BJP Future - 5

[Shambhu]

http://www.telegraphindia.com//1080115/jsp...ory_8783700.jsp

Jaya's 45 dish spread for Modi

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Jaya trying to outdo chappan ni chaati?

[Guest]

I call it date. <!--emo&:guitar--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/guitar.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='guitar.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[ramana]

Don't forget she pulled down ABV's first govt in 1997.

[Guest]

It was a bad idea to even have handshake with Jaya. God knows Modi's plan, may be they know Jaya's plax detail.

Video

Modi gets Southern treat, Cong warns of indigestion

[Shambhu]

Jaya does all her moves as per the political wind. If there is a strong wind, she will follow it. If there is a weak wind, she will find out and get more mileage doing something else. That is my reading.

[Shambhu]

<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>BJP zooms in on 297 ‘winnable’ seats </span>

SANJAY K. JHA

New Delhi, Jan. 15: The BJP has identified 297 parliamentary seats for special attention in the next general election. These are the seats the party won once or more in elections since 1989.

This “exciting” figure has convinced the party that it can come close to the halfway mark of 272 in Parliament on its own. The subject dominated the first meeting of the BJP’s 19-member central election management committee held today at the party headquarters.

Sushma Swaraj gave the figure after the meeting but did not provide the seats’ geographical distribution.

She added that even if only the elections since 1991 were counted, the number of “winnable” seats fell just by six to 291. The 1989 polls were a one-off, with the National Front, Left and the BJP joining forces to defeat the Congress.

In the 189 seats the BJP never won in any past poll, it plans to try and form alliances.

The “winnable” seats have been classified as A+, A, B+, etc. For instance, the 43 seats the party has never lost since 1991 have been graded A+ (A plus). Some it has won twice or thrice — and among those it has won only once, some have always given it a large share of votes.

In the coming weeks, the party will size up the 297 seats. The central poll committee will get the profile of 138 of these from its sitting MPs, while a team of 30 will be formed to study the remaining 159 within a fixed timetable.

This team will survey these seats, collecting electoral data, assessing the reasons for past victories and defeats, and pinpointing probable candidates and issues that can sway local sentiments.

Also, the central poll committee has decided to form sub-committees with specific briefs. One will be called the “decisions implementation group”; four others will respectively draft the manifesto, deal with campaign material, identify issues and interact with the media.

Party president Rajnath Singh, who heads the central poll committee, is to announce the sub-panels in the next few days. Their members will be drawn largely from the central panel, but Rajnath has been authorised to include people from outside for specific tasks.

The jumbo central panel was set up after some lobbies protested that a coterie close to L.K. Advani was drawing up the entire poll strategy.

But a 19-member body is unwieldy, and the leadership felt that particular tasks needed smaller groups, made up of people with expertise in those specific areas. So, the sub-committees are being formed with the option of inducting “outsiders”, whose dominance had earlier caused heartburn among senior leaders.

Now the seniors, who are in the parent body, will have the satisfaction of overseeing the reports of the sub-panels.

Sushma said a meeting of the National Democratic Alliance had been called on January 22.


http://publication.samachar.com/pub_arti...id=1086542

[Guest]

GC Shekhar, Hindustan Times
Email Author
Chennai, January 15, 2008
First Published: 23:23 IST(15/1/2008)
Last Updated: 03:51 IST(16/1/2008)

<b>Modi a hit in Chennai</b>

<b>If the BJP had any doubts about Narendra Modi’s pan-India impact, his first public meeting at Chennai on Monday after being elected Gujarat chief minister would have dispelled them.</b>

The massive crowd turnout, its hysterical reaction to Modi’s arrival on stage at the Thuglak anniversary and the thunderous cheer to his nearly one-hour speech had Tamil Nadu’s BJP leaders wondering whether they finally had the charismatic campaigner who can breach the Dravidian fort for the BJP.

“I have never seen a more electric response to any other national leader,” said H Raja former BJP MLA “Modi’s speech and the way the crowd reacted to it have given the state BJP a huge hope,” said state president L Ganesan.

Modi highlighted how he overcame official apathy to convey water and electricity to the remotest part of Gujarat. When he patiently explained how he paid Rs 2,000 for every gynaecologist if she safely delivered the baby of a rural mother as an example of private-public partnership the crowd cheered.

