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The power of BJP.
Existed even before existence of the party
He is talking about Jan Sangh dude...............
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Yes it did ,didn't you know Jan sangh,BJS ?
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Yes it did ,didn't you know Jan sangh,BJS ?
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Rahul Gandhi walks into A Bank to cash a check.
As he approaches the cashier he says, “Good morning sir, would you please cash this check for me?”
Cashier: “It would be my pleasure sir. Could you please show me your ID?”
RG: “Truthfully, I did not bring my ID with me as I didn’t think there was any need to. I am Vice President of the Congress Party. future indian PM.
Cashier: “Yes sir, I know who you are, but with all the regulations and monitoring of the banks because of impostors and forgers and requirements etc., I must insist on seeing ID.”
RG: “Just ask anyone here at the bank who I am and they will tell you. Everybody knows who I am.”
Cashier: “I am sorry sir but these are the bank rules and I must follow them.”
RG: “I am urging you, please, to cash this check.”
Cashier: “Look Sir here is an example of what we can do. One day, Sachin Tendulkar came into the bank without ID. To prove he was Sachin he pulled out his bat and made a beautiful shot across the bank. With that shot we knew him to be Sachin and cashed his check.”
So, sir what can you do to prove that it is you, and only you, future indian PM, Rahul Gandhi?”
RG stands there thinking, and thinking, and finally says:
“Honestly, my mind is a total blank… There is nothing that comes to my mind. I can’t think of a single thing. I have absolutely no idea what to do; I just don’t have a clue”.
Cashier: “Sir 500 ke note dun ya 1000 ke?
As he approaches the cashier he says, “Good morning sir, would you please cash this check for me?”
Cashier: “It would be my pleasure sir. Could you please show me your ID?”
RG: “Truthfully, I did not bring my ID with me as I didn’t think there was any need to. I am Vice President of the Congress Party. future indian PM.
Cashier: “Yes sir, I know who you are, but with all the regulations and monitoring of the banks because of impostors and forgers and requirements etc., I must insist on seeing ID.”
RG: “Just ask anyone here at the bank who I am and they will tell you. Everybody knows who I am.”
Cashier: “I am sorry sir but these are the bank rules and I must follow them.”
RG: “I am urging you, please, to cash this check.”
Cashier: “Look Sir here is an example of what we can do. One day, Sachin Tendulkar came into the bank without ID. To prove he was Sachin he pulled out his bat and made a beautiful shot across the bank. With that shot we knew him to be Sachin and cashed his check.”
So, sir what can you do to prove that it is you, and only you, future indian PM, Rahul Gandhi?”
RG stands there thinking, and thinking, and finally says:
“Honestly, my mind is a total blank… There is nothing that comes to my mind. I can’t think of a single thing. I have absolutely no idea what to do; I just don’t have a clue”.
Cashier: “Sir 500 ke note dun ya 1000 ke?
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Why is the media blatantly targeting AAP and Kejriwal? | Firstpost
Why is the media blatantly targeting AAP and Kejriwal?
Mar 13, 2014
This targeting of AAP has not ceased, the most recent example being the toppling of two metal detectors at Churchgate Station yesterday (12 March) while Arvind Kejriwal was exiting. Even as the visuals showed people trying to right them – they are flimsy frames – the channel went on to describe it as ‘vandalism’ and, surprisingly, called up a Shiv Sena spokesperson for a comment.
It was said that the train Kejriwal took from Andheri was ‘special’ without mentioning whether it was hired by AAP or if the Western Railways had provided it to avoid confusion and chaos. The morning newspapers did not mention it at all but the damage had been done – the aam aadmi in a khas train! Another channel went around asking commuters leading questions about being inconvenienced.
The media needn’t be as indulgent of AAP as it was when Rahul Gandhi travelled by Mumbai’s local trains in 2010, but there could, at the very least, be avoidance of bias. The manner in which reportage is happening shows a certain level of unfairness. At least, asking newsrooms to stop twisting things could be a good beginning. There could be any number of examples of these distortions.
Except for the back-to-back interviews that Kejriwal gave listing the work he had done as chief minister, he also made it a point to rub it in that AAP’s wins in Delhi and the confidence people had in it was “in spite of the media”.
