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[Indo-guy]

I think this is a face saving measure by Nitish... Sushil had told that he was in contact with many MLAs from JDU.

Maybe, it was those MLA which forced him to resign or see en masse exodus of its MLAs to BJP.

Indeed it's face saving measure.
Tomorrow Nitish will get re elected as leader of legislative party ..and will be made CM again ...
That's what it seems ...

This is a well calculated move by Nitish.

Speculation that Rahul and Sonia could offer to resign at CWC meet - The Times of India

They are too shameless to resign ...and their coterie won't allow them to do that even if they tried to do for sake of show .

Remember how shamelessly this Rahul G was smiling while accepting his responsibility ...either he is retard ( which is more likely ) or he is shameless and does not care that Congress has received drubbing .

 

[anonymus]

Yep. I actually thought Nitish was a good administrator in Bihar.

Too bad he has to go out like this. If he had not over played his hand, Bihar would have benefited. Now Biharis have to gamble whether the next CM is good or not.

Million times better than Lalu and his cronies anyway.

Sushil Kumar Modi, if BJP sticks with him is a proven capable Administrator.

 

[Hindustani78]

Obama congratulates Modi; invites him to visit US - The Hindu

Russia on Modi win: People’s will expressed - The Hindu

 

[anonymus]

Mitroooon, Mani Shankar Aiyar has lost his fucking mind.

The dying light of freedom
​

Darkness descends. The idea of India gutters. The light that lit our freedom struggle and so defined the nature of our nationhood is going out. We are at a moment of history that can only be compared to Lahore, March 23, 1940, when Jinnah persuaded one section of our society to accept that India was comprised of two nations because nationhood had to be founded in religious identity. Thus was conceived a Muslim Pakistan. But Gandhiji resisted India cloning that example with a Hindu India. For that, he had to pay with his life at the instance of the very forces that are today most avidly celebrating Narendra Modi’s victory.

The campaign has shown the incoming prime minister insisting that for any Hindu, India is his rightful home, thus equating India with Hindudom and reducing to sufferance those who regard India as their home but not Hinduism as their religion. My closest Muslim friend, viewing the imminent catastrophe, asks, “Was it for this that our parents decided to remain in India?”

I have reassured her that even if over a third of Indians voted for the BJP, nearly two-thirds did not. This is a low moment for us, but if Indian secularism is not a Nehruvian whim but the consequence of that secularism, that plurality, that inclusivism being woven into the warp and woof of our millennial civilisation, then this is not a moment of defeat but a moment of challenge.


We have to be on our utmost guard to spot the new government awaiting its Godhra opportunity. Godhra was to Modi what Marinus van der Lubbe’s attempt to set fire to the Reichstag was to Hitler. It gave them the occasion to ride a wave of public anguish to accomplish the deepest purpose of their political lives. We have been forewarned, therefore, we must be forearmed. This is not a moment for armchair secularism. The issue is not a philosophical or polemical one. It is a red alert to be vigilant and activist. We must convert Modi’s Reichstag moment, when it comes, into our Belchi moment. In the Congress, the Sadbhavana Sena died with its first and only chairman, Sunil Dutt.

That needs to be revived and converted into a rapid action force that reaches the spot the minute news comes in of a communal flare-up. Moreover, the sena must concert with other secular forces, irrespective of differences. India’s secular nationhood is too fundamentally important to be left hostage to other considerations.

There are two other fronts on which vigilance is called for. One is development. The so-called Gujarat model blazed the path to unashamed crony capitalism. That is why those thousands of crores of rupees of doubtful provenance poured into the coffers of Modi’s campaign, just as Krupp and Thyssen funded every step of the march of the corporal from the Beer Hall Putsch to the German Chancery. Hitler repaid them with the biggest bonanza ever. Modi waits to confer similar bounty on his benefactors.

Even as the nation’s secular majority must concert its efforts to preserve the quintessence of our nationhood, so must the forces of equity, social justice and human development concert their efforts to keep the country from being gifted to robber barons. The Congress may be in reduced numbers in Parliament but along with others not on the treasury benches, the voices of fair play for the aam aadmi will not be lacking in number. The socialist Lilliputians might yet tie down big business Gullivers and their political cohorts.

That brings me to the next, and related, imperative. Parliamentary institutions have been severely mauled in the BJP’s clambering to power. The last Lok Sabha was rendered by their antics the most non-functional ever. The Rajya Sabha followed suit — and often led the way. The incoming opposition, of which the Congress constitutes the largest single fraction, must unchain the speaker and chairman and insist that both Houses function in accordance with the rules and regulations of the House, its propriety and precedents, with dignity and decorum. Happily the saffron shouting brigade is on the treasury benches.

