05-23-2007, 02:00 AM
Politically speaking..
1. Congies + DSS wants to consolidate their votebank. From the pictures and the events RamRahim fellow seems like a total idiot to me. So there might be some other drivers behind these actions while this fellow enjoys his wimmens in his gufaa or something.
2. Akalis see this as a great opportunity to consolidate the Sikh votebank and remove their dependence from coalition partners etc.. Khalistanis are seeing this as a great opportunity to make this a sikh-vs-hindu issue.
3. BJP has (inadvertently?) checkmated Khalistanis by condemning the DSS nut so no way can this be seen as a hindu-sikh issue. But Khalistanis are upping the stakes. They want no other deras in punjab - its their baap-ki-jaagir ? BJP/Hindus stand to loose with this development unless Sikhs come out and overwhelmingly say we have had enough of this.
IOW, the party who has the most to loose in this whole scenario is the BJP. Is this a fair reading ?
1. Congies + DSS wants to consolidate their votebank. From the pictures and the events RamRahim fellow seems like a total idiot to me. So there might be some other drivers behind these actions while this fellow enjoys his wimmens in his gufaa or something.
2. Akalis see this as a great opportunity to consolidate the Sikh votebank and remove their dependence from coalition partners etc.. Khalistanis are seeing this as a great opportunity to make this a sikh-vs-hindu issue.
3. BJP has (inadvertently?) checkmated Khalistanis by condemning the DSS nut so no way can this be seen as a hindu-sikh issue. But Khalistanis are upping the stakes. They want no other deras in punjab - its their baap-ki-jaagir ? BJP/Hindus stand to loose with this development unless Sikhs come out and overwhelmingly say we have had enough of this.
IOW, the party who has the most to loose in this whole scenario is the BJP. Is this a fair reading ?