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Good news for AP:-
ONGC signs Rs 40,000-crore MoU with Andhra Pradesh for LNG regasification terminal | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis
The Andhra Pradesh Government has signed a Rs 40,000-crore memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for setting up a LNG Regasification Terminal in Kakinada Deep Water Port.
Underlining the importance of a regasification terminal, Andhra Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said the 19th century belonged to coal, the 20th century belonged to oil, however, the 21st century definitely belongs to gas.
"We want to make Andhra Pradesh the largest shipping hub, and thus, we are going in a big way for developing ports. We are planning six-seven another ports- major, medium or minor. Our view is very clear, as on today, we are number two in sea cargo and we want to develop further through ports and the port-led economic development," he added.
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Andhra Pradesh to get east coast's 1st floating LNG terminal - The Times of India
HYDERABAD: The first Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in the east coast will come up in Andhra Pradesh. On Friday, the AP Gas Development Corporation, Gas Authority of India, GDF Suez and Shell signed two MoUs to set up a floating LNG terminal at Kakinada deep water port.
The first MoU set up a terminal company between APGDC, GDF Suez and Shell. The APGDC, a joint venture company of AP government and GAIL, GDF Suez and Shell will have 48%, 26% and 26% equity in the project respectively.
The second MoU is to set up a trading company and covers both the sourcing of LNG and the marketing of the regasified LNG from the terminal. GAIL, GDF Suez and Shell will have 48%, 26% and 26% equity in the trading company, respectively.
The MoU signing took place in the presence of chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and CMD of GAIL B C Tripathi, CEO of GDF Suez Philip Olivier and Anindya Chowdhury of Shell India in Vijayawada.
Estimated to cost Rs 1800 crore, the floating LNG platform is likely to be ready in the next 18 months. The Kakinada port was identified as suitable for a project of this nature owing to its availability of a natural back-water in the Hope Island - a barrier that protects against the impact of high seas.
The LNG terminal is expected to give a fillip to gas-based industries in the state. With the current shortage of gas standing at 15 mmscmd (million metric square cubic metres daily) likely to touch 40 mmscmd very soon, AP is set to gain major advantage in roping in gas-based industries. As natural gas is emerging as a significant fuel for economic development of the country and the LNG terminal termed as the safest gas storage system, the Kakinada terminal is set to play a far reaching role in making natural gas available to various consumers in industrial, commercial and domestic sectors.
"This will be the first LNG terminal on the east coast of India. In my efforts to boost port-led development, I realise that this project will help us in making the state a logistics hub," said Naidu.
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NPCIL searches for land in Andhra Pradesh for nuclear power plant
KOLKATA: The National Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) is scouting for land in Andhra Pradesh to install a nuclear power plant, following West Bengal government's objections to set up the project in state's Haripur town.
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre's director Sekhar Basu who is a board member of the NPCIL, said here today, "We are looking for a site in some coastal area of Andhra Pradesh where a similar reactor, which was meant for Haripur, will come up."
"Talks are on with the state government for a suitable site. Land has to be available," Basu told reporters on the sidelines of a program here.
In 2011, the state government had scrapped the proposed 6,000 MW plant in East Midnapore district's Haripur in collaboration with Russia's state-owned nuclear power equipment and service giant Rosatom.
Local farmers and fishermen, supported by a number of NGOs, had launched an agitation against the project fearing eviction and loss of livelihood.
Basu, however, said if they get permission from the state and Centre, then the project at Haripur will see the light of the day.
"Haripur project is not closed down. If the West Bengal government wants, we can start it anytime. There will be an investment of Rs 100,000 crore. Not only West Bengal, but the entire eastern India will not starve for power anymore if it happens," the Padma Shri awardee nuclear scientist said.
He stressed that if we want a GDP growth rate of about eight per cent every year, then the electricity supply should also grow at the same rate.
"If such a big project comes, then there will be no electricity problem. Nuclear is clean and green energy," Basu said, adding that nuclear will be the main source of energy in the future.
Read more at:
NPCIL searches for land in Andhra Pradesh for nuclear power plant - The Economic Times
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Singapore PM Assures to Share Expertise for Andhra Pradesh's Development
HYDERABAD: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong today said his government would support Andhra Pradesh and share its expertise for the development of the state.
Loong conveyed this to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu who personally invited him for the foundation-stone laying ceremony of Andhra Pradesh's capital city Amaravati on October 22, the Andhra Pradesh government said in Hyderabad.
"Loong replied in the affirmative and said he will definitely try his best to make it to the ceremony," the state government said.
Mr Naidu is on a visit to Singapore to invite the Premier for the foundation laying ceremony and to hold talks on Andhra Pradesh's capital city development.
The Chief Minister, who congratulated Mr Loong on his re-election, told him that Singapore could extend help in building the state's infrastructure and in making Andhra Pradesh a knowledge economy.
The State government quoted the Prime Minister as saying that Singapore would support Andhra Pradesh and share whatever expertise and experience it has.
