This Verdict will Force Leaders to Think Nationally
by Swapan Dasgupta
For a country confronted by two formidable challenges - an economic downturn of colossal proportions and a security threat stemming from a turbulent neighbourhood - the outcome of the General Election is reassuring for two reasons. First, the election has led to a stable government that will not have to succumb endlessly to the irritations of coalition politics and the threat of a mid-term breakdown; and secondly, it has produced a broad national mandate and not been reduced to a clumsy aggregate of different state elections.
The second point is particularly significant in view of the fears that the idea of India was not being translated into political reality. The election result should go some way towards forcing our leaders to be mindful of regions but also think nationally.
Regardless of the fact that there was no outright majority for any pre-poll alliance, Election 2009 was an unqualified victory for the Congress. Contrary to initial fears of greater political fragmentation, the Congress has succeeded in renewing itself quite spectacularly. It has won seats from all corners of the country and its gamble of distancing itself from regional players with personalised agendas has paid handsome dividends. Its decision to persist with the PM’s image of innate decency has proved a success, as has been its emphasis on the youth vote. In hindsight, the decision to have no truck with the Left was applauded by the people of West Bengal and Kerala. No wonder, Mamata Banerjee was unquestionably the woman of the match.
In 2004, the Congress didn’t win the election, the BJP lost it. Election 2009 is the nearest India has come to a positive mandate since Atal Behari Vajpayee won the day in 1999. With an estimated 9% swing in its favour, the Congress will be justified in treating the verdict as its victory.
Predictably, a mandate of this nature comes with onerous responsibilities. Spared the torture of having to constantly accommodate sectional demands, the new government has no choice but to perform. Having won the “weak” versus “strong” debate conclusively - the PM’s contribution to the victory should not be underestimated - Manmohan Singh must now live to the faith reposed in him and actually exercise the tough options. Will he take steps to curb a fiscal deficit that has become unmanageable? Will he inject a sense of urgency into the security establishment so that terrorists, and not citizens, become the hunted? The voters have been very generous to an incumbent government which allowed too many things to drift in the past five years. But the season for excuses ended on Saturday afternoon.
This has been a terrible election for the BJP. It is not merely that a truncated NDA performed worse than in 2004 but that two consecutive general election defeats has shown up its shortcomings more starkly. The BJP was lax about reading the writing on the wall in 2004 and lulled itself into believing that anti-incumbency would do the trick. It tried to juggle between the imperatives of a modern party with a strong policy thrust and the comforts of old certitudes. The end result was an identity crisis that led to the loss of allies, its absence from a large swathe of India and the truncation of a hitherto reliable middle class vote. In the 1990s, the BJP was the natural party of the youth; today, the Congress is the beneficiary of India’s demographic transformation. The party must ask why the children of BJP voters aren’t comfortable voting for the BJP.
After the 2004 defeat, the BJP desisted from asking the hard political questions that arise after a defeat. The belief that organisational consolidation alone can secure victory is self-deluding. The party’s surge in the 1990s and the Congress’ awesome performance in Uttar Pradesh weren’t on account of organisation. Voters are moved by politics. In the process, a ramshackle organisation gets thrown up. The BJP must once again ask the question it once addressed but has conveniently forgotten to ask of late: is it content to being a sectional player or does it want to be a serious contender for power?
If it wants to be a serious challenger to the Congress in the coming years, the party would avoid preaching to the converted. There is a vast constituency in India that is instinctively uncomfortable with the “Congress culture”. Yet, it is uneasy with a party that shows a lack of intellectual depth, shows inconsistency (as on the nuclear deal) and is perceived to be preoccupied with peripheral issues.
As a democracy, India needs both a strong government and a robust opposition. Unfortunately, this election has only thrown up only one of these. Fortunately, even that is a huge step forward.
(This article was first published in The Times of India on May 17, 2009.)
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54 Responses to “This Verdict will Force Leaders to Think Nationally”
Great article Swapan da. There is only one party in India which can win an election by chance and that is the INC. Support came from unexpected quarters leading to a stellar performance least expected by congressmen themselves. I think there is a perception among electorate that “When in doubt, vote for Congress”.
The BJP must now provide credible center right alternatives to the people. It has projected itself as a decisive party and a party with a difference and it must now walk the talk in analyzing why it bungled 2 consecutive elections so badly. The rot has to be stemmed with utmost urgency or we risk being thrown back in to 70’s, 80’s specially with a resurgent opposition. The heads of nationalists are on the line, they better get things right and in quick time.
–KRK Mohan
I have a new post in my blog:
Time for a reality check. You can read it here:
http://india15august.blogspot.com/2009/05/time-for-reality-check.html
Swapan is feeling really bad that ‘his’ party lost. So are we! But, why do you have to succumb to irrationalities. This piece makes all your previous articles seem like what this is: an opinion without analysis.
Look closely, the Congress took the Third Front vote!!
BJP lost Rajasthan and Delhi probably cos it was as badly fought as the recent assembly elections. And, the memory of the assembly elections are not yet gone. Uttarakand is a sad loss. Other than that, loss of some seats in Punjab are a bad as are the Mumbai seats being lost due to MNS.
If you take these away, everywhere BJP was it won more! In fact, all-India it just lost some 10-15 seats.
The Congress did not win a positive mandate. Then it should have won in BJP states, Orissa, Bihar, Goa. It won where there is no BJP. And, mostly where the Third Front (particulary the Communits) were present. In fact, except for BJD who have refused to admit the Commies into the govt, all those who had anything to do with the Commies lost! Perhaps BJD would have had a thumping win if they had not taken the commies on board.
Perhaps the BJD could have done much better if they had BJP. So too TDP, so too AIADMK.
If the BJP had taken Rajasthan and Delhi seriously, it would have had another 25 seats. If TDP and AIADMK had not taken on the commie support, they would have had perhaps 50 seats between them. That means the UPA would have (even with its ’spectacular’ success in Bengal, Kerala and UP) been at least 60 seats less that its present tally. Then what would you have said Swapan? It is a positive Congress vote?
There is need to retrospect about the lack of BJP votes in several states. But, there is no need to think the BJP has lost or Congress is back.
And, there is no pan-Indian sentiment. Where was this in Karnataka, Gujarat, Chattisgarh, Bihar, Orissa and so many states?
Please dont jump to conclusions. Please dont feel bad that what you predicted did not happen. Please dont feel pressured by the ’succular’ groups of Delhi and the media to knee-jerk reactions.
VR
Link to the article in Pioneer - BJP failed due to problems within by A Surya Prakash
http://www.dailypioneer.com/177181/BJP-failed-due-to-problems-within.html
बीबीसी हिंदी रेडियो ने उत्तराखंड में चुनाव के पहले ही PREDICT कर दिया था की बीजेपी की हालत यहाँ ख़राब है और चुनाव परिणाम बुरे आने वाले हैं कारण —- बीजेपी की सरकार ने विकास के काम जनता की अपेक्षानुरूप नहीं किया है .
