deal however, no one ended up in jail because of that. So let me ask you this – for the fearful voter on the street who is paying exorbitant amount of money for onions, how big a deal is the snooping charges? We all know that there was a lot of circumstantial evidence that the Congress bugged the offices of their own finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee. Now that was a real scandal because it was done for the benefit of someone at the cost of national interest. In 2010, the Congress was accused of tapping the phones of opposition leaders. Now that scandal was akin to the Watergate scandal in the US which brought down Richard Nixon. If Congress wants to raise the snooping bogey they have so many of their own skeletons and need to come clean first. Moreover, if there was no public outrage back then, what makes them think that public is going to be outraged by this frivolous accusation leveled against probably the most popular men in our memory?

This is only a scandal for the pot smoking leftists or the drunken elites in New Delhi. Out there is the street for the hard working Indian who is bending over backwards to make ends meet, this is a non issue. So my advice to desperate leftists at gulail or cobrapost is that this is not going to earn their masters any votes in the next elections. Guys, you need to wait for Tarun Tejpal to come out after he has served his time for rape to learn how to be a guerilla journalist. Until then, relax.

The Hindu report on phone tapping in India can be read at: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/over-5000-phones-being-tapped-daily/article905944.ece
Arun Jaitley phone tapping case is mentioned in: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/arun-jaitley-phone-tapping-case-six-more-held-445968
Phone tapping of opposition leaders in India can be read at: http://www.rediff.com/news/report/government-faces-oppn-fury-over-phone-tapping/20100426.htm

Kejriwal The Activist VS Kejriwal The Politician

Activism is about bringing awareness to problems. Activism is about unearthing the wrongs. Activism is about pointing out the guilty. Activism is about a lot of things except providing solutions. And by solutions, I do not mean legislation because legislation against human frailties or desperate needs causes a black market, another way of corruption. Prohibition against alcohol makes the bootleggers rich. Blanket prohibition against abortion causes back alley and unsafe procedures – kills the guilty and the innocent. But does it mean that is should be a free for all?

Far from it. All corruption free countries (or those with minimal corruption) have prosperity, high employment or vast social welfare nets. In other words, there are little reasons for people to go out and steal. Sounds fantastic, right? A closer look tells you that these countries have economies that are not sustainable for the long haul. That is why Europe is in trouble. With drugs and Islamic fundamentalism (and poverty that goes along with it) the European fabric of society is getting tested. Still they have managed to maintain a semblance of their old ways because their population (despite of Muslim immigrants from Middle East and Africa) is still low. On the other hand, we have an extremely large population and that too a young one with little or no future. Without stating the obvious, it is clear that a mere piece of legislation and threat of punishment is not going to cure India’s corrupt practices (has death penalty stopped murders?). What is to say that the enforcers of the new law are not going to get corrupted as well?

Kejriwal the activist was right on all counts. His intentions were good and the methodology (borrowed from Anna Hazare on whose coattails this man piggybacked) was sound. Anna’s movement was popular and a lot of support and he and his followers became heroes. When the restless amongst those so called heroes decided that to clean the dirt, they have to get their hands dirty, they entered politics. Now that Kejriwal has become a politician, he has to realize that the game has now changed. The easy hit and run operation that he ran where he raised issues without bringing any of them to fruition, will not work. Activism is a fight between right and wrong. Politics is a fight between winning and losing. Kejriwal is not a starry eyed teenager and should realize that elections are a dirty business all over the world. The fights are not fair and therefore he should stop complaining about BJP backing Anna Hazare. It may seem underhanded but that is one card he has gifted to the BJP himself. The point is that Kejriwal needs another kind of skill to win elections and govern. If he continues to shy away from governance then his supporters need to question this man’s intentions. The Delhi elections remain unresolved and this man is already planning the next general elections. Was the last election another one of his hit and run operations? Is he the male version of that vulture Arundhati Roy who goes around usurping other people’s agenda and then moves on to the next when it loses media coverage?

Kejriwal the activist had my sympathies. He is a fellow IITian and has my respect that way as well. However, Kejriwal the politician has so far come across as an immature, rancorous and a sore loser who is threatening to hold his breath until he gets his wish. He should realize that such tricks work on people who either love you or sympathize with you. People who vote for you expect you to back your words and work instead of point out faults in everyone. Yes. Kejriwal the politician seems to have failed every test posed to him.