Singapore government agencies have prepared the Master Plans for the three-layered Andhra Pradesh capital -- seed capital, capital city and capital region.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would lay the foundation stone for the capital on the 'Vijaya Dasami' day (October 22), according to the state government.
During the meeting, Mr Naidu thanked the Singapore Prime Minister for extending all the help in making the master plans and submitting them as planned.
Explaining how Andhra Pradesh has set its eyes on long-term development and growth, the CM told Mr Loong that the government is planning to make the state a 'logistics hub'.
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PM Modi to attend Andhra Pradesh capital’s foundation ceremony on October 22
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said that the “Birth of Amaravati – the People’s Capital” should be a spectacular extravaganza that should create an emotional bond with people of Andhra Pradesh.
PM Narendra Modi will attend the foundation-laying ceremony of Andhra Pradesh’s capital Amaravati on October 22. CM N Chandrababu Naidu, who reviewed the status of the work going in the capital region, said a Vaastu-compliant spot has been identified where the stone would be laid.
“The location where the foundation stone will be laid is Vaastu-compliant and a picturesque spot. In future, it will become the nerve centre of Andhra Pradesh, signifying river-linking and a spot where soil from all mandals will be mixed with the soil of Amaravati,” Naidu said. The spot where the foundation stone will be laid would later be developed into a public garden.
The spot where the foundation stone will be laid would eventually be developed into a public garden. “The garden will have an exhibition from portraying Amaravati’s past to what it is in the present to what it will be in the future,” the CM said.
Stating that the “Birth of Amaravati – the People’s Capital” should be a spectacular extravaganza that should create an emotional bond with people of Andhra Pradesh, the Chief Minister said every citizen of the state should participate in capital building. During the brainstorming session for the October 22 event, the Chief Minister said sarpanchs from all the mandals could carry the soil from there and culminate into a massive congregation in the Capital Region.
“The soil brought from all the mandals across the state could be mixed with the Amaravati soil to establish an emotional connection. The soil will be brought in a Purnakumbham after a pooja (to signify divinity). All the Purnakumbhams then could be formed into a massive sculpture or an idol, signifying the contribution of people to the People’s Capital or may be into Bodhi tree, reflecting its connection with Buddhism. Let us come up with different ideas and finalize them,” he added.
The AP Government is also mulling bringing in uniform colour-coding and illumination across the state during build-up to Dasara when the foundation-stone is to be laid. “We can also build momentum to the campaign by clubbing the celebration with Dasara’s Navarati as a build up to the main event. This will also add a cultural spin to the event, retaining our tradition and bringing in a festive mood,” an official said.
From a gigantic exhibition to an Amaradwaram with farmers’ names (who gave their lands for the capital) imprinted on it to a massive Amaravati Pavilion, the event comprises everything. The event is being planned for 1000 VIPs and 50,000 general audience by an event management company. Every detail is being curated carefully. During the meeting, MP Galla Jayadev, GVK’s Sanjay Reddy, GMR Group’s Srinivas, Sri City’s Srini Raju and Mandava Prabhakar of Nuziveedu Seeds also pitched their opinions to the Chief Minister through a video-conference.
PM Modi to attend Andhra Pradesh capital’s foundation ceremony on October 22 | The Indian Express
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Had Jagan Mohan Reddy been the CM of AP, would we have seen any of the above-especially AP getting no.2 only to Gujarat on the ease of business report in Indian states commissioned by the World b=Bank in partnership with the DIPP of the GOI??
Now let's compare the news of Telangana today:-
Farmer suicides continue unabated in Telangana - The Hindu
Farmer suicides: Is Telangana govt’s loan-waiver policy aggravating the situation? - Firstpost
Over the last 10 days at least 100 debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide in the state. Unofficial sources put the number much higher.
Govt's hardware hub dream finds no takers - The Times of India
Good news for AP:-
ONGC signs Rs 40,000-crore MoU with Andhra Pradesh for LNG regasification terminal | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis
The Andhra Pradesh Government has signed a Rs 40,000-crore memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for setting up a LNG Regasification Terminal in Kakinada Deep Water Port.
Underlining the importance of a regasification terminal, Andhra Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said the 19th century belonged to coal, the 20th century belonged to oil, however, the 21st century definitely belongs to gas.
"We want to make Andhra Pradesh the largest shipping hub, and thus, we are going in a big way for developing ports. We are planning six-seven another ports- major, medium or minor. Our view is very clear, as on today, we are number two in sea cargo and we want to develop further through ports and the port-led economic development," he added.
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Andhra Pradesh to get east coast's 1st floating LNG terminal - The Times of India
HYDERABAD: The first Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in the east coast will come up in Andhra Pradesh. On Friday, the AP Gas Development Corporation, Gas Authority of India, GDF Suez and Shell signed two MoUs to set up a floating LNG terminal at Kakinada deep water port.
The first MoU set up a terminal company between APGDC, GDF Suez and Shell. The APGDC, a joint venture company of AP government and GAIL, GDF Suez and Shell will have 48%, 26% and 26% equity in the project respectively.
