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BJP in Kerala
Friday, June 26, 2009
I was shocked to know that BJP had a 10% share of the votes in 2004 although they haven't managed to win any seats then or now.
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Arun Jaitley sulks again
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Do you remember the Jaitley-rajnath prepoll saga . Mr Jaitley the top strategist of the BJP party has boycotted parliamentary board meetings when the president Mr Rajnath singh has appointed a person who is not in the good books of Jaitley as the election in-charge for Assam . He made sure that every one in the country knew about his disatisfaction . The party's top leadership's overt reaction in the face of failure is a severe lack of political imagination . Today Jaitley boycotted the national party conference .
Read more...What does Hindutva mean ?
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I have never really associated the term Hindutva with religion. Perhaps my aversion to 'theism' contributed to that. So I would not suggest to scrap Hindutva.
I have always proudly looked upto BJP as an organisation that was born to re-instill that nationalistic fervour into us nation. I wanted it to bring back the 'pride in the flag'.
I do not see it happening now which makes me think if this was all about religion and I was a fool to misread the ideology. Its probably not but, as I have always maintained, not much emphasis has been laid to make obvious the distinction between Hindu Rashtra and Hindutva.
I now realise it is more difficult to convince people about the system of governance such an ideology would bring. We run the risk of being a non-entity if and because people think we are Congress+Religion and nothing but. We as a nation are still so young and uneducated to understand the difference between the original concept of Hindutva and the religious angle attributed to it like Kulkarni mentioned.
It is time for us to follow a better approach than we have always been to put forth the ideas and sell policies and principles like people would buy them than to please our own egos.
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Bjp , Hindutva and the great drubbing ....
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I was taken back by the analysis of so many people . People have started blaming BJP's hindutva for it's collapse . Even BJP went down that tube of Secularism vs Hindutva when politics is far more nuanced . I would agree that the party got the drubbing because of hindutva had it lost ground in states like gujarat , karnataka , rajasthan , chattisgarh , Jharkhand , Bihar . These are the states that BJP had real organic presence . There was a reasonable amount of anti-incumbency against BJP in rajasthan because Raje was flamboyant and flamboyance is not politically correct in India . People in India prefer asceticism atleast a display of it . Raje's personal image has contributed to the fall . In Madhyapradesh the people who have been elected for 15-20 years now have lost it not by big margins though . In Maharastra there was not any wave against hindutva but was an act of Raj thackeray . So the core states where BJP exists organically remains intact increasing a seat or two in already saturated states . so how did the BJP rise in these states , is it not the strong hindu or nationalistic image of the party . In those states BJP is as much a nationalistic party as much as it is a hindu one . People voting for BJP know that BJP men are not that abhorrent haters that they carry deliberate programs to kill innocent people .
The real causes come now . The BJP's presence in AP , TN , Kerala , WB is zero . Together they are 150 seats . when the local parties raised the flag of third front people fretted the possibility of unstability and voted decisively against the thirdfront . The vote in these states is not against BJP but is against the third front . So again hindutva or the wave against it is not a reason but the prospect of political instability is the key factor . The resounding evidence to this analysis is the result in WB . It was inconceivable to shake the communist bastion if not the greater national concern of its people . The vote in WB is not a vote against hindutva or BJP but against instability and blackmailing communist politics . So how did hindutva and BJP lose this battle , we did not even fight in these four states . Our only mistake being our overt reliance on regional alliance without concentrating on growing the party organically . Since we did not have the organic presence our regional allies saw political merit in staying away from us . Had BJP possessed the strength to atleast garner 20-30 seats TDP might have longed to ally with it the way it allied with TRS . Lack of organic strength and not our hindutva that allowed our allies to sway .
As far as UP is concerned there are too many muscular players over there . Despite being the home state of Gandhi's they have struggled all these years to gain ground , you can imagine the complexity of the political battle . SP made a terrible mistake by allying with Mr Kalyan singh . He was associated with the demolition and event the top guys accept that action cost them muslim votes whose beneficiary normally is the congress party . There was a shift of votes from SP to cong and since you only require a small margin of the total votes in a battle of four players they made impressive gains . Even in UP there was not a vote against hindutva . we should be very careful in dispensing the core plank . So BJP sympathizers and critics should stop blaming Hindutva for it's defeat , Hindutva isn't the reason and indian politics is far more nuanced .
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Did u know?
One thing Kulkarni did not sufficiently elaborate on is the way the Muslim votes consolidated solidly behind the congress. I am not talking about UP.
Not only have they backed the Congress but also very cleverly flushed out all of BJP's potential allies from their minds on the day of the voting: read ADMK, TDP, TRS. Hence it was a major pan-India factor.
In Andhra this was more apparent in the way the Congress fielded dummy candidates against the MIM. How about this? The congress’s candidates forfeited deposits in 8 places in all of Andhra Pradesh. 5 of them happen to be where the MIM contested. Coincidence? No. Clever clandestine alliance.
The MIM paid back with due respect fielding candidates nowhere but in 8 seats, 7 of which it won. Can u believe it. Master stroke.
They made sure Muslims all over the state knew that Congress was their "friendly party".