Talking about secularism Modi described how its definition had morphed along the years. “There was a time when secularism meant religious harmony, later it became lip sympathy to the minorities, and then appeasement of minorities...As for me development is the strongest foundation of secularism as it would benefit the poorest of the poor,” Modi said inviting a huge applause.

Thuglak Editor Cho Ramaswamy surmised it all when he invited Modi to the stage with the words, “I welcome the merchant of death to – corruption, official apathy, terrorism, darkness and despair.” The cheers reached a roaring crescendo.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Pr...6e-56739c7a52a6
© Copyright 2007 Hindustan Times

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Modi's Hindu victory lap in Chennai should become a leap for protecting dharma in Bharatam

Modi's is a class act in governance.

This should be a manifesto for every Hindu party everywhere.

If a Hindu party has to come and stay in power in the States and in the Centre, Modi's performance record in the achieving abhyudayam can be emulated. In fact, the following items should become a manifesto of such a party.

What Modi said in Chennai on 14 Jan. 2008 on what he did for abhyudayam in Guajrat

Locations where the abhyudayam categories were tagged: BJP office, RSS office, Kamaraj Arangam (14 Jan. 2008)

1. Creating awareness among women on what can be done and has been done for them

Attributing the BJP's triumph in the Gujarat assembly elections mainly to a larger women turnout, Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (14 jan. 2008) said he had organised several conferences two months prior to the polls, to address their problems. There was a three per cent increase in the women voter turn out. "This is one of the major reasons for the success of the party at the hustings," he said when asked about the reasons for the electoral triumph. Addressing BJP workers here, Modi said he had taken systematic steps to address the problems of various sections-women, youth and farmers--in Gujarat. Two months prior to the polls, he had organised 27 women conferences to address their problems, Modi said. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002...141509.htm

2. Soil health card for every farm

Gujarat is at no.1 place in INDIA who has completed its soil checking under soil health card yojana. Now more then 30 lacks farmers of Gujarat is having soil health card. Gujarat is the first state in INDIA who is already started to interlink their rivers. Now most of the rivers are having a water of Narmada. · SUJLAM-SUFLAM YOJANA is only executed in Gujarat state. With of this yojana, now farmers of Gujarat is getting water. http://mayurndave.blogspot.com/2007/09/gre...endra-modi.html

3. How Modi bought down the deaths during pregnancy / delivery. Every pregnancy was under the guidance of a qualified a gynaecologist and healthcare during delivery paid for by the State.

4. How he bought down the attrition of students from schools from 49%
to 3%. Now, Modi is aiming to bring it to 0% in 2010.

5. The way in which he was able to give 24 hrs electricity all over Gujarat.

6. How he achieved providing Narmada water (500 Kms of water pipe line completed in 700 days). Now he is planning to give 1400 Kms of pipe line in another 700 days).

7. Plans to bring Broadband connection to all villages in Gujarat. He said that an efficient Maths teacher from Chennai can teach students in rural village in Gujarat.

8. Way he chooses the village: Modi said that he will travel to village which is poor in education during peak summer and he will by himself take initiative to bring up the village (especially in education).

9. He doesn't believe in distributing anything for "free". He said that he has disconnected electricity to the farmers who were defaulting their electricity bills and still won the election.

10. When Congress came with free color television, Modi (on the same day) said that he will server notices to those who haven't paid their taxes.

11. When he assumed power, the state was in deficit. But, now it has excess crores. That too, without any increase in taxation.

12. He said that the same laws, same tax, same persons and Govt organizations were working before and now. The difference is there is no corruption in his tenure.

13. It takes around 7 years for a developed country to get back from major natural calamities like earthquake. But, it took only 3 years for Gujarat (mainly Kutch region) to return to normalcy.

14. For example he said there is a Toll Gate between Gujarat and Maharashtra at their border. Annually, almost same number of vehicles pass to and fro to Gujarat and Maharashtra. Toll Charges are same for both states. But, the revenue from Toll Gate of Maharashtra is Rs 2.5 crore less than that of Gujarat . "Where has this money gone" is the question from Modi.

15. Good point that I liked from Modi is that he said that people in power should not target next election. Instead they should target winning people's heart.