Prior to his listing of the work done, and after that, no media covered most of the administrative tasks handled by his government. Only power subsidy and water supply figured.
Recall the television screens going ablaze with a sting showing, as per the footage, AAP candidates willing to take money in cash, agreeing to take up an assignment as a fixer, etc. No doubt they played safe by saying the authenticity of the video was unverified. But it caused enough damage, including narrow losses in the Delhi assembly elections, and Yogendra Yadav’s pleadings that virgin visuals be shown fell on deaf years.
When Kejriwal started targeting Mukesh Ambani and the media he 'controlled' and the media he 'paid-off', an extremely disingenuous averment began to emerge. Wouldn’t he and AAP lose media support and sympathy? As if media coverage was a quid pro quo for treating them as holy cows.
Let me deal with another instance of media misrepresentation mainly because, to be honest, it emanated from a lack of understanding – I dare not say 'ignorance', can I? – of official processes. When he opted for the Tilak Road house as his official residence, his office sent a letter to the authorities which control government bungalows in Delhi – the central PWD.
No doubt the house would have been inspected by him and or his family before the choice was made. Had he moved into the premises which Sheila Dikshit had occupied for 15 years, there would not have been an official correspondence. But since he opted for something else, a letter had to go from his office. That made it, 'See, this common man has asked for a 10-bed-room house'.
So Kejriwal became a liar, seeking a pair of bungalows adding up to 10 bedrooms though the second was to be his camp office, as already explained here earlier. That he was already a resident of a four-bedroom apartment which his wife had been given in her capacity as an official of the income-tax department, and that an additional room was no upgrade, did not cut any ice with the media.
On a news show, an anchor in fact, went on to discuss whether AAP and its leaders were cleverly “exploiting” the media, because a few tight shots replayed on a round robin pattern gave a disproportionate impression of reality. What remained unsettled was if the media was also chasing Kejriwal and AAP. Wasn’t it instead, an intelligent use of the media?
After all, the BJP and the Congress have managed to provide a particular perspective to their respective leaders’ rallies by setting up their own camera crews and providing feeds to TV stations. It is possible they did not pan the crowd if it was small. It is possible that other parties, especially AAP, cannot afford such an arrangement and need to be intelligent to exploit the media.
As of now, none of the major rallies of the other smaller parties have received such an allocation of airtime because it means the studios must allocate budgets and hardware plus manpower to cover them. Neither has it occurred to them that AAP cannot afford it to use the same techniques as BJP and Congress.
But yesterday, the Marathi channels showed him speaking at Vikhroli in Mumbai.
Take Rahul Gandhi’s interactions with various sections of the people to 'understand their problems. Be it his meeting with the rickshaw pullers of Varanasi, where he did ask some indelicate questions after which one poor fellow broke into tears, or the event at one of the beaches of Mumbai with fishermen and their folk.
The audience would have been pre-selected, at least from a security point of view, given that they encircle him. If not the questioners and their questions, at least the TV cameras kept showing him from several angles which no channel could have managed.
They too were engaged by the party, obviously after some planning, and at some cost. It helped show a scruffy putative prime minister in an informal engagement with the common folk in predetermined angles to best effect. In contrast, visually, Modi’s chai pe charcha doesn’t even come to scratch with apparently pre-selected audience. The point is, there is some control on the output.
Reuters
However, a conversation between an interviewer and the interviewee, Kejriwal, at the end of a live telecast becomes stuff good enough to go viral on the social media. He indicated the points he favoured highlighted, apparently in subsequent telecasts if they were made in snatches, one should believe. That suddenly makes Kejriwal an exploiter of the media unlike the Modis and Gandhis.
Perhaps, it is wishful to expect, or to even imagine, that media to offer a level playing field by correcting for the aberrations that have been induced into their content by controlling the content itself, even if AAP happens to be the underdog. But no, it is easier to pounce on them, and trigger a tsunami of adverse comments on social media, especially by people who are not residents of Delhi.
I did a very small survey using Facebook asking Delhi residents to indicate the changes they were noticing around the time AAP’s minority government was halfway through its 49-day life. The observations were interesting as well as exhilarating. The policemen posted outside a gated community wondered what would happen to them were they to be brought under the control of the Delhi government.