The second MoU is to set up a trading company and covers both the sourcing of LNG and the marketing of the regasified LNG from the terminal. GAIL, GDF Suez and Shell will have 48%, 26% and 26% equity in the trading company, respectively.
The MoU signing took place in the presence of chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and CMD of GAIL B C Tripathi, CEO of GDF Suez Philip Olivier and Anindya Chowdhury of Shell India in Vijayawada.
Estimated to cost Rs 1800 crore, the floating LNG platform is likely to be ready in the next 18 months. The Kakinada port was identified as suitable for a project of this nature owing to its availability of a natural back-water in the Hope Island - a barrier that protects against the impact of high seas.
The LNG terminal is expected to give a fillip to gas-based industries in the state. With the current shortage of gas standing at 15 mmscmd (million metric square cubic metres daily) likely to touch 40 mmscmd very soon, AP is set to gain major advantage in roping in gas-based industries. As natural gas is emerging as a significant fuel for economic development of the country and the LNG terminal termed as the safest gas storage system, the Kakinada terminal is set to play a far reaching role in making natural gas available to various consumers in industrial, commercial and domestic sectors.
"This will be the first LNG terminal on the east coast of India. In my efforts to boost port-led development, I realise that this project will help us in making the state a logistics hub," said Naidu.
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NPCIL searches for land in Andhra Pradesh for nuclear power plant
KOLKATA: The National Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) is scouting for land in Andhra Pradesh to install a nuclear power plant, following West Bengal government's objections to set up the project in state's Haripur town.
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre's director Sekhar Basu who is a board member of the NPCIL, said here today, "We are looking for a site in some coastal area of Andhra Pradesh where a similar reactor, which was meant for Haripur, will come up."
"Talks are on with the state government for a suitable site. Land has to be available," Basu told reporters on the sidelines of a program here.
In 2011, the state government had scrapped the proposed 6,000 MW plant in East Midnapore district's Haripur in collaboration with Russia's state-owned nuclear power equipment and service giant Rosatom.
Local farmers and fishermen, supported by a number of NGOs, had launched an agitation against the project fearing eviction and loss of livelihood.
Basu, however, said if they get permission from the state and Centre, then the project at Haripur will see the light of the day.
"Haripur project is not closed down. If the West Bengal government wants, we can start it anytime. There will be an investment of Rs 100,000 crore. Not only West Bengal, but the entire eastern India will not starve for power anymore if it happens," the Padma Shri awardee nuclear scientist said.
He stressed that if we want a GDP growth rate of about eight per cent every year, then the electricity supply should also grow at the same rate.
"If such a big project comes, then there will be no electricity problem. Nuclear is clean and green energy," Basu said, adding that nuclear will be the main source of energy in the future.
Read more at:
NPCIL searches for land in Andhra Pradesh for nuclear power plant - The Economic Times
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Singapore PM Assures to Share Expertise for Andhra Pradesh's Development
HYDERABAD: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong today said his government would support Andhra Pradesh and share its expertise for the development of the state.
Loong conveyed this to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu who personally invited him for the foundation-stone laying ceremony of Andhra Pradesh's capital city Amaravati on October 22, the Andhra Pradesh government said in Hyderabad.
"Loong replied in the affirmative and said he will definitely try his best to make it to the ceremony," the state government said.
Mr Naidu is on a visit to Singapore to invite the Premier for the foundation laying ceremony and to hold talks on Andhra Pradesh's capital city development.
The Chief Minister, who congratulated Mr Loong on his re-election, told him that Singapore could extend help in building the state's infrastructure and in making Andhra Pradesh a knowledge economy.
The State government quoted the Prime Minister as saying that Singapore would support Andhra Pradesh and share whatever expertise and experience it has.
Singapore government agencies have prepared the Master Plans for the three-layered Andhra Pradesh capital -- seed capital, capital city and capital region.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would lay the foundation stone for the capital on the 'Vijaya Dasami' day (October 22), according to the state government.
During the meeting, Mr Naidu thanked the Singapore Prime Minister for extending all the help in making the master plans and submitting them as planned.
Explaining how Andhra Pradesh has set its eyes on long-term development and growth, the CM told Mr Loong that the government is planning to make the state a 'logistics hub'.
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PM Modi to attend Andhra Pradesh capital’s foundation ceremony on October 22
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said that the “Birth of Amaravati – the People’s Capital” should be a spectacular extravaganza that should create an emotional bond with people of Andhra Pradesh.
PM Narendra Modi will attend the foundation-laying ceremony of Andhra Pradesh’s capital Amaravati on October 22. CM N Chandrababu Naidu, who reviewed the status of the work going in the capital region, said a Vaastu-compliant spot has been identified where the stone would be laid.
