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Bahut achha hai ?!? you mean you saw the Video ?
I heard the rally today has broken all records.....
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Bahut achha hai ?!? you mean you saw the Video ?
I heard the rally today has broken all records.....
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@Nair saab ..... remove the videos brother , ee type videos post cheythal pani kittan sadhyatha und .
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Sword-wielding Patel crusader threatens Modi’s ‘model’ in India
Last updated: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 12:19 AM
Hardik Patel, 22-year-old firebrand leader of Patidar Andolan Samiti addresses a press conference in New Delhi, India,Sunday. Patel is leading an agitation for members of Gujarat state Patel community demanding government benefits for them under the Other Backward Class (OBC) quota. — AP
AHMEDABAD, India— A sword-wielding 22-year-old activist has emerged overnight as the most pressing political threat to Narendra Modi, accusing the Indian prime minister of breaking a promise to provide jobs that helped him win last year’s general election.
Hardik Patel, by his own admission, scraped through college and failed to land a steady job. But he has proven to be a talented organizer and rabble-rousing orator, creating a mass movement in a matter of weeks.
The explosive issue he has locked on to is caste: He says India’s policies of affirmative action have shut his community the Patels, also known as Patidars, out of university places and government jobs.
Patel has stirred upheaval in Gujarat, the state Modi ran for 13 years before he became prime minister – an era of rapid industrial growth that his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successfully pitched to voters as a “model” to bring prosperity to India’s 1.2 billion people.
Patel calls the model hyped, saying Modi “tried to sell platinum when all he had was steel”. Protests culminated last Tuesday in a rally by half a million people in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s largest city. Violence broke out across the western state after police detained Patel briefly, leading to at least seven deaths.
“Brother Modi is very angry with me and my community – we have exposed the flaws in his economic and social model,” Patel said in an interview on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
“But he shouldn’t forget that we supported him.” Gujarat still bears the scars of sectarian bloodletting in 2002 when more than 1,000 people were killed, mostly Muslims. Modi has long faced accusations of failing to quell those riots.
Modi’s calls for calm now cut no ice with Patel: “I am ready for a fight to protect the Patels against the economic domination of the lower castes,” Patel, a slight man with a broad face and thick hair, told Reuters late last week.
Patel cameon Sundayto New Delhi to meet leaders of other castes that also harbor jobs grievances. Brandishing a sword before his supporters, he vowed to launch protests across India.
Affirmative action
The Patels, who make up 14 percent of Gujarat’s 60 million people, are not poor by Indian standards. Originally landowners – the name Patel means one who owns land – they have branched out into trades like diamond polishing in India.
The community is also highly mobile and Patels own thousands of small businesses in the United States and Britain. Yet, in a country where 700 million people subsist on $2 a day or less, many Patels still aspire to join a nascent middle class.
With the economy growing too slowly to create jobs, they say they are being excluded from scarce government posts. After independence, India protected lower castes and tribal communities by reserving college places and government positions for them.
These quotas were later expanded to add “Other Backward Classes”, including the one that Modi comes from. The Patel protests have damaged Modi’s reputation as an economic policy maker and have had an impact in the northern state of Bihar that will soon go to the polls. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, seeking to keep Modi’s BJP out of power, has sympathized with the Patels.
Blindsided
Officials in Gujarat admit to being blindsided by the outburst of anger, even though they knew that the Patels’ small businesses were struggling and the community was sidelined when profitable new dairy cooperatives were set up.
Some analysts speculate the protests were encouraged by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu organization allied to the BJP that also opposes reservation. RSS leaders told Reuters that they played no role, however.
What is clear is that Hardik Patel enjoys the patronage of influential Patel politicians who fell out of favor with Modi. “There are several senior Patels standing behind him who were waiting for Modi to leave Gujarat,” said one industrialist from the Patel clan.
“Hardik Patel is a smart soldier and an able commander.” Protests against India’s affirmative action programs erupted 25 years ago, when caste-based quotas in jobs and colleges were sought to be expanded.