An autorickshaw owner got his licence renewed at the Transport Office (equivalent to RTOs elsewhere) in just two hours without having to engage a tout or pay a bribe. A lady who tried to speed things up – it is not clear if by a bribe or influence peddling – was told, “Madam, aaj kal aisa nahi hota hai. Your work would be done”. A long-time Mumbai resident found an auto cruising up to him at the airport and taking him to the destination without haggling.
Except for one single instance when Kejriwal himself listed the work done by them in the first 10 days, like mapping schools and engaging local people to monitor them, giving a Rs 1 lakh ad hoc grant to them to meet the short term needs quickly, the media hid these achievements from the people except for the shenanigans of a movement trying to be a party and also a government.
The anti-corruption call centres and the rest took a back seat and days after AAP gave up on being a government in Delhi, a channel did its own sting on the levels of corruption. It did concede that things had eased during AAP governance, but it had raised its head again, and instead of asking the Lieutenant Governor why, it accused the short-lived government of “not leaving behind a systemic change”.
Why is the media blatantly targeting AAP and Kejriwal?
Mar 13, 2014
This targeting of AAP has not ceased, the most recent example being the toppling of two metal detectors at Churchgate Station yesterday (12 March) while Arvind Kejriwal was exiting. Even as the visuals showed people trying to right them – they are flimsy frames – the channel went on to describe it as ‘vandalism’ and, surprisingly, called up a Shiv Sena spokesperson for a comment.
It was said that the train Kejriwal took from Andheri was ‘special’ without mentioning whether it was hired by AAP or if the Western Railways had provided it to avoid confusion and chaos. The morning newspapers did not mention it at all but the damage had been done – the aam aadmi in a khas train! Another channel went around asking commuters leading questions about being inconvenienced.
The media needn’t be as indulgent of AAP as it was when Rahul Gandhi travelled by Mumbai’s local trains in 2010, but there could, at the very least, be avoidance of bias. The manner in which reportage is happening shows a certain level of unfairness. At least, asking newsrooms to stop twisting things could be a good beginning. There could be any number of examples of these distortions.
Except for the back-to-back interviews that Kejriwal gave listing the work he had done as chief minister, he also made it a point to rub it in that AAP’s wins in Delhi and the confidence people had in it was “in spite of the media”.
Prior to his listing of the work done, and after that, no media covered most of the administrative tasks handled by his government. Only power subsidy and water supply figured.
Recall the television screens going ablaze with a sting showing, as per the footage, AAP candidates willing to take money in cash, agreeing to take up an assignment as a fixer, etc. No doubt they played safe by saying the authenticity of the video was unverified. But it caused enough damage, including narrow losses in the Delhi assembly elections, and Yogendra Yadav’s pleadings that virgin visuals be shown fell on deaf years.
When Kejriwal started targeting Mukesh Ambani and the media he 'controlled' and the media he 'paid-off', an extremely disingenuous averment began to emerge. Wouldn’t he and AAP lose media support and sympathy? As if media coverage was a quid pro quo for treating them as holy cows.
Let me deal with another instance of media misrepresentation mainly because, to be honest, it emanated from a lack of understanding – I dare not say 'ignorance', can I? – of official processes. When he opted for the Tilak Road house as his official residence, his office sent a letter to the authorities which control government bungalows in Delhi – the central PWD.
No doubt the house would have been inspected by him and or his family before the choice was made. Had he moved into the premises which Sheila Dikshit had occupied for 15 years, there would not have been an official correspondence. But since he opted for something else, a letter had to go from his office. That made it, 'See, this common man has asked for a 10-bed-room house'.
So Kejriwal became a liar, seeking a pair of bungalows adding up to 10 bedrooms though the second was to be his camp office, as already explained here earlier. That he was already a resident of a four-bedroom apartment which his wife had been given in her capacity as an official of the income-tax department, and that an additional room was no upgrade, did not cut any ice with the media.
On a news show, an anchor in fact, went on to discuss whether AAP and its leaders were cleverly “exploiting” the media, because a few tight shots replayed on a round robin pattern gave a disproportionate impression of reality. What remained unsettled was if the media was also chasing Kejriwal and AAP. Wasn’t it instead, an intelligent use of the media?
