10-09-2007, 05:23 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Capt Manmohan Kumar+Oct 9 2007, 03:14 AM-->QUOTE(Capt Manmohan Kumar @ Oct 9 2007, 03:14 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--emo&<_<--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo--> yes; agreed that NDA will not project anybody as PM but will Cong or UPA will do so?
         I doubt she had or has any mass base. She met her waterloo in her home state of MP followed by in Delhi and I will say it was a wise move on her part not to contest UP.
          Similarly Khurana from Delhi met his waterloo in Delhi.
Both of them did not learn from Kalyan Singh who at least has staged back his entry into BJP.
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Dear Captainji, You have forgotton that the NDA is not a party but a front but congress is a party! The UPA was formed <b>after</b> the election in 2004 and the congress had seat adjustments with like minded parties for this election and they came together and formed the UPA after the election to form the government. However Congress fought as a party in this election (and not as alliance called UPA) and it was understood that as the leader of the party Sonia would be the P.M. if congress had won the election. The NDA contested as an alliance and projected Vajpayee as the P.M. and vehemently opposed Sonia as a foreigner. That the congress got to form a government but Sonia lost the chance to be the P.M. is another story.
We can talk a lot about Kurana and Uma but there is certainly some damage to the BJP in these two episodes. Of course Kurana and Uma in their own way have committed some blunders but the punishment given to them is a harakiri. We should not forget that politics is the last resort of a scoundrel!
Yes Kalyan Singh did come back (or was he sought after?) but that didn't help him or his party. Both were losers!
In the next election the composition of both the UPA and the NDA would be different. Both these alliances would be led by the major parties viz. the Congress and the BJP. In the case of the Congress the pressure would be coming from its alliance partners which are political parties but in case of BJP the pressure would be coming from not only its political partners but also from non-political Hindu fronts such as RSS, VHP etc whose candidates would run as BJP but would not take orders from the BJP brass. If NDA could come to power the minority political partners of the NDA would know that they cannot pressurize the BJP to get things done (as they did before) without equal obligation on their part. An interesting situation but I think it will be good for the Hindus! Even if UPA comes to power this sort of polarization would be something for them to recon with. To simply put there is a Hindu minority vote bank that would be dictating the politics of this country!!
Regards,
KS
         I doubt she had or has any mass base. She met her waterloo in her home state of MP followed by in Delhi and I will say it was a wise move on her part not to contest UP.
          Similarly Khurana from Delhi met his waterloo in Delhi.
Both of them did not learn from Kalyan Singh who at least has staged back his entry into BJP.
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Dear Captainji, You have forgotton that the NDA is not a party but a front but congress is a party! The UPA was formed <b>after</b> the election in 2004 and the congress had seat adjustments with like minded parties for this election and they came together and formed the UPA after the election to form the government. However Congress fought as a party in this election (and not as alliance called UPA) and it was understood that as the leader of the party Sonia would be the P.M. if congress had won the election. The NDA contested as an alliance and projected Vajpayee as the P.M. and vehemently opposed Sonia as a foreigner. That the congress got to form a government but Sonia lost the chance to be the P.M. is another story.
We can talk a lot about Kurana and Uma but there is certainly some damage to the BJP in these two episodes. Of course Kurana and Uma in their own way have committed some blunders but the punishment given to them is a harakiri. We should not forget that politics is the last resort of a scoundrel!
Yes Kalyan Singh did come back (or was he sought after?) but that didn't help him or his party. Both were losers!
In the next election the composition of both the UPA and the NDA would be different. Both these alliances would be led by the major parties viz. the Congress and the BJP. In the case of the Congress the pressure would be coming from its alliance partners which are political parties but in case of BJP the pressure would be coming from not only its political partners but also from non-political Hindu fronts such as RSS, VHP etc whose candidates would run as BJP but would not take orders from the BJP brass. If NDA could come to power the minority political partners of the NDA would know that they cannot pressurize the BJP to get things done (as they did before) without equal obligation on their part. An interesting situation but I think it will be good for the Hindus! Even if UPA comes to power this sort of polarization would be something for them to recon with. To simply put there is a Hindu minority vote bank that would be dictating the politics of this country!!
Regards,
KS