“The location where the foundation stone will be laid is Vaastu-compliant and a picturesque spot. In future, it will become the nerve centre of Andhra Pradesh, signifying river-linking and a spot where soil from all mandals will be mixed with the soil of Amaravati,” Naidu said. The spot where the foundation stone will be laid would later be developed into a public garden.
The spot where the foundation stone will be laid would eventually be developed into a public garden. “The garden will have an exhibition from portraying Amaravati’s past to what it is in the present to what it will be in the future,” the CM said.
Stating that the “Birth of Amaravati – the People’s Capital” should be a spectacular extravaganza that should create an emotional bond with people of Andhra Pradesh, the Chief Minister said every citizen of the state should participate in capital building. During the brainstorming session for the October 22 event, the Chief Minister said sarpanchs from all the mandals could carry the soil from there and culminate into a massive congregation in the Capital Region.
“The soil brought from all the mandals across the state could be mixed with the Amaravati soil to establish an emotional connection. The soil will be brought in a Purnakumbham after a pooja (to signify divinity). All the Purnakumbhams then could be formed into a massive sculpture or an idol, signifying the contribution of people to the People’s Capital or may be into Bodhi tree, reflecting its connection with Buddhism. Let us come up with different ideas and finalize them,” he added.
The AP Government is also mulling bringing in uniform colour-coding and illumination across the state during build-up to Dasara when the foundation-stone is to be laid. “We can also build momentum to the campaign by clubbing the celebration with Dasara’s Navarati as a build up to the main event. This will also add a cultural spin to the event, retaining our tradition and bringing in a festive mood,” an official said.
From a gigantic exhibition to an Amaradwaram with farmers’ names (who gave their lands for the capital) imprinted on it to a massive Amaravati Pavilion, the event comprises everything. The event is being planned for 1000 VIPs and 50,000 general audience by an event management company. Every detail is being curated carefully. During the meeting, MP Galla Jayadev, GVK’s Sanjay Reddy, GMR Group’s Srinivas, Sri City’s Srini Raju and Mandava Prabhakar of Nuziveedu Seeds also pitched their opinions to the Chief Minister through a video-conference.
PM Modi to attend Andhra Pradesh capital’s foundation ceremony on October 22 | The Indian Express
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Had Jagan Mohan Reddy been the CM of AP, would we have seen any of the above-especially AP getting no.2 only to Gujarat on the ease of business report in Indian states commissioned by the World b=Bank in partnership with the DIPP of the GOI??
Now let's compare the news of Telangana today:-
Farmer suicides continue unabated in Telangana - The Hindu
Farmer suicides: Is Telangana govt’s loan-waiver policy aggravating the situation? - Firstpost
Over the last 10 days at least 100 debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide in the state. Unofficial sources put the number much higher.
Govt's hardware hub dream finds no takers - The Times of India
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Rahul working on anti-PM protests in US
For close to nine months, the Congress VP has been meeting ‘representatives of civil society from India’ in London and New York.
MADHAV NALAPAT New Delhi | 26th Sep 2015
ongress heir apparent Rahul Gandhi has been "meeting quietly in the US with groups intending to carry out protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi" during the PM's ongoing visit to the world's biggest economy. According to those associated with the planning of the strategy of the Congress vice-president, "Rahul is not encouraging any anti-Modi demonstrations and protests, but simply understanding what the reasons for anger are". However, analysts tracking Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi say that his role has been much more pro-active, and that should there be large-scale protests during the Prime Minister's public appearances in San Jose and New York, it would mean "some success for Rahul's carefully planned strategy of seeking to show globally that Modi has as many critics as admirers in the US", thereby taking some of the shine off the PM's Madison Square-style public rallies in the country and his meetings with corporate leaders.
Those tracking the nature and extent of Rahul's activities on foreign shores claim that his "sensitive and secretive" meetings while in the US, many with anti-Modi groups, is the reason why there is such secrecy about his whereabouts and activities during this latest period of disappearance from public radar. They add that Rahul Gandhi has been meeting for close to nine months in London and New York with "representatives of civil society from India who have been active in canvassing support for condemning the Union government for what they claim is its insensitivity to minority concerns and its majoritarian agenda".
Rahul's meetings while in the US are related to what analysts term as his "crusade" to ensure that the BJP led by Narendra Modi falls to a tally of 175-150 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 polls, thereby ensuring that a non-saffron dispensation takes office in the national capital. "Rahul is aiming to become Prime Minister only by 2024 and not 2019, and hence can take the long view of political developments", they point out. Even after nine more years, the Congress vice-president would be a decade younger than Narendra Modi was when he took the oath of office as Prime Minister on 26 May 2014. These analysts say that — health permitting — Congress president Sonia Gandhi may get her term extended up to the close of 2017, or until the UP Assembly elections get decided, "so that Rahul could take charge on a fresh slate and focus on the parliamentary polls".
