Question of the Week: Where are the BJP’s poll strategists?

Rahul Gandhi visits poor, villages, and needy. Good deed, but what I am thinking is..What if India had no poverty and illiteracy … How Rahul Gandhi could or would have stand tall without this remote villages, poverty and illiteracy in India?

@ Shantanu,

“Asking questions of our leaders is an example of democracy at work. I dont think that right could/should be denied”

I dont disagree with the above statement of yours, but sadly democracy has been misued and also not been utilised in an idealistic fashion in most democracies in the world. Ones question can be merely termed as an baseless accusation by the other. Also the credibility question of the one who is asking question can be put into test. Hence dont you think, it is also the fundemental tenant of a honest and a rightful citizen of india to plug any holes in this democracy. Rather than just asking for answeres, why dont one provide answers by highlighting the questions, this way it would be more pro-active enagegement of the society.

On the issue of PIL – i still beleive there are rounds for a case. The reason being accepting money from a foreign source by a political party or a head of a political party that to from a foreign organisation or party can be considered anti national and also can question the very nature of the dubious transaction with a foreign entity?

If if Rajinder Puri does think of other skeletons in the oppostion camp then why not he be a whistle blower given the proximity he has enjoyed with the top BJP, RSS and VHP leadership??
I strongly suspect this as mere rhetoric!!!

Read http://www.larryjkolb.com/index.html

… near the end of Miles’s life, I ran for the Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. When Rajiv, my friend and protector, was assassinated, his political … [http://books.google.com/books?id=Y_2Q6UxDQVMC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=larry+kolb+%2B+rajiv+gandhi&source=bl&ots=hY7HTNkqyA&sig=wYLB5VfKowoydAGjSaOO8nP7hCQ&hl=en&ei=3ieXS-DAOZHGrAfY28WZDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=&f=false]

While running a covert propaganda campaign for Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Kolb anonymously wrote a widely-published series of investigative newspaper stories which electrified India(http://www.larryjkolb.com/about_larryjkolb.html)

As to the credibility of the enquiry conducted by Nanday, it was found that he had taken the assistance of Larry Kolb of Florida in examining the concerned persons in St Kitts. He had not only travelled on a private plane owned by Larry Kolb during his journey from St Kitts, but had also been accompanied by Chandra Swami’s associate Kailashnath Aggarwal, aka Mamaji, who had joined him from New York to Miami. This explains the modification made by K L Verma in his tour programme, proceeding to Miami first, instead of New York, as originally planned. [http://www.rediff.com/news/1996/0110kit4.htm]

@ Sid and Shantanu

I shall reply to your posts, once i am back to UK.
There are few things we can think about to find the truth.. will talk about it in the post.

Rahul Gandhi represents the corrupt face of India because he fails to exercise the responsibiity that goes with his office by drawing on the special access that he has to those in positions of power. This is something the BJP even if it was comfortable with doing should not go on the bribe the people course which so characterises the Congress method. The example to follow is of John F Kennedy Jnr who helped the poor by establishing an oil heating company for them.

It is clear that for anyone to come to power, they have to show in the same way as JFK that they have the peoples heart in mind and not themselves.

Ashwin,
I am questioning the integrity of the entire political class or politician-babu clan. The political elites would knock each other out if there is something at stake. What is the stake here? Nothing. What is easier – re-writing the rules of how administration conduct itself or play by the existing rule so that the wonderful shady world of corporate-beaurocratic nepotism would continue and people whether on the power or outside the power continue to benifit? The answer is obvious. I did not realize it until I saw NDA in action.

Dynastic politics is supported not because Burqa Futts of the Delhi based media belives that Mr. Singh’s Madam is bapu’s beti. It is supported because a dynasty at the top usually prefers to deal with other dynasties in the middle. Therefore other dynasties know that their position is secured when dynasty at the top is secured. There is no scope of a barbarian (so to speak) entering the sacred temple and destroy the status quo in the name of people or ideology.