Kejriwal Needs To Prove He's More Than A Mamata Bannerjee

Arvind Kejriwal and his wife together have 1.71 crores worth of assets as he has declared. Mamata Bannerjee has declared assets worth Rs. 15 lakhs. By that barometer (as Kejriwal has often said), Mamata is more honest than him. Of course Kejriwal is an IIT graduate so he is more likely to be richer than an honest politician. Quibbling aside, they both are honest people. Kejriwal has shaken up Delhi and defeated a Congress heroine (of sorts. Dixit was being looked upon as Rahul’s Manmohan Singh) after 15 years of misrule. Mamata defeated communists after three decades of misrule. Both did so by the use of people power. Both of them are street fighters  who can organize and carry out protests well. Whatever Kejriwal has done, Mamata has also done except on a bigger scale. West Bengal is much larger and more complex than Delhi. There are a lot of parallels between these two.

What we see in WB is that Didi is finding out, painfully I might add, that rabble rousing and opposing are far easier than governing. Her rule is a saga of missed opportunities and bad decisions. Saying no and opposing require fortitude but do not require solving complex problems, job creation, economy management etc. while maintaining peace and harmony in a complex society. It is being a CEO with no control over your employees while being answerable to them. Let us go back a few decades. Look at what happened at partition. Gandhi was the original Hazare times a million. Throughout the freedom fight, he was effective as a naysayer and a protester . He also led a large group of Indians who believed him. However, when we really did get freedom and time came for governing and leading the nation rather than protesting, his mettle was tested. The conservative nationalists like me think that he failed in his new role.

Now Kejriwal has promised clean governance. While not ideal, Narendra Modi has run a very clean government ( I am sure that corruption exists at lower levels in Gujarat but not at higher levels otherwise the Modi baiters would have found something by now) so it is doable. But beyond this I have my doubts with Kejriwal. Instead of providing real achievable solutions, he has promised freebies and Jan Lokapal and RTI. He is a smart guy and the voters seem to think so as well. I think that he SHOULD form the next government in Delhi. Let us give him the benefit of the doubt and for the moment accept that he can achieve what he has promised without breaking the bank. The BJP should sit out in the opposition (they really do not gain anything by forming a minority government dependent on the whimsy of non BJP people) and let AAP form the government with the help of Congress.

The voters of Delhi and other parts of the country who have taken a fancy to Kejriwal and the AAP need to see him govern rather than promise. Kejriwal needs to back his claims and show us if he is a capable administrator like Narendra Modi or he is another Mamata Bannerjee. This is an important issue that needs to be resolved. If he can govern well then the other parties and nation can benefit from his wisdom and ways. If he turns out to be another Mamata Bannerjee then the voters should know that vote for this guy is merely a wasted protest vote. West Bengal can afford Mamata Bannerjee’s style of governance but India cannot afford that. Indian voters need to know that.

Modi And AAP Shake Up Delhi And Status Quo

The BJP have won Delhi elections (though not absolute majority) and they have Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party to thank for this. As we all know, until two months ago, Vijay Goel who was another Delhi wheeler and dealer, was leading the BJP down the familiar path of self defeat. AAP was on a roll (before the sting got Shazia Ilmi and others). Goel was refusing to budge from the status quo. After Modi and Rajnath Singh took complete control of the BJP they saw the writing on the wall. Forced by the AAP’s march they had to reevaluate. They brought in Dr. Harshvardhan who is somewhat of a visionary when it comes to social medicine. He is credited with providing the country with the Polio eradication program for the entire nation.  Clearly he is also a performer who knows the pulse of Delhi politics. Personally the man is as honest as Narendra Modi. He lives in a house built by his father. In the picture included in this blogpost, you can see that this man’s life is anything but opulent. I would be proud to call him my leader.

My point here is that Arvind Kejriwal’s /AAP victory highlights the need for leaders like Dr. Harshvardhan i.e. men who can work and perform and whose honesty is beyond reproach.  It also highlights the anger in Indian voter against Delhi brand of politics. The BJP would be well advised not to become complacent about these victories and read the tea leaves from Delhi. They need to remember that a typical BJP voter is a middle class Hindu. These voters are also the kind who can see the virtue in AAP’s approach to problems. The BJP really need to project and give Loksabha tickets to leaders who cannot be targeted by AAP or the pro-Congress leftist sting operators. We also need to target leaders who are balanced in their approach so we do not alienate the middle of the road undecided voters. What I am saying is that we need more Harshvardhans and less Varun Gandhis. You see, we do not need firebrands or rabble-rousers because they are poor excuses for motivators. We already have the best political motivational speaker in the country in Bhai Narendra Modi. We know what this man is capable of. We should let him tell the voters his larger vision. What the party needs to assure the voters is that Modi will have the best, most capable support from the party. Manmohan Singh, despite of a clean image was surrounded by the most crooked band of robbers. The voters know that even with the best man on top, there needs to be accountability across the board. It is this thirst for accountability which has propelled the AAP to an unprecedented success.