Swapan da. Very good article indeed.
Can we first start with the state of WB? Its your state and you know how many intellectuals are voting. If Bengalis can think of everything else, why not a descent party to be chosen for the upliftment of the state itself?
A comparative study of performance of all those ruling parties in WB over past 20 years or so will reveal what the state has achieved so far.
BJP should indulge in deep analysis of overall growth of each state,and present data before the whole country.
If congress feels with 40 to 45% polling every year, is going to benifit the party, it’s perception wont last long. Huge fiscal deficit,price rise, increasing poverty, collosal lapse of internal security, depleting trade relations all are there before us to see. God has saved congress this time. But hard work and perseverance will help BJP smell the success soon.
Request you, Chandan Mitra Ji and other intellectuals of the state to make people of the state think whats good or bad for them.
In Orissa where congress once ruled for decades together is now battered, congress is fully dissapointed and will be dissapointed for many years together. So we cant say people across the country voted for congress. If any party is to come back to power in Orissa, its BJP only.
The last thing BJP needs is “intellectual analysis” of the sort that Swapan Dasgupta is doing. BJP should dump these “intellectual analysts” and keep things simple:
1.BJP is absent in AP, TN, wEST bENGAL AND kERALA which accounts for 144 seats and dormant in UP(80 seats). So, winning 272 out of remaining 320 seats is ruled out.
2.BJP is weak in Maharashtra(48 seats) and Orissa(21) seats.
3.Next task of BJP is to do the hard work and concentrate on the above seven states. BJP should make itself capable of winning assembly elections in these above 7 seats.
4.Dump alliance with Shiv Sena.Project a strong positive face like Nitin Gadkari who built infrastructure the last time BJP was in power in Maharashtra. Must win Maharashtra in 2009.
5.Must win West Bengal in 2009.
Let us not forget that BJP has not suffered rejection like the Left has. The Left has been rejected in States ruled by it-WB and Kerala. The anti-left votes went to Congress as BJP is absent and not a in these States.
In almost all states governed by BJP, BJP’s good governance has been rewarded.Except Uttarakhand, no wipe out of BJP in Karnataka, Gujarat, MP,Chattisgarh, HImachal,Jharkhand. BJP has done well in these.
“Please dont jump to conclusions. Please dont feel bad that what you predicted did not happen. Please dont feel pressured by the ’succular’ groups of Delhi and the media to knee-jerk reactions.”
Thank you Mr. V. Rao. My suggestion to Mr. Das - go on a sabbatical for a little while and compose yourself - seem to be a little too distraught. Wish you best of wealth and wisdom.
BJP’s discmfiture has been caused in 2004 and 2009 by aping Congress and trying to project secular image. Once a gentleman approached a music director and said my daughter sings like Lata Mangeshkar. The music director said “Fine. Then I dont need her. I have Lata Mageshkar already. If your daughter has something different to offer in terms of original music talent, I can consider”.
IF BJP WANTS TO BE LIKE CONGRESS AND APE IT, WHY VOTE FOR BJP? MIGHT AS WELL VOTE FOR ORIGINAL CONGRESS.
THANX TO VARUN GANDHI.BJP GOT 10 SEATS IN UP AT LEAST.
aNYWAYS, WHY U GUYS DO THIS BLOGGING? DO any of the TOP BJP leaders care to read the views posted here?
Are top BJP leaders accessible to common man.?
I am a CA. Will LK Advaniji give me an appointment to listen to me?
dear anand
our thoughts meet. so i think with many friends of bjp. i had been saying. i hear of people asking for a more centrist bjp sans hindutva. then what is the difference between bjp and congress less gandhis.
which one do you think will win. a secular bjp we just don’t need. we have too many secular parties, talk of joining nitish kumar rather. rather than abandoning hindutva bjp should explain to people why it is needed. there were no attempts ever made by bjp in this direction in its previous reign or in this campaign. whereas congress and media projected hindutva as a talibanic monster. bjp did nothing to counter that either. bjps service to hindutva was confined to building a temple that it didn’t build and protecting a setu that it didn’t really protect. neither it means such promise to any violence against any community as it seems varun did.
such a narrow interpretation of hundutva reduces hindutva to this 2 things in people’s mind.
BJP has won in the states where they were strong, but the number of seats/states with their presence is very less hence less number of seats and it is a open secret that third front loss and congress gained.. the immediate task for BJP is to shun its untouchable image and become more versatile, win over more states, make their presence felt in states like TN, Andhra, Kerala, WB, UP, Delhi, they need to create a solid base for themselves with / without any ally for this they need to understand the local politics and act accordingly (as they’ve done in Karnataka, I beleive BJP in Karanataka has understood the caste equations clearly hence its win, and the major credit for this win goes to Yedurappa who has steered the party to success). BJP needs to be more local in order to get to the PM chair….
Throw JD(U) out of NDA before Nitish Unpredictable Kumar walks out. Throw Swapan out of Friends of BJP before he walks out to join the UPA. Throw Shiv Sena out of BJP before BJP loses more seats. Throw all other lame alliance partners out too. And most of all, THROW out anyone who dares to CRITICIZE or BLAME MODI.
START AGAIN, START AFRESH.
REBUILD THE BJP. REBUILD THE HINDU COMMUNITY.
BRICK BY BRICK.
And lastly they need to be more media savy, BJP is known for its very good orators, they need to make use of them, they’ve to become more media savy. Have to make media friends and defenitely media can change the Hindutva image….
Throw JD(U) out of NDA before Nitish Unpredictable Kumar walks out. Throw Swapan out of Friends of BJP before he walks out to join the UPA. Throw Shiv Sena out of BJP before BJP loses more seats. Throw all other lame alliance partners out too. And most of all, THROW out anyone who dares to CRITICIZE or BLAME MODI.
START AGAIN, START AFRESH.
REBUILD THE BJP. REBUILD THE HINDU COMMUNITY.
BRICK BY BRICK…..
Actually in making this a ‘Cong won’ - ‘BJP lost’ discussion, we forget the country.
India is an amazing country. It truly does have a soul. If we look at the elections from Independence, the country as a whole threw up the best available bets.
Nehru was the best bet to keep India united in the early years. How ever much we like to curse socialism, it was needed to build the giant factories that built the foundation for India.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was truly one of the greatest souls to have led India.
Indira Gandhi was needed (as opposed to Kamaraj or Morarji Desai) to deal with Pakistan.
But, when Indira imposed the Emergency, this country of bumpkins (’illiterates who vote for Gandhi family blindly’, some would say), booted her out.
When the Janatha crowd showed their true colors, they were booted out.
A more sober Indira was a better bet than these guys who could not work together.
Again, the country showed only one grouping had national appeal: the BJP, all the rest of the Janatha Party remained regional players.
Then, Rajiv was the true face of a new India.
Narasimha Rao was again one of the finest minds to have sat in the PM’s chair. He disassembled the socialist machine, freed the Indian entrepeneural mind and pulled apart the corrupt Congress party.
