He will win.
Sorry to say something like that to you .
But he will win.
Why I said that because the very existence and rise of the BJP is directly linked with
failure of Congress and opposition.
What do we have here now ?
22 Political families that is totally submerged in corruption .
And one nationalist party that is build up on the solid cadre system that will only considers the merit .
Take main Congress , what is the eligibility of that clown Rahul ?
Guy couldnt properly raise allegation let alone stand against the Modi .
What happened to our former President Pranab Mukherjee ?How couldnt he become the PM of India ?
I am not that a scholar like you but just a common citizen .
Nation could see a new trend in last 5 years unlike past 60 years ,linking each and every incident in every nook and corner to Indian PM.
How could he able to influence the peopked like that ?
Its 100% sure ,PR works alone wont cut that .
So there was something that happened on ground level.
I am not an economist nor I know the economic perspective of Demonitisation .But what we can see especially in our state is that the exaorbitant land prices is cool down,normalised ,stable .
No more brokers that compete for real estate business ,no more money bundle in a rag cover .
All these happens just after demonatisation.
For us it seems as a positive outcome.
Now we dont need to buy a land for more than 5 lakhs per cent that too in village side.
OK ,lets take this as a mere imagination.
Then a Congress mouth piece known as Malayala Manorama that always insult PM for each and everything did an investigation in 2017 after one year about demonitisation and interviewed an agent that still changing old notes to new notes illegally for client.
He is a member of a big network .
As per his info in Malappuram itself has around 50000 crore old banned notes that hide in households after one year of demonitisation .
A district only this one .
Actually what kind of growth was going on here ?
Then this govt also claimed that around 18000 villages electrified ,Gas connection ,etc .
Nothing from opposition except Modi chor hai .
About Pakistan obsession.
He pushed the threshold when we ordered Balakot airstrike .
Every one knows military has capability whether they uses that or not it totally depends on the govt on top .
Same mirage and spicecwas there after 26 /11 .
What happened ?
Ok he did that may be claims for two days then it will die down.
But opposition want to know this ,that where is proof?
Almost helped the enemy version.
Actually what kind of opposition is this .
All they could have do is thst just keep quiet .
But that wasnt their problem ,their problem
was the acceptance he got after the strike .
About ASAT.
So you are saying ,DRDO chief,Former Chief,Former ISRO chief ,Nambi Narayanan everyone is wrong .
There is a test and there will consequences and again that depends upon the guy in the post .Previous govt couldnt do it .But he did .Capability was there years ago .
But only realised now .
What is the relation between Abhinandan commissioning as an AF pilot in 2004 and Congress rule ?
Well Salman Khurshid has some points .
Such a moron.
Its not that Modi is perfect .Noone is perfect .
But I can see the difference and competence of a govt that ordered new jets after 12 years and a previous govt that bring down 42 squadrons in 2004 to 33 squsdrons in 2014 .
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Sorry to butt into your discussion with Joe.. A few small points from my end
1. No one knows if he will win or not. It is not him fighting election. It is 543 fights.
Recent results have been humbling for BJP - Lost an unthinkable election in Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. Lost a yo-yo one in Rajasthan. They won't do anything in Bengal, TN - Amma is dead, AP - he is fighting with Naidu and TRS both.. That leaves UP, Maharashtra, Gujrat and Karnatka... Very difficult to carry an election on 4 states. So yes, the argument of Congress being missing was correct in 2017.. 2018 changed that. remeber, people don;t vote a president, but nominees who elect a PM
2. There is no meritocracy in BJP today. Jaitely has no qualification to be a FM, Raghuram Rajan did not deserve to be chased out fro RBI - look at the benefit of insolvency law he had created, I critiqued
@Joe Shearer for a post on Indian defense purchases - but i think he is right - everything is future tense and no big deal are actually done today plus the awarding of Rafael contract to Anil Ambani is also not meritocratic
You will say, what are the option.. well, as long as we treat them at the same level on moral decadency, it is a fair question to ask and we should. Manmohan Singh, PV Narasimha rao were not big leaders - the milking process of Indian democracy brought them up.
Bigger point is - whenever India has fallen to a single leading party in our history, we have suffered and after that that party has lost in next elections - Even Indira Gandhi lost and was by far one of the best administrators of modern India we had (am not a congress walah).