BJP is an ideology driven party. The purest form of this kind of governance is seen in Gujarat and the results are there for all to see. What we do not want is for the BJP to become Congress lite, corrupted by the Delhi way of politics. Recently deposed leadership of BJP headed by LK Advani epitomized all that was wrong with the BJP. That has since been revamping of the leadership. Modi/Rajnath took care of the anti Goel dissent in Delhi albeit too late (they could not have done it with LK Advani still throwing tantrums) and as a result, they fisnished in the first place. Had they resolved this issue earlier, the four seats that they lost to AAP with less than 500 vote margin could have go in their kitty and the good doctor would have been the fourth BJP CM to take oath.

In many ways, I am glad that Arvind Kejriwal and his AAP forced BJP’s hand. There is no need in the party for people who are not beholden to the values of the party but join it for power. Gadkari and others made a severe mistake by going after Babu Singh Kushwaha in desperate hopes of winning in UP. It did not work in UP. With people now seeing what the AAP can do in urban areas, it will not work nationally either. AAP has shown the mirror to the BJP and the message is loud and clear. The Delhi status quo is out. No more forgive / forget / complacence / “I scratch your back and you scratch mine”/ seniority driven politics of LK Advani. It is time to practice the MODI brand of politics with the old Janasangh ideology as a moral compass. We have outsiders like Narendra Modi and AAP to thank for this.

The picture is from :http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/harsh-vardhan-relaxed-on-eve-of-results/article5434157.ece 

Congress Is Losing To Saffron Social Media

Internet has proven to be the great equalizer for India. First Aakashvaani and then paid English language media dominated by JNU and St. Stephen’s leftist elites, always ensured a Congress control over the way news was disseminated to Indian voters. The chokehold was so bad that even during the BJP rule in the centre, the media forwarded their pro Congress agenda with impunity. The main stream media at least pretended to be fair. Outfits like Tehelka were merely an extension of Congress’ dirty tricks department. All this combined with a weak central BJP leadership squandered away one opportunity after another.

Much to the relief of frustrated conservatives all over, the rise of Bhai Narendra Modi and social media awareness coincided. Modi despite of a rustic look and speech, proved to be way more tech savvy than all the snobby Congressmen combined. Use of holographic images, social media outlets on the internet was common place in the last two Gujarat elections. Modi used all those tools to a great advantage. But all that pales into comparison to the ability of the so called internet Hindus (or trolls as the traitorous left calls us) to call out the mainstream media lies. Gone are the days when these pot smoking JNU leftists would put out any damn lie and get away unchallenged. A biased article on Modi or a lie on the BJP on twitter is met with an asymmetrical and an overwhelming opposition. This new found power of the conservatives has left the Congress and their media minions in the dust. While the Congress is trying to get their own people to follow Modi’s example, their media goons have started to prove that this tsunami of Modi support on the internet is a lie. To what end do they want to do so, eludes me but examples of the two approaches are as follows.

Cobrapost has recently conducted another sting operation after the snoopgate. The aim was to tarnish and discredit Modi's social media following. Crobapost claims that social media is dangerous, so it must be curtailed.

As the FP article on the Cobrapost sting rightly points out that "None of this is new and no sting operation was required to unravel these known knowns. Brands have been gaming social media since social media existed, as have individuals and political parties. They’re ‘bought’ fans, they’ve ‘bought’ positive interaction and they’ve bought fans. Bots have inundated timelines with positive and negative opinion depending on which was required."

Some time back India Today Group had published an online/social media statewide/national opinion poll which overwhelmingly preferred BJP. The interesting part was that, it was the largest opinion poll and survey was foolproof. There could not have been any tampering as the half million plus participants were required to enter their mobile number to cast their vote.

Here is what the India Today article said: "A mark of their overwhelming online supremacy can be found in the India Today Group's e-lection poll, a mock online General Election in which users were asked to vote in Lok Sabha constituencies across India. The ballot worked through one-time passwords sent to mobile phones, ensuring only one vote for every cell number to prevent rigging. Of the unprecedented 556,460 votes that were cast over a 40-day period till October 30, 338,401 users chose BJP. Even in Uttar Pradesh, which witnesses a four-cornered contest every election, 87.1 per cent of the voters went with the BJP. The results from this self-selected sample may not reflect the ground reality but they prove one thing beyond a shadow of doubt: The Internet is saffron."

