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How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
In Britain, when a party leader – either PM or LoP – loses the general election, (s)he steps down within a matter of hours. No judgment more infallible than what is delivered by the people. 2. The BJP did not expect to lose in 2004. Vajpayeeji, partly due to age and health, began gracefully to fade away from public life. Not Mr Advani. A sore loser, did not allow UPA I to function, refused to play the role of a constructive opposition. Even so, he had his life’s wish, was projected as the party’s PM candidate in 2009. The Congress actually added 60 seats to its tally. After that, it has been all downhill. Political capital and gravitas accumulated over a lifetime – some ministers would not sit before him at the height of his power – are ebbing away. Hopefully, he will have the good sense not to ask for the ticket from Gandhinagar next year.
That’s like being too generous to Mr Advani. Whose “margdarshan” is he doing these days? He did the margdarshan of only one man in the days gone by, of Mr Narendra Modi, and that gentleman has made the entire country COMPLETELY “dishaheen” (directionless) from all angles: economically, in terms of our secular fibre, respectability and answerability of different arms of administration.
In fact LK Advani and Manmohan Singh are equal culprits in the rise of Narendra Modi. If Dr Manmohan Singh was not such a disastrous failure in his last two years, Modi wouldn’t have stormed in with such a thumping majority in 2014, which gave him extraordinary confidence and arrogance. And of course if Mr Advani had acted conscientiously in 2002, as Atal ji was prodding him to, to dismiss the Gujarat government, then Mr Modi would have slipped back into the oblivion from where he had suddenly emerged to become CM Gujarat.
In my opinion, if Narendra Modi succeeds in doing more harm to this country than what he has already done, history will never forgive LK Advani and also Manmohan Singh. (When the latter saw that he had lost complete control to the mother-son duo, he should have resigned soon after his second heart operation).
We, Indians, don’t know how, when to retire. The word doesn’t exist in our lexicon.
Except Gavaskar, I haven’t seen any famous Indian retire in time, with Grace.
It is a very big weakness of us.
In Britain, when a party leader – either PM or LoP – loses the general election, (s)he steps down within a matter of hours. No judgment more infallible than what is delivered by the people. 2. The BJP did not expect to lose in 2004. Vajpayeeji, partly due to age and health, began gracefully to fade away from public life. Not Mr Advani. A sore loser, did not allow UPA I to function, refused to play the role of a constructive opposition. Even so, he had his life’s wish, was projected as the party’s PM candidate in 2009. The Congress actually added 60 seats to its tally. After that, it has been all downhill. Political capital and gravitas accumulated over a lifetime – some ministers would not sit before him at the height of his power – are ebbing away. Hopefully, he will have the good sense not to ask for the ticket from Gandhinagar next year.
That’s like being too generous to Mr Advani. Whose “margdarshan” is he doing these days? He did the margdarshan of only one man in the days gone by, of Mr Narendra Modi, and that gentleman has made the entire country COMPLETELY “dishaheen” (directionless) from all angles: economically, in terms of our secular fibre, respectability and answerability of different arms of administration.
In fact LK Advani and Manmohan Singh are equal culprits in the rise of Narendra Modi. If Dr Manmohan Singh was not such a disastrous failure in his last two years, Modi wouldn’t have stormed in with such a thumping majority in 2014, which gave him extraordinary confidence and arrogance. And of course if Mr Advani had acted conscientiously in 2002, as Atal ji was prodding him to, to dismiss the Gujarat government, then Mr Modi would have slipped back into the oblivion from where he had suddenly emerged to become CM Gujarat.
In my opinion, if Narendra Modi succeeds in doing more harm to this country than what he has already done, history will never forgive LK Advani and also Manmohan Singh. (When the latter saw that he had lost complete control to the mother-son duo, he should have resigned soon after his second heart operation).
We, Indians, don’t know how, when to retire. The word doesn’t exist in our lexicon.
Except Gavaskar, I haven’t seen any famous Indian retire in time, with Grace.
It is a very big weakness of us.
The way RSS/BJP has been treating Advaniji is a clear indication of their understanding of Bharatiya Sabhyata !