Archive | October, 2017

Magician Modi

Posted on 25 October 2017 by admin

Modi is a true political magician. He has made it a habit by now to win posing political games.
The PM is said to have been receiving repeated intelligence that the constituents of Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani are mighty peeved with him. The writing on the wall seemed to be that Rupani would lose his seat in the coming polls. This is why Modi created a media blitz around the Rajkot rod show recently. That was the unprecedented 8-km road show with a foreign premier, the ever-obliging Shinzo Abe of Japan. At the end of the Indo-Japan road show, Modi headed straight to the Saiyad Mosque and then paid his ritual obeisance at the Lal Darwaza, where scores of Muslims had been shown waiting for him for hours. Modi embraced select Muslim leaders and asked about their welfare. It is learnt that just this Houdini touch made many Muslim families his fans.

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Didi’s new gimmick

Posted on 25 October 2017 by admin

Ever since the talks of Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s rather effusive Muslim-love has been doing the rounds; she is seen more often at the Ramakrishna Mission in Kolkata. Insiders report that nowadays she is seen sitting at the Mission for hours at a stretch. Whereas her followers are touting this as a ‘search of inner peace’, the BJP is clear: it is a crass attempt to woo back the Hindu vote bank.

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Pranab Dada: Re-Hindu’ising Congress?

Posted on 25 October 2017 by admin

The Congress in its moments of political despair has found a new mentor in former President of India and general ombudsman over the party’s past 40 years, Pranab Mukherjee.
It is not any longer a scuttlebutt in the political labyrinths that he weighs in much more on the Gandhi scion Priyanka than Rahul. It is clear in his jest released memoir that he had been very upset when the UPA government had decided to arrest Jayendra Saraswathi, who claims to be one of the four descendants of Adi Shankaracharya. Dada has resurfaced in the Congress firmament that there has always been a section of the party – since its inception till the formation of the UPA 1 that has espoused ‘soft-Hindutva’, and he has recounted among them leaders like Madan Mohan Malaviya, Kamalapati Tripathi till Narasimha Rao. Political commenters, in fact, link Nehru-Indira-Sanjay Gandhi-Rajeev Gandhi-Narasimha Rao in the same chain. Contrarily, ever since the party command was taken over by Sonia Gandhi, there had been a marked shift towards favouring minorities and many Muslim and Christian leaders had found their way into the advisory council at 10 Janpath. This came to be known as the ‘Sonia Effect’, so much so that it had led to then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to make a rather peculiar declaration that the first rights over natural resources lay with the minorities!
Tracing back the 2014 general election rout of the Congress, the AK Anthony committee too had also suggested that the Congress has painted itself as an anti-Hindu party.
Thus it is that though the crown prince, Rahul Gandhi may not be seen to be meeting Pranabda every now and then many of the party’s top MPs do consult the old warhorse daily and, expectedly, conveys his messages to the aspirant Congress boss.
No wonder that Rahul has started remaking his own image and visiting Hindu temples, including more than a dozen in Modi’s Gujarat itself.
And thus it is that the party has started revitalising its once-discarded image of being anti-Hindu.

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Shotgun Shot, Rituraj’s Rise

Posted on 25 October 2017 by admin

Cutting out anti-Modi sirens in the party in the ride to the 2018-end (possibly) or 2019 (scheduled) General Elections has started, especially noticeable in the Patna Sahib Lok Sabha seat, where ‘Shotgun’ Shatrughan Sinha, who has been vitriolic of late, is sure to be shot down. The party is mulling the chances of Rituraj Sinha, son of billionaire RK Sinha of the security service SIS fame. Papa Sinha is a sitting Rajya Sabha MP and known to be very smacky with the Nagpur lot of RSS. Sonny Rituraj has studied at England’s Leeds University and has been a key strategist of the 2014 polls in Bihar. Ritu Baba had taken charge of the cyber cell of BJP in Bihar then and had helped connect the Modi Rath with the GPS system.

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New Cong, Old Traditions

Posted on 15 October 2017 by admin

Rahul Gandhi is all set to appear in a new avatar. He seems determined to take over the reigns of the Congress party on the 100th birth anniversary of his grandmother, Indira Gandhi on November 19. In a bid to engage ground level workers with the party for the forthcoming Assembly elections, he has constituted an election commission within the party under a little-known person – Mullapalli Ramchandra. Meanwhile, Madhusudan Mistry, lying in the cold storage for a long time, too has woken up and entered the commission as a member. But, he is learnt to have restarted old tradition of taking “prasadam” for the post of even PCC delegates. Motilal Vora has already complained to Rahul Gandhi about it. Vora has apparently received maximum complaints from Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. If Rahul can’t contain such old practices of his party, how can one expect him to give the party a facelift?

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New Issue for Congress

Posted on 15 October 2017 by admin

Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation has been in the constant glare of controversies ever since Modi entered the state in 2001, giving enough fodder to the main opposition party, Congress which alleges that the corporation has been constantly milked from 2001 to 2014 for political reason. They even allege that BJP contested several elections with funds generated by the corporation which incurred accumulated losses to the tune of Rs 20,000 crore. It was then that the Centre merged it into the biggest Navratna company – ONGC. Congress is likely to raise this issue during forthcoming Gujarat elections.

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Akhilesh’s New Plan

Posted on 15 October 2017 by admin

Akhilesh Yadav is learnt to be working overtime to give a new face to his Samajwadi Party. He had a long meeting with his father Mulayam Singh Yadav last week to discuss future strategies of the party. Akhilesh made it amply clear to his father that he can’t tolerate uncle Shivpal anymore. He also mentioned that Shivpal was in touch with the BJP before the Assembly elections and returned to SP only when he was put down by the BJP that either he should join the BJP or start his own regional party which too should be merged into the BJP later. Akhilesh wants Shivpal to be sent to Delhi somehow so that he himself can run the party as per his wishes. Sources claim that at least three members of Akhilesh’s family are likely to be denied tickets in next Lok Sabha elections – Dimple Yadav, Ram Gopal’s son Akshay and Mulayam’s nephew Tej Pratap Yadav who also happens to be the son-in-law of Lalu Yadav.

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Gehlot’s flight grounds Pilot

Posted on 15 October 2017 by admin

Sachin Pilot might have to wait a little longer to hold the reigns of Rajasthan because Ashok Gehlaut has captured the mind and imagination of Rahul Gandhi. There are enough indications that Gehlaut will lead party’s next election campaign. Gehlot is in fact, being rewarded for his successful stint as the election in charge of Punjab. Nobody had hoped for such stupendous electoral success there. Captain Amarinder Singh too put all his might into the campaign. Then, as a party in charge of Gujarat, Gehlot ensured Ahmed Patel’s victory in Rajya Sabha polls, again against all odds. It is because of his efforts that a moribund Congress in Gujarat is showing signs of revival.

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An Invisible Leader

Posted on 15 October 2017 by admin

Arun Jaitley might be BJP’s in charge in Gujarat but his face is absent from all election material. The banners and hoardings depict only Narendra Modi and Amit Shah’s faces. Jaitley’s picture is nowhere to be found. He visited Gujarat recently but no one could find even smallest mention of his visit in the Gujarat media. Are these ominous signs for the Master of Media Management?

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Chameleon step

Posted on 15 October 2017 by admin

A prominent industrialist from Gujarat Gautam Adani is learnt to have sought an appointment with Rahul Gandhi. Are these signs of the changing times or are people changing colours with changing circumstances?

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