03-29-2005, 12:59 AM
deccan.com still rants. BTW it was an article by this writer that is at the top of this thread.
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Solitics by Siddhartha Reddy
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh violated the oath to protect the Constitution the moment he advised Narendra Modi to cancel his London trip. A Chief Ministerâs security, outside his State, within India or abroad, is the Union governmentâs responsibility.
Death threats must not prevent a constitutional functionary from representing the people. Itâs Modiâs constitutional right to travel unhindered to any country, if visa is given, to represent the Gujaratis. No Prime Minister can deny that right. India has been bleeding because of the insurgency sponsored by Pakistan. Yet India will host, provide security and ensure Gen. Musharrafâs safe return home once he visits India. So instead of forcing UK to provide him security, advising the Gujarat CM to cancel his visit is unacceptable.
When the US denied a visa to Modi, the foreign ministry spokesman should have said that India regrets the denial to a constitutionally elected head of a state government. Full stop. The Prime Minister and his finance and home ministers should not have dragged India into begging with the US. Natwar Singh has a pro-China and an anti-US bias which overwhelmed ministerial responsibility. He was itching to find fault with the US.
There is no point in the Congress demonising Modi to psyche Muslims to win elections. If when in power, the Congress fails to make Modi accountable, it should stop painting him a villain. The Congress betrayed millions of voters. Not just Muslims and Christians, but many Hindus who voted for the UPA, and wanted Modi punished for any âprovedâ involvement in the Gujarat riots.Â
The voters expected the UPA to impose Presidentâs Rule in Gujarat, the day it was sworn in. If Modi was guilty, then Gujarat Assembly should have been dissolved. If found innocent, then Modi should have been restored as chief minister. That would have stopped this pointless blame game.
When a serious international issue (Modiâs visa-denial) unfolded, then Sonia Gandhi should have called an emergency meeting of the CWC, the Congress CMs and the diplomats who have joined the Congress. In fact, she must constitute a political foreign policy advisory group comprising Eduardo Faleiro, Vinod Grover and Ambika Soni, to cross-check the PM-FMâs bureaucratic formulae before announcing decisions. BJP president L.K. Advani must also do something similar.
India is cursed with the double tragedy of Manmohan as PM and Sonia as Congress president.
Together, they constitute the worst ever political leadership. Serious national and international issues are being dealt with disastrously. It is almost akin to having no government. <b>Preoccupation with resource mobilisation spares neither time, energy nor intent to take mature, wise and correct political decisions. </b>
Sonia is surrounded by a useless coterie. She had everything going for her. She had unquestioned authority as Congress president with a self-created, artificial halo of renouncing the prime ministerial chair. The allies were prostrating before the mighty UPA chairperson to secure a better slice of the government cake. The BJP was led by tired old men refusing to retire and surrounded by rootless wonders. But Sonia committed political suicide.
Three hundred and forty MPs chose Sonia to be PM. Yet destiny intervened cruelly depriving her lifeâs greatest moment. She was tripped at the Rashtrapati Bhavan threshold. In trying to regain her balance, Sonia involuntarily pushed Manmohan into the prime ministerial chair. Sonia never said that she will never again try to be PM. Her desire to become PM was difficult to contain, after a presidential speed-breaker applied the brakes.
Intelligence agencies track destabilisation. Especially, efforts to form non-Congress governments with BJPâs outside support, by some conspiring allies inspired by Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Pawar and M. Karunanidhi. Sonia is briefed daily. <b>An alternative government would forever destroy her prospects of becoming PM. Realising that her allies would flex their muscles, she strategised to reduce the electoral relevance of her allies in Bihar-Jharkhand. So that alliesâ shrunk electoral space would automatically increase Congressâ electoral space.</b>
<b>Soniaâs dream scenario was a runaway Haryana victory, a Jharkhand victory and a Congress CM in Bihar backed by a deflated Lalu; or Presidentâs Rule with Lalu forever prostrating at her feet to prevent the issuance of arrest warrants. The intention was to grab UP, call snap Lok Sabha polls, along with mid-term polls to Bihar-UP Assemblies. She could then conjure a grand national alliance to win 215</b> seats.
<b>Then, with the ever willing 60 Communist MPs, no speed-breaker, presidential or otherwise, could stop her from becoming PM in 2005 itself.</b> But her strategy boomeranged. The allies lost governments and the Congress lost votes and seats. A dead BJP secured oxygen from her to rise as a zombie from the 2004 electoral grave. But the BJP is yet to come to life.