The very idea of democracy is that it seeks to destroy such symbiosis. This dynasty has already destroyed democracy. What remains is the facade of receiving people’s mandate. People’s mandate is the only hope to disturb the status quo and provide anti-biotics to the dying democracy. I do not know this would happen but Buddha said that everything that has a beginning has an end.
“..but by and large according to me that is increasingly diminishing.” – How so, sir? How is it happening? What is the catalyst?
“i woudl blame the make up of the society rather than the politicians. ” – why blame the middle class alone? What about upper classes, intellectuals, chattering classes and poor who sell their votes for free liquor and rice? People deserve the government they get. We are part of the same people. That does not mean that we would stop raising questions. Just because I am a rightist, I can not avoid questioning the motives of a rightist government when it does something deplorable in the name of political convenience. Strange as it may appear, but political loyalty appears to be a serious road block against loyalty for the country.

@Ashwin,
“I am not ready to put the blame on the political class here” – Why? Just because they are part of the same society? What is the difference between Manmohan Singh and Shiny Ahuja? Both are part of the same society, are they same? What is the difference between Lalu Prasad Yadav and Karunanidhi? They are part of the same society. Why would I choose politician X over commoner Y to run this country? Only when X promises change, not just change, the change that benefits the majority. If you are elected, one would expect better judgement and senses from you. The scale against which a politician can be compared with must be few steps above the scale for a commoner. Our culture and our epics put that expectation into us when we see that Lord Rama sacrificing his devoted wife instead of questioning his uncharitable subjects.
Every now and then we compare with America. Americans may have get married thrice in life (average estimate) but they tolerate no extra-marital affair by their senators and governors, people of power loose their job over scandals there.
“i can show many examples of political dynasties working over time to decimate their rival political dynasties” – Only when there is a rival dynasty. I would be less frustrated if there is a rival (dynastic or non-dynastic). But that is not the case. When one dynasty supports another, it is a question of how much you can loot from the treasury. Nobody has any incentive to disturb the status quo. There is a monpolisation of power by a clan of dynasties – established or budding. If you do not agree, show me a rival and we can talk.
“The reason i blame the middle class is due to the reason …” – Middle class does not run this country. The class that you are talking about came into prominence only during last two decades. Most of this new middle class come from a poor background (including me) and only now we have began to understand the troubled root of this democracy. It took us a lot of time before we could find a voice, but, boy, we did (and contrary to popular claim, that is not just in the internet). As more and more people elevate themselves from the other various classes/segments/castes, (vote bank or no vote bank) other groups would shrink slowly leaving the Arabian cult of death and jihad possibly only dependable vote bank. Eventually the middle class would find it’s leader (neither Sonia Maino nor Lal Krishna Advani is that leader) who can find their pulse. Old loyalist guards (like Pranav Mukherjee) have no idea about the aspirations of this class.

“(where as the upper caste and lower class are a well knit unit and work for each other).” – Are we talking about caste or class? They are completely different (going by the usually accepted socio-economic yardstick of class divisions).
“Mate just merely questioning is not goign to be suffice, beleive in your questioning and suggest solutions to it rather than askign govt to think your solution.” – I already did. Look at my first post, point 5. There is lot to be done. This is going to be painful and slow but if we want to live a better India to our children there is no other way.

@Ashwin,
1. “If you are so much against … giving lip service.” – Good ones. I actually vote but I can not elect. I hope that you know the difference between voting someone and electing someone (electing being the term as applicable in parliamentary democracy). But I promise that our thinking would achieve a critical mass sooner or later.

2. “There is nothign wrong in india democracy..” – Ahha, new information. Please write a certificate for Indian democracy in your blog !!! Because the ailing patient need some certificate instead of medicines.

3. “..rather i would apperciate if those who question also propose a solution and wrok towards bringing the relevant change.” – That is a lot of talk from the gentleman who has so far avoided answering all my questions.

4. “..on the back of Lord Ram” – I find this extremely offensive. Lord Ram is not a carrier of a political party. BJP has long forgotten that it was the party of difference. One five year long government has corrupted it so much.

5. “….champion it till there is an effective leadership with the change movement who can eventually lead the new India and the society.” – Nice words. After considering this with the quote at point 2, I am at a loss of finding the logical connection between these two opinions. So if there is nothing wrong with Indian democracy why would anybody need a “change movement”?

6. Lastly, I went through your blog. Recently coward Singvi lamented in his blog that Congress has so less amount of support in blogosphere. I guess there is an upward trend of correcting that supposedly unfortunate accident.