The Third Front govts were a great period for the BJP to show its difference.
Vajpayee again was a water-shed. He will, along with Lal Bahadur Shastri, Narasimha Rao (and Rajiv, if he had a second chance) be polled by history to be among the game-changers for India.
2004: It was perhaps good the BJP did not win. They had got the disease of the new rich: arrogance and needed to have a cooling off period. Of going back to focus on the basics of what India needed: development. And, learning humility. They did it well in state after state they ruled. And, wherever they did it honestly, they won again and again. Meanwhile Sonia Gandhi was a revelation. Of the India’s truly secular character, letting a foreigner rule, but with constraints.
2009: The power of commies and irresponsible regional outfits has been curtailed. Without these folks, the govt can at least try to do something positive. The BJP could have won, but the Congress was in a better position. They did not exist in W.Bengal, Andra, TN. So the Congress was better positioned (though not better equipped, as many ‘experts’ gleefully extrapolate) to garner the anti-3rdFront vote. Whatever it is the country got stability. (And, some gleefully extrapolate that it was a pro-succular vote.) The BJP can at least try to be a responsible opposition. The govt would hopefully engage the BJP constructively unlike the last time. It is a good election to lose. Whoever comes to power has a hell of a job on hand. And, anti-incumbency will be massive in 2014. The BJP can, and hopefully would, become mellow, mature, focussed, level-headed, be able to enunciate its core values (of India first) more clearly and grow well in areas where it has not presence now. This could make it a good party to truly govern India from 2014 onwards.
India has spoken and spoken well. Let us pray the BJP has the ability to increase its strength to all parts of the country.
Dont forget Congress is over a 100 years old. It has a legacy that anywhere else would be impossible to overcome. Yet, in just a few decades, the BJP had grown to be able to rule the country. It will do it again!
VR
i dont agree to swapan’s intellectual analysis
I think what @V Rao has said makes sense.
People did not give BJP a single digit mandate.
There have been a lot of factors.
But i belive that BJP is truly and blindly beliveing a lot of people.
A lot of leaders and winners today were given a chance and support by Atalji. If not for Atalji where would be Didi, Biju, Karunanadhi today ?
forget whether we are in power or not
We should get to the people confort zone. People should think if something is going wrong, BJP is there and will take care and nobody could get away with that. That is the image we should try and win for, and actually strive ourselves for.
For a start , being a great ruthless and tireless opposition is what we want.
Call the leaders who have won and ask them how they are going to implement their manifesto.
Ask for a action plan of Black Money , Terorist curtaqilment ? Etc etc.
The BJP leaders should come out with press conference in all the BJP led states and immediately as soon as the regent PM takes oasth of office, hold this press conference and ask these questions.
After the parliament is in motion, rake up the Spectrum loss (MKNarayan has the bill which indicated 500crores were paid to the swiss bank acccount of Kanimozhi , DMK MK family)
Rake up how much TRBaalu has gobbled up in the Sethu projects
bring up hard line enquiries and stage protests so that CONgress and CO is silenced and compelled into action.
Boycott the National channels randomly like how NaMo walked out of karan thapar , flat on the face.
We are now made ashes.
Rise we must like a phoenix so that our opponents understand that Ashes make us nothing as will always come up from the ashes.
Jai Hind.
Yes we need BJP presence in TN.
LGanesan is the most corrupt person in TN.
Will BJP central leadership ever listen to anybody else?
Dear BJP friends,
Dear Swapan Da, Good article.
I am again surprised by the decision of BJP committee, to refuse Advaniji’s resignation. Are they not reading the views of friends of BJP? If you read many comments on this portal, about 90% BJP friends are saying to accept the resignation and give chance to some other candidate. I think BJP friend’s portal is just to do time pass; BJP leaders don’t consider our views. They don’t care about Swapan Da… J
I think BJP leaders doing same mistakes again and again.
When they are not giving chance to Sushma swaraj? Arun Jetley? Ravishankarji? Narendra Modi? I cant name more names than these.
Look at the Congress, Milind Deora, Priya Dutta, Rahul Gandhi, Jotiraditya Sindhiya, Nilesh Rane, Priyanka Gandhi, sachin pilot, Shashi Tharoor, manish tiwari, ….. I think they have big list. The average age is 40….
(In this case you may say, I don’t know about BJP much, but please think, Even though I am supporter of BJP / RSS swayamsevak I can name only these names, then what will be the condition of those who don’t have any interest in politics)
When these BJP candidates will get the chance they will be in there 60s. Is the 60 years is young age from BJP’s point of view?
Now your well set typical answer for this statement would be: “All of young congress members have family background, and that’s why they won.” BUT WHO STOPS BJP TO DO THE SAME? If you can’t do that then it’s your problem. If you don’t want to do this, because of ethics then at least you have to create young candidates.
Why BJP failed to take Poonam Mahajan in to active politics this time? I am sorry to say, BUT old BJP leaders have super EGO in their mind. Now just take an example of Mr Ram Naik, now he lost last times election against Mr Govinda, This time again he got the ticket, though he is in his 80s. WHY WHY WHY - BJP was not able to produce any young candidate in that constituency in last 5 years. Actually it was (and is) Ram naiks duty to use his contacts, Image and experience to produce such candidate for party. And as far as my thinking this will be the much valuable contribution for the BJP than getting elected.
Now I would like to mention about a short DRAMA, which we saw in BJP yesterday. First Advaniji, gave his resignation for leading in opposition. The movement he gave this thought, one other OLD man from BJP, Mr Murli Manohar Joshiji (who is also in his 70s), jumped by saying I don’t have any problem to lead the party as Leader of opposition. (They both have EGO problem in them, and unfortunately they both are OLD. Here I must say, I don’t have any personal grudge but this is the way public think, or media force them to think in this way. Take what ever way you want, but net effect is sane), and after that, Advani accepted to lead opposition. Why Sushmaji is not accepting the opposition leader post? Is she frightened? Or She thinks she is not capable to do the same? If she is not capable and having no confidence, they BJP wasted parties time which they spend to improve her candidature.
The potential reason party may be thinking is, If Advani gives resignation, it will be like, accepting the defeat of Advaniji in front of Manmohanji. So what, why you are not ready to accept the fact?? I think this is the EGO and which will lead to serious damages to party and in turn to nation, as I strongly believe that BJP is having something different to change the future of India.
I am really sorry if I am hurting anybodies sentiments, BUT this is the way common youth / public thinking. Pleas reply to this on same portal or mail me at akshay.phatak@gmail.com
Interesting article on BJP’s defeat:
http://rajyaniti.blogspot.com/2009/02/test.html
Sushma Swaraj- looks like someone straight out of Saas Bahu serial.
Jaswant Singh- one can’t make out a word of what he speaks.
Murli Joshi- straight out of a sanskrit class.
Why doesn’t BJP have someone who looks like Murli Deora, Jyotir Scindia?
Unless BJP gets a strong leader it is doomed.
