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can u tell me plz whats the status about NAMO UP candidature, from where he is fighting .
AAPtard AAJ tak telling that there is a class between M.JOSI supporter and namo's in varanasi
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HELL to the old brigade these r the main responsible for BJP down gradation .
I want Advani,Susma,Murli and the Yaswant duo sud be kicked out of the party asap

I don't think it's finalized yet. But yes... M M Joshi is digging his heals in & the old brigade is showing their true color. However I still believe Modi will contest from 2 constituencies. One from Gujarat & the other from UP. Eventually they will have to make way for him. Maybe MMJ might be pushed to contest from Lucknow!

India’s dodo dynasties fear extinction at the polls

Has dynastic politics had its day in the world’s biggest democracy?

That is the tempting conclusion to be drawn from the fact that India’s two most prominent politicians today come from ordinary families with no notable historical involvement in politics or government.
As some 800m Indian voters prepare for a general election to be held over five weeks in April and May (the results will be announced on May 16), they have identified a new breed of politician in candidates such as Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal.

It is not that the two men share an ideology. On the contrary, they are bitter rivals. Mr Modi is the prime ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata party, the Hindu nationalist opposition to the governing Congress party.

Mr Kejriwal is an anti-corruption campaigner of leftist sympathies whose Aam Aadmi or Common Man party has caught the public’s imagination over the past year and whose popularity could limit the scale of Mr Modi’s expected election victory.

Both, however, come from relatively humble backgrounds. Mr Modi, a professional politician who has run the state of Gujarat for the past 12 years, boasts that his father was a tea-seller.

Mr Kejriwal is a former tax inspector and engineer’s son who won entry to one of the highbrow Indian Institutes of Technology and passed the civil service exams through his own efforts.

Those life stories are in stark contrast to the privileged upbringing of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress figurehead and son of party leader Sonia Gandhi.

Descended from no less than three Indian prime ministers – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi – Mr Gandhi has never been in government. Widely regarded as amiable but ineffective, he is nevertheless marketed as a future prime minister by virtue of his illustrious forebears.

“Both Modi and Kejriwal – part of their attraction is precisely that they are outsiders, and have no political lineage,” says Ashutosh Varshney, a political scientist and author of a new book on Indian democracy. Famous names that once impressed rural Indians have less impact in the country’s fast-growing cities, he says.

Gurcharan Das, who used to run the Indian operations of consumer goods group Procter & Gamble, says young members of the Indian middle class are offended by brazen displays of nepotism and aware of the dangers of employing the unqualified.

“There’s a real problem with putting your nephew into a job where he cannot perform. You lose market share,” he says. “So it’s a combination of competitive markets and a mindset which says that ‘I have come up through my own hard work, and why should that guy over there get a head-start because of who he is?’.”

Nepotism in India’s extraordinarily corrupt politics is by no means confined to Congress. Wives, children, cousins, uncles and minor royalty are deployed by almost all parties in constituencies where name recognition is important.

Akhilesh Yadav, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh – the most populous state in the union – is the son of Samajwadi party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, who was three times chief minister himself. The younger Yadav’s wife and two uncles are also in politics.

Patrick French, a political scientist, calls such political families “hyperconnected” and notes that two-thirds of sitting members of parliament under the age of 40 have a close relative in politics, while nine out of 10 young Congress MPs hold what are effectively hereditary seats. MPs from established political dynasties, furthermore, are nearly five times richer than the unconnected.

Yet opinion polls show that support for Congress is likely to collapse in the coming election. Mr Modi’s rise to national fame over the past two years – largely the result of his personal ambition and powerful oratory – and the recent surge in support for Mr Kejriwal suggest that young, educated Indians are increasingly impressed more by merit than by birth.

Ramachandra Guha, a historian, says that Congress has relied excessively on the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, “a family whose charisma declines with every generation”. Mr Varshney agrees, judging that Mr Modi’s deliberate focus on his humble origins has helped change the way Indians think, while Congress faces diminishing returns from its reliance on the first family.

“Dynasty in Congress is like chemical fertiliser in agriculture,” he says. “It increases your yield today but it hurts the productivity of the farm in the long run.”
India’s dodo dynasties fear extinction at the polls - FT.com
 
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Modi's Gujarat

GIFT city. Written off by many, but Modi shows the foresight which is sorely needed in India.