It's this overwhelmingly saffron social media that Congress is after and is desperate to stop. As Arun Jaitely rightly said that fake sting operation are on the rise as Congress finds it impossible to curtail Modi. With Tehelka's self infected demise eminent there are other stake holders like Cobrapost and Gulail working overtime to take the spot. From Tejpal's arrest it's apparent that such sleazy sting operations are mostly conducted by people of questionable morals with leftist agendas and an insatiable greed. These sting exposés are far from the meticulous and objective investigative journalism like that of the Daily Pioneer that exposed the 2G scam. Such discredited agencies are funded and propped up by Congress to spread disgusting lies and tarnish the image of the opponents. What else can explain the sudden prominence accorded to Cobrapost’s expose of the BJP’s strength in social media. Though late, Congress realized the importance of this newfound and cheap but powerful medium. Their ministers like Ashoke Gehlot and Ajay Makhan's followed Modi’s suit but could not achieve his popularity. So in typical Congress way they bought followers in Turkey and Russia to show their own internet prowess prominence which has since been exposed as a fraud.

How can you explain the following events and their order?

1. Congress late realization of massive Modi's social media youth following. - Election of Modi's as the BJP election chief -June 2013

2. Ajay Makhan appointed as Congress media cell chief. - June/July 2013

3. Congress Ministers popularity in Turkey, Russia and Ukraine. - Buying Facebook followers in August 2013

4. India Today Group's e-lection opinion poll, a mock online General Election - Published results on 1st November 2013

5. Kapil Sibal opened a twitter account and ended up following an anti Congress site by mistake. When ridiculed by a Twitter user on the opening day and got that users account suspended. - 28th November 2013

6. Cobrapost Sting operation exposing social media and calling for laws to curb it. - 29th November 2013

There we have it folks. When Congress cannot match Modi’s internet popularity and cannot deal with the power of the Internet Hindu, they pull out all the stops. Dirty tricks, curbing free speech and killing the messenger are some things you are witnessing as we speak. Congress’ media machinery has finally arrived at its Waterloo.

The story on Congress' fake internet followers can be read at: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-08-22/news/41437245_1_facebook-page-iris-knowledge-foundation-facebook-account

The story of Kapil Sibal's disastrous debut on Twitter can be read at: http://www.niticentral.com/2013/11/29/tweeter-cracks-joke-about-kapil-sibal-gets-account-suspended-162853.html

Cobrapost's so called sting on Social media can be read at: http://www.firstpost.com/politics/corporate-india-should-watch-out-what-operationbluevirus-tells-us-1257159.html

Snoopgate: Congress Vocal and Modi Silent. Why?

Couple of pinko websites have dug up some information on the use of Gujarat state government machinery being used for civilian surveillance. A desperate Congress all set to lose three, maybe four out of five state elections has latched on to this “scandal”. With Rahul Gandhi drawing anorexic crowds and getting booed, his darbaris are desperate to divert the attention of voters elsewhere. Unfortunately for them, the friend and attack dog Tarun Tejpal got caught raping his daughter best friend. Unable to come to his defence directly, the Congress mandarins are trying their damndest to see if they can make this so called snoopgate amount to something. They are screaming at their loudest while Bhai Narendra Modi and the BJP have stayed silent on the matter.

I wondered about the reasons. It is obvious why Congress is screaming bloody murder, trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. As a law abiding citizen, if true, it bothers me that state government machinery was used for personal purposes. We will leave that for later investigations. However, I live in the real world and not in some teenaged Utopian India. I see government vehicles being used by Class 1 officers and the entire neta class for their personal use. Sarkari peons are more servants of the brown sahibs than aam janta. Government owned bungalows are used as vacation homes by the privileged and the very same are used to barter favors (four of them were given by Congress to Mayawati for favors). The same Congress uses our top notch commandos as their private guards. So if Modi has to be investigated for use of sarkari outfits then so do millions of Class 1 officers and every neta in New Delhi. Think about it. When industrialists allow Sonia Gandhi to go abroad in their private planes, what do they get in return from Congress? Has that ever been investigated?

Forgetting the use of sarkari machinery for private use, let us focus on the snooping issue. Isn’t it true that the then Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s office was bugged by the Congress themselves? These guys were snooping on their own man. How many of their enemies were snooped on? One cannot even imagine and now he same Congress has the chutzpah to raise their finger at Modi/Shah? Seeing how they are trying to help Tejpal, any attempt to accuse Congress of hypocrisy is a waste of breath. Snoopgate in today’s corrupt India is like a parking violation in Nazi Germany.

But why are Modi and BJP silent on the matter? I do not know but I can guess by the way Modi is campaigning. So far the man has run his campaign in the American style. Aggressive, targeted, interactive, informative and entertaining, his rallies have captured the imagination of voters. He has a message and to deviate from that would mean hitting a speed bump in the middle of a car race. I think that the BJP will address the issue after the last vote is cast in Delhi elections and the results either become obvious or are declared. That will the wise move and I think that is the plan. Four losses destroy Congress. I predict an internal revolt in the party directed against the family. If god forbid, Congress manages to wrest Chhattisgarh out of BJP’s hand then the Congress spinmeisters will claim victory. That will give Congress some breathing room. Even so, the snoopgate fight will be best fought then. You see, it will get ugly and the BJP will have to get down to Congress’ level. After the elections, they can fight and win. But do so right now will be playing in Congress’ hands and it will take away from Modi’s brilliant campaign narrative. I think this is why the BJP is postponing the fight. Right now it is important that the BJP focus on winning and energizing their vote base and attracting the undecided voters for 2014 elections. Everything else is baseline noise.