16. Another good point is that he said that he did not enjoy power, where as he took it as his responsibility.

17. He has not taken vacation from the day he became CM for first time.
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[Shambhu]

<b><span style='color:orange'>'Modi was king, we will make him emperor'</span></b>

Sheela Bhatt | January 19, 2008 23:17 IST

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi [Images] will be felicitated at Mumbai's Shivaji Park when he addresses a public rally there on Sunday, and the Bharitya Janta Party has left no stone unturned to ensure that the event is a mega success.

"The turnout will be so huge that Shivaji Park will prove small. In my twenty years of public life, I have never seen such a great demand for front seat passes," former BJP MLA Atul Shah told rediff .com on the eve of Modi's visit.

Ganesh Hake, a spokesman for the BJP and the editor of BJP publication Manogat says, "Maharashtrians don't see him as a Gujarati; we consider him a leader of the BJP".

When asked what kind of appeal Modi has amongst voters outside Gujarat, Hake says, "Modi has said that neither does he accepts bribes, nor will he tolerate anyone else accepting bribes. His clean image, his leadership, and his fantastic development work have created mass-appeal".

The BJP's Maharashtra outfit sees Modi's thumping win in Gujarat as an opportunity to revive its fortunes in the state. The party has been struggling to put its act together in the state after the vacuum created by the death of Pramod Mahajan.

The enthusiasm in the party's cadre has reached a fever pitch ahead of Modi's visit. Haribhau Rathod, party MP from Yavatmal says, "Each and every district of Maharashtra is demanding the visit of Modi. People will queue up to see him. I want him to come to Yavatmal".

"Modi was king so far; we will make him the emperor now," said Shah.

When asked if there was a fear of polarisation of votes on communal lines with elections in Maharahstra not far away, Hake said, "Muslims never vote for us. Even when others cheat them, they do not vote for us. In the state, 10 to 12 per cent are Muslim votes. We believe that the impact of the Gujarat elections in our constituency is tremendous, and we are building on it".

Hake is currently editing a special publication on Modi in Marathi. It's separate chapters cover 12 different facets of Narendra Modi, including his roles as developer, administrator, visionary and leader.

Gujarat's success in agriculture has also been highlighted. The party points out that while in Maharashtra hundreds of cotton farmers have committed suicide, in Gujarat, they have turned huge profits.

Rathod, a veteran politician, calls attention to the subtle impact of Modi's charisma. "When Modi stands on the stage to address a public rally, it is enough to send the message of Hindutva. His speech will convey the importance of development. We can't ask for more. The public will come in hordes to see him in the interiors of Maharashtra".


http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/jan/19sheela.htm

[acharya]

http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/...420900.htm

U.S. student council “has not snapped ties with Sangh Parivar”

Special Correspondent

15-year study conducted by Campaign to Stop Funding Hate

Organisation becoming popular among Indian-American students

Study is to expose Sangh Parivar’s “real agenda”

NEW DELHI: A new study conducted by the U.S.-based Campaign to Stop Funding Hate (CSFH) has sought to expose the “duplicity” of the Hindu Students Council (HSC) — an organisation that is gaining currency among Indian-American college students across American campuses.

Briefing mediapersons here, Biju Mathew of the CSFH said while the HSC claimed to have severed its ties with the Sangh Parivar after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, “there is a long and dense trail” of connections that establishes a continuing relationship. The trail included tax returns of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA), filing with the U.S. Patents Office and Internet domain registry information.

According to Mr. Mathew, the websites of practically every key Sangh Parivar organisation — the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the VHP and the Seva Bharati included — goes to the same cluster of servers located in California: the Global Hindu Electronics Network of the HSC, “making it the basis of the Sangh’s electronic infrastructure.” Also, till 2001, the VHPA was listing the HSC as its project eight years after the students’ organisation had declared itself an independent entity. The current top brass of the Sangh Parivar in the U.S. were from the HSC which was founded as a VHPA project in 1990.

Explaining the rationale of this study conducted over 15 years, Mr. Mathew said: “For some reason, the Indian diaspora like people here in India do not understand the duplicity of the Sangh Parivar. They pay lip service to secularism. We want to make students aware of their real agenda.”

He said the HSC was growing in the United States because of that country’s policy of multiculturalism meant to protect minority communities such as Indian-Americans.