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Even from the few pictures above it is clear that everything has been meticulously planned. The footpaths are wide, the roads well made, lines painted well. The footpath edges painted properly. Goddamit guys, under Modi all our new cities could look like this. Instead of bickering, just take a look at what China was 15 years ago and what it is today, we could be the same.

cc. gandhi.rushabh on SSC.
 
Because only a Gandhi can rule INdia, how thick are you, this is written in stone, once again I repeat only a Gandhi can lead India
only gandu can rule india.baaki sabhi koi kaam ka nahin.In india only gandhi has iq to rule rest are born cretins :D
 
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Modi is no Shiela Dishit! :rofl:

Modi should not contest against Crazywal...

A battle of wits between a tantrum-throwing kid and its parents will always attract attention in the mall, but the issue can be settled only at home once the parents have survived the embarrassment at the mall.

While the media would gain TRPs and readership from this engrossing electoral battle, the idea makes no sense from Modi's point of view, even though Modi strategists have been debating the value of getting their man to fight from Uttar Pradesh to raise the profile of the BJP's efforts in this crucial state.
For Modi, a fight against Kejriwal in UP is a lose-lose-lose issue no matter what the outcome. For Kejriwal, it’s win-win-win. So far Modi has been sublimely ignoring Kejriwal - the right strategy - and focusing on sending his own message to the electorate directly. When you are running a race, you should be focused on the finishing post, not other participants. Kejriwal’s goal, on the other hand, is not to win, but trip the front-runner and make the headlines. He is seeking a fight with Modi and has been obsessively trolling him on public platforms. Nothing would serve his interests better than for Modi to take note of him.

To explain the situation that is now developing, it is best to use the analogy of the tantrum-throwing spoilt kid at the mall. The kid wants a lollipop and so far the parents have declined the request. So what will the kid do? If he is used to getting what he wants by screaming his head off, he will indeed do so.

At the mall he instinctively knows he has an advantage: at home, his parents can choose to ignore him for a longer period than at the mall, where everyone within earshot will be either watching the fun or silently hoping that the parents will give him his lollipop and stop the nuisance. I have seen this repeatedly happen in airplanes where, when confronted with a tantrum-throwing kid, parents are forced to concede as they themselves can't bear it, even as other passengers shoot hostile looks at the parents for failing to control the kid.

Public spaces are particularly hostile to parents trying to discipline a kid - especially when the kid is good at throwing tantrums. Only parents with nerves of steel can win this battle. At every stage, as the bawling rises to a crescendo, most parents develop a wish to throttle the kid or at least spank him, but this is exactly the wrong strategy. This makes the public not only anti-parent, but pro-kid too. It is lose-lose-lose.

The best strategy for the parent to adopt in this scenario is to abandon the shopping, take the kid home and let him continue with this tantrum till he himself gets tired of it and accepts defeat. You can't win against such a kid by indulging his tantrums.

Back to Arvind Kejriwal. He is a megalomaniac posturing as a humble servant of the people. Having thrown a tantrum in Delhi and defeated Sheila Dikshit, he has decided that he needs more tantrum-throwing opportunities - this time at bigger targets. He is looking for new scalps. Taking on Modi is not about anything but feeding Kejriwal's own ego. The Dikshit victory has gone to his head.

Anyone who has watched Kejriwal in action for two years will know he is a tantrum-thrower par excellence. Once the Anna movement died down in 2012, Kejriwal launched his political party and spent the first few months throwing mud at everybody - all politicians and businessmen he could think of. When he came to power in Delhi, he continued his tantrums - first with his dharna to get some hapless cops suspended, and later to get out of the CM's gaddi where his tantrums didn't work as well. In fact, it was alienating him from the public. As CM, he found the public saw him in the role of parent, not kid, which is why he was eager to get back into the pram and start bawling. So he threw another tantrum over the Jan Lokpal Bill and exited.

If you need any proof that Kejriwal is about tantrums and little else, you can do no better than to read his recent statement that communalism is a bigger threat than corruption. For a man who till the other day claimed corruption as the country's biggest scourge, this is strange. Unless one realises that without making this shift he can't throw further tantrums since, the corrupt Congress seems vanquished and Modi does not look like an easy target for an anti-corruption campaign. This is why he shifted the goalpost to communalism. To continue on the path to martyrdom, you need bigger enemies, real or imagined.