The current movement appears to have snowballed because Modi has not been able to meet the expectations of some of his supporters while the economy remains stalled.
“Gujarat’s much-celebrated growth rate has slowed down in the last two years. There are hardly any jobs to absorb the young and the restless,” said Sebastian Morris, a professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. “This problem is not just in Gujarat, but it is faced by youths across India.” — Reuters
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Modi attacks 'grand alliance' in Bhagalpur: PM's rally proves that he's steering Bihar assembly polls himself
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi concludes his series of pre-election rallies in Bihar at Bhagalpur on Tuesday, he seems determined to push the election agenda on two issues-development and good governance. Ironically, these two issues were once the calling cards of the incumbent chief minister Nitish Kumar.
With Nitish Kumar sharing dias with Lalu Prasad Yadav and Sonia Gandhi, Modi's calculated gamble is to deprive Nitish Kumar his most potent strength and remind the electorate about the company he keeps. Unlike his previous rallies, Modi toned down his rhetoric, yet was unsparing in his criticism of the grand coalition forged by Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav.
PTI image.There is little doubt that for the past two months, Modi has been setting the agenda to which Nitish Kumar responds. PTI image.
At Bhagalpur rally Modi hit Kumar where it hurts most. Knowing it full well that a section of socialist leaders within JD (U) has been greatly upset over Kumar's alliance with Sonia Gandhi, Modi particularly refered to September 30 Patna rally and called it an insult to Ram Manohar Lohia and Jay Prakash Narayan. He called into question Nitish Kumar's ideological consistency in order to higlight the fact that the grand coalition had no vision except to attack Modi.
If one goes by the profile of the crowd, Modi's rally was dominated by youth who were responsive to his calls throughout. The attendance at Modi's rally was equally, if not more, strong compared the his Patna rally. The venue of today's rally, airport maidan in Bhagalpur, is four times the size of Gandhi Maidan in Patna. The crowd was certainly different. In Bhagalpur, people who attended the rally belonged to an upward mobile social strata that included even OBCs. This was the precise reason why the crowd in Bhagalpur were quite responsive.
It would be naive to arrive at any conclusion going by the turn out of rallies in Bihar, a state most densly populated after Kerala. Yet Modi's rallies in Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Saharsa and Bhagalpur gave a clear indication that he retains his electoral charm among people of Bihar. What is particularly interesting is the fact that he has been focussing on his development and governanance agenda without losing sight on relevance of caste in Bihar. This was evident as Ram Vilas Paswan was only given privilege of speaking before Modi as Pawans constitute a a significant chunk of the electorate around Bhagalpur.
In today's rally, Modi also effectively countered Nitish Kumar's campaign that he is an outsider who remembers Bihar only during election. The Prime Minister recalled how he reached out to the people of the state every time there was crisis — Kosi river flooding and the Nepal earthquake which caused damage in adjoining districts of Bihar. In an emotional appeal, he said, "I have never forgotten Bihar" much to the delight of the auidience.
Apparently Modi's today show made it clear that he has taken upon himself to steer the state assembly election. His repetition of 25-years of misrule by Lalu-Rabri-Nitish Kumar has counted out over seven years of BJP-JD (U) alliance with Sushil Modi as its leader. This may be a cause of worry for Sushil Modi.
There is little doubt that for the past two months, Modi has been setting the agenda to which Nitish Kumar responds. He has been once again selling a dream of powerful and prosperous Bihar to the electorate should the BJP win this election. Nitish Kumar has also countered it by offering his own package of turning Bihar into a developed state. Given the anti-incumbency factor that weighs heavily against Nitish Kumar, he is up against crisis of credibility. For Modi, Bihar is a new chapter where he intends to play signficant role to retain his national stature.
Modi attacks 'grand alliance' in Bhagalpur: PM's rally proves that he's steering Bihar assembly polls himself - Firstpost
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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi concludes his series of pre-election rallies in Bihar at Bhagalpur on Tuesday, he seems determined to push the election agenda on two issues-development and good governance. Ironically, these two issues were once the calling cards of the incumbent chief minister Nitish Kumar.