An unwanted piece of advise: get a spell checker, will you?

Abdul sattar is just emulating his secular god.

Read Shri.Sitaram goel to know more about ‘kicking habits’ of nehru.-[http://www.voiceofdharma.com/books/gagon/pre1.htm]

“I am not unmindful of the tragedy which has forced me to take up my pen against one of the foremost names in India’s fight for freedom. It is true that I have never been an admirer of Jawaharlal Nehru. It was as a teenager that I heard him shouting like an ordinary street bully and slapping a Congressman on the public stage simply because the mike had failed for a few minutes. I also saw him kicking and slapping our common people who had travelled long distances to have his darshan and touch his feet. I had sensed in him that snobbery which is so characteristic of our upstart “upper” classes and against which I have been in total revolt all my life. His admirers call him an aristocrat who has a right to be short-tempered and rude. For me, it is simply an absence of any culture, inherited or acquired”

Indian,
There is no irony. He treated Indians like children and then regarded himself as benevolent parent although given the history all I can find is an abusive, short-tempered, womanizing, naive ideologue who should have gone through a basic course of parenting before attempting the responsibility. Did you ever see children coming from abusive households? They are either damn violent or too meek to speak for themselves. Look at India.

Maybe The “atheist” god was not “atheist” himself.

Read Shri. K.N.Rao’s article http://www.journalofastrology.com/archives/Nehru_and_Astrology.htm
“It has suited those who have taken shelter behind the massive frame of dead Jawaharlal Nehru to cite him as an instance of an anti-astrology and “progressive” symbol, rather a ‘modern’ man. The definition of “progressive” has had its vagaries from the Communists’ blind acceptance of whatever communist Russia approved till perestroika of 1989 destroyed USSR, to those who thought that the “liberty of the womb” is a modern and progressive step.”
“Nehru was a Kashmiri pandit, His uncle Bansidhar Nehru was an astrologer. His father Motilal Nehru depended on the court astrologer of the state of Khetri for the horoscopes of his family. Those horoscopes were used for all those important occasions when Hindus take astrological approval for their decisions, mainly marriage. It was on this ground, astrological basis, that Kamla Nehru, the non-English knowing Kashmiri beauty from Sitaram Bazar. Delhi, was chosen for the European Jawaharlal Nehru who never went to an Indian school in India and had no Indian classmates. …”
” It was the year 1983 and an astrological conference at Bangalore where in a major paper of mine containing tabulated predictions, given in advance, the prefatory remarks were Letter No.74 From Jawaharlal Nehru-Ahmadnagar Fort To Krishna Hutheesing-20 Carmichael Road, Bombay 29.8.1944

” In my letter to Indu I suggested to her to ask you to get a proper horoscope made by competent person. Such permanent record of the date and the time of birth are desirable. As for the time, I suppose the proper solar time should be mentioned and not the artificial time which is being used outside now. War time is at least an hour ahead of the normal time” (Nehru’s letters to his sister-edited with an introduction by Krishna Hutheesing-Faber and Faber,24 Russel Square, London. I then added the following comment.”Surprisingly this portion has been omitted by the editor of the letters of Pandit Nehru published by the Publications Division of Government of India, perhaps in his over anxiety to preserve the “secular” image of Pandit Nehru. The editor exercised his selective judgment in a way as will distort some facets of the personality of Nehru”

The battle had begun between the “progressive and secular” writers of Indian history and astrologers with this paper of mine. The salutary effect of this was that when Volume 13 of Nehru’s letters were published, the following letter to Indira Gandhi contained the following additional information.

“Betty no doubt will take necessary steps to have a ‘Janmapatri” ( Hindi) made. This should be done for that is our traditional way to record the exact date and time of birth, the date according to Samvat Calendar, as far as I can make it out is Bhadrapad 2—Samvat 2001, or put it differently second day of the bright half of the Moon in the month of Bhadra Samvat 2001. Betty writes time of birth was 8.11 a.m. But what time? The time observed now is war time which is at least one hour ahead of normal time, possibly more. It is thus the artificial time and not the real time, according to which Moon should be when Sun is highest in the heaven……”

Watch Subramaniam Swami spilling the beans as he answers all questions on Sonia Gandhi:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84fkL6yB1X8&feature=related