Since the shock collapse of his party on 16 May 2014, "the centrepiece of Rahul Gandhi's game plan is to ensure that Prime Minister Modi does not get a second term, and if this means sacrificing the short-term interests of the Congress in some states, Rahul is ready". This strategy has come into operation in Bihar, where the Congress has accepted a seat quota less than half of what was allocated to either the RJD and the JDU, and is likely to get replicated in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, with the party likely to contest a lower number of seats than the last time as a gesture of goodwill to regional heavyweights Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. Those tracking the first family of the Congress claim that the UP Assembly elections will witness the emergence of the telegenic Priyanka Vadra on the political stage, abandoning her earlier cameo appearances, "as by that time, efforts at blackening the name of her husband would have run its course" and any extra damage by such actions would be low.
"Rahul has studied the way in which Narendra Modi consolidated himself in Gujarat through gaining a reputation for honesty and efficiency in government, and is therefore determined to ensure that at the Central level, Team Modi be perceived differently" (from what was the case in Gujarat).
Hence the strategy of (a) blocking reforms such as GST and the Land Bill which would enhance the performance and hence the reputation of the Central government, and (b) constantly levelling allegations of corruption against state and central leaders of the BJP.
Those tracking the Congress vice-president say that he has activated a small group to locate possible charges of corruption at the Central and state levels, and that "such research is being clandestinely assisted by officials who have for years been close to the Congress". In a gesture of conciliation, the Narendra Modi government has retained many officials known to have been close to the UPA in sensitive posts, and has refrained from any witch-hunt against UPA-era Central ministers, except by carrying forward probes already set in motion during the tenure of Manmohan Singh. "Even probes already existing (since the UPA period), such as that against Dayanidhi Maran, are being conducted professionally, and every opportunity is being given to the accused to defend themselves. Whether it be Maran, Kanimozhi or even Raja, they cannot claim that any undue interest is being taken in their cases," a senior official pointed out, adding that "the same is the case with the probes against Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati as well".
Officials say that Prime Minister Modi has distanced himself from all such investigations and has asked the officials concerned to conduct them in a manner that is not related to political exigencies. Perhaps as a consequence, there appears to have been little progress on the BJP's Lok Sabha poll promise of bringing to book those guilty of corruption in the numerous UPA-era scams. Those close to Rahul Gandhi say that the breather has given them time to regroup and also to fight back effectively against any future probe, whereas any action taken during the glow of the initial months of the BJP's 2014 triumph would have been accepted by the public. According to those studying the behind-the-curtain moves of the Congress heir apparent, Rahul Gandhi is convinced that after the lapse of nearly 18 months since the Lok Sabha results were declared, routine allegations of corruption against the Congress and its UPA partners no longer carry much weight with the public, for the reason that "they will ask why (if the charges were true) no action was taken by the NDA government against the guilty", with not even a single FIR being filed against UPA ministers known to be super-wealthy. Four polling agencies are independently being used by Team Rahul, and it is claimed by those close to Rahul Gandhi "these are unanimous that there is a change of mood towards both the Congress as well as the BJP since 2014" and that this will get reflected in future Congress-BJP contests.
Apart from a barrage of corruption charges directed against BJP decision-makers and the blocking of reform proposals that could lead to a visible improvement in performance over the coming three years (till the 2019 polls), the plans being scripted by Rahul Gandhi include measures designed to "bring down the reputation both domestically as well as internationally of Prime Minister Modi". The emerging Congress supremo is "closely watching the rash of strike calls and protests by railway, bank employees and other powerful trade union groups and believes that these will launch protest after protest, strike upon strike, beginning before polls close in Bihar". During the past year, the Modi government has wheeled out its heavyweight ministers to negotiate with bank, port, coal and insurance unions, thereby giving itself little leeway in case fresh demands (such as a generalised call for OROP) come up. Rahul Gandhi has asked key members of his team to "meet with union representatives quietly" and has promised the "support of the Congress in future agitations" against the Central government, according to those privy to his thinking. Small wonder that CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury seems to be edging closer tactically to the Congress despite his party seeing the latter as its principal foe in Kerala.
"Rahul Gandhi's plan is to ensure that reforms essential to better performance get delayed till the 2017 UP elections are over", so that the BJP does not reap the electoral dividend of such measures in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, which remain the primary focus of the Congress vice-president. Those privy to his thinking say that "Rahul is aware that core economic reform measures take two to three years to begin to show results, and that for the first two or three years, the political dividend is negative from such steps", although these become positive soon afterwards and remain so for long periods. They say that the Congress heir apparent has studied the working of the A.B. Vajpayee government and believes that it was "dissatisfaction in the urban areas caused by corruption, lack of jobs and price rise which got the NDA defeated in 2004", apart from "a delay in carrying out enough reforms during the first two of the six years in office of Prime Minister Vajpayee".
The four factors (joblessness, inflation, corruption and slowness in reforms) form the staple theme of the Rahul-crafted Congress attacks on the Modi government. Congress success in continuing to block GST and other key reforms and in maintaining a drumbeat of charges against Team Modi will determine whether Rahul Gandhi's "NoNamo 2019" strategy is working.