Narender Modi should have realized he has moved to upper league. He should have acted more mature. He kept himself to the same earlier level. But even he lacks that modern thinking which is needed to analyse things, more common sense.
BJP did nothing to counter terrorism after 26/11 except calling Manmohan weak. Terrorism is not to be fought merely millitarily or through tough laws or better intelligence or better legal system. All the above are defensive measures and take a hell lot of money.
One has to attack the ideological base of terrorism.Did the senior leadership of BJP ever bother to study the e-mail sent by Indian Mujahidden during Ahmedabad blasts? The e-mail was a veritable manifesto of terrorism where the terrorists specified what motivates them to do so. Should they have not launched an ideological warfare/information warfare on Jehadi terror by speaking on the e-mail in the Parliament?
Also must add that VRao’s post was excellent. Thanks man.. that’s why there’s hope for BJP.. with people like you.
Narendra Modi needs to fine tune his public speaking. In 2004 elections, he put off people by personally attacking Sonia Gandhi. In 2009, he started calling Congress Budhia party, Gudia party and all that.
Hi All,
First thing I think BJP should start preparing themself for 2012 UP election. Everyone knows BJP is not in all states. That comes focus on less area and materializa maximum. But we were not able to win from our strength. If you see J&K, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Raj, Guj, MP, Mah etc which are our strength we lost at least 30-40 seats which would have directly deducted from Congress tally.
If you will see Congress in UP focused on seats where they have strength and luckly won lot of them.
Similarly we have to identify UP assembly seats and fully focus on them to win, may be not all.
Second thing if you cannot win then make sure you are spoiling winning of your opponent(Congress) which BJP was not able to do in Kerla, TN, AP, WB, Orissa etc.
So let us work together for next UP election and that will make foundation for Election 2014.
Thanks & Regards,
Suresh Srivastava
@Suresh
Yes. UP 2012. Before that Maharashtra(2009) and West Bengal (2011). BJP should start preparing aggressively. If these State Governments come to BJP, that would cover 170 Lok Sabha Seats. So in Next Election, this would mean 80-100 additional seats for the BJP.
A really great article by Swapan da. It has been shocking. We were actually doing a wihfull thinking when we thought that NDA will return to power.
I believe BJP is gone in Uttar Pradesh. No mass appealing leader is here for U.P. Mr. Rajnath Singh being president chose safe constituency.
There are a few people who get connected by Net. This party is really missing mass leaders who can really mobilise masses and encourage them to vote
Distributed tickets to people who can barely walk and was trying to take Rahul Gandhi head on. It is pity.
During the days of Karseva there was huge mass movement. Nowadays there is no Leader who can really explain the policies of BJP to masses.
End result a damp squib.
It has to revive itself in U.P. otherwise sfter 2014 BJP will be a regional party.
BJP is not gone anywhere. Its there to further tighten the loose congress.
wait for the list of corrupt leaders in congress to be out soon. If memory is not too short for congress, many of their today’s so called secular leaders were forgotten/wiped out.
Only thing they know is to play the opportunistic game.. dump a partner, marry one more.. even they are ok with having strange partners outside marriage(Lalu and Maya may be Amar too).
One can clearly see how the success of the party is attributed to Rahul and Gandhi family now. How about the other party workers? Ofcourse they cant mention the names of media .. its ok.. Rahul Gandhi wants to be a PM.. Whats his experience as in parliamentary system? What does he know about running a state let alone center?
To present the fact boldly, we dont need glamourous politics and see one terror attack after other, country needs experienced, astute, honest, ethical leadership and its in the blood of every senior BJP leader. Only suggestion is to
work hard in non-BJP states, involve mass politics, and reach out to people to clarify what you really mean by national integrity and hindutva.
Backfire and even file a case against whoever calls you or your leaders as communal. Let Supreme court give the verdict as to who is secular and punish those who are doing vote based ugly politics against BJP.
Hey folks
Why passivism? No need to become despondant. Feeling bad is alright. Feeling good is also alright.
You lost in general election but you won in states MP, Karnataka. You also lost in states like rajasthan and UP.
So analysis should also include what made us loose or win in these states. Ofcourse voters are not a uniform mass in any place. They are human with human strengths and weaknesses . Please treat them with respect. It is the voters = janta janardan who makes people in to kings and vice versa. Reading this whole debate it is feeling as we have forgotton some thing — and that is people of India. That is what BJP’s probelm is, it does not speak to people it speak at people.
Constructive criticism should be adopted and not belitteling critcism e. g. say this is what manmohan singh did wrong , this is is what he should have done in our opinion and this would have brought this kind of benefit, and not say things like he is week etc etc, donot say he/ she is in politics due to his/mother/father etc. True they are there because thier parents were in it but they wont stay if they wont perform. In India many of us are in a particular profession because our parents were in that profession and not because we liked it. It does give you a head start. For e.g. if your father was a doctor with a large practice you can start with his practice and then if you are a good doctor you will have a good clientale, but if you are a bad doctor then they will not be your clients any more. Infact that is the basis of the old and now rotten cast system in India !!!! look at how many doctors have doctor sons/daughters how many carpenters ditto and how many other such family crafts still thriving in India and you will get the hang of what I am saying!!!
I think both Priiyanka and Rahul are well brought up and well mannered good natured youngsters. They got a break in politics due to the family they belong to OK let them now prove they are worthy of thier legacy. If they wont do that Janta janardan had rejected thier grand mother and it will reject them also.
BJP must keep its USP. What is that in BJP? If they will dilute thier ideology then what is thre to choose between them and congress? But this ideology must change with time. It must be modern ideology. Frankly my generation ( I am 50 +) does’nt think building a mandir is all that important. Ithink working for poor is much more important. Let our hindutva be NAR IS NARYAN and NAR SEWA IS NARYAN SEWA. Is any thing is wrong with it.
Hindus must look with in , why are other relgieons becoming stronger in land of hindus? Is it becouse we donot care one way or other? Or is it because most of us are non practicing hindus? Or is it because we practice exclusion dharma rather than inclusive approach. Keep the “malech” out, he will pollute? Keep lower cast out , donot have roti and beti ka rishta with them? We nee to rexamine our approach to our dharma. This exclusion of large chunks of people from main stream, putting power in to hands of very few people, creating large disparities in societies, have always caused falls of larger civilizations than ours. We have survived only because of our dharma of ahimsa and inclusive ness and philosphy of living and letting to live. Please continue that. Hope Mr. Modi doesnot forget it in future. No body is saying it but I think he is responsible for creating this image of BJP with two big horns on its head, and logical conclusion of those days is these two defeats. Those who were killed were also indians and not foriegners. No body batted an eyelash when those terrorists were killed in akhshardham, but why innocent people Mr. Modi? If you would have caught those who did Godhra and punished them it would have been a feather in your cap, and you would have been prime minister of India soon enough. Now you have no hope.
Please remember that two wrongs will not make a right. So wrong is wrong. You must take responsibility of good and bad deeds both.