With Nitish Kumar sharing dias with Lalu Prasad Yadav and Sonia Gandhi, Modi's calculated gamble is to deprive Nitish Kumar his most potent strength and remind the electorate about the company he keeps. Unlike his previous rallies, Modi toned down his rhetoric, yet was unsparing in his criticism of the grand coalition forged by Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav.
PTI image.There is little doubt that for the past two months, Modi has been setting the agenda to which Nitish Kumar responds. PTI image.
At Bhagalpur rally Modi hit Kumar where it hurts most. Knowing it full well that a section of socialist leaders within JD (U) has been greatly upset over Kumar's alliance with Sonia Gandhi, Modi particularly refered to September 30 Patna rally and called it an insult to Ram Manohar Lohia and Jay Prakash Narayan. He called into question Nitish Kumar's ideological consistency in order to higlight the fact that the grand coalition had no vision except to attack Modi.
If one goes by the profile of the crowd, Modi's rally was dominated by youth who were responsive to his calls throughout. The attendance at Modi's rally was equally, if not more, strong compared the his Patna rally. The venue of today's rally, airport maidan in Bhagalpur, is four times the size of Gandhi Maidan in Patna. The crowd was certainly different. In Bhagalpur, people who attended the rally belonged to an upward mobile social strata that included even OBCs. This was the precise reason why the crowd in Bhagalpur were quite responsive.
It would be naive to arrive at any conclusion going by the turn out of rallies in Bihar, a state most densly populated after Kerala. Yet Modi's rallies in Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Saharsa and Bhagalpur gave a clear indication that he retains his electoral charm among people of Bihar. What is particularly interesting is the fact that he has been focussing on his development and governanance agenda without losing sight on relevance of caste in Bihar. This was evident as Ram Vilas Paswan was only given privilege of speaking before Modi as Pawans constitute a a significant chunk of the electorate around Bhagalpur.
In today's rally, Modi also effectively countered Nitish Kumar's campaign that he is an outsider who remembers Bihar only during election. The Prime Minister recalled how he reached out to the people of the state every time there was crisis — Kosi river flooding and the Nepal earthquake which caused damage in adjoining districts of Bihar. In an emotional appeal, he said, "I have never forgotten Bihar" much to the delight of the auidience.
Apparently Modi's today show made it clear that he has taken upon himself to steer the state assembly election. His repetition of 25-years of misrule by Lalu-Rabri-Nitish Kumar has counted out over seven years of BJP-JD (U) alliance with Sushil Modi as its leader. This may be a cause of worry for Sushil Modi.
There is little doubt that for the past two months, Modi has been setting the agenda to which Nitish Kumar responds. He has been once again selling a dream of powerful and prosperous Bihar to the electorate should the BJP win this election. Nitish Kumar has also countered it by offering his own package of turning Bihar into a developed state. Given the anti-incumbency factor that weighs heavily against Nitish Kumar, he is up against crisis of credibility. For Modi, Bihar is a new chapter where he intends to play signficant role to retain his national stature.
Modi attacks 'grand alliance' in Bhagalpur: PM's rally proves that he's steering Bihar assembly polls himself - Firstpost
Sanghis deserve no better
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Close to 5 if not more that's what am hearing from ground reports on fb
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Some twitteratis say 6 lakh + Bhagalpur itself as pop of 4 lakh. The young Biharis seems to really not care about Caste. IF Cutting across caste lines happen, then the Vote can be unpredictable ..
Pretty sure it beats #Apmanrally but we can never be sure about the numbers floated on twitter and fb because at the end of the day most of these people are bhakts themselves
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Also Apman rally was on a sunday had 1.7lakh crowd, Bhagalpur rally was on tuesday.
hehe..You guys(so calling nationalist to the core) preached humanity,freedom of expression,greatness of hindus and hinduism to others when similar incidents happened in Bangladesh a month ago(go through the threads about secular bloggers murdered in Bangladesh for insulting islam and jammatis),But when the similar thing happened in India you guys are more into finding numerous excuses to justify the murder..
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