Is Tarun Tejpal Pressurizing Congress?

It is surely is fun watching the downfall of maybe the biggest hypocrite in Indian media. Of course with so many of them around, to be the biggest hypocrite has to be an honor for Tarun Tejpal who now stands accused of carrying out a different kind of “sting operation” on his daughter’s best friend. Even the pimp on the street is shaking his head in disgust.

The way the whole thing went down in Goa clearly indicates that this is not the first time Tejpal has raped someone. The sheer brazenness of his attack on this star struck newbie is indicative of the way men in power in India think. This creep is clearly connected well with people in Congress as well as establishment in India. He thought he was going to get away like has so far.

What he did not figure was with Congress facing certain defeat in four states and not faring in their showdown with the political tsunami known as Narendra Damodardas Modi. How could Sibal, Tiwari, Digvijay could come out to openly defend someone who had his finger in some innocent girl’s vagina? His support in the Indian media who look upon this sleazebag as a moral crusader for the leftist cause is slowly evaporating. I refuse to believe that the women in media have not heard about this worm’s proclivities so far. I guess so far they turned a blind eye to his rapes / sexual conquests. Now with irrefutable proofs including his own confession, they have to face up to the truth: Their hero is a lowest of the low. Some on the media have accepted while others like Shoma Chaudhary and Vinod Mehta (Editor of the nudie magazine Debonair – another paragon of virtue) are still fighting on this guy’s behalf.

Now another sarkari babu who seems to be more crooked than a corkscrew has accused Narendra Modi of improper behavior. This indicted babu Pradeep Sharma is trying to bolster the so called snooping case with falsehoods (alleging illicit relations between Modi and the girl in question) since the whole snooping case has so far been a non starter. The timing of this Sharma’s accusation is curious. If there was any impropriety on Modi’s part why has this man stayed quiet so far? Clearly this man is another Sanjiv Bhatt who credibility is equal to that of a street drug dealer.

Another question to ask is why has Sharma who is under a whole lot of legal trouble (Land grab cases are easy to prove or disprove so if they are pending still they must be valid) has decided to go on attack when Congress and their attack dog is in trouble? Another bothersome thing is the complete silence of Congress mandarins on this rape issue especially when it is hard for some of these to stay quiet. Is it possible that Tarun Tejpal who is a voyeur and a pervert is privy to secrets of Congress personnel and is in a position to threaten them? If that is the case, the Congress is going to do the best to either directly help Tejpal by obstructing the investigation (Is Shoma Chaudhary working at their behest? After all loyalty to one’s boss only goes so far and goes a lot less in case of a criminal case) or by diverting attention (by attempting to besmirch the hero of the opposition – Narendra Modi).

This Pradeep Sharma should be held accountable for loose talk and made to come forward with this so called proof. By his loose and criminally irresponsible talk, he has bringing shame to the names of a prominent national leader and an innocent girl (are innocent girls pawns in the hands of Congress and their goons?). Meanwhile the Congress whose founding father was Jawaharlal “I love Edwina Mountbatten” Nehru should be careful in casting aspersions on the character of anyone. They should remember that their guy has been going around the world sowing his wild oats. Would they want the skeletons in his closet to tumble out?

The story of accusations made by Sharma can be read at: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-snooping-controversy-suspended-ias-officer-pradeep-sharma-seeks-cbi-probe-against-narendra-modi-1923769

SHOLAY's JAY ASKING MAUSI TO VOTE FOR CONGRESS

Modi Benefits Congress In The Long Term

Congress was a mess in the second half of 1990s. Party was in a disarray with no capable leaders on the horizon. Party faithful went after the Congressi magic bullet – The Gandhi Family. The party workers were galvanized and united behind the family. The voters’ curiosity was piqued. And why not? A white skinned widow with a good looking son and a daughter were a surefire crowd pullers. Come 2004, the BJP launched their ill-fated India shining campaign and lost to Congress. Sonia turned down the PM post in what is widely deemed as a gesture of sacrifice. We all really know why she did that. Gandhi family myth was born and it was protected by severe ferocity by the inner circle (Oscar Fernandez, Ahmad Patel, Janardhan Dwivedi, Ambika Soni, Digvijay Singh et. al.) and people who questioned the validity or authority or capability were put down ruthlessly by various means. A rot set in and we saw a decade long reign of plunder.