After all, the BJP and the Congress have managed to provide a particular perspective to their respective leaders’ rallies by setting up their own camera crews and providing feeds to TV stations. It is possible they did not pan the crowd if it was small. It is possible that other parties, especially AAP, cannot afford such an arrangement and need to be intelligent to exploit the media.
As of now, none of the major rallies of the other smaller parties have received such an allocation of airtime because it means the studios must allocate budgets and hardware plus manpower to cover them. Neither has it occurred to them that AAP cannot afford it to use the same techniques as BJP and Congress.
But yesterday, the Marathi channels showed him speaking at Vikhroli in Mumbai.
Take Rahul Gandhi’s interactions with various sections of the people to 'understand their problems. Be it his meeting with the rickshaw pullers of Varanasi, where he did ask some indelicate questions after which one poor fellow broke into tears, or the event at one of the beaches of Mumbai with fishermen and their folk.
The audience would have been pre-selected, at least from a security point of view, given that they encircle him. If not the questioners and their questions, at least the TV cameras kept showing him from several angles which no channel could have managed.
They too were engaged by the party, obviously after some planning, and at some cost. It helped show a scruffy putative prime minister in an informal engagement with the common folk in predetermined angles to best effect. In contrast, visually, Modi’s chai pe charcha doesn’t even come to scratch with apparently pre-selected audience. The point is, there is some control on the output.
Reuters
However, a conversation between an interviewer and the interviewee, Kejriwal, at the end of a live telecast becomes stuff good enough to go viral on the social media. He indicated the points he favoured highlighted, apparently in subsequent telecasts if they were made in snatches, one should believe. That suddenly makes Kejriwal an exploiter of the media unlike the Modis and Gandhis.
Perhaps, it is wishful to expect, or to even imagine, that media to offer a level playing field by correcting for the aberrations that have been induced into their content by controlling the content itself, even if AAP happens to be the underdog. But no, it is easier to pounce on them, and trigger a tsunami of adverse comments on social media, especially by people who are not residents of Delhi.
I did a very small survey using Facebook asking Delhi residents to indicate the changes they were noticing around the time AAP’s minority government was halfway through its 49-day life. The observations were interesting as well as exhilarating. The policemen posted outside a gated community wondered what would happen to them were they to be brought under the control of the Delhi government.
An autorickshaw owner got his licence renewed at the Transport Office (equivalent to RTOs elsewhere) in just two hours without having to engage a tout or pay a bribe. A lady who tried to speed things up – it is not clear if by a bribe or influence peddling – was told, “Madam, aaj kal aisa nahi hota hai. Your work would be done”. A long-time Mumbai resident found an auto cruising up to him at the airport and taking him to the destination without haggling.
Except for one single instance when Kejriwal himself listed the work done by them in the first 10 days, like mapping schools and engaging local people to monitor them, giving a Rs 1 lakh ad hoc grant to them to meet the short term needs quickly, the media hid these achievements from the people except for the shenanigans of a movement trying to be a party and also a government.
The anti-corruption call centres and the rest took a back seat and days after AAP gave up on being a government in Delhi, a channel did its own sting on the levels of corruption. It did concede that things had eased during AAP governance, but it had raised its head again, and instead of asking the Lieutenant Governor why, it accused the short-lived government of “not leaving behind a systemic change”.
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Modi has a snooping habit, I was told to tap Vaghela: Sreekumar - Financial Express
Modi has a snooping habit, I was told to tap Vaghela: Sreekumar
Former Gujarat DGP R B Sreekumar on Tuesday claimed that he had been asked to tap the phone of Congress leader Shankarsinh Vaghelain 2002, but he had refused. “Many” officers in the state, however, act as directed by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Sreekumar said.
The former IPS officer, who has been taking on Modi, on Tuesday filed a criminal defamation and conspiracy suit against the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, party chief Rajnath Singh, BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi and space scientist Nambi Narayanan, accusing them of carrying out a malicious campaign against him over the
ISRO spying case.
Narayanan has blamed Sreekumar, then an IB officer in Kerala, for the charges that resulted in his being sent to prison and an end to his career, but which were ultimately thrown out by the Supreme Court. The BJP has accused Sreekumar of cooking up the case against Narayanan at the behest of the CIA.
