Indian General Elections - 2014

[JanjaWeed]

@JanjaWeed atleast we should praise RG for his HONESTY, he accepted that atleast HE is not that MAN

If only his cheerleaders too realize that fact & agree with him that he is not THE MAN!

 

[arp2041]

LOL he spoke for 26 minutes and he answered two questions for 37 minutes.

And the funny thing is both of the answers he gve were completely and utterly irrelevant to the question asked.

@KS not his mistake, the order of the two questions were INTERCHANGED, just like the Munna Bhai MBBS movie

 

[KS]

Every citizen owes a debt to Mother India: Narendra Modi | Firstpost

“Not only Modi, every child and citizen owes a debt to Mother India…it is his duty to repay the debt whenever an opportunity arises. A doctor repays his debt to Mother India when he saves lives….A teacher does so by teaching.

“Everybody has to repay this debt…I hope Mother India gives her blessings and nobody goes away without paying this debt,” Modi said, in clearest indication yet that he is ready for a major role in the national political arena in the 2014 general elections, as being demanded by many in the BJP

 

[SamantK]

What They Said: Rahul Gandhi’s Speech
By SRUTHI GOTTIPATI
Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi speaking at the annual general meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi on Thursday.Prakash Singh/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi speaking at the annual general meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi on Thursday.

Rahul Gandhi, widely seen as the Indian National Congress Party’s prime ministerial candidate, addressed hundreds of businesspeople at a televised meeting Thursday, his first at the Confederation of Indian Industry, and widely believed to be one of the important speeches in his political career. Mr. Gandhi, who appeared to be relaxed and informal, unusual on such platforms in Indian politics, said among other things that his relationship status (he’s single) and potential candidacy for the top job were “irrelevant”.

Mr. Gandhi spoke mostly about big-picture ideas but offered few specifics during his hour-long address. And although he shared touching anecdotes and voiced frustration with how dysfunctional the state can be, something most Indians are only too familiar with, he stopped short of explaining why his political party had allowed the country to stay that way.

“It was confusion confounded,” said Prakash Javadekar, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, at a news conference, about Mr. Gandhi’s speech. “It was a lackluster speech without any direction or clarity.”

His speech was more warmly received by industry leaders.

“It was a very good speech. His ideas are brilliant. Industry has to see how it can work with the government. We should work in unison for greater progress,” said Adi Godrej, president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), which hosted the conference.

His speech also set the Twittersphere afire, attracting a range of reaction.

What They Said: Rahul Gandhi's Speech - NYTimes.com

@Dillinger @arp2041@Ayush

 

[KS]

 

[KS]

 

[narcon]

Anything for Rahul baba! | Niti Central

 

[narcon]

India's Gandhi family: Rahul speaks | The Economist

and indirectly admitted that India is a terrible place in which to do business. At one point, to bemusement in the audience, he argued that if you can succeed in business in India then you will flourish anywhere, “even on the moon”. India, after two terms of Congress rule, evidently does not have the conditions right for its economy to flourish.

 

[narcon]

Rahul was trying to exorcise the ghost of Narendra Modi | Firstpost

 

[SamantK]

Don

Rahul Gandhi is not that knight on a white charger who will rescue India, the Congressvice-president — and heir apparent — made clear to India Inc on Thursday. “If you think there is a guy who will come on a horse charging through and set everything right, that is not going to happen,” Mr. Gandhi told a gathering of top Indian industrialists at a meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).


Nor should the people expect any miracles from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , he said, a day after the latter — at the same forum — asked industry to keep faith in the government: “If you expect the Prime Minister to solve our problems, it’s not going to happen,” he said amidst a stifled gasp from the audience.


Indeed, Mr. Gandhi — in his marathon 75-minute long interaction — offered no road map, no plan, no solution. He only provided a woolly analysis of the situation in the country, of its many “complexities” that baffled and enraged foreign investors but one which apparently gave Indians an edge when they travelled abroad.

Rahul gets online bashing - The Hindu

@raziv007 tweeted, “Who stopped Rahul to implement his vision? India is under Congress rule frm last 9 years, and 50 years since Independence.” In a reference to the somewhat unstructured answers to questions from the floor, @aurbolo said, “Somebody asked Rahul Gandhi abt water problem in India and he explained the political structure in India. A teacher would have given him zero.” Many online critics were sympathisers of the principal Opposition, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has an edge on social media platforms.

But there were some who were impressed with the Congress scion’s candour and emphasis on devolving power. Senior journalist Jyoti Malhotra tweeted, “#RahulGandhi pouring his heart out at CII; We need to listen to this young man.” @yksingh26 commented, “Rahul Gandhi bats for power to people and Modi acts to take power away from people …. dilutes Lokayukta.”

Blogs on international media platforms were more critical. The Banyan of the pro-market Economist magazine noted that Mr. Gandhi seemed “woefully ill-prepared”; he “offered a range of thoughts, some earnest, many well-meaning, some apparently irrelevant and some waffle.” Referring to Mr. Gandhi’s description of India as a complex place in opposition to China as a “simplistic place,” it said that the Congress leader was the one “who sounded rather simplistic about China,” and suggested a trip there would do him good. Mr. Gandhi has visited Beijing in the past.

“Mr. Gandhi took two questions from the floor — something he rarely does — but his meandering answers did little to provide solutions.” A piece on The India Ink blog of New York Times noted the Congress scion’s use of “unusual metaphors and never-before-heard parables.”