After 2009, with scams stumbling out of closet, state elections had to be won. Congress was forced to field Rahul Gandhi. They lost every election. Scams, rising prices, falling rupee, deteriorating law and order, Chinese incursions and a slew of other issues started to leach the sheen of the family. Non Congress people found themselves vindicated in their beliefs about the family. Congress workers were still not asking why the emperor had no clothes.

With four important state elections leading up to the 2014 general elections on the cards, Congress inner circle was forced to put Rahul Gandhi out. After all, they had sold him and his mother to their workers as panacea for all ills- Congress’ and the nation’s. With every public appearance, Rahul was exposed. On the flip side, Congress’ bête noire Narendra Modi seems to be going from strength to strength. Now it seems that local leaders in Delhi elections do not want Rahul Gandhi to appear in their rallies anymore. I have a feeling that if the Congress loses the four important state elections, a revolt will break out in Congress. We may not see it because the inner circle will do their best to contain it. But we will see signs of it.

So who is going to be the next savior of Congress? Who is going to rid the party of crooks and bring up capable leaders? A staunch BJP supporter, I realize the importance of a capable and a good opposition. Every successful democracy has two major parties. It is important that Congress remain a viable nation alternative albeit not in its current avatar. I have the perfect person in mind, a man who is going to show Congress the mirror. In fact he is doing so even now. I am speaking of Bhai Narendra Modi. How can Narendra Modi save Congress? Am I drunk or mad? I will try to explain how Modi is good for Congress in the long run.

Modi’s success in Gujarat and national stage is a lesson for all upcoming politicians. Integrity, performance, realpolitik, organizational capability, oratory to inspire the Indian public etc. are hallmarks of the man. Despite of a tsunami of negativity against him, he is still here winning hearts and minds and capturing our imagination. To do that, he had to overcome his opponents in the BJP as well. These opponents were Delhi insiders, used to the status quo. We have had sixty years of that. Voters are hungry for real change. They want a leader who is going to turn Delhi upside down and bring the netas and babus in line. Modi clearly is the man. Voters know that which is why they are flocking to see him and not because he is white or good looking. Now smart people in Congress (they are there but are afraid of the inner circle or have temporarily joined them) have to realize that the Indian voter is seeing the light and maybe even maturing. They will not fall for the same old scare tactics and vote for Congress. In short, to survive, the Congress has to bring changes in their party and not just cosmetic ones. Like the BJP, they also need to look all over India for capable leaders instead of just one family. Once they do that and admittedly it won’t happen overnight, they will be a party on surer grounds with a hierarchy of leaders, each capable of leading a state or the nation. In short, they have to reinstall inner party democracy. They will then be able to boast of their own Narendra Modi or Shivraj Chauhan or Raman Singh.

Congress has lost its way. With their current leadership in charge they will never find the way back. Therefore losing to the BJP / Narendra Modi, will force them to re-evaluate their policies and evolve. Maybe in five or ten years, they will have a group of leaders their founders could be proud of. All that will only be possible if they lose to the BJP. Heavens forbid, if they do not, then status quo with the Gandhis will be maintained and the party will remain mired in the swamp of incompetence and corruption. This is why I say that Narendra Modi will be good for Congress in the long term. The country deserves Modi and the BJP. But the country also needs and changed and an improved Congress to provide an effective opposition. That will be good for our country and democracy.

http://www.niticentral.com/2013/11/02/iron-diwali-of-india-153969.html

Modi Brings Out Best In BJP, Worst In Others

Judging by the way even the hypocrites on the left are grudgingly acknowledging Modi’s political prowess, we can see that his strategy is working. While showcasing his now well known accomplishments, he has gone on an offensive, highlighting the non-governance and extreme corruption of the others. He is making a case for himself by giving the opposition a taste of their own medicine.

Modi could not make a case for himself so far as the most accomplished, capable and honest leader in the country because he did not have the support of his own party. Selfish and corrupt in the BJP were (still are) afraid of his ascent. Clever political machinations took care of that and now after seeing Modi’s performances and strategy for 2014, even his biggest detractors have joined him. With his party by his side, there is clearly no stopping Modi. His quick wit, intellect (notwithstanding the comments by that Stephens educated elitist jerk Shashi Tharoor), oratory, warmth and ability to empathize with the poor (being poor himself unlike most of the Congressmen) is there for all to see. He has energized the voters and more importantly, the soporific BJP worker. It has been a long time since we have seen this kind of energy in the BJP camp. Everyone wants to work and more importantly do the right thing (as we saw in Delhi where Vijay Goel was pushed out in favor of an honest and capable performer). He really is bringing out the best in the BJP.