Rahul working on anti-PM protests in US
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So THIS is why Rahul went to the US, if this report is true then he is not as stupid as I originally thought he was..
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For close to nine months, the Congress VP has been meeting ‘representatives of civil society from India’ in London and New York.
MADHAV NALAPAT New Delhi | 26th Sep 2015
ongress heir apparent Rahul Gandhi has been "meeting quietly in the US with groups intending to carry out protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi" during the PM's ongoing visit to the world's biggest economy. According to those associated with the planning of the strategy of the Congress vice-president, "Rahul is not encouraging any anti-Modi demonstrations and protests, but simply understanding what the reasons for anger are". However, analysts tracking Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi say that his role has been much more pro-active, and that should there be large-scale protests during the Prime Minister's public appearances in San Jose and New York, it would mean "some success for Rahul's carefully planned strategy of seeking to show globally that Modi has as many critics as admirers in the US", thereby taking some of the shine off the PM's Madison Square-style public rallies in the country and his meetings with corporate leaders.
Those tracking the nature and extent of Rahul's activities on foreign shores claim that his "sensitive and secretive" meetings while in the US, many with anti-Modi groups, is the reason why there is such secrecy about his whereabouts and activities during this latest period of disappearance from public radar. They add that Rahul Gandhi has been meeting for close to nine months in London and New York with "representatives of civil society from India who have been active in canvassing support for condemning the Union government for what they claim is its insensitivity to minority concerns and its majoritarian agenda".
Rahul's meetings while in the US are related to what analysts term as his "crusade" to ensure that the BJP led by Narendra Modi falls to a tally of 175-150 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 polls, thereby ensuring that a non-saffron dispensation takes office in the national capital. "Rahul is aiming to become Prime Minister only by 2024 and not 2019, and hence can take the long view of political developments", they point out. Even after nine more years, the Congress vice-president would be a decade younger than Narendra Modi was when he took the oath of office as Prime Minister on 26 May 2014. These analysts say that — health permitting — Congress president Sonia Gandhi may get her term extended up to the close of 2017, or until the UP Assembly elections get decided, "so that Rahul could take charge on a fresh slate and focus on the parliamentary polls".
Since the shock collapse of his party on 16 May 2014, "the centrepiece of Rahul Gandhi's game plan is to ensure that Prime Minister Modi does not get a second term, and if this means sacrificing the short-term interests of the Congress in some states, Rahul is ready". This strategy has come into operation in Bihar, where the Congress has accepted a seat quota less than half of what was allocated to either the RJD and the JDU, and is likely to get replicated in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, with the party likely to contest a lower number of seats than the last time as a gesture of goodwill to regional heavyweights Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. Those tracking the first family of the Congress claim that the UP Assembly elections will witness the emergence of the telegenic Priyanka Vadra on the political stage, abandoning her earlier cameo appearances, "as by that time, efforts at blackening the name of her husband would have run its course" and any extra damage by such actions would be low.
"Rahul has studied the way in which Narendra Modi consolidated himself in Gujarat through gaining a reputation for honesty and efficiency in government, and is therefore determined to ensure that at the Central level, Team Modi be perceived differently" (from what was the case in Gujarat).
Hence the strategy of (a) blocking reforms such as GST and the Land Bill which would enhance the performance and hence the reputation of the Central government, and (b) constantly levelling allegations of corruption against state and central leaders of the BJP.
Those tracking the Congress vice-president say that he has activated a small group to locate possible charges of corruption at the Central and state levels, and that "such research is being clandestinely assisted by officials who have for years been close to the Congress". In a gesture of conciliation, the Narendra Modi government has retained many officials known to have been close to the UPA in sensitive posts, and has refrained from any witch-hunt against UPA-era Central ministers, except by carrying forward probes already set in motion during the tenure of Manmohan Singh. "Even probes already existing (since the UPA period), such as that against Dayanidhi Maran, are being conducted professionally, and every opportunity is being given to the accused to defend themselves. Whether it be Maran, Kanimozhi or even Raja, they cannot claim that any undue interest is being taken in their cases," a senior official pointed out, adding that "the same is the case with the probes against Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati as well".
Officials say that Prime Minister Modi has distanced himself from all such investigations and has asked the officials concerned to conduct them in a manner that is not related to political exigencies. Perhaps as a consequence, there appears to have been little progress on the BJP's Lok Sabha poll promise of bringing to book those guilty of corruption in the numerous UPA-era scams. Those close to Rahul Gandhi say that the breather has given them time to regroup and also to fight back effectively against any future probe, whereas any action taken during the glow of the initial months of the BJP's 2014 triumph would have been accepted by the public. According to those studying the behind-the-curtain moves of the Congress heir apparent, Rahul Gandhi is convinced that after the lapse of nearly 18 months since the Lok Sabha results were declared, routine allegations of corruption against the Congress and its UPA partners no longer carry much weight with the public, for the reason that "they will ask why (if the charges were true) no action was taken by the NDA government against the guilty", with not even a single FIR being filed against UPA ministers known to be super-wealthy. Four polling agencies are independently being used by Team Rahul, and it is claimed by those close to Rahul Gandhi "these are unanimous that there is a change of mood towards both the Congress as well as the BJP since 2014" and that this will get reflected in future Congress-BJP contests.