Having gotten his lollipop by throwing a tantrum against the Congress in Delhi, Kejriwal now needs a fresh reason for throwing another. He has found one in Modi and communalism.

In indicating that he may fight Modi in Varanasi, Kejriwal is playing super-smart. If Modi doesn't fight from there, it will seem like he ran away. If he fights and loses to Kejriwal (most unlikely), it will be a huge coup. If Modi wins by a small margin, Kejriwal will claim moral victory. If Modi wins big, Kejriwal will claim money power defeated him. This is why Kejriwal is practically trying to psyche Modi into fighting him in Varanasi.

Whatever happens in a Modi versus Kejriwal fight in Varanasi, it's a win-win-win for the latter and lose-lose-lose for Modi. When one man has nothing to lose and the other has everything to lose, it is a fight best avoided by the one who has everything to lose - in this case Modi.

It makes no sense for Modi to fight from Varanasi just to give Kejriwal a reason to smile. Consider what could easily happen: in this scenario, it will be a straight fight since all other parties will opt out in the hope Kejriwal will pull off a miracle. Since Kejriwal will be banking on the minority vote, the BJP will seek a reverse polarisation in UP. This is exactly what Modi has avoided so far by keeping his focus on development. Kejriwal will end up communalising the issue by repeatedly throwing a tantrum on communalism, and Gujarat 2002, and make polarisation a reality. In UP, Kejriwal will dictate the agenda and sour Modi's non-sectarian pitch. Not only that, Modi’s real battle is not in Varanasi, but the whole of India. Varanasi will be a huge distraction – and a waste of time for him.

If the best strategy for a parent confronting a tantrum-throwing kid at the mall is to take him home and let him realise that tantrums don't pay, Modi should adopt this strategy. Let Kejriwal fight him at home in Gujarat. If we assume that most Gujaratis would like nothing more than to see one of their own sons as PM, Kejriwal will get his comeuppance.

You don't indulge a tantrum-thrower by tossing him a lollipop.
 
AAPs dangerous plans exposed, Arvind gets a rap from EC.

Arvind Kejriwal violated the poll code of conduct in Gujarat, the Election Commission today said, a day after the Aam Aadmi Party leader's brief detention during a roadshow triggered clashes between the AAP and BJP.

"If you go by law, :sniper: Mr Kejriwal violated the model code of conduct. The whole world knew that the code was in place after the announcement of the national election dates in the morning," Election Commissioner HS Brahma told NDTV.

Mr Kejriwal was detained at the city of Radhanpur in Patan, 170 km from Ahmedabad, on Wednesday afternoon. He was accused by officers of violating rules that make prior police permission necessary for political rallies. But the AAP leader insisted that his convoy consisted largely of media cars and did not amount to a political procession.

The Election Commissioner said the Patan district commissioner had said in his report that Mr Kejriwal had been asked to seek permission for travelling with more than three cars on his road tour.

"We are going by that report. We will ensure that such incidents don't recur. We will implement the law harshly and we appeal to pol parties not to use harsh language and action," Mr Brahma said.

His detention rumors by AAP leaders led to street battles in Delhi and Lucknow between workers of AAP and BJP.
 
Lol Prakash karat's third front dreams shattered ..... CPI (M) and CPI wants 3 seats each Jaya offered only one seats each
It was never meant to take off. Karananidhi's cozy words for Modi may have rang alarm bells for Amma. There is a strong possibility of a post poll alliance between BJP & AIADMK..
 
hahaha what ever it is But Sorry you have too bare this after 16 may :azn::azn::azn::azn::azn::azn:
After may 16 ,I would like to look at congress and sickular folk in the face and say, you were saying something? say it now :P

Lol Prakash karat's third front dreams shattered ..... CPI (M) and CPI wants 3 seats each Jaya offered only one seats each
Now AIADMK will be open to be poached by NDA.Soon i see Mamata joining NDA once JJ joins nda.
 
You won't find them. Either they would have disappeared or changed their loyalty! :lol:
Since the election dates were announced i saw Cngress Mps ditching their party and joining BJP, Amma too broke the Third front, i guess she wanted to bargain hard with BJP by joining third front.But seeing elections only a month away and bjp calling her bluff she might have broken the third front intentionally.

Already con-gress are turning into AAPtards.After 16 they will support AAP.
 
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