[url="http://news.rediff.com/column/2010/sep/16/was-re-electing-manmohan-singh-a-big-mistake.htm"]Was re-electing Manmohan Singh a big mistake?[/url]
UPA-2 seems to have completely lost direction in almost every single way be it in governance, national security, internal security, development initiatives, poverty alleviation and corruption eradication, says Pramod Kumar Buravalli.
Media had started beating their Hero, appointed PM of India.
So knives are out from the minions.
Can we start tracking who writes what?
Writer, portal(Hind Times, Telegraph, NDTV) brief summary, web link?
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[url="http://news.rediff.com/column/2010/sep/16/was-re-electing-manmohan-singh-a-big-mistake.htm"] Was re-electing Manmohan Singh a big mistake?[/url]
UPA-2 seems to have completely lost direction in almost every single way be it in governance, national security, internal security, development initiatives, poverty alleviation and corruption eradication, says Pramod Kumar Buravalli.
Media had started beating their Hero, appointed PM of India.
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This writer is a friend of mine and he is not some journalist but he writes as a freelancer to rediff. He is OFBJP member too and he writes very soft articles <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='  ' />
Cong has no convictions: PMââ¬â¢s adviser
New Delhi: During a discussion at a book-release function in Delhi's Nehru Memorial Museum and Library on Monday, Harish Khare, the Prime Minister's media adviser, articulated an unprecedented critique of the Congress.
The Congress, Khare said, is "by nature, chaal, charitra, essentially a status-quoist party. It does not believe in any conviction. (Its) only conviction is to win elections. That is its only conviction". http://news.in.msn.com/national/article....828&page=2
This is the first time that Khare, a former journalist, has publicly criticised the party that leads the government that employs him.
Its fightback for the numerous potshots that MMS is taking from INC party operators.
N.V. Subramanian writes
The Congress party is losing its way and may become irrelevant for the country
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It is manifest to senior Congressmen who have decades of experience as politicians and administrators that the Sonia-Manmohan Singh experiment of she handling politics and he government has outlived its utility, if it had any in the first place. They understand Sonia Gandhi's insecurity to abide with Manmohan Singh till such time Rahul Gandhi is ready to be prime minister. But to them, he does not ever appear ready or willing to take on such responsibility, not to speak of his competence or lack of it for the top job.
Yet, meanwhile, as this waiting game goes on, the drift in government is becoming harder and harder to arrest, and Congress leaders see it as most unfortunate that its worst consequence has become felt in J and K. "We have lost all political traction in Kashmir and in several other parts of the country," a senior Congress politician said in the intimacy of Congress circles....
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If this were only a question of reining in individual ambitions, if at all, you could put it in the past and go ahead. But senior Congress leaders feel blighted by the fact that they don't see any road ahead and certainly no roadmap to head them on it. All they frighteningly observe is fog and a drift which has taken on a nasty permanence of its own. The longer this drift continues in which the fog gets thicker and thicker, the harder it will be to retrieve the situation, and the unspoken thought is that it will then be too late for Rahul Gandhi to mend things, assuming that he can. Those who watch such things say that senior Congress leaders have never looked as beaten as now. Helplessness is overmastering them.
It is not for this writer, who usually stays away from writing on party politics, to suggest what to do. But if the Congress party is losing its political nerve and verve on critical security issues such as J and K and Maoism, then it becomes imperative to report the facts at a minimum. What is apparent is that the Congress has to get back to politics. This arrangement of Manmohan Singh at the head of a technocratic government is simply disastrous. Be assured, India is indestructible. It will overcome anything. But in her anxiety to make Rahul Gandhi prime minister, Sonia Gandhi risks having the Congress party become irrelevant for and expendable in the country.
Politically it is small, but major economical set back will come after games. India is borrowing big time, they have to pay some day.
Possible, mid term election.
MK Bhadrakumar worries about imapct of CWG scam on MMS image!
Will CWG failure be MMS Legacy?
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The irony is that at the end of the day, the Games are threatening to become Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's [ Images ] political legacy. A prime minister who set such admirably high standards of personal integrity in public life all through is facing the distressing -- almost tragic -- prospect of inheriting the legacy of having presided over, arguably, one of the most scandalous periods in the history of this walled city.
From this point it really doesn't matter whether Sheila Dixit retains her job or M S Gill and Jaipal Reddy must also bear equal responsibility, or even whether the indefatigable Kalmadi will ever again get anywhere near securing yet another plum assignment as a servant of sports. The damage has been done.