This guy is a joke and the biggest joke is the stalwarts of congress support him.. They all clearly have "Lost it"

 

[Mritunjaya]

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

....its an ago old saying .....nobody in congress had sense to share it with pappu ? ............this speech was his clowning glory. As election grows near....we will be hearing more such gyan from pappu and his mummy.

 

[JanjaWeed]

Congress links Modi to death again, calls him Yamraj now - The Times of India

Desperate measures at desperate times. Looks like Modi's popularity is becoming unbearable for congressis... that's why you hear these kinda obnoxious statements! Thanks to Rahul Gandhi's blatant display of stupidity & incompetence in his speech yesterday, you'll see more & more of these kinda idiotic statements to smokescreen their short-comings!

 

[KS]

Amit Shah, the grand strategist : North, News - India Today

Some people are known more for their alleged acts of omission and commission rather than their splendid success, thanks to the media. If there is one such person in Indian politics today, it is Amit Shah, 50, the newly-appointed national BJP general secretary and Narendra Modi loyalist, who is known for his sharp poll-related strategic skills and also for being a key accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.

Very few people know that if terror attacks in India are under check today, Shah's role in solving the 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blasts by Indian Mujahideen terrorists as Gujarat Minister of State for Home is one of the main factors responsible for it. Gujarat Police officials, who probed the terror attack that left 56 people dead and 200 injured, openly admit even today that it was Shah's intelligence and diligence and Modi's unstinted guidance that enabled them in solving that case in 21 days flat, a record of sorts when compared with the murky record of Indian police in probing terror cases. The solving of that crucial case immediately brought down the frequency of IM attacks since its flanks stood exposed. No wonder then that Shah could be in the Home Ministry at the Centre If Modi becomes PM in 2014.

On the flip side, however, Shah's strategic skills are often viewed in the realm of intrigue by his adversaries in the political arena as well as Gujarat Police. His critics, who are by no means in small numbers, allege that Shah encouraged a culture of factionalism and vengefulness in the force because of his obsession with keeping total control over the force and for his political objectives. In the end, he found himself trapped by it when he was arrested in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Shah left his flanks exposed before a politically vengeful CBI which wanted to fix him by hook or crook. Shah, of course, claims that he was the victim of a conspiracy hatched by some police officials in collusion with the Congress which was targeting Shah and through him Narendra Modi. The evidence marshalled by the CBI to fix Shah in the case is not only thin but also questionable.

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One unmistakable trait about Shah is that despite his personal loyalty to Modi, he is seen as more of an RSS man for his strong commitment to Hindutva ideals. As Minister of State for Home, Shah took a strong stand against the activities of the radical ultra Wahhabi Muslims and kept them under check while being very flexible with moderate Muslim sections. It was at his behest that Gujarat's Deobandi Madrasas stopped admitting Kashmiri students after some of them were found to have taken to terrorism upon returning to Kashmir after their studies. However, Shah has one big flaw that has hindered his rise and could do so in future: He has a habit of remaining incommunicado for long periods. This, in turn, keeps him disconnected at crucial times and ends up inflaming even his friends.


Read more at: Amit Shah, the grand strategist : North, News - India Today

 

[KS]

It’s already time for a revisionist view on Rahul Gandhi’s speech at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) yesterday. The first-cut impression of this writer was that he came away from it in flying colours, but as always, when one moves back and looks at his performance in the larger context, it is the warts that show clearly.

For starters, it is clear why he impressed. We have such low expectations of Rahul Gandhi that he easily surpassed it, presumably with some backroom coaching by his Congress party well-wishers. We have gotten so used to his confused messaging in the past that any line spoken coherently is seen as sheer brilliance.

Reading from and between the lines of his talk yesterday, one thing is clear: Rahul is being driven by the ghost of Narendra Modi. This could be because the media has scripted a Modi versus Rahul fight in 2014, but the fact that Modi looms large in the national consciousness seems to have spooked Rahul. His CII speech never mentions Modi by name – which itself is a dead giveaway. It wasn’t as if Rahul was unwilling to name anyone: he made frequent references to Montek Singh Ahluwalia , and even to Manmohan Singh.

For more - continue reading the article at Rahul was trying to exorcise the ghost of Narendra Modi

 

[KS]

Congress takes jibes at Narendra Modi, JD (U) joins in - Hindustan Times

A day after the Gujarat chief minister’s remark, the Congress questioned his secular credentials while the JD-U said he could serve the country just as well by serving his state instead of hankering after the “Delhi crown”.

“I often worry about the Gujarat CM’s statements. I hope he does not want to do in the rest of India what he did in Gujarat in 2002,” said Union minister Manish Tewari, a loaded reference to the communal riots that Modi just hasn’t managed to shake off.

His party colleague Rashid Alvi appeared to compare Modi with Yamraj, the Hindu god of death. Asked if Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had Modi in mind when he said at a CII meeting on Thursday that no “guy on a horse” would come charging through to fix India’s problems, the AICC spokesman responded: “Had he intended to indicate Modi, he wouldn’t have referred to somebody riding a horse but to somebody riding a buffalo (Yamraj’s vehicle). Rahul spoke about somebody on a horse, he must have been referring to a messiah.”

Congress has already started communalizing the election campaign by bringing back 2002 riots. At a time the populace at large, including the Gujarati Muslim have moved on and concentrating on economic development and progress congress wants to play politics on the dead body of Indians . Looks like the development agenda of the super duper financial whiz kid PM is not working.