Apart from a barrage of corruption charges directed against BJP decision-makers and the blocking of reform proposals that could lead to a visible improvement in performance over the coming three years (till the 2019 polls), the plans being scripted by Rahul Gandhi include measures designed to "bring down the reputation both domestically as well as internationally of Prime Minister Modi". The emerging Congress supremo is "closely watching the rash of strike calls and protests by railway, bank employees and other powerful trade union groups and believes that these will launch protest after protest, strike upon strike, beginning before polls close in Bihar". During the past year, the Modi government has wheeled out its heavyweight ministers to negotiate with bank, port, coal and insurance unions, thereby giving itself little leeway in case fresh demands (such as a generalised call for OROP) come up. Rahul Gandhi has asked key members of his team to "meet with union representatives quietly" and has promised the "support of the Congress in future agitations" against the Central government, according to those privy to his thinking. Small wonder that CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury seems to be edging closer tactically to the Congress despite his party seeing the latter as its principal foe in Kerala.
"Rahul Gandhi's plan is to ensure that reforms essential to better performance get delayed till the 2017 UP elections are over", so that the BJP does not reap the electoral dividend of such measures in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, which remain the primary focus of the Congress vice-president. Those privy to his thinking say that "Rahul is aware that core economic reform measures take two to three years to begin to show results, and that for the first two or three years, the political dividend is negative from such steps", although these become positive soon afterwards and remain so for long periods. They say that the Congress heir apparent has studied the working of the A.B. Vajpayee government and believes that it was "dissatisfaction in the urban areas caused by corruption, lack of jobs and price rise which got the NDA defeated in 2004", apart from "a delay in carrying out enough reforms during the first two of the six years in office of Prime Minister Vajpayee".
The four factors (joblessness, inflation, corruption and slowness in reforms) form the staple theme of the Rahul-crafted Congress attacks on the Modi government. Congress success in continuing to block GST and other key reforms and in maintaining a drumbeat of charges against Team Modi will determine whether Rahul Gandhi's "NoNamo 2019" strategy is working.
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So THIS is why Rahul went to the US, if this report is true then he is not as stupid as I originally thought he was..
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Pappu should ask for his money back. He was taken for a royal ride by his enforcers despite spending time & money for the past nine months. All they could manage is ten people with ten placards & one AAP topi! What a moron....Rahul working on anti-PM protests in US
For close to nine months, the Congress VP has been meeting ‘representatives of civil society from India’ in London and New York.
MADHAV NALAPAT New Delhi | 26th Sep 2015
ongress heir apparent Rahul Gandhi has been "meeting quietly in the US with groups intending to carry out protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi" during the PM's ongoing visit to the world's biggest economy. According to those associated with the planning of the strategy of the Congress vice-president, "Rahul is not encouraging any anti-Modi demonstrations and protests, but simply understanding what the reasons for anger are". However, analysts tracking Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi say that his role has been much more pro-active, and that should there be large-scale protests during the Prime Minister's public appearances in San Jose and New York, it would mean "some success for Rahul's carefully planned strategy of seeking to show globally that Modi has as many critics as admirers in the US", thereby taking some of the shine off the PM's Madison Square-style public rallies in the country and his meetings with corporate leaders.
Those tracking the nature and extent of Rahul's activities on foreign shores claim that his "sensitive and secretive" meetings while in the US, many with anti-Modi groups, is the reason why there is such secrecy about his whereabouts and activities during this latest period of disappearance from public radar. They add that Rahul Gandhi has been meeting for close to nine months in London and New York with "representatives of civil society from India who have been active in canvassing support for condemning the Union government for what they claim is its insensitivity to minority concerns and its majoritarian agenda".
Rahul's meetings while in the US are related to what analysts term as his "crusade" to ensure that the BJP led by Narendra Modi falls to a tally of 175-150 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 polls, thereby ensuring that a non-saffron dispensation takes office in the national capital. "Rahul is aiming to become Prime Minister only by 2024 and not 2019, and hence can take the long view of political developments", they point out. Even after nine more years, the Congress vice-president would be a decade younger than Narendra Modi was when he took the oath of office as Prime Minister on 26 May 2014. These analysts say that — health permitting — Congress president Sonia Gandhi may get her term extended up to the close of 2017, or until the UP Assembly elections get decided, "so that Rahul could take charge on a fresh slate and focus on the parliamentary polls".