Indians need to remember that in india all indians are equal. No one is more Indian than other and that applies to denatured citizens too.
Please remember India is a poor country. If you will not include poor you will only create one more divide in this country. Can the politicians be so blind? they cannot see the need of starting a kitchen in kalahandi? What will poor do to earn a few rupees? how does it matter to them to what god they pray if it does not provide thier children with food and basic amenities. Mr. Bajrang dal proponents ever tried to sleep under sky with a hungry stomach? Ever seen your children being booted out of a school because they dont have fees? Ever faced the huilation of going to a wedding in rags? Ever tried to peep through a hole in a place where people with plenty are dancing to english tunes and eating food a plate of which will cost more than your monthly income?
OK conversions are by coerscion , so covert them back with more and better. Put work in to thier hands, education in to their minds and cloths on thier back, that are better than other party is offering. Who is stopping you? Organise your charity VHP and do not consider it alms but investment in to a better and brighter India. Open schools at thier door step on minimum expenditure grant quality education that is not steeped in past but in future, provide in villages stop urbanisation creating slums and urban poor, by eliminating darkness in thier lives and for heavens sake dont be holier than thou. Do what the others are doing to convert from your religeon and do it in a better way and reconvert. Do not just talk talk talk and talk do some thing.
For me India and Indians first what ever cast creed or color they may be.
Is coming in power so important? Cant you work without sitting on gaddi?
so forget all this pessivism work hard with people and for people, am sure people will know where thier interest is.
Jai Hind
nina duttaroy ,
I am so unhappy that you are still unable to accept the fact that Congress and its leaders have taken 60 years to address even a single issue that you have mentioned.
Do you expect BJP to resolve all the problems that the country is facing in just 6 years of its rule?
Please visit the BJP ruled state and you will see whats equality and how the CMs are performing.
If you talk of Kalahandi, I have visited that place many times, do u know who plays nasty politics there? Congress still wants to divide the people in the name of roti, kapda, makan only at the time of election. Congress was ruling in orissa for more than 30 years. Is it not answerable to all that?
What has congress done to the poor states during its long drawn governance period?
People in states like Orissa, Bihar, MP, Chatisgarh have realized that congress has cheated for many years and the reason for their poverty. Pls go and ask in these states.. u will know how much they want Congress to be in power.
I have seen poverty and I have seen how congress leaders have amassed huge national and state wealth for their benifit.
Why is India still scoring the lowest when it comes to Human development index? Why India is competing with African countries alone for getting a better Human development rating?
60 years of rule or 6 years of rule (who is to be blamed?)
Nasty politics is what BJP does not embrace. Let congress come and engage in a straight election battle.
swapandas is partially right..atleast, BJP should think about younger generation which is now fine tuning with Congress,,THIS PART SHOULD BE TAKEN CARE ABOUT..but all said and done, it is very true that CONGRESS has captured power by NOT defeating BJP,but by wiping out THIRD FRONT SPECIALLY LEFT…THE people or the voters of the LEFT ruled and LEFT influenced states/region seems to be tired of the ANTI DEVELOPMENTISM of the LAAL SALAM,and as such have rejected it,BUT SINCE, BJP had neglible influence in these regions,the voters turned towards CONGRESS..
To get the youth faces and their views BJP can look at this site if they have time from their infighting and cutting others short
The first reason for the defeat of the B.J.P.is the selfish attitude of Hindu Leadership, as the conquest of India says nothing about the supeririority of Mughal or British Dominance, but it was the weakness and character assisnation of Individual selfish Hindu, who invited the traitors and defeated us. We see at Allahabad that Murli Manohar Joshi Is contesting election from Varanasi, as the lobby of Keshari Nath Tripathi will not give Him the Support.The reason is the defeat of Keshri Nath Tripathi by the lobby of Murli Manohar Joshi. Murli Manohar Joshi desire to have the contest with samajwadi party on the muslim vote bank is another factor of defeat. Sri P.N.Oak with historically prooved evidence comprising of about 15 books and many evidence filed a writ petition at Allahabad High Court by engaging me as the counsel in re Institute of Rewriting History and desired that falsehood be exposed in respect of authorship of monuments including taj Mahal, which are still the remains of our glorious temples and fortous built by Hindu Rulers, but on account of wrong historical foundations, these monuments are given to islamic fundamentalists to include these monuments as WAKF property, but Murli Manohar Joshi denied to raise this issue in 2003 parliamenatarian election, despite having support of Many Hindu Minded political parties and other religious and social organisations under the false perceptions, that he will get the election contested with the muslims support. Sonia Gandhi was given undue predominance by Atal Bihari Bajpai during his tenure of Indian Prime Minister. His food habits, his way of style and the culture was resembling to the culture of Nehru and Rajiv gandhi style of ruling the nation. He never allowed kalyan singh to creat his position. He denounced Uma bharti , being the fire brand leader from active politics. He had suppoted the Indira Gandhi Stand , in getting the enquiry dropped , inspite the protest made by Balraj Madhok regarding the involvement of Indira Gandhi in Deen Dayal Upadhaya Muder case. Vasundhara Raje was the Minister of C.B.I. conducting inquery regarding continuing her presence by SONIA GANDHI from 1968 upto 2003 as italian citizen, but that enquiry was dropped by Bajpai Govt. Rahul Gandhi alias Raul Viji Roborto was arrested along with a combodian girl with 10 million dollars at Boston Air port on 21 September 2001 by the F.B.I. for keeping such a huge amount in his custody for transfering it from one bank to another, but bajpai govt. through Brijesh Mishra let this Bofors money detected by Secret agency in the custody of Rahul gandhi scot free. Why Mulayam singh was offered governance by denouncing Mayawati and whether these policies are not anti hindus policy of bajpai Govt.People have no such short memory as they may not identify the enemy amongest the Hindu Majority. Trust upon O.B.C. and Schedule castecomprising of the population of 45 % and 27 % espectively , if you wants to fight against anti nationalist forces. If you support the divisive forces at youir home, who from the out side is going to trust upon you. Raj Nath Singh has neither such a status as to win over the Hindu leadership in India, but he was inducted by Atal Bihari Bajpai to survive and to protect his own lobby.All the contestants were the new faces and B.J.P. never allowed the National leadership of like minded people.B.J.P. denounce the national Hindu Hero Sri Narendra Modi to project him as future prime Minister, to which every Hindu political organisation was supporting at the beginning of election. I filed the petition throgh Ravi Kant Khare, the general Secretary of Hindu Maha Shabha contending there in that Smt Sonia Gandhi is falsely representing herself as Hindu Widow, while she is a Roman Chatholic and she can not contest election on 8th May 2005 ( Bue Election from Rai Barreilly, on account of her alligience and adherence with Italy, as this is thedisqualification prescribed under Article 102 (1)(d) of the Constitution of India to become the member of Parliament. I am thank ful of Sri Balraj Madhok, National President Of Bhartiya Jan Sangh , who inducted me as State President and National Legal Spokesman, but always directed me to support B.J.P..I am thankful of Maharaj Gorakhnath Ji Maharaj and Maharaj Adityanath Ji, under whom i got the correct perception of Hinduism. I am thankful
of Maharaj Chinnminhanand Ji maharaj of Parmarth Ashram Haridwar, the great Hindu Scholar and Thinker, who instigated me to suppot B.J.P.. I am thankful of Sudharshan Dhandhariya of Rastriya Ahinsha Manch Kakotta, who have given me the slogan for inspirng the people to cast their vote as Cow, who can not cast her vote, may be protected. It is not the time to glorify M.F.Hussain or Afazal and Kashab by encouraging them as the congress by implementing Sacchar Commission has done.The pension will be given to the faimly of Terrorists committing Jihad, while no body will take care of Dara, Sadhavi, Major Upadhyaya. It is the warning to B.J.P., not to behave like JAI CHANDRA, but act like Chanakya to revive the past glory of our tradition. I consider that a non vegitarian , a person dependent upon the falsehood and supporters of the rascal in the public is not An Hindu, but the Ravan and Kansh of Sat yug, and we need the eliminations of these opportunist elements fronm the Hindu Discenary.