“I was asked by the (then) chief secretary to tap Vaghela’s phone, who said that it was on the orders of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. I refused to do so but Modi has been using the state machinery to conduct such surveillance,” Sreekumar told reporters on Tuesday. He was reacting to recent allegations that Modi’s aide Amit Shah had ordered the Gujarat ATS to mount illegal surveillance on a woman.
Sreekumar said that when he was ADG (Intelligence) in Gujarat, he was also asked to snoop on Haren Pandya, one of Modi’s detractors who was shot dead in Ahmedabad in 2003.
“I was also asked to carry out surveillance on BJP leader Haren Pandya. There are many officers in Gujarat who act on the directions of the CM. Modi is not ungrateful, and rewards the officers who are loyal to him,” Sreekumar, who retired as the state’s police chief in 2007, said. Since leaving his job, Sreekumar has filed nine affidavits in Gujarat riots cases.
Counsel for Sreekumar Brijesh Kalappa said, “The BJP has raked up the two decades old ISRO case in order to paint Sreekumar black only with a view to ensure that the bulk of his evidence in Zakia Jafri’s petition is trashed, the verdict on which is expected on December 2.”
In his complaint, Sreekumar has said: “...On 25.9.2013, Modi met Nambi Narayanan in Kerala and hatched a conspiracy to harm the reputation of the complainant to tarnish the complainant’s image in public. The fact about the meeting has been published by several newspapers... The detail of conspiracy was to harm the reputation of the complainant by digging out an old closed case of 1994...”
Comparing Modi to the Mahabharata’s Duryodhana, Sreekumar has said the BJP should come out with credible proof before labelling him a “CIA agent”. “They indulged in extreme vilification campaign, malicious propaganda against me continuously by raking up a case closed by the NDA and subsequent UPA governments and also the Supreme Court,” Sreekumar has said.
Modi has a snooping habit, I was told to tap Vaghela: Sreekumar
Former Gujarat DGP R B Sreekumar on Tuesday claimed that he had been asked to tap the phone of Congress leader Shankarsinh Vaghelain 2002, but he had refused. “Many” officers in the state, however, act as directed by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Sreekumar said.
The former IPS officer, who has been taking on Modi, on Tuesday filed a criminal defamation and conspiracy suit against the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, party chief Rajnath Singh, BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi and space scientist Nambi Narayanan, accusing them of carrying out a malicious campaign against him over the
ISRO spying case.
Narayanan has blamed Sreekumar, then an IB officer in Kerala, for the charges that resulted in his being sent to prison and an end to his career, but which were ultimately thrown out by the Supreme Court. The BJP has accused Sreekumar of cooking up the case against Narayanan at the behest of the CIA.
“I was asked by the (then) chief secretary to tap Vaghela’s phone, who said that it was on the orders of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. I refused to do so but Modi has been using the state machinery to conduct such surveillance,” Sreekumar told reporters on Tuesday. He was reacting to recent allegations that Modi’s aide Amit Shah had ordered the Gujarat ATS to mount illegal surveillance on a woman.
Sreekumar said that when he was ADG (Intelligence) in Gujarat, he was also asked to snoop on Haren Pandya, one of Modi’s detractors who was shot dead in Ahmedabad in 2003.
“I was also asked to carry out surveillance on BJP leader Haren Pandya. There are many officers in Gujarat who act on the directions of the CM. Modi is not ungrateful, and rewards the officers who are loyal to him,” Sreekumar, who retired as the state’s police chief in 2007, said. Since leaving his job, Sreekumar has filed nine affidavits in Gujarat riots cases.
Counsel for Sreekumar Brijesh Kalappa said, “The BJP has raked up the two decades old ISRO case in order to paint Sreekumar black only with a view to ensure that the bulk of his evidence in Zakia Jafri’s petition is trashed, the verdict on which is expected on December 2.”
In his complaint, Sreekumar has said: “...On 25.9.2013, Modi met Nambi Narayanan in Kerala and hatched a conspiracy to harm the reputation of the complainant to tarnish the complainant’s image in public. The fact about the meeting has been published by several newspapers... The detail of conspiracy was to harm the reputation of the complainant by digging out an old closed case of 1994...”