[Shambhu]

Biju Matthew: They pay lip service to secularism. We want to make students aware of their real agenda

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That's right. Go Biju go. Tell the students how the RSS, VHP etc. demand equal rights for Hindus, and do not want to appease minorities. How dare these Marx-damn Hindu Fundamentalists do that? <!--emo&:furious--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/furious.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='furious.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Guest]

May I ask a question?

In a society with a tolerance for many different gods,

how can we justify hatred for members of one particular religion?

Is tolerance a Hindu characteristic?


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[Bharatvarsh]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->how can we justify hatred for members of one particular religion?

Is tolerance a Hindu characteristic? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
How can one tolerate an intolerant cult?

How can one justify hating Nazism?

The same way it can be justified to hate imperialistic ideologies masquerading as "religions".

Tolerance is obviously not uniquely Hindu (plenty of pagan cultures had this, something quite alien to Christianity, Islam, Nazism or Communism) but it is a characteristic of Hindu society, ask the Jews or the Parsis (never mind the Syrian xtians who although found shelter among Hindus stabbed us in the back and went over to the Portuguese at the first chance).

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-Amit_Rajpal+Jan 20 2008, 09:28 AM-->QUOTE(Amit_Rajpal @ Jan 20 2008, 09:28 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a society with a tolerance for many different gods,
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In general, Indian society does not tolerate many Gods. It <b>worships</b> them. And it worships them for a reason. All these Gods have a nearly harmonious co-existence. Most puranas and itihAsas that glorify one God do not do so to the complete exclusion of all other Gods. At least, such exclusivity has not been the dominant characteristic of Hindu society.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->how can we justify hatred for members of one particular religion? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That is a loaded question, sort of like: When did you stop beating your wife? I don't see any hatred of the members of any religion. What we condemn here are the ideologies and practices we dislike.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Is tolerance a Hindu characteristic?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This has been well answered by Bharatvarsh.

[Shambhu]

<!--QuoteBegin-Amit_Rajpal+Jan 20 2008, 09:28 AM-->QUOTE(Amit_Rajpal @ Jan 20 2008, 09:28 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->May I ask a question?

In a society with a tolerance for many different gods,

how can we justify hatred for members of one particular religion?

Is tolerance a Hindu characteristic?


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Are you for real? Do Hindus hate every single Muslim/Christian?

We do hate being asked to keep quiet after our co-religionists are killed, while the killers are protected.

We hate people plotting to convert or kill us.

We are against a large, well-funded, radical set of people who want to cut us down: radical muslims, terrorists and their sympathizers, missionary types who keep on insulting our culture, governments who appease all these people, naxals/maoists, psecs (largely made up of hindus, mind you)..

What is so hard to understand here?

Or do you want "hindus" to tolerate all these things? What about a decent, hard-working muslim/christian indian? Should he too "tolerate" all these things? Should he not raise his voice? I think he should, and many are.

This is a simple, plain, straightforward movement against those who want to destroy our culture and existence.

Why the hell should we "tolerate" these people?

And "these" people does not mean all muslims..read this post all over again..2, 3 , 8 times if needed..till it is clear to you.

Peope who leave Hindus alone get left alone. People who oppress Hindus get it right back.

[acharya]

Congress finds fault with Advani as PM

Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The Congress lashed out at the NDA prime ministerial candidate and senior BJP leader LK Advani calling him a "split personality" who lacks the "national identity" to carry all sections of the country with him.

As the NDA chose Advani as its leader, Congress spokesman M Veerappa Moily said: "This ( projecting Advani as PM) will be an abortive effort. He (Advani) lacks prime ministerial material. He isn't a person who is cohesive enough to take all forces together..."

Comparing Advani with former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who has been declared the chairman of the NDA, Moily said: "Advani should realise that the NDA which is accepting him as its leader is not the same NDA that had declared AB Vajpayee as its Prime Minister. This is a divided NDA."
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On Advani's declaration that the NDA would inflict a crushing defeat in the next election, Moily said: "He can't achieve this in his lifetime. He will be frustrated soon... He can't find a national identity to carry all sections together. He cannot become the leader of a society which comprises so many religions. He is not a leader of united India."</b>

The Congress spokesman termed Advani a "split personality" and said that his actions showed he is "feeling guilty".

Moily said: "His statements show that his conscience is always pricking him that he has done something wrong. He has no regret for a matter like Godhra. Till date he has no regret. At least Vajpayee has expressed regret over the incident. The problem is that after so much has happened Advani has shown no signs of mid-course correction."