Read on. He is adopting the Bhanot line of defence!
Wonder if another babu will get the top job ever again.
Is this website credible?
It is awfully scary as Manmohan sounds like Gorbochov
http://www.politicsparty.com/index.php
Heard something worrisome. Maybe it is a wild conspiracy theory but it comes from a decent source.
It appears that just before the Vajpayee government India gave up control to UK. Our budgets are prepared by the British high commission in January and then our politicians are trained to repeat like parrots.
Can someone verify if this is true or not? If it is true we have lost all to the global bankers who continue to suck us dry. Seems bulk of the CWG loot went to them with the real number being 500 crores
Again, please don't dismiss this outright. I am pretty shaken up.
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Is this website credible?
It is awfully scary as Manmohan sounds like Gorbochov
http://www.politicsparty.com/index.php
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Nah, he is Sonia's stooge. Just promoting her.
This site never told us about bribe given to Sonia and MMS for nuclear deal.
[quote name='Niki' date='23 September 2010 - 06:50 AM' timestamp='1285204332' post='108436']
Heard something worrisome. Maybe it is a wild conspiracy theory but it comes from a decent source.
It appears that just before the Vajpayee government India gave up control to UK. Our budgets are prepared by the British high commission in January and then our politicians are trained to repeat like parrots.
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Absolute wrong. I have seen budget process in different ministries as a student, plus lot of people I know are involved in process. UK is good to make council budget in its own country, India is a big elephant. (UK pop = 61,792,000 , India 1,149,964,932)
Current PMO and planning commission is under Uncle control.
^^^ Uncle & UK are partners in crime. The heart of darkness is london. So the planning process is in unkils control. That is same thing.
Does anyone know how much money UK made from the CWG?
The London bankers control most of US too.
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For CommonWealth games London controls because they provide big chunk of financing.
But Unkle controls India's interest, vision, politicians, Babus and media. Current PMO is just a puppet.
Supposedly MMS is allout US/UK man. Sonia and Raul's lips are sealed because of Volker Report and Boston FBI case.
Seems MMS has a US order to break up Kashmir quickly.
No one to stop him unless the nationalists wake up
Please read this write -up. Apparntly India is funding US economy and the Iraq war
http://www.scribd.com/doc/1943344/Manmoh...nts-of-Usa
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This is what the corrupt politicians said to our Sardarji on CWG:
LOOT chalay hum MAAL O TAAN sathiyo (We have plundered the nation's wealth and life)
aab tumahara Hawalay watan sathiyo (We are handing over what ever is left of nation to you)
<img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':angry:' /> A cyber war has broken out between the Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] and the Congress after the former claimed that a website by the name bjp.com was redirecting to the website of the All India [ Images ] Congress Committee. http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/oct/0...nd-bjp.htm (pl make thu-thu icon).
The BJP, in its notice, has said that they had seen a dip in the traffic of their official website bjp.org and this prompted them to investigate into the matter.
When they probed into the matter they found that the Congress had allegedly purchased a website by the name bjp.com and was diverting it to their original website.
A key member of the BJP's IT cell told rediff.com that it has been found that the original website bjp.com belonged to Bharat Janata Prakashan and it was purchased by the Congress.
Something to think about. The inner civil war is coming out. Rahul baba and coterie is underming the MMS govt to prepare ground for him to step in as savior.
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With Congress bosses daily battling the Manmohan Singh regime, who needs the BJP?
N.V.Subramanian analyzes.
8 October 2010: There are two types of battles underway between the Congress party and the Manmohan Singh government. Both battles, one institutional in character and the other individual, are undermining the Centre and by a natural correlation the country and specifically its national interests. It is unfair and difficult to say that one side or one set of individuals are always right and the other wrong. But the Congress party's growing differences with the government will run the country aground sooner than later and recovery will be impossible at least in the present term of office of prime minister Manmohan Singh.
In normal course, the buck should stop with the PM, but Manmohan Singh has never been that manner of all-commanding prime minister in the more than six years he has been on the job. The only time he discovered his self-respect was when the Indo-US nuclear deal was threatened by UPA-I's Left allies and the Congress party was frightened into supporting him lest he quit.