Who knows, Pranab Mukherjee might have been great... leaders are not about thumping chest in a mega democracy like ours, but to find common minimum points. he is great at speeches in India. I have heard him at Davos and I have heard Tradeau, even Trump and amma Merkel.. he is nowhere close. It is just written speeches in India (the Saughand mujhe speech was just whipping up hysteria.. i almost feel for it and then realized, what the heck.. our strength has to be our economics as China is slowing down.. and he is pushing us into a war - His job is to stop attacks, not to get our airplanes downed in embarrassing ways). Corruption is prevalent in both parties, not limited to one political party. Try getting a big project in Maharashtra and you will see what I mean
3. This 'feel good' is actually a congress word and is restricted to urban areas, new channel listening, internet surfing people - smart phones are only with 20% of population. Majority of India does not get impacted by Arnab Goswami. A lot has happened in last 4 years - but a country of 1.2bn people trying to race out of poverty needs to go faster. The whole drama of demonetization has proven to be totally ineffective in economic sense and has killed (at least for 6 months) the biggest job mandi of india - the blue collar worker. Let;s be honest in our assessment. GST is good, but execution, by and large is sketchy
4. Economically, the growth is coming to a screeching halt. Bank reforms were left at where Rajan left them. Why is Anil Ambani treated different than Mallaya? they have cheated investors and we give him a contract with no checks and balance, after cancelling a negotiated contract? Sad we don't have a forum like this (at least none i am aware of) in India, I would detail this point to your satisfaction that economically, we missed a golden bus - as due to US-China dispute, only country that can benefit is India. 22% Bank NPAs, gujju families running their fiefdoms, no structure defense or manufacturing wins to show for make in India... list is long, and i promise you, am not a defeatist.. i just see we leave an opportunity
5. last mile coverage and digitization of economy - Indeed, he has done more than anyone else and deserve full and total credit for that. no one even comes close to his vision of grass root level reforms... where he struggles is execution
6. Balakote - What is wrong in opposition asking for proof in a parliamentary democracy? How and why is holding army and ruling party accountable for their work done a bad thing. This is the scariest part of last 3 months. this is electioneering of the highest kind, my fellow countrymen. do not fall for it. asking army for what you have achieved is the right of politicians. They are our representatives. We selected Mayavati and bachu bhaiyya types, so they are the ones asking question.. but why is asking questions a wrong thing?
Militarily - the article from Rajat Gupta is revealing. If those gaps are real, how can you compliment attacking Pakistan, without sorting ourselves straight first? where is the accountability of R&AW in finding out what capabilities Pakistan as.. and instead we are thumping our chest at a small skirmish and getting offended by a propaganda department of their military.. we should be prepared. In wars, you lose battles, but you learn from them and you learn when you ask questions - we are not even asking or allowing to ask question. Question poocha - to tum desh drohi ho.. Why? everyone who pays taxes or has a right to vote, has a birth right to ask question. Our military budget is primarily salaries and imports of weapons and ammunition... No indigenous growth has happened for defence production (which has economic value) and still we don;t ask why not?
Economically - We are the ones making Pakistan important. We are 2.6-2.77Tn GDP.. Pakistan is a 300Bn GDP country - It is smaller than the GDP of Maharashtra(!!!). Our quest is to be number 1 or 2 economy in the world. Indian Corporates are leading that fight from India and your expat brothers and sisters are leading that fight from here, outside India. No one even counts how many Indian CEOs run global companies. 21st century wars will be won economically.. let's fight a war where we don't have to lose country men to war mongering mullahs or insider rabid fake pandits.. but make them irrelevant and while we do that, we also pull 65% of our population out of poverty.. Our enemies will either grow with us or will be a bloody footnote in the history books if they also don't follow that path (am talking of enemies.. not any country)... Look at europe - in 1945 - it was in shreds.. they started from negative, while we were at zero.. and then ask the question... how did they progress? and how many wars?
Lastly - we will only prosper as a country, when faujis are in barracks and workers are humming the factories. we have to be strong enough to either be friends with Pakistan, or make them irrelevant or gradually disintegrate them further or border wall it.. Only theoretical option is a war! it is a battle against our first inclination and will take patience.
The point on topic is - the ability to knock down satellites has existed since a satellite launch in 2011 (if i remember correctly).. Why does the PM of India have to make an hour long national address and announce it himself? in the middle of election commission sponsored lock down? Is that not desperation? Why did he not let his defense ministry or DRDO announce this? because he wanted the limelight..
Ask the questions - because they are inconvenient but are required and the need of the hour. we shall overcome this too!
@zulu - you asked me to link you when i write about Indian elections ... read at your own risk