Read more...Sudheendra kulkarni's fiasco
I am deeply pained looking at the "introspection' of top Advani aid in open . He made statements undermining the entire party . In the face of defeat when the party is supposed to maintain calm and silence until an appropriate moment the top aid started criticizing everybody for the defeat . The party in the face of such insider attacks looked "fell apart" . Sudheendra kulkarni definately could have done immense benefit to the party had he saved his introspection for the internal meetings of the party by throwing his opinions in the open he showed a surrender complex . There are too many critics outside to tell us the same things , it is not for the top aides to criticize the party in the open . It devastates the party's image and achievies no political goal . I condemn Sudheendra kulkarni's exhibitionism .
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Sudheendra kulkarni has analyzed the BJP's defeat ... Most of them come close to what we have thought ... Just walk through ....
Political reforms is BJP's future strategy
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Capturing the imagination of media is 'the fundamental' of India democracies neo-politicians . The BJP men should capture the imagination by some forceful vision and oratory ... Indian media can hardly envisage anything beyond economic reforms . Lack of accountability , political dynasty , rampant corruption , judicial indifference , professionalism and autonomy in security agencies , intelligent economic instruments for agricutural economy these are the buzz words to capture the media's imagination . While it takes enormous clear thinking and exceptional oratory to take this high flygin state concepts to the people it is quite easy to strike the media's conscience . While congress fed media is going to keep harping about Godhra BJP should be intelligent enough to deflect the path and talk some 'high vision' .In the following paragraph i would talk about some fundamental structural problems of the country and how a sustained campaign by the 'party with difference' may change the attitude of media towards BJP as a whole ....
Lack of accountability ..... BJP has made some progress on "building a system" to fight this evil . They want to start of by issuing National identity cards to every citizen . The national identity card would help immensely in organizing our society . The bio-social information would help investigative agencies as well as the governement to track down the real beneficiary of the program . The security agencies will have far greater control of the movement of people . The major change of the system should be to propose and build an 'Autonomous vigilance commission' on the lines of 'Election commission ' ... This i believe is a tough challenge with so many corrupt people in politics it is going to be to tough to think that they would allow an autonomous commisssion . But sustained campaign will give an image to the party . Narendra modi should keep visiting universities to give speeches on lofty vision , the media will cover him exclusively ..... The progressive Narendra modi will be in the constant lime light . Demanding government to make such changes would put government in situation .
"Autonomous Anti riot commission ". Repeatedly governement has bungled on riots and BJP had suffered the blame . If BJP pro-actively comes and advocates Autonomous anti-riot commission then Anti-riot commission will be responsible for preventing any riots as that commission would be responsible to decide if the situation is riot situation . BJP can atleast escape the blame . This again should be proposed by Narendra modi himself . Narendra Modi without appropriating the next PM tag should start touring the entire country especially Universities instead of public meetings and invite the media . You would obviously know that media would flutter at every chance ....
"Judicial reforms " poor government expenditure on judiciary is the reason for the poor services . Along with reforms to increase Judicial expenditure should be the program ...There would be gigantic difference between the current judicial expenditure and the required expenditure the BJP should make this as well a sustained program . The reason i advocate Narendra Modi going to universities instead of ordinary public meetings is that he can talk about loud vision without sounding irrelevant .
I personally envisage autonomous commission for 'Vigilance' ,,, 'Health' ,,,'Justice' ,,, 'Internal security' and 'Investigation ' to create a robust society . All the existing political problems we have are because of government meddling in the above affairs . If Narendra Modi makes a strategic and sustained campaign accross the country with these political reforms then he would atleast counter the media's rancour ... Since Modi is restricting himself to Gujarat media is riding on him . We should use media to fight media .... Modi should go on a national campaign first to come out of his image by sounding progressive ... If he goes into his shell then we will loose a great leader .....
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The great speeches ...........
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Dont skip the below speeches watch them they are the most enthralling i have ever heard ....
Kennedy ---Ich bin ein berliner ..........
Z.A Bhutto ---speech in security council after 1971 defeat .
Had BJP got one orator of this kind it will make gigantic leaps ....... Below is the speech by Bhutto after the 1971 defeat ..... catch more of Z.A Bhutto if you have time ....
Catch our own Indira Gandhi ...
Tell me how you liked it ............
Marx and CPI
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
I have got a glimpse of marx and lenin after i read the 'The state and revolution' by V.I Lenin . Any student of political theory should read marx and engels deeply . Marx was by an large the most stirring political scientist of the modern history . His analysis of the class struggle is the most intriguing of the political writings . Marx's analysis of class division and exploitation are remarkably true but the solutions he proposed are against the basic tenets of human nature and were doomed to failure . His famous student Lenin interpreted that proletariat revolution should be sustained by 'proletariat dictatorship' . 'The state and revolution' by Lenin is a treatise arguing for 'proletariat dictatorship ' and is unscruplous in criticism for the moderates like kautsky , unforgiving towards democrats . Democracy has no place in communism and it is a passionate advocate of armed revolution by the proletariat followed by 'smashing all the petty bourgeosis ' systems . It involves smashing the army , bureaucracy and the order of the commune be maintained by armed proletariat .
"Order of the commune be maintained by armed proletariat" , this is precisely what the communists do in Bengal . They have raised to power through democracy but sustains it through terror . The marxist coefficient has drastically come down and they 'are just another party' today . Neither economically nor politically are the communists in India Marxist any more . Their chief minster Bhattacharjee has been appealing ardently for private capital , procuring land from farmers for the industrialists(private businessman) , cracking down on protesters . The armed proletariat are cracking down the proletariat . This 'change' of Indian marxists is going to make her 'just another party' . The third front got it's answers . I am looking forward for the Communist strategy now ..........
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