Hence the opposition can ensure that democracy is restored to its throne. The priority of the largest opposition party must be to restore Parliament as the nation’s highest forum for debate, not demonstration. And it is in Parliament that we can best thwart every effort of the incoming government to move towards its nefarious ulterior agenda.

On the external front, the first duty of every parliamentarian in this centenary year of the start of World War I must be to read all he or she can on the vainglorious strutting of jingoistic leaders that led those the Cambridge historian of the war, Christopher Clark, has called “The Sleepwalkers” blundering into a slaughter they never intended nor wished, a slaughter that began in 1914 and, with but a short interregnum, ended only in 1945, after nearly 50 million people had lost their lives. Shrill and narrow nationalism, as Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore warned, are the worst enemies of peace and humanism.

Yet, those two qualities are precisely the stock-in-trade of the party now coming to power. There is no Atal Bihari Vajpayee — surely the last Nehruvian — to rein in the chauvinism of what passes for “patriotism” in that party. The ideological extremists have taken over and will seize every chance to convert external events into the grand opportunity for flag-waving and mindless brinkmanship. Catastrophe worse than the two World Wars awaits this subcontinent, if those fortunate enough to not be on the treasury benches fail to be ever-vigilant and ready to risk immediate popularity for the larger cause. We have our work cut out for us. Let us put our shoulders to the wheel.

The writer is a Rajya Sabha MP from the Congress

The dying light of freedom | The Indian Express | Page 99

 

[INDIC]

Congratulations to Chandrababu Naidu for winning.

Seemandhra will need his leadership. Hopefully the growth will not pass by the rural poor this time.

@chak de INDIA @INDIC @Bang Galore

I believe Chandrababu Naidu is a suitable guy to built new capital of Seemandhra, previously he did great thing for Hyderabad inviting many MNCs to Hyderabad.

 

[Hindustani78]

They are too shameless to resign ...and their coterie won't allow them to do that even if they tried to do for sake of show .

Remember how shamelessly this Rahul G was smiling while accepting his responsibility ...either he is retard ( which is more likely ) or he is shameless and does not care that Congress has received drubbing .

Congress and its allies will sit in opposition . How many seats have the opposition parties has got ?

 

[anonymus]

Congress and its allies will sit in opposition . How many seats have the opposition parties has got ?

48

 

[gslv]

Mitroooon, Mani Shankar Aiyar has lost his fucking mind.

The dying light of freedom
​

Darkness descends. The idea of India gutters. The light that lit our freedom struggle and so defined the nature of our nationhood is going out. We are at a moment of history that can only be compared to Lahore, March 23, 1940, when Jinnah persuaded one section of our society to accept that India was comprised of two nations because nationhood had to be founded in religious identity. Thus was conceived a Muslim Pakistan. But Gandhiji resisted India cloning that example with a Hindu India. For that, he had to pay with his life at the instance of the very forces that are today most avidly celebrating Narendra Modi’s victory.

The campaign has shown the incoming prime minister insisting that for any Hindu, India is his rightful home, thus equating India with Hindudom and reducing to sufferance those who regard India as their home but not Hinduism as their religion. My closest Muslim friend, viewing the imminent catastrophe, asks, “Was it for this that our parents decided to remain in India?”

I have reassured her that even if over a third of Indians voted for the BJP, nearly two-thirds did not. This is a low moment for us, but if Indian secularism is not a Nehruvian whim but the consequence of that secularism, that plurality, that inclusivism being woven into the warp and woof of our millennial civilisation, then this is not a moment of defeat but a moment of challenge.


We have to be on our utmost guard to spot the new government awaiting its Godhra opportunity. Godhra was to Modi what Marinus van der Lubbe’s attempt to set fire to the Reichstag was to Hitler. It gave them the occasion to ride a wave of public anguish to accomplish the deepest purpose of their political lives. We have been forewarned, therefore, we must be forearmed. This is not a moment for armchair secularism. The issue is not a philosophical or polemical one. It is a red alert to be vigilant and activist. We must convert Modi’s Reichstag moment, when it comes, into our Belchi moment. In the Congress, the Sadbhavana Sena died with its first and only chairman, Sunil Dutt.

That needs to be revived and converted into a rapid action force that reaches the spot the minute news comes in of a communal flare-up. Moreover, the sena must concert with other secular forces, irrespective of differences. India’s secular nationhood is too fundamentally important to be left hostage to other considerations.

