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[Nilgiri]

Where did this projection come from?

Jaitley should be relieved of the Finance ministry since his relatively tepid performance there affects his image. Better to stick with another ministry, maybe even HRD or law.

Put Subramaniam Swamy as FM and hand out the burnol to sickulars.

The choice is quite clear since Shourie is a dud sellout.

 

[Star Wars]

Put Subramaniam Swamy as FM and hand out the burnol to sickulars.
The choice is quite clear since Shourie is a dud sellout.

I would agree on Dr.Subru in finance

Bharka Dutt

 

[Bang Galore]

Put Subramaniam Swamy as FM and hand out the burnol to sickulars
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Swamy is a maverick, better to have a technocrat.

The choice is quite clear since Shourie is a dud sellout

Shourie is just being Shourie. He has always been this way, he took on Indira Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi & even V.P. Singh, He will tell it the way he sees it & he is usually very harsh. However I agree that he no longer is in contention which is why I suggested a technocrat unless Modi wants to promote Jayant Sinha.

 

[Star Wars]

Swamy is a maverick, better to have a technocrat.


Shourie is just being Shourie. He has always been this way, he took in Indira Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi & even V.P. Singh, He will tell it the way he sees it & he is usually very harsh. However I agree that he no longer is in contention which is why I suggested a technocrat unless Modi wants to promote Jayant Sinha.

Think Modi feels somewhat in debt to Jaitley ever since 2002 he has pretty much been the only person to back him through out along with Shah. Removing him will be very difficult for Modi.. Besides, i honestly believe we would not see much of a difference even if someone else became finance.

 

[Tridibans]

Lotus blooms in churn season

 

[It.is.all.mudi's.fault]

Where did this projection come from?

Root source is an AAPtard.

BJP may not be doing as good as its supporters believe, but it is certainly ahead of MGB at this point. A lot would depend of phase V which is like a penalty kick for MGB. If BJP+ could even win close to 20 sears of 55 that are on poll, they would easily form government.

 

[Bang Galore]

Think Modi feels somewhat in debt to Jaitley ever since 2002 he has pretty much been the only person to back him through out along with Shah. Removing him will be very difficult for Modi.. Besides, i honestly believe we would not see much of a difference even if someone else became finance.

You are correct & that is probably one of the reasons why Shourie (not the only reason I believe) was left out. The idea of moving Jaitley out is two fold. One, I don't believe that he is the best FM that we can have and two, this government is under some very serious attack, the kind of why I have never ever seen. Jaitley may be the best bet since most others (venkaiah Naidu may be an exception but he can't match Jaitley in effectiveness) seem only good at putting their foots in their mouths. Jaitley's performance in the NJAC debate hosted by Arnab was a masterclass performance and proof that Jaitley can be of much use in getting the government's & party's position across.

 

[Nilgiri]

Swamy is a maverick, better to have a technocrat.


Shourie is just being Shourie. He has always been this way, he took in Indira Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi & even V.P. Singh, He will tell it the way he sees it & he is usually very harsh. However I agree that he no longer is in contention which is why I suggested a technocrat unless Modi wants to promote Jayant Sinha.

OK, Mr. cool calm voice of reason. But Swamy would have been a lot better than Jet-Li...FM needs someone dynamic and bit of a maverick imho. For one the budget session in parliament would be....interesting

Technocrats can fill up the positions underneath him to add some gravitas and dampening when needed.

Anyways a solid technocrat would be better than Jet-Li and is the safer bet overall.

 

[Star Wars]

You are correct & that is probably one of the reasons why Shourie (not the only reason I believe) was left out. The idea of moving Jaitley out is two fold. One, I don't believe that he is best FM that we can have and two, this government is under some very serious attack, the kind of why I have never ever seen. Jaitley may be the best bet since most others (venkaiah Naidu may be an exception but he can't match Jaitley in effectiveness) seem only good at putting their foots in their mouths. Jaitley's performance in the NJAC debate hosted by Arnab was a masterclass performance and proof that Jaitley can be of much use in getting the government's & party's position across.

It will get worse in 2016 by 2017 once most states are already won it will begin to subside. by the way, I am curious as your theory as to why this govt. is under so much attack ? Personally i believe its a war of ideologies, more like a war. The outcome of which will decide India's future.

 

[JanjaWeed]

I would agree on Dr.Subru in finance

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wow...she actually laid into Bharka Dutt good & proper. She even called out Bharka & challenged her to send links to those shows which she claims to have done where she questioned the regressive culture of other religions. This latest Twitter war is going to get interesting...

 

[saurav]

Indian Right has risen. Now who’s the ‘stupid party’?
November 1, 2015, 12:04 AM IST Swapan Dasgupta in Right & Wrong | India, NaMo, Narendra Modi,World |
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Some years ago, while researching for an article on Australia, I came upon an observation by Pru Goward, a journalist-turned-politician of the ruling Liberal Party, that has a bearing on today’s

Indian politics. “Conservative governments,” she wrote, “don’t have natural supporters who are articulate and philosophical writers. The conservative intellectual group is very small in Australia. So the politicians are lonely and they are joked about all the time.”