It is also clear from his approach, that Modi is no pushover like Manmohan Singh. He is a street fighter and a survivor and he knows how to win. This is why he is relentless in his approach. He is just the kind of man to take India to the next level. The voters are beginning to get a glimpse into the man and their reaction is unsettling Modi’s political and ideological enemies. Judging by their reactions, Modi is bringing out the worst in his enemies.

The reaction to Modi’s campaign is a mixed bag of the expected and the surprising. Reaction by Mulayam, Mayawati, Mamata, Sharad Pawar and the commies is not surprising and falls under the category of the expected. They all know that they cannot match Modi in accomplishments or oratory. Since they do not control the national security outfits, they cannot go after him on a personal basis either (like Congress is wont to). So they all are running towards the last refuge of the Indian political scoundrel – secularism (the popular Indian version i.e.). They know it is not going to work but their choices are limited.

The reaction of Nitish Kumar who until sometime ago was the elite’s favorite Non Congress, non Modi option. Of course it is now clear that Nitish read too much into the utterances of self proclaimed intellectuals of the left like Ramchandra Guha who called Kumar India’s answer to Obama. We all know what Kumar has done to be where he is today. What we did not know was the extreme personal hatred this man has for Modi? If Modi had been killed in those explosions, Kumar would have been culpable (if our judiciary were to be fair). Kumar has gone from an extremely strong position in his state to a government which can fall any day now. In reaction to Modi’s success so far, Nitish has essentially committed political hara-kiri.

I have always held that if you take out the Gandhi family and they poodles from Congress, we will have a real alternative to the BJP on a national level. The party has capable people who remain muzzled lest the Shehzada loses some of his so called sheen. However, these people must see that the Congress is an extremely confused lot with no ideology, capability and integrity and what is worse is that the entire voter base knows that. Repeated failures in state elections so far and projected failures in the forthcoming elections should have made it abundantly clear that the usefulness of the Gandhi family (which was to mobilize the Congress worker) has been exhausted and has been that way for the better part of the last decade. An experienced politician would not react to someone like Modi in the way Congressmen have been. Petty name calling, taking out their anger on the press (who by the way are the biggest reason why the Congress and the Gandhi family have been able to run such a successful con on the nation for the last decade) and trying to muzzle them, stopping opinion polls (now that they have turned against Congress), using state’s security apparatus in its relentless hunt for something to pin on Modi or Amit Shah is not the way to win the voters back. The way Rahul Gandhi goes around speaking makes you wonder if anyone has written his speech or some genius thought that it was better if the Shehzada spoke extemporaneously. And then you have these so called educated people like Jayram Ramesh and Shashi Tharoor and their statements. Rational statements rather that petulant angry outbursts are expected from an IIT / Carnegie Mellon / MIT (being an ex IITian, I know of these places and the kind of student Ramesh must be) graduate like Ramesh. Right now he sounds like he wants to please Madam by shouting the loudest and meanest.

Shashi Tharoor has attacked Modi’s lack of formal education. I am not surprised. He is a St. Stephen’s graduate which is school famous for churning out leftist bhoora sahibs rather than true blue contributors to the Indian GDP. Formal education and actual ability have little to do with each other. Surely Tharoor has heard of Bill Gates. A Gujarati businessperson once told me that we do not get MBA degrees. We get people with MBA degrees to work for us. KarsanBhai Patel who runs Nirma is worth over a billion dollars has the same education as Modi and a lot less than Tharoor. Yet when it comes to contributing to India’s GDP, Tharoor is a nobody who marries rich for money. Manmohan Singh has a degree which he can be proud of but what has that degree resulted in? Judging by the economic mess that the country is in, Ivy League schools and Oxford need to recant their degrees from Manmohan, Chidambaran and Montek Singh.

Congress’ reaction to Modi tells me that they have no answer for the man. Modi is playing a game that Congress is trying to understand. Read the following quote by the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu who wrote the Art of War, and you will realize that whether or not Modi knows about him, he clearly is the master of the art of political war. Instead of trying to pick holes in Modi’s knowledge of history (even their Modi has been proven correct), Congress would be well advised to formulate a strategy otherwise in their love and support for the Gandhi family, and they will lose something much more than the next general election – their identity.

“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”

NY Times On Modi – What The F*#@ Do We Care?

I have had some experience in the matter so believe me when I tell you that a very high percent of Indians go weak in the knees and deem to lose the faculty of their spine when confronted by a white person or a proxy. Our leaders are no exception and while talking to white leader seem to get verbal diarrhea  and tend to wash the Indian dirty linen out in public. Just like our other PM candidate Rahul Gandhi when he told a visitor that LeT is a lesser threat to India than RSS. Why do we do this? Do we feel inferior to white people and always are eager to please them and ensure that they hear what THEY want to hear? Why are we so eager to seek validation of white people? I guess the only explanation is that somehow the British rule has altered our DNA and servility is now part of our genetic makeup.