Comparing Modi to the Mahabharata’s Duryodhana, Sreekumar has said the BJP should come out with credible proof before labelling him a “CIA agent”. “They indulged in extreme vilification campaign, malicious propaganda against me continuously by raking up a case closed by the NDA and subsequent UPA governments and also the Supreme Court,” Sreekumar has said.
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Excellent news for Modi, BJP, as BJP set to sweep Karnataka
BJP looks set to exact revenge in Bihar, where its former partner and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) stares at a massive defeat in next month's general elections. (Watch India's biggest opinion poll with Prannoy Roy)
An NDTV opinion poll shows the BJP, which fought the last elections as Mr Kumar's junior partner, emerging as the big winner in the state with a likely haul of 23 of 40 seats. The JD(U), which exited the alliance last year, could have to settle for only five seats, with the Congress set to gain too from its alliance with Lalu Prasad's RJD. (Nitish Kumar hurts badly in Bihar)
The BJP is also looking good in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, states it won handsomely in Assembly elections held just four months ago. It is also unambiguously ahead in Chhattisgarh, which saw a fight to the finish in the state elections. (Teflon performance for Modi in Gujarat)
AAP magic has not spread to adjacent Haryana; of the 10 seats, the survey gives the BJP and its partner Haryana Vikas Party seven and Congress three.
The NDTV survey polled over 200,000 respondents in 350 of the 543 constituencies for which elections will be held in nine-phases starting next month. (Watch: the forecast for AAP)
It shows powerful regional leaders like J Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee holding their won in the states that they rule. Ms Banerjee is not only likely to sweep West Bengal
Karnataka, which threw out the BJP in state elections held two years ago, seems to be veering again towards voting saffron. The party's decision to bring home controversial prodigals like BS Yeddyurappa and B Sriramulu is likely to work for it.
The Congress' Siddaramaiah is a popular chief minister, but the survey shows his party not making any gains. (NDTV opinion poll: BJP way ahead in Karnataka)
More saffron next doors in Maharashtra, where recent trouble in the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is unlikely to make them falter on the way to a comfortable win over the Congress-NCP combine that has ruled the state for the last 10 yrs. Maharashtra set to give Sena-BJP a clear thumbs up
Gujarat will throw up no surprises. Mr Modi's state hopes to give India its next Prime Minister and will hand him a tally even better than in 2009.
BJP looks set to exact revenge in Bihar, where its former partner and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) stares at a massive defeat in next month's general elections. (Watch India's biggest opinion poll with Prannoy Roy)
An NDTV opinion poll shows the BJP, which fought the last elections as Mr Kumar's junior partner, emerging as the big winner in the state with a likely haul of 23 of 40 seats. The JD(U), which exited the alliance last year, could have to settle for only five seats, with the Congress set to gain too from its alliance with Lalu Prasad's RJD. (Nitish Kumar hurts badly in Bihar)
The BJP is also looking good in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, states it won handsomely in Assembly elections held just four months ago. It is also unambiguously ahead in Chhattisgarh, which saw a fight to the finish in the state elections. (Teflon performance for Modi in Gujarat)
AAP magic has not spread to adjacent Haryana; of the 10 seats, the survey gives the BJP and its partner Haryana Vikas Party seven and Congress three.
The NDTV survey polled over 200,000 respondents in 350 of the 543 constituencies for which elections will be held in nine-phases starting next month. (Watch: the forecast for AAP)
It shows powerful regional leaders like J Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee holding their won in the states that they rule. Ms Banerjee is not only likely to sweep West Bengal
Karnataka, which threw out the BJP in state elections held two years ago, seems to be veering again towards voting saffron. The party's decision to bring home controversial prodigals like BS Yeddyurappa and B Sriramulu is likely to work for it.
The Congress' Siddaramaiah is a popular chief minister, but the survey shows his party not making any gains. (NDTV opinion poll: BJP way ahead in Karnataka)
More saffron next doors in Maharashtra, where recent trouble in the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is unlikely to make them falter on the way to a comfortable win over the Congress-NCP combine that has ruled the state for the last 10 yrs. Maharashtra set to give Sena-BJP a clear thumbs up
Gujarat will throw up no surprises. Mr Modi's state hopes to give India its next Prime Minister and will hand him a tally even better than in 2009.
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