What Goward observed about Australia can be said to be true for much of today’s democratic world. In Britain, the Conservatives have for long been derided as the “stupid party” and even the “nasty party”. Margaret Thatcher was denied an honorary doctorate by the dons of Oxford University — an astonishing act of petty-mindedness. Today, the left-inclined cartoonists paint prime minister David Cameron and his chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne as variants of the upper-class twits portrayed in Monty Python skits. In the US, Ronald Reagan, arguably the architect of one of the most transformative presidencies after Franklin Roosevelt, was unendingly mocked for his ‘simple’ beliefs that were said to have been derived more from John Wayne movies than the tomes of Adam Smith — a caricature that was also extended to George W Bush.

In India, thanks to Jawaharlal Nehru’s self-image as the enlightened, cosmopolitan socialist, his conservative opponents were painted as provincial bumpkins riddled with obscurantist priorities that ranged from cow protection to Ayurveda. To this was added the social disdain of the ‘progressive’ for the dhoti-clad bania, the supposed epitome of a commercially minded ‘Hindu Right.’ When the Cambridge-educated Congress MP taunted the ‘chaiwalla’ credentials of Narendra Modi he was simply mirroring attitudes the Nehruvian order tried to implant as common sense. This perverse common sense often masquerades as the modern alternative to India’s larger cultural inheritance.

The appeal of patrician socialism may well have diminished over the decades, but the projection of the ideological ‘Other’ as stupid, socially regressive and aesthetically unsound has persisted. Indeed, it has made a dramatic re-entry into the public discourse in recent months following the outbreak of the culture wars. The editorial pages of newspapers are replete with outbursts against the simple-minded ‘Hindu Right’ that has failed to understand the metaphors of Hinduism, the complexities of the historical process, diverse food habits and the ‘idea of India’. In a recent article, a historian who made his mark in the echo chamber of Jawaharlal Nehru University asserted that the “Hindutva brigade has… failed to produce any notable professional historian. The new developments in the discipline have passed them by.” In short, the intellectual ecosystem of the Indian right is seriously deficient and unworthy of being taken seriously by “professional” scholars.

That the Indian Right has been preoccupied with political activism rather than creating an alternative intellectual tradition isn’t in doubt. However, much of this failure can be attributed to the fact that the scholastic environment in Indian universities since the late 1960s has been unrelentingly hostile to anything inimical to the liberal and Marxist paradigm. The element of group-think was so marked that non-conformists such as the writer Nirad Chaudhury and the economist Jagdish Bhagwati found living in India quite suffocating: they became intellectual refugees from progressivism. Traditional disciplines centred on classical studies underwent such derision and neglect that Sanskrit studies survive today courtesy institutions in the West. The result: India’s ‘traditional intellectuals’ were completely marginalized from the intellectual mainstream.

It is worth remembering that this systematic destruction of traditional knowledge systems didn’t take place only under British rule; the trend persisted in post-independent India under the spurious guise of implanting a ‘scientific temper’.

That despite the absence of a level playing field, the Indian Right with a culturalist agenda (and commitment to economic deregulation) has grown exponentially over the past decades is significant. It suggests that when proffered a real choice, Indians are more inclined to put their faith in rooted traditions — particularly those grounded in traditional value systems, the family structure, collective historical memory and what can loosely be called common decencies.

For too long, Indian conservatism has been at the receiving end of condescension and caricature. It may now be time to turn the notions of stupidity upside down.

Indian Right has risen. Now who’s the ‘stupid party’? - TOI Blogs

Start a Nirad Chowdhury chair in Oxford and see seculars squirming. Modi should start creating ecosystem if BJP has to stay in power for long.

 

[magudi]

Seriously ! The government needs to have better spokespersons, especially to deal with this kind of a situation. Jaitley should be relieved of the Finance ministry since his relatively tepid performance there affects his image. Better to stick with another ministry, maybe even HRD or law.

The way i see it -
If they loose Bihar we'll be back to UPA era subsidy raj
If they win and there is no cabinet re shuffle before winter session - Modi's a fool who misread his mandate

Modi should start creating ecosystem if BJP has to stay in power for long.

True but one and half years into tenure he seems least bothered about it . Maybe he needs better advisors not the ones who think appointing tv serial actors and bigoted sangh historians in key posts will create RW ecosystem

 

[Abingdonboy]

It is, therefore, incumbent upon every well-wisher of India and the present government to make sure that no action or statement of his provides a tool in the hands of those who want to obstruct India's growth story.

And yet, this is what the BJP and its allies are doing on a CONSISTENT basis. The NDA just keeps shooting itself in its foot,just when you think they have run out of ammunition they change clips and do it again....

 

[ranjeet]

I would agree on Dr.Subru in finance

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[magudi]

Where did this projection come from?



Put Subramaniam Swamy as FM and hand out the burnol to sickulars.

The choice is quite clear since Shourie is a dud sellout.

Bhai am a disillusioned Modi supporter i give you the worst possible scenario