Dear True friend of BJP
where is the dispute regarding what congress has done wrong? Ofcourse they have done wrong and that is why I am with BJP. Most of the ills are due to or because of congress i agree. All the same we need to accept people’s verdict with grace and rise above this blame game. If congress will still not improve than it will write its own obiuary very soon. Change for better is a must be it BJP or congress. What is better? learn from your mistakes improve and become a winner or whine and whine and blame every thing on past?
So friend open your eyes and fight back. Dont just feel bad
All I am saying is we
need to improve further and look into that in a pragmatic way. Negativism never helped any one. I am not better because some body is bad I am better because i have better qualities, so build on those.
Vande Mataram
Dear Friends
You know the basic reason that We (BJP )could not do better was inner conflict between our sernior leaders. It gave a wrong message that there would be conflit for the post of PM after election.SO i request to the senior leader that BJP was known for its supreme sacrifice. Pls don’t Forget. Do not deviate from the national programme.
Tomorrow is our.
Jai Hind
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SHOCKING NEWS-TODAY’S HINDUSTAN TIMES
At a Delhi-state meeting of the ABVP at Jawaharlal Nehru University last month, activists were asked not to campaign for the party.
tHE REASON:the ABVP, born in 1948, is not the student wing of the BJP, founded in 1980. So, the ABVP should not campaign for the BJP. ABVP regional organising secretary Sunil Bansal and Delhi state vice-president Manoj Kumar echoed this self-defeating line.
This electoral battle was touted as one where the party that captures the mind of the youth, wins.
The BJP lost it hands-down.
Reason: Party’s PM candidate L.K. Advani chose laptop-wielding young professionals with no political experience over the 16 lakh-strong network of the RSS’s student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
Thus, blind to history, the BJP repeated its 2004 ‘India Shining’ blunder, choosing style over substance
Every newpaper today reported that Rajnath Singh led in persuading Advaniji to stay as leader of opposition since he did not want to be seen as below par with Sushma Swaraj in efficiency. His lack lustre performance as president is there for all to see. The party constitution does not allow a second term for him,and the crafty fellow is trying to get the constitution ammended with the help of RSS to accomodate him. But in the event that his efforts fail then after December he will be without a post and Sushma will be seen as superior to him. So Advaniji was told to hold fort till a consensus is reached. By agreeing to this Advaniji has become a laughing stock amoungst the head-weight boisterous Congressmen. They say “Majbooth Neta” is not so majbooth after all. Advaniji should have quit. I have nothing against him. I even sympathise with him a lot because in my opinion he had got a raw deal from ABV on many occassions. ABV has insulted him in public whenever a difference between them was highlighted by the media and enemy jasoos. However had he quit now, then the BJP would have sent a very strong merssage to both its supporters and detractors that it now means business and it is determined to set its house in order. But behold! this was not to be. Instead you have yet another story of internal squabble being played. When the hell will BJP stop this nautangi. Sushma Swaraj as ABV’s parliamentary affairs minister was brilliant. She is meticulous, does her homework well, is a good orator in Hindi and English and is moderate in her statements. If people like MR Rajnath singh cannot think beyond himself and holds the party to ransom for his personal fancies, then BJP is going nowehere from here. Rajnath singh may not be alone, and in all probabilities,there are others like him with bloated egos in top positions who continue to wreck the party. Rajnath singh is not half as articulat as susma and cannot speak english. I think we at friends of BJP could or rather should give a joint representation to the party to mend its ways or lose the most loyal support base like this one also. We all differ on what has to be done but we should also remember that we are all talking in anguish and disappointment. I strongly feel that the higher ups in the party should be made to realise that they better act immediately or else far from creating new support bases the most staunch one like ours’ will also go. If anyone of you on this forum agrees to this view and can take it forward with the consent of others, please do so. Also if anyone has a better idea of some kind of joint action from all of us which will have the required impact please do write here.
first thing that bjp should do is to bring in some young leaders.we are blank in WB,TN,ANDARA,KERALA,even orissa.without winning in these states how can we form our govt…even we dont have a ground base in these states.we want to develop our party in these states or else we will get the same result that we got now.i am from tamil nadu.if i get some touch with bjp state leaders i am with my friends will work hard to have some base for the party in my home town….by means only we can develop our party in these states…
@Rama Srinivasan
Yes. Nothing Majbooth about Advaniji. He failed to be nirnayak(decisive) on the Varun Gandhi episode.
He could have:
(a)Withdrawn Varun’s candidature and told him-”Go and explain the forged CD things to Courts and get your name cleared-then we will field you; or
(b)Backed Varun by saying-”I agree with contents but not the language used. Varun should use sober langauge”
But decisivenes was totally missing.
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Dhananjay May 18, 2009 5:32 AM
अगर पत्रकार ख़ुद को अफ़वाह फैलाने से बचाकर रखें तो बेहतर होगा. जनता को ही यह तय करने दें कि वह क्या चाहती है. आजकल मीडिया ने अपने विचार फैलाकर प्रजातंत्र का अपहरण कर लिया है. मीडिया सिर्फ़ सूचना देने का माध्यम हैं लेकिन आजकल यह तथाकथित धर्मनिरपेक्ष भी बना हुआ है. भाजपा ऐसे ही मीडिया की शिकार हुई है जो यह सोचते हैं कि भाजपा का विरोध करना ही मुख्यधारा का काम है. भाजपा ही ऐसी पार्टी है जो सिद्धांतों की लड़ाई लड़ रही है. अगर लोग आप पर हमला करने लगें तो ऐसे में सिद्धांत बदलना राजनीति में ठीक नहीं. दूसरे सभी दल हार जाने पर अपने मुद्दे बदल देते हैं. इसे सिद्धांत नहीं कहते.