The UPA was born 10 months ago, but was patented only last week by Kamal Nath. Sonia needs more like him. Soniaâs image collapse has brought out the knives, pressurising apex changes. Arjun Singh is mobilising a campaign to liberate Sonia from the Ambika-Ahmed Patel hold. <b>This summer Sonia could effect a coterie transplant, massively overhauling the CWC, AICC, PCCs, Cabinet, CMs and governors. She will replace Uttaranchalâs N.D. Tiwari, Delhiâs Sheila Dikshit, Assamâs Tarun Kumar Gogoi. Rahul wants Karnatakaâs Dharam Singh sacked.</b> It will be an exciting summer ahead for the Congress.
The damage control process has been initiated. <b>An angry Lalu has been placated with assurances of just a few months of Presidentâs Rule culminating in fresh elections, with a grand Bihar alliance of RJD-Communist-NCP-Congress abandoning Ram Vilas Paswan. Shibu Soren and Stephen Marandi have been assured of the toppling of the BJP government.</b>
Since Soniaâs image is beyond repair, the best defence for her is offence, by taking the battle to her opponentsâ turf: the target is to destroy Mulayam. Two have been arrested in UP for smuggling in weapons-grade nuclear-material. Interrogation reveals a politician-business-smuggler nexus. <b>The Centre might cite national security to impose Presidentâs Rule. Security implications will force Communist compliance. The BJP too cannot abdicate national security to help Mulayam. </b>
The intention is also to make the BJP look worse than the Congress. <b>Dossiers have been compiled over 10 months on NDA corruption. On her signal, the UPA could unleash CBI, tax and enforcement agencies on Vajpayee, Advani and other leaders. There is talk about investigating and arresting Pramod Mahajan, courtesy The Asian Age expose and Nirupam memorandum. </b>âIn politics there is no murder, just suicide,â goes a Telugu saying. The NDA committed electoral suicide ushering in the NDA. Sonia-led UPA indulgence in self-stabbing could usher in chaos.
Dear reader, you can send any information secured on politics, conspiracies and corruption to siddharthareddy@deccanmail.com. Your identity will be protected
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Congressâ summer of excitement
Solitics by Siddhartha Reddy
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh violated the oath to protect the Constitution the moment he advised Narendra Modi to cancel his London trip. A Chief Ministerâs security, outside his State, within India or abroad, is the Union governmentâs responsibility.
Death threats must not prevent a constitutional functionary from representing the people. Itâs Modiâs constitutional right to travel unhindered to any country, if visa is given, to represent the Gujaratis. No Prime Minister can deny that right. India has been bleeding because of the insurgency sponsored by Pakistan. Yet India will host, provide security and ensure Gen. Musharrafâs safe return home once he visits India. So instead of forcing UK to provide him security, advising the Gujarat CM to cancel his visit is unacceptable.
When the US denied a visa to Modi, the foreign ministry spokesman should have said that India regrets the denial to a constitutionally elected head of a state government. Full stop. The Prime Minister and his finance and home ministers should not have dragged India into begging with the US. Natwar Singh has a pro-China and an anti-US bias which overwhelmed ministerial responsibility. He was itching to find fault with the US.
There is no point in the Congress demonising Modi to psyche Muslims to win elections. If when in power, the Congress fails to make Modi accountable, it should stop painting him a villain. The Congress betrayed millions of voters. Not just Muslims and Christians, but many Hindus who voted for the UPA, and wanted Modi punished for any âprovedâ involvement in the Gujarat riots.Â
The voters expected the UPA to impose Presidentâs Rule in Gujarat, the day it was sworn in. If Modi was guilty, then Gujarat Assembly should have been dissolved. If found innocent, then Modi should have been restored as chief minister. That would have stopped this pointless blame game.
When a serious international issue (Modiâs visa-denial) unfolded, then Sonia Gandhi should have called an emergency meeting of the CWC, the Congress CMs and the diplomats who have joined the Congress. In fact, she must constitute a political foreign policy advisory group comprising Eduardo Faleiro, Vinod Grover and Ambika Soni, to cross-check the PM-FMâs bureaucratic formulae before announcing decisions. BJP president L.K. Advani must also do something similar.
India is cursed with the double tragedy of Manmohan as PM and Sonia as Congress president.