Since then, it has been downhill for the PM, and strangely, Manmohan Singh seems not to care. Leave aside other things, he decided to intervene in the Commonwealth Games fiasco when India's image had ground to dust internationally, and perhaps even that was nudged by the Congress leadership. On the Congress party-government face-off on everything from tackling Maoists to environmental concerns, mining in tribal areas, and issues related to education, Manmohan Singh has maintained a stoic silence, as though completing his prime-ministerial term, however abjectly, is all that he cares about.
Meanwhile, under his watch, among others, P.Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh spectacularly are locked in a confrontation that entirely threatens to undermine the authority of government. To be sure, Digvijaya Singh has provoked this fight, utilizing his proximity to Rahul Gandhi, but at the same time, Chidambaram has shown vulnerabilities that any opponent could exploit.
Chidambaram has been successful in containing Pakistani terrorism directed against India, but even so, it is unclear how profoundly he understands the critical home portfolio he holds. Frankly, Chidambaram shows no grasp of the complexities of India, especially North India, where he earlier blithely has advocated using the military against the Maoists. Nor has he any understanding of Jammu and Kashmir, where this writer and this magazine twice had to provide him correct perspective about the burgeoning violence, which he, like the disastrous Omar Abdullah, conveniently blame on the army.
It is no secret that Digvijaya Singh (blocked from Madhya Pradesh by Shivraj Chauhan) is ambitious for Chidambaram's job, and he has made the hurting but not unwise comment (incidentally first articulated by this magazine on objective considerations) that the basic requirement for a home minister is to have solid and successful chief-ministerial experience. On the other hand, Chidambaram reckons that the way to contain Digvijay's challenge is to indulge in competitive Hindu-bashing, which is perhaps the reason for his "saffron terror" comment and for his post-Ayodhya verdict observations. Neither parties nor the Congress and government realize that India is being damaged in the process.
The other battles are less individualized and more institutional but nevertheless wrecking. For example, it is difficult to fault Jairam Ramesh for his pro-environment crusade because he is the environment minister. But governance is also about making reasonable and calibrated compromises to serve a larger good which Ramesh forgets. In his ministerial duties, he puts greater faith in the judgment of Rahul Gandhi than the collective wisdom of the Union cabinet. Why have the present cabinet then? If Rahul Gandhi appears so superior to Congressmen, then it is time Manmohan Singh is pensioned off. Kapil Sibal's face-off with Congress managers also appears institutional (although Sibal is as shallow as Chidambaram) where the party has no faith in the government's education policy.
As said in the beginning of the piece, it is not that one side is entirely to blame and the other faultless. Nor is it to be expected, especially in a chaotic democracy like India's, that everybody in the ruling dispensation will have uniform views. But this daily sniping between the Congress party and government (for example, Digvijaya's most current defence of Omar Abdullah against the Centre) is becoming toxic. What commenced as a good cop/ bad cop strategy to seize the opposition space from the BJP is beginning to consume UPA-II.
Indian voters everyday are being reminded of their disastrous decision to give the UPA a second term.
N.V.Subramanian is Editor, www.NewsInsight.net, and writes internationally on strategic affairs. He has authored two novels, University of Love (Writers Workshop, Calcutta) and Courtesan of Storms (Har-Anand, Delhi). Email: envysub@gmail.com.
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[url="http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp%3FarticleID%3D49296"] Ban on RSS possible after proposal from state govt[/url] Quote:Bhadohi, Oct 8:
Just days after Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi equating the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) with the banned-terror outfit SIMI, Union Minister of State for Coal Sriprakash Jaiswal today said the Centre can impose a ban on the Sangh only after receiving a proposal from the Uttar Pradesh government.
''RSS and the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) are quite alike,'' Mr Jaiswal said, while reiterating the statement of the Amethi MP.
On being asked about a ban on the RSS, the Union Minister said in this regard the state government needed to send a proposal to the Centre first.
''The Centre can think about a ban on the RSS, if the state government sends a proposal,'' Mr Jaiswal said.
He said the Naxal problem can be curbed only through development. Elaborate security measures have been made for coal factory workers in the Naxal-hit areas, he added.
A couple of days ago, Mr Gandhi has said that he saw little difference between the RSS and the banned terrorist outfit SIMI.
His statement had drawn a huge criticism from the BJP.
The state unit of the BJP had termed Mr Gandhi's remark as 'childish' and 'immature' and demanded an unconditional apology from him.
Mr Jaiswal was here on the occasion of death anniversary of former Union Minister Shyamdhar Mishra
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