We should take this defeat sportingly and plan out for the Future .
* More Allies needed in states where there is no presence citing the loss of 3rd Front
* More young spokepersons should be inducted from all fields and familiarze with the media
* A pan indian President should be elected as president as Rajnath Singh doesnt fit into a role of ALL INDIA ( he is more of a UP guy)
* L K Advani should be ibn the advisory team bcoz of vast experience
* New innovative idea for governance should be put inplace and test it in State Govern by it
showing role model States / Dists
* More pro poor agendas should be included and soft Hindutva should be propagated
* New innovative idea for governance be propagated in a road show all over India
I am really delighted to see so many young minds giving ideas to strengthen BJP. As educated, we understand the importance of BJP in Indian politics . My only fear is that we don’t get ourselves stuck in analyzing. No analysis is going to be right as they are more of ones opinions than real analysis.
We can firmly say that majority of educated and well informed people stick with BJP. But we fail to understand that India is not just Bangalore , Hyderabad, Delhi or other towns. There are millions of people who live in villages and they don’t vote based on national issues. If there is no Pan-india sentiment , we crate a sentiment. This sentiment is not going to be a short lived like Ayodhya or Ram Sethu. It has to be like a permanent sentiment via relationship. The only language they understand is service. Unless we reach them and get in touch with them on regular basis, BJP cannot be a party with a difference.
In gujarat and other places, BJP strong because VHP and RSS is strong. They reach people and have direct relationship with the people.
I suggest we strengthen RSS and VHP and raise funds for their service activities while we reach the educated by internet and other means that friends of BJP is currently utilizing.
Following is the link to the artcle in Indian Express - It was the enemy within that routed the BJP in LS 2009 by Shishir Gupta
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/night-without-end/462531/0
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Dhananjay May 18, 2009 5:32 AM
अगर पत्रकार ख़ुद को अफ़वाह फैलाने से बचाकर रखें तो बेहतर होगा. जनता को ही यह तय करने दें कि वह क्या चाहती है. आजकल मीडिया ने अपने विचार फैलाकर प्रजातंत्र का अपहरण कर लिया है. मीडिया सिर्फ़ सूचना देने का माध्यम हैं लेकिन आजकल यह तथाकथित धर्मनिरपेक्ष भी बना हुआ है. भाजपा ऐसे ही मीडिया की शिकार हुई है जो यह सोचते हैं कि भाजपा का विरोध करना ही मुख्यधारा का काम है. भाजपा ही ऐसी पार्टी है जो सिद्धांतों की लड़ाई लड़ रही है. अगर लोग आप पर हमला करने लगें तो ऐसे में सिद्धांत बदलना राजनीति में ठीक नहीं. दूसरे सभी दल हार जाने पर अपने मुद्दे बदल देते हैं. इसे सिद्धांत नहीं कहते
भ्रष्ट मीडिया
छद्म धर्मनिरपेक्षता (PSEUDO SECULARISM) इस देश की सभी मुसीबतों की जड़ है.इस जड़ पर वार करना होगा .मीडिया क्योंकि इन छद्म धर्मनिरपेक्ष दलों और नेताओं की दलाल बनी बैठी है इसलिए बीजेपी अपेक्षानुसार आगे नहीं बढ़ पा रही है . उसके मार्ग में यही सबसे बड़ी बाधा है .यह मीडिया एक राष्ट्र भक्त पार्टी को सांप्रदायिक कहकर बदनाम कर रही है .इस सम्बन्ध में बीजेपी को कुछ न कुछ करना ही होगा .वरना ये भ्रष्ट मीडिया उसके रास्ते में रोड़ा डालती रहेगी .
Sena claims it got only 5 votes in South Mumbai booth which is Sena’s stronghold. I am wandering Sena should contact people in that booth and if it is true then show it to the media as a proof. Is EVM working fine.?
http://www.domain-b.com/economy/Govt/20090516_evms_malfunctioned.html
I am supported of BJP and I can give a summary what BJP needs to do. Here is my my 9 point agenda for the party.
1. Bad Press, you cannot have vernacular press against you. Remember “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on”. Have your own press or buy press but do something.
2. Good governance: You must have good governance and that’s every where BJP forms government, just not in one state. We missed Rajasthan a BJP bastion in 2004. Start winning these states where BJP has presence like Rajasthan/Haryana/Delhi and use this to win other states.
3. New Leader: This is very important. The media is going ga-ga over Rahul Gandhi and presenting BJP with leadership void, so we need some one who can be in politics for next 20 years to counter him, also who appeals to young and would be progressive. Party has to have consensus on him. A leader who is supported by cadre make cadres energetic as Vajpayeeji did. If its Modi, let him be, but have consensus on it and no further infighting on the same.
4. Redefine Identity: Why people should vote for BJP? What BJP offers that Congress does not? See BJP as product and you will get the answer. BJP has to have pan-India approach and spread this identity. India votes in villages not in cities, so let’s get their attention too.
5. Alliances: BJP can have alliance but should build its own base there as well. We cannot have one more Orissa. I think if we don’t take care of situation, Nitish will soon dump us and we will loose Bihar too. You cannot give all credits to other party; we should have revolving CM system.
6. Have presence in whole-India level and educate masses on Congress’s misrule. Take help of RSS, we hardly have presence in West Bengal/Tamil Nadu/Andhra / Kerala. Active participation at grass root level is very crucial and the effect will be addition of few more seats in next election. For cities take help of friends of BJP and use them.
7. Hindutva : Explain it clearly and distinctly and be-aggressive to counter false propaganda, all leaders should speak in same voice. BJP’s propaganda of Hindutva should be to make it a progressive idea and not hijacked by Ram Sene and BD.
8. Effective opposition: We did not play effective opposition, if we believe in something, we cannot take U-turns. We cannot become what Amar Singh is or Congress is. Make noises about what matters to Indian votes like corruption etc, mandir can take a back seat.
9. Positive approach: The world doesn’t end here, it did not end when we got 2 seats it will not end now, spread the positive word in whole India.
What is important is to take criticism and work on its implementation, we lost in 2004, we introspected and yet we lost in 2009?
We need to remember that “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject”. We have to be pragmatic not fanatic and take it from here. There is always a silver lining. We made inroads in UP and India voted more for national party not regional parties. We have lost many elections and we will win many. So let’s shake up and start working from day one.
“The dream does not end rather starts form here”
Regards,
S.Chatterjee
Narender Modi should have realized he has moved to upper league. He should have acted more mature. He kept himself to the same earlier level. But even he lacks that modern thinking which is needed to analyse things, more common sense.
Vineet:
Analysis in not about slick look but what goes on in your mind, how you process facts and information and how you reach conclusions. Mr. Modi’s expression could be more savvy minus the anger but most of what he says has substantive content.
I haven’t heard anything from any of the Congress slick lookers but sound bytes and stick to the script three point statements except for Thuroor, who speaks in an impressive, polished accent but makes minimal sense.