For any comments, queries or feedback, kindly mail us at pioneerletters@yahoo.co.in

[acharya]

At the BJP's felicitation rally in Mumbai, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi spoke in chaste Marathi, the language Shiv Sena understands best. The BJP, which is struggling to keep its alliance with the Sena, more so after Pramod Mahajan's death, needs somebody like Modi, a popular leader who enjoys national appeal. (less)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MztQYhhQHUc

[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Thackeray’s grim birthday message: riots in offing
Express News ServicePosted online: Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 0013 hrs Print Email
MUMBAI, JANUARY 23: On his 81st birthday, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray predicted communal riots and chaos in the country and sought support for his son and executive party president Uddhav.

In the concluding part of his serialised interview published in the Sena mouthpiece Saamna on Wednesday, Thackeray said simmering discontent among communities would blow up into riots. “There will be bloodshed in the country...Hindu-Muslim riots are expected...we are not prepared,” he said, claiming that lack of governance and wrong policies of the Government would lead to chaos with the possibility of an uprising by Muslims. “Hindus, are you ready?” he asked.

Commenting on the rallies by BSP and BJP in Mumbai, he said neither the Mayawati pattern nor the Modi pattern would work in Maharashtra.

Answering a question on the move to reorganise states, he said his party would oppose separation of Vidarbha from Maharashtra. “Some ‘sethias’ (rich people) of Vidarbha want a separate state, people don’t.” He also lamented that he was spending his time recollecting old days. “I am sad about ageing, but I am helpless,” he said.

His birthday message for the people was, “You have given me love and loyalty that I won’t forget. It is my only capital...I’ll preserve it...support Uddhav,” he added.

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-Shambhu+Jan 21 2008, 01:12 AM-->QUOTE(Shambhu @ Jan 21 2008, 01:12 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Amit_Rajpal+Jan 20 2008, 09:28 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Amit_Rajpal @ Jan 20 2008, 09:28 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->May I ask a question?

In a society with a tolerance for many different gods,

how can we justify hatred for members of one particular religion?

Is tolerance a Hindu characteristic?


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Are you for real? Do Hindus hate every single Muslim/Christian?

We do hate being asked to keep quiet after our co-religionists are killed, while the killers are protected.

We hate people plotting to convert or kill us.

We are against a large, well-funded, radical set of people who want to cut us down: radical muslims, terrorists and their sympathizers, missionary types who keep on insulting our culture, governments who appease all these people, naxals/maoists, psecs (largely made up of hindus, mind you)..

What is so hard to understand here?

Or do you want "hindus" to tolerate all these things? What about a decent, hard-working muslim/christian indian? Should he too "tolerate" all these things? Should he not raise his voice? I think he should, and many are.

This is a simple, plain, straightforward movement against those who want to destroy our culture and existence.

Why the hell should we "tolerate" these people?

And "these" people does not mean all muslims..read this post all over again..2, 3 , 8 times if needed..till it is clear to you.

Peope who leave Hindus alone get left alone. People who oppress Hindus get it right back.
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It is clear that "hate" is not tolerance.

The "plotting" statements suggest paranoia.

Does the thinking of Gandhi have any influence on these attitudes?

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Jan 20 2008, 09:40 AM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Jan 20 2008, 09:40 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->how can we justify hatred for members of one particular religion?

Is tolerance a Hindu characteristic? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
How can one tolerate an intolerant cult?

How can one justify hating Nazism?

The same way it can be justified to hate imperialistic ideologies masquerading as "religions".

Tolerance is obviously not uniquely Hindu (plenty of pagan cultures had this, something quite alien to Christianity, Islam, Nazism or Communism) but it is a characteristic of Hindu society, ask the Jews or the Parsis (never mind the Syrian xtians who although found shelter among Hindus stabbed us in the back and went over to the Portuguese at the first chance).
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If one considers "Nazism" to be an valid object of hatred, is the RSS then to be considered a valid object of hatred?

"Tolerance is obviously not uniquely Hindu (plenty of pagan cultures had this, something quite alien to Christianity, Islam, Nazism or Communism)". This is something I agree with. Zorastrianism as mediated through Judaism, Islam and Christianity and the to their secular sequelae. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->