There are two other fronts on which vigilance is called for. One is development. The so-called Gujarat model blazed the path to unashamed crony capitalism. That is why those thousands of crores of rupees of doubtful provenance poured into the coffers of Modi’s campaign, just as Krupp and Thyssen funded every step of the march of the corporal from the Beer Hall Putsch to the German Chancery. Hitler repaid them with the biggest bonanza ever. Modi waits to confer similar bounty on his benefactors.

Even as the nation’s secular majority must concert its efforts to preserve the quintessence of our nationhood, so must the forces of equity, social justice and human development concert their efforts to keep the country from being gifted to robber barons. The Congress may be in reduced numbers in Parliament but along with others not on the treasury benches, the voices of fair play for the aam aadmi will not be lacking in number. The socialist Lilliputians might yet tie down big business Gullivers and their political cohorts.

That brings me to the next, and related, imperative. Parliamentary institutions have been severely mauled in the BJP’s clambering to power. The last Lok Sabha was rendered by their antics the most non-functional ever. The Rajya Sabha followed suit — and often led the way. The incoming opposition, of which the Congress constitutes the largest single fraction, must unchain the speaker and chairman and insist that both Houses function in accordance with the rules and regulations of the House, its propriety and precedents, with dignity and decorum. Happily the saffron shouting brigade is on the treasury benches.

Hence the opposition can ensure that democracy is restored to its throne. The priority of the largest opposition party must be to restore Parliament as the nation’s highest forum for debate, not demonstration. And it is in Parliament that we can best thwart every effort of the incoming government to move towards its nefarious ulterior agenda.

On the external front, the first duty of every parliamentarian in this centenary year of the start of World War I must be to read all he or she can on the vainglorious strutting of jingoistic leaders that led those the Cambridge historian of the war, Christopher Clark, has called “The Sleepwalkers” blundering into a slaughter they never intended nor wished, a slaughter that began in 1914 and, with but a short interregnum, ended only in 1945, after nearly 50 million people had lost their lives. Shrill and narrow nationalism, as Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore warned, are the worst enemies of peace and humanism.

Yet, those two qualities are precisely the stock-in-trade of the party now coming to power. There is no Atal Bihari Vajpayee — surely the last Nehruvian — to rein in the chauvinism of what passes for “patriotism” in that party. The ideological extremists have taken over and will seize every chance to convert external events into the grand opportunity for flag-waving and mindless brinkmanship. Catastrophe worse than the two World Wars awaits this subcontinent, if those fortunate enough to not be on the treasury benches fail to be ever-vigilant and ready to risk immediate popularity for the larger cause. We have our work cut out for us. Let us put our shoulders to the wheel.

The writer is a Rajya Sabha MP from the Congress

The dying light of freedom | The Indian Express | Page 99

True color of Mani
Uproar in Parliament over Veer Savarkar issue | Business Standard

Another gem by mani
`Don't invite the likes of Mani. If you must, limit them to two pegs' - The Times of India

excerpts Aiyar was also involved in a public brawl with politician Amar Singh.[8] According to Singh, Aiyar insulted Singh's then party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and remarked: "Oh that bloody Mulayam -- he looks just like me. It could be because my father visited Uttar_Pradesh at some point. Why don't you check with Mulayam's mother." [9]

 

[Hindustani78]

48

but still congress will sit as an opposition party. Isnt it ?

 

[Indo-guy]

Congress and its allies will sit in opposition . How many seats have the opposition parties has got ?

Others-144 , UPA -61

 

[Abingdonboy]

@Abingdonboy
This should make you happy

NSG guys outside Delhi HQ protecting MODI. SPG guys havent taken over as yet I guess..


View attachment 30900

Indeed it does

And yeah, AFAIK SPG will only officially take over his security once he has been sworn in as PM. Until then it is still the Gujarat police and NSG responsible for his protection with the SPG having provided a "skeleton" team to him for advising the Gujarat and NSG teams and providing their expertise where possible.



Anyone got any pics/vid of MMS going to Rashtrapati Bhavan? Would love to see that Cavalcade!

 

[Hindustani78]

Others-144 , UPA -61

So is BJP is forming Government without any allies ?

 

[egodoc222]

So is BJP is forming Government without any allies ?

bjp 283
nda 337
magic figure 272

 

[indiatester]

So is BJP is forming Government without any allies ?

Watch the news or read them online. Are you not a Hindustani?

 

[Hindustani78]

Watch the news or read them online. Are you not a Hindustani?

Yesterday was so much confusion, all the media outlets were giving different results which were completely different from Election commission results.