Food for thought (4)
by Anshuman Goenka
Among the most distracting trends of this election is the third re-appearance of the Third Front after the failures in 1989-91 and 1996-98. While my colleague RK Mishra wrote an interesting piece on this a few days back, among the best reads in today’s papers is Vir Sanghvi in today’s Hindustan Times, who spells out the complete absence of any reason or idea behind the Third Front.
The central character in the Third Front seems to be Mayawati who is today hosting a housewarming in Delhi to mobilize support for her candidature for the top job. Arati Jerath in today’s DNA shows why her tactics towards this are actually more nuanced than we make out from the more common reportage - worth a read except that I don’t understand why Arati should continually misspell Bhadohi as Badhoi.
Swapan Dasgupta has a balanced and interesting view of Naveen Patnaik in today’s Times of India. Nobody denies his impeccable integrity or his charming urbane manner, but with even all that it is fascinating how he emerged as a consummate politician.
Finally, among the blogs on the elections that are sprouting up all over the web, a must visit is Pratap Bhanu Mehta who writes Swaraj aur Swabhiman on Indian Express blogs. He does not appear to be a Friend of BJP, nonetheless I think for most of us here he makes a very interesting read.
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3 Responses to “Food for thought (4)”
Anshuman Goenka Ji
Namskar
Realy your thinking and your Post is so good
hi, i think this is a serious issue as if neither of the national parties will get a clear majority then the role of third front will come and they may demand their own pm candidate for their support of even 10-15 seats. so i strongly feel we should put our all efforts for bjp to get a clear majority and advaniji as our pm….
hi,
i do think third front is not viable at all as it lacks nucleous. like upa has congress at centre, nda has bjp at centre both are national parties but third front dunno have any national party they are rather a group of regional or batter say oppertunist parties whose sole aim is power and placement in post election govt. with high ambitions of PM candidature. and as for bjp it lacks only one thing and that is costing it’s fortunes and is keep’in bjp at bay and that is poor media management.