Good looks help, but if all of one’s judgment about a person’s caliber and intellect is about whether their looks are out of a Saas-Bahu serial or a Hollywood movie it is time to step back, reflect and figure out what intellect and caliber and thoughtfulness and analytical mind and common sense is supposed to be about first.
Incidentally, would it automatically make a person more intelligent if they looked like some Hollywood star as opposed to from a Saas-Bahu serial.
Leadership 101
BJP needs strong leadership at multiple levels. Top leadership is not inspiring and fail to evoke confidence and faith in people. There is no succession planning and it operates like a fragmented organization with no clear vision and purpose. Take cue from Obama, how a towering leader can make the whole nation swing to a new tune, in his case it was “change”. He had the vision and skills to articulate the “change” message and what it means for all Americans.
Modi has right attributes and skills but has lot of baggage, in form of a hostile media and negative perception, but 5 yrs are enough to change that (Indians do not even remember what happened in 26/11, unless media makes it a point to drum it up all the time like they do with Gujrat riots).
Let us all work towards the next battle and establish Modi as a visionary leader who can lead India
धर्मनिरपेक्षता का लेबल
धर्मनिरपेक्षता का लेबल होने से सारे पाप छिप जाते हैं . और यदि कोई राज नेता संगीन भ्रष्टाचार किया हुआ हो तो उन्हें माफ़ी भी मिल जाती है—-सवाल धर्मनिरपेक्षता की रक्षा का जो ठहरा . जितने भी राजनीतिक दल और नेता हैं करीब-करीब सभी अपने पाप छुपाने के लिए इस लेबल को लगाये हुए हैं .इन दलों को धर्मनिरपेक्ष होने की महानता का लाभ चुनाव में थौक वोट बैंक के रूप में तो मिलता ही है .साथ ही साथ यह लेबल वक़्त बेवक्त इन्हें काम भी आता रहता है .अब यही मायावती और मुलायम सिंह और लालू यादव को ही ले लीजिये . इन तीनो नेताओं पर भ्रष्टाचार का सीबीआई केस चल रहा है .बेचारे क्या करे मुलायम और लालू का सपना था कि फौर्थ फ्रंट बनाकर अच्छी खासी सीटें हासिल कर केंद्र में अपनी शर्तों पर सरकार बनवाने की .लेकिन उनका यह सपना धरा का धरा ही रह गया .कांग्रेस को सरकार बनाने के लिए अच्छी खासी सीटें मिल गयीं .और ये मुँह तकते रह गए .आज कांग्रेस को न तो मुलायम की जरुरत है न लालू यादव की .उधर मायावती भी कांग्रेस की बहुमत वाली सरकार बनने से परशान है सोच रही थी कि थर्ड फ्रंट में शामिल होकर प्रधान मंत्री की गद्दी तक तो पहुँच ही जाएँगी .लेकिन अफ़सोस मायावती का भी सपना चूर चूर हो गया .अब ये तीनो इस बात से डरे हुए हैं कि कहीं कांग्रेस इनके विरूद्व चल रहे भ्रष्टाचार के केस न खुलवा दे और इनके लिए आगे मुसीबत न खड़ी हो जाये सो ये तीनो नेता धर्मनिरपेक्षता के नाम पर और सांप्रदायिक शक्तियों को सत्ता से दूर रखने के नाम पर कांग्रेस को बिना शर्त समर्थन देने के लिए तैयार हो गए .
है न धर्मनिरपेक्षता के लेबल का कमाल .!
Few Things which BJP need to do:
1. Have leaders who doesn’t shoot from their hips but prove themselves by their work like of Late Pramod Mahajan
2. Revamp entire central leadership. Rajnath G should be better allowed to take care of issues whihc are not pivotal for the party. He is one of the worst performer.
3. Have more educated young leaders as spokesperson and face of the party rather then projecting everytime the same old faces.
4. At grassroot level ask all 116 MPs to use fully the MPLAD funds and showcase each of their constituencies as model city / province to others where BJP lost.
5. Start organising Chaupal meetings with poors and villagers. Associate yourself with them and win them. One has to remember you won’t find more loyal voters then them. Ask them whether they want to remain poor with help of Congress or want to raise their social status even if they are not with BJP. Rahul Gandhi says Congress Garibo ki Party hai.. Boss Garibo ko hi amir bana do to Congress apne aap ghabra jayegi…
6. Infighting and anti-incumbency: Restore the same old standard of discipline for which BJP was known. Project new faces in state where BJP is stonlgy present. Remember anti incumbency is not against government. So always create back up plans
7. Alliances: Project model governances story showcasing Nitish’s government which demonstrates how a collition government can work for the betterment of state and people keeping aside narrow interest.
8. Hindutva: PLEASE GO SOFT ON THIS ISSUE. YOUNG VOTERS ARE EDUCATED AND INTELLIGENT. TALK ABOUT DEVELOPMENT AND COUNTRY. SHOWCASE YOUR ACHIEVEMNTS GUYS>> YOU HAVE ALOT TO SHOW THAT BJP HAS BEEN GOOD OR BETTER WHENVER AND WHEREVER GIVE THE CHANCE>>>
9. INTERACTION: Increase your interaction with voters in places where we lost by marginal difference. This would help alot in coming state elections. This do not mean that you should ignore places where you won.. there you have to work much harder.. remember incumbency is against people and not government or party..
10. Avoid non-constructive postmorterm analysis otherwise BJP will be the same what congress was under Sitaram Kesri!!
Cheers!
Dear Friends
Rather than blaming each other for the loss in the recently held general elections we should sit and think where,why and how we went wrong?As one of our friend rightly stated Congress hasn’t dented the BJP base but it has gained because of other regional parties such as SP,BSP,LEFT and NCP.More over we have fared very badly in Southern Part of India except Karnataka and here congress got the upper hand.First of all we have to understand that Hindutva alone cannot win elections.We have to discuss development and that can be proved only by showing some concrete results in BJP ruled states like Karnataka,Chattisgarh,MP,Uttarakhand.Also I think we emphasised a lot on the issue of weak prime minister which ultimately resulted in some sympathy votes for the congress because every time we projected him as the weakest prime minister they countered it by showing hsi clean image.Another fact is that we should have a young leader with whom the youth of this country can associate themselves.As we are aware that more than 40% of the voters are under the age group of 35 and they can only associate themselves with the agression of a youth and this responsibility was handeled by Rahul Gandhi for Congress.Lastly there were several internal bitterness among the party leaders which came out in Public and adversely affected the party’s performance.We have also picked up the wrong candidates in Delhi and congress hit the right chord with electorates by withdrawing the names of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar just before the elections.
Anyways we have to again rethink on how we can reach out to the public with utmost confidence and we should not forget that ‘ACTIONS SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS’ and if we talk about development than first we have to show it to the public that we have done this in our run states and we can do the same thing to the entire nation if voted to power.
I request the leaders of BJP that please infuse real brains in the party rather than depending more on candidates who have either huge financial soundness or having Muscle power.