The latest example of such validation seeking slaves are the people responding and agreeing with New York Times editorial which is very critical of Narendra Modi. No sooner did the article come out than a slew of Congresspersons jumped on it and agreed with it because somehow it validates their point of view. To these people, what New York Toilet-paper writes is correct but millions of Indian voters thronging Modi’s rallies are wrong. These are the same people who somehow think that getting the US visa is some sort of a character certificate.

I have something to say to these myopic, pseudo-secular sycophants. Most of these people are older people (Rita Bahuguna and Tariq Anwar) and must remember the articles written in NY Times back in the 1990’s by this reporter called Barbara Crossette. This anti Indian vixen wrote the most putrid anti-Indian articles and pro-pakistani articles. In fact any anti India articles back then used to get major coverage. Did Bahuguna and Anwar and their ilk agree with those articles well?

NYT depends upon input from South Asia Journalist Association which is based in New York. SAJA is nothing but a collection of leftist liberals like Angana Chatterji who have aligned themselves with people like Ghulam Nabi Fai who is currently in jail for spying on behalf of Pakistan. Pseudo-journalists like Vijay Prashad (nephew of Brinda Karat and thus related to the NDTV family) and Biju Matthew spew anti Indian venom in NYT are looked upon as Indian spokespersons in the US by many. With sources of this kind, only an idiot would believe anything published in that newspaper.

Moreover, leftist Indians who are never going to come back and are getting rich of a capitalist system (do you see the irony and the hypocrisy of these bastards?) and can crow about anti Modi articles will have no bearing on the next election. Lakhs and lakhs of people attending Modi rallies WILL have an impact and it is their opinion and their votes that matter.

So I ask you once again – what the F*C@ do we care what New York Times thinks of Modi?

An article on responses to NYT article can be read at:http://in.news.yahoo.com/mixed-political-response-nyt-editorial-criticism-modi-072254497.html

Maut Ka Saudagar versus Shehzada

Congress leaders in the past have used nasty terms like Maut ka saudagar (merchant of death) or fascist or Nazi or worse for Bhai Narendra Modi. He never retaliated or threatened back. His only form of retaliation was to win the next election with even a bigger margin. Even a blind, uneducated man from a non democratic country would tell you that the terms used by Congressmen including Sonia Gandhi are truly offensive and not according to “maryada of loktantra” (norms of democracy).

On the other hand in democracies where a family becomes so powerful that the descendents are almost expected to become heads of state. In the United States, The Kennedys and more recently the Bushes are such families. So much so that they are often referred to as “royalties”. In other words a young man born in this family like the late JFK Jr. was referred to as a Prince or “Shehzada” (in Urdu).

There are a lot of powerful families in India with sons often following their fathers into positions of power. However no family has dominated our unfortunate country as the Nehru-Gandhi family. Those of us with a few years under our belt remember the way Sanjay Gandhi used to behave. It was nothing short of a spoiled Prince. It is because it was almost expected that after Indira Gandhi, one of her sons was going to take over the country. Well, one of them did. SO if one expects Rahul Gandhi to be a candidate for PM’ship by virtue of being a Gandhi then what exactly should the term be?

Mr. Janardan Dwivedi who used to be a teacher at the Leftist Bastion of Delhi University should know that the term used by Narendra Modi for Rahul Gandhi could not be more apt (unlike the term used by his mistress for Modi). After which other simple MP in India gets to meet foreign dignitaries and is privy to national secrets. Please! Rahul Gandhi is not an ordinary MP. He really is more like the guy who thinks that he deserves the seat by virtue of his birth family i.e. a Shehzada.

It is not the term Shehzada used by Modi which has enraged Dwivedi and his ilk. It is the stark difference between the two PM candidates and the inability of the Congress to respond to Modi that is causing this anger. Dwivedi has famously said that Congress workers can stop usage of such words in two days. I do not need to hear that threat from him. Believe me Mr. Dwivedi, we all are scared of the Congress machinery and we know what you folks are capable of. I was young but I saw the brutality inflicted on Sikhs back in 1984. I am sure that Muslims in Nellie (Assam) also know the ferocity of an angry Congressman.

It is not Modi but the leaders from Congress like Dwivedi and Salman Khurshid (remember the threats made to Arvind Kejriwal?) who need a lesson a democratic decorum. It does not behoove senior leaders to behave like this and threaten violence. Who knows which Muslim terrorist may get encouraged and carry out bomb attacks in crowded places?

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1.       Madhu Kishwar  26 Oct

Compare the civility of NaMo calling RG. Shezada with Congress MPs calling him scorpion,Hitler, massmurderer, fascist, Ravan, gutterworm, snake!

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