Since the shock collapse of his party on 16 May 2014, "the centrepiece of Rahul Gandhi's game plan is to ensure that Prime Minister Modi does not get a second term, and if this means sacrificing the short-term interests of the Congress in some states, Rahul is ready". This strategy has come into operation in Bihar, where the Congress has accepted a seat quota less than half of what was allocated to either the RJD and the JDU, and is likely to get replicated in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, with the party likely to contest a lower number of seats than the last time as a gesture of goodwill to regional heavyweights Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. Those tracking the first family of the Congress claim that the UP Assembly elections will witness the emergence of the telegenic Priyanka Vadra on the political stage, abandoning her earlier cameo appearances, "as by that time, efforts at blackening the name of her husband would have run its course" and any extra damage by such actions would be low.
"Rahul has studied the way in which Narendra Modi consolidated himself in Gujarat through gaining a reputation for honesty and efficiency in government, and is therefore determined to ensure that at the Central level, Team Modi be perceived differently" (from what was the case in Gujarat).
Hence the strategy of (a) blocking reforms such as GST and the Land Bill which would enhance the performance and hence the reputation of the Central government, and (b) constantly levelling allegations of corruption against state and central leaders of the BJP.
Those tracking the Congress vice-president say that he has activated a small group to locate possible charges of corruption at the Central and state levels, and that "such research is being clandestinely assisted by officials who have for years been close to the Congress". In a gesture of conciliation, the Narendra Modi government has retained many officials known to have been close to the UPA in sensitive posts, and has refrained from any witch-hunt against UPA-era Central ministers, except by carrying forward probes already set in motion during the tenure of Manmohan Singh. "Even probes already existing (since the UPA period), such as that against Dayanidhi Maran, are being conducted professionally, and every opportunity is being given to the accused to defend themselves. Whether it be Maran, Kanimozhi or even Raja, they cannot claim that any undue interest is being taken in their cases," a senior official pointed out, adding that "the same is the case with the probes against Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati as well".
Officials say that Prime Minister Modi has distanced himself from all such investigations and has asked the officials concerned to conduct them in a manner that is not related to political exigencies. Perhaps as a consequence, there appears to have been little progress on the BJP's Lok Sabha poll promise of bringing to book those guilty of corruption in the numerous UPA-era scams. Those close to Rahul Gandhi say that the breather has given them time to regroup and also to fight back effectively against any future probe, whereas any action taken during the glow of the initial months of the BJP's 2014 triumph would have been accepted by the public. According to those studying the behind-the-curtain moves of the Congress heir apparent, Rahul Gandhi is convinced that after the lapse of nearly 18 months since the Lok Sabha results were declared, routine allegations of corruption against the Congress and its UPA partners no longer carry much weight with the public, for the reason that "they will ask why (if the charges were true) no action was taken by the NDA government against the guilty", with not even a single FIR being filed against UPA ministers known to be super-wealthy. Four polling agencies are independently being used by Team Rahul, and it is claimed by those close to Rahul Gandhi "these are unanimous that there is a change of mood towards both the Congress as well as the BJP since 2014" and that this will get reflected in future Congress-BJP contests.
Apart from a barrage of corruption charges directed against BJP decision-makers and the blocking of reform proposals that could lead to a visible improvement in performance over the coming three years (till the 2019 polls), the plans being scripted by Rahul Gandhi include measures designed to "bring down the reputation both domestically as well as internationally of Prime Minister Modi". The emerging Congress supremo is "closely watching the rash of strike calls and protests by railway, bank employees and other powerful trade union groups and believes that these will launch protest after protest, strike upon strike, beginning before polls close in Bihar". During the past year, the Modi government has wheeled out its heavyweight ministers to negotiate with bank, port, coal and insurance unions, thereby giving itself little leeway in case fresh demands (such as a generalised call for OROP) come up. Rahul Gandhi has asked key members of his team to "meet with union representatives quietly" and has promised the "support of the Congress in future agitations" against the Central government, according to those privy to his thinking. Small wonder that CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury seems to be edging closer tactically to the Congress despite his party seeing the latter as its principal foe in Kerala.
"Rahul Gandhi's plan is to ensure that reforms essential to better performance get delayed till the 2017 UP elections are over", so that the BJP does not reap the electoral dividend of such measures in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, which remain the primary focus of the Congress vice-president. Those privy to his thinking say that "Rahul is aware that core economic reform measures take two to three years to begin to show results, and that for the first two or three years, the political dividend is negative from such steps", although these become positive soon afterwards and remain so for long periods. They say that the Congress heir apparent has studied the working of the A.B. Vajpayee government and believes that it was "dissatisfaction in the urban areas caused by corruption, lack of jobs and price rise which got the NDA defeated in 2004", apart from "a delay in carrying out enough reforms during the first two of the six years in office of Prime Minister Vajpayee".
The four factors (joblessness, inflation, corruption and slowness in reforms) form the staple theme of the Rahul-crafted Congress attacks on the Modi government. Congress success in continuing to block GST and other key reforms and in maintaining a drumbeat of charges against Team Modi will determine whether Rahul Gandhi's "NoNamo 2019" strategy is working.
Rahul working on anti-PM protests in US
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So THIS is why Rahul went to the US, if this report is true then he is not as stupid as I originally thought he was..
@NIA Congrats
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