Together, they constitute the worst ever political leadership. Serious national and international issues are being dealt with disastrously. It is almost akin to having no government. <b>Preoccupation with resource mobilisation spares neither time, energy nor intent to take mature, wise and correct political decisions. </b>
Sonia is surrounded by a useless coterie. She had everything going for her. She had unquestioned authority as Congress president with a self-created, artificial halo of renouncing the prime ministerial chair. The allies were prostrating before the mighty UPA chairperson to secure a better slice of the government cake. The BJP was led by tired old men refusing to retire and surrounded by rootless wonders. But Sonia committed political suicide.
Three hundred and forty MPs chose Sonia to be PM. Yet destiny intervened cruelly depriving her lifeâs greatest moment. She was tripped at the Rashtrapati Bhavan threshold. In trying to regain her balance, Sonia involuntarily pushed Manmohan into the prime ministerial chair. Sonia never said that she will never again try to be PM. Her desire to become PM was difficult to contain, after a presidential speed-breaker applied the brakes.
Intelligence agencies track destabilisation. Especially, efforts to form non-Congress governments with BJPâs outside support, by some conspiring allies inspired by Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Pawar and M. Karunanidhi. Sonia is briefed daily. <b>An alternative government would forever destroy her prospects of becoming PM. Realising that her allies would flex their muscles, she strategised to reduce the electoral relevance of her allies in Bihar-Jharkhand. So that alliesâ shrunk electoral space would automatically increase Congressâ electoral space.</b>
<b>Soniaâs dream scenario was a runaway Haryana victory, a Jharkhand victory and a Congress CM in Bihar backed by a deflated Lalu; or Presidentâs Rule with Lalu forever prostrating at her feet to prevent the issuance of arrest warrants. The intention was to grab UP, call snap Lok Sabha polls, along with mid-term polls to Bihar-UP Assemblies. She could then conjure a grand national alliance to win 215</b> seats.
<b>Then, with the ever willing 60 Communist MPs, no speed-breaker, presidential or otherwise, could stop her from becoming PM in 2005 itself.</b> But her strategy boomeranged. The allies lost governments and the Congress lost votes and seats. A dead BJP secured oxygen from her to rise as a zombie from the 2004 electoral grave. But the BJP is yet to come to life.
The UPA was born 10 months ago, but was patented only last week by Kamal Nath. Sonia needs more like him. Soniaâs image collapse has brought out the knives, pressurising apex changes. Arjun Singh is mobilising a campaign to liberate Sonia from the Ambika-Ahmed Patel hold. <b>This summer Sonia could effect a coterie transplant, massively overhauling the CWC, AICC, PCCs, Cabinet, CMs and governors. She will replace Uttaranchalâs N.D. Tiwari, Delhiâs Sheila Dikshit, Assamâs Tarun Kumar Gogoi. Rahul wants Karnatakaâs Dharam Singh sacked.</b> It will be an exciting summer ahead for the Congress.
The damage control process has been initiated. <b>An angry Lalu has been placated with assurances of just a few months of Presidentâs Rule culminating in fresh elections, with a grand Bihar alliance of RJD-Communist-NCP-Congress abandoning Ram Vilas Paswan. Shibu Soren and Stephen Marandi have been assured of the toppling of the BJP government.</b>
Since Soniaâs image is beyond repair, the best defence for her is offence, by taking the battle to her opponentsâ turf: the target is to destroy Mulayam. Two have been arrested in UP for smuggling in weapons-grade nuclear-material. Interrogation reveals a politician-business-smuggler nexus. <b>The Centre might cite national security to impose Presidentâs Rule. Security implications will force Communist compliance. The BJP too cannot abdicate national security to help Mulayam. </b>
The intention is also to make the BJP look worse than the Congress. <b>Dossiers have been compiled over 10 months on NDA corruption. On her signal, the UPA could unleash CBI, tax and enforcement agencies on Vajpayee, Advani and other leaders. There is talk about investigating and arresting Pramod Mahajan, courtesy The Asian Age expose and Nirupam memorandum. </b>âIn politics there is no murder, just suicide,â goes a Telugu saying. The NDA committed electoral suicide ushering in the NDA. Sonia-led UPA indulgence in self-stabbing could usher in chaos.
Dear reader, you can send any information secured on politics, conspiracies and corruption to siddharthareddy@deccanmail.com. Your identity will be protected
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