05-23-2009, 11:58 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Savithri+May 23 2009, 05:32 PM-->QUOTE(Savithri @ May 23 2009, 05:32 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Dear Ravishji,
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If the BJP, continues to hang on to its old agenda of Hindutva, Ram Mandir etc then they may get further wiped out in the next general election.
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Why stick to BJP? People like you should join the Congress If not already done for that is the kind of ideal you are expecting. I mean why replace the Congress with the BJP?
Perhaps the following analysis of the Straits Times would please people whose core value is similar to that of the Congress or Secularism.
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"<b>13 reasons why the Congress won and the BJP lost</b>
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These are some of the important questions that are to be addressed.
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Immaturity and naivete of self appointed BJP well wishers like you never ceases to amaze me.
Did you vote this time? And did you talk to the people that voted?
I voted and I tried to find out from the people whom and why did they voted.
Some comments:
1. BJP's committed vote bank is a very restricted urban middle class population. This block is diminishing every year.
2. New voters (18-25 group) has voted for Congress, for all the reasons we know.
3. People do not care about ideology, at least Hindus don't.
4. People have voted for economic reasons. Govt employees and rural peasants for Congress. Nothing wrong in that.
5. Complain of a biased media is a childish rant at the best. Who opened the media sector for foreign investments in the first place? BJP/NDA did and they are reaping the fruits.
6. NSA against Varun is nothing to cry about. One hand we cry about media bias and then go all the way to provide media with opportunity to exploit.
Greatest sin of BJP is that they have never attempted to get rid of the INC lobby in the bureaucracy.
BJP/Right wing do not have any counter establishment to safeguard their interests. Varun@NSA case, Col. Purohit@Malegaon, witch hunt against Modi etc. are a larger pattern.
Over the years BJP/RSS has become a hangout for obstructionists, puritanical thinking and lumpens from the orthodoxy.
Hindutva is not to be discarded. But it needs to go in the background, out of the media glare. Let RSS handle it. Also, RSS needs to get rid of VHP/Bajrang Dals lunatic fringe.
In fact, I see RSS role gaining more importance. One cannot bet on BJP coming to power for many years. RSS will have to tackle to threat the conversions silently and get in touch with Hindu spiritual gurus to push for reforms. Only RSS provides a centralized platform.
Revive temples. They are the center of communities even in urban middle class areas.
In short mixing ideology and statecraft will lead to nowhere.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If the BJP, continues to hang on to its old agenda of Hindutva, Ram Mandir etc then they may get further wiped out in the next general election.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Why stick to BJP? People like you should join the Congress If not already done for that is the kind of ideal you are expecting. I mean why replace the Congress with the BJP?
Perhaps the following analysis of the Straits Times would please people whose core value is similar to that of the Congress or Secularism.
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"<b>13 reasons why the Congress won and the BJP lost</b>
.............
These are some of the important questions that are to be addressed.
[right][snapback]97671[/snapback][/right]
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Immaturity and naivete of self appointed BJP well wishers like you never ceases to amaze me.
Did you vote this time? And did you talk to the people that voted?
I voted and I tried to find out from the people whom and why did they voted.
Some comments:
1. BJP's committed vote bank is a very restricted urban middle class population. This block is diminishing every year.
2. New voters (18-25 group) has voted for Congress, for all the reasons we know.
3. People do not care about ideology, at least Hindus don't.
4. People have voted for economic reasons. Govt employees and rural peasants for Congress. Nothing wrong in that.
5. Complain of a biased media is a childish rant at the best. Who opened the media sector for foreign investments in the first place? BJP/NDA did and they are reaping the fruits.
6. NSA against Varun is nothing to cry about. One hand we cry about media bias and then go all the way to provide media with opportunity to exploit.
Greatest sin of BJP is that they have never attempted to get rid of the INC lobby in the bureaucracy.
BJP/Right wing do not have any counter establishment to safeguard their interests. Varun@NSA case, Col. Purohit@Malegaon, witch hunt against Modi etc. are a larger pattern.
Over the years BJP/RSS has become a hangout for obstructionists, puritanical thinking and lumpens from the orthodoxy.
Hindutva is not to be discarded. But it needs to go in the background, out of the media glare. Let RSS handle it. Also, RSS needs to get rid of VHP/Bajrang Dals lunatic fringe.
In fact, I see RSS role gaining more importance. One cannot bet on BJP coming to power for many years. RSS will have to tackle to threat the conversions silently and get in touch with Hindu spiritual gurus to push for reforms. Only RSS provides a centralized platform.
Revive temples. They are the center of communities even in urban middle class areas.
In short mixing ideology and statecraft will lead to nowhere.