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The writer is missing the wood for the trees in each and every case here.
What threads Karnataka, Assam and MP together is that there are recent defections into the BJP from erstwhile rival parties, so there is bound to be friction at the start and competition.
Karnataka : There has been a large scale defection to the tune of change of govt, so things will take time to settle and time will tell.
Assam : Further, Sonowal has been popular and so is Sarma. Both belong to different tribes and that matters in a tribal society like Assam. how can any journalist worth her salt even miss that!
MP : Scindhia has always been a member of Parliament and Shivraj has openly said he’ll stay in the state only, so giving Rajya Sabha seat to Scindhia is ensuring that two swords don’t remain in one sheath! Only a completely biased or noob in political affairs will miss that point. My bet is on former!
Fiction print news. Findings ways to divide indians opinion and another modus of vote bank politics. They hate it when we say we are indians. They love it when said we are shia, we are sunni. Divide and rule
To all purveyors of a vivid imagination…there is a saying….. ASSUMPTION IS THE MOTHER OF ALL SCREW UPS.
It’s possibly because in your experience you have not managed or lead groups of people.
When there are thousands involved, there are bound to be opinion based factions. Thats reality. Were there no factions in the 1940’s under Gandhi.?.
There is also another saying…Do not teach your grandfather how to make babies….
Divide and Rule is a common strategy of BJP and Congress. But the cement that unites the BJP cadres are: promotion of communal divide and the ‘Modi Cult’ symbolised by Modi himself, in his own words ‘Modi hai to mumkin hai’. The muscular jingoism is a subset of the Modi Cult typified by these epic lines of 4th Sept 2019, “Saatven paataal mein honge unko bhi main chodne wala nahin hoon. Main doston intezaar lamba nahi kar sakta, chun chun ke hisaab lena ye meri fitrat hai. Ye hamaara siddhant hai, hum ghar mein ghus ke marenge”. And then Amit Shah saying on 6 Aug 2019 in Parliament in reference to Aksai Chin, “Kya baat karte ho jaan de denge iske liye”.
But this muscularity and the Modi Cult has been busted by weakness of Modi in dealing with Chinese intrusion symbolised by this unfortunate statement of PM Modi on June 19, 2020 in the face of clear intrusion by Chinese forces both in Galwan and in Pangong Tso, “ना कोई वहाँ हमारी सीमा में घुस आया है, ना ही कोई घुसा हुआ है”. If that was true there is no point in the mutual ‘pull back’ announced on 6th July, especially by India.
The ‘Modi hai to mumkin hai’ cult has also been undercut by the Centre’s mishandling of migrant crisis, the inability to control the spread of Covid which is expected to reach 1 Cr mark in November.
The rising unemployment, clearly visible in the expected contraction of GDP for the first time since 1979, has busted the ‘acche din’ promise of brand Modi.
So it’s the relative decline of Brand Modi that is going to hurt BJP the most. Divide and rule is only a crutch to promote Brand Modi.
Looks author is frustrated by rise of BJP. So wants to create difference among BJP. But he forgets that it is BJP and not Khangress to go by presstitutes
Looks author is frustrated by rise of BJP. So wants to create difference among BJP. But he forgets that it is BJP and not Khangress to go by presstitutes
What is perceived by one as “ divide and rule” could also be perceived as a competition amongst potential contenders. If Sharma appears to be better than Sonowan in Assam., then so be it! If Chauhan in MP lost assembly elections because of his overconfidence and high headed ness then he needS to be kept under check! If there is need for Yedurappa to humble down for the betterment of party then so be it! Dirty politics at play and Modi-Shah perhaps are great poker players! So who is the real culprit is a matter of our perception depending upon our own understanding and biases! If the top leadership is looking for division of power to maintain their relative strength at the cost of party interests then the downfall has perhaps already begun!
Modi is the brand, without which bjp will fall like a house of cards which will be because of internal fighting, so they should get their act together to survive the winds of politics.
Print is against BJP. Its feeling sad at the downfall of khangress. We know yr income is stopped after khangress downfall.
Don’t compare with Modi& shah with pappu, antani.
They know how to tackle ppl like u. They know how to manage their party affairs also.
Mr Grandhi Srrienivas: Presumably on behalf of Modi & Shah, you issue a threat to The Print:
“.. Modi & Shah .. They know how to tackle ppl like u ..”
So is an encounter in the classic Amit Shah mold about to happen ?
And why should crioticism of the BJP not be allowed Sir ? Is it the new blasphemy law of India that Prophets Modi & Shah should not be criticised for their rank incompetence?
Divide and rule is followed everywhere be it politics, corporates, joint families , so what’s the big deal and ranting about? At least they are doing much better job than others. Print – please stop petty quibbling possibly at the behest of congress
“.. At least they are doing much better job than others ..”
Did you get your Rs 15 lacs that Messiah Modi promised you? Or were you comatose when demonetisation, a botched GST and the mismanagement of the economy was taking place? And continues to this day? Or were you happy that Muslims get lynched in Modistan? Or are you celebrating the fact that the Chinese got outwitted the 56 inch chested dhokla man?
Mr Ved: There is utterly no difference between the BJP & the Congress. More so when you realise that the greedy Congressmen have defected to the BJP to escape prosecution. And there is no reduction in corruption – either for the citizen when he interacts with local authorities such as policemen, corporators, schools etc. or ahen it comes to big ticket items like defence procurement.
As Arun Shourie put it:
Congress + Cow = BJP.
I woill change that to:
Congress + Cow + Lynchings = BJP
BJP is going Congress way in short span of Six seven years . It seems to have lost it’s way of becoming party with a difference and is different altogether from it’s earlier avtar when it was in opposition criticising the then Govt on any issue but even now behaving like opposition and not taking the criticism in it’s stride.
Mr Sunil Chohan: There is NO harmony in ANY political party in India.
MPs and MLAs are constantly looking for ways and means to make a quick buck and will jump parties in order to do so at the earliest opportunity. When people join politics and get elected by spending enormous amounts of money. they do not do that for altruistic reasons but expect to get a tangible return on investment. And corruption is rife in every party, including in the BJP. After all, Amit Shah’s son has made a quick buck hasn’t he ? An Patanjali gets allocated cheap land doesn’t it ? And Anil Ambani, with zero experience in aerospace manufacturing gets the Rafale maintenance contract doesn’t he?
When the next electon comes around and should the Congress get a sizeable majority or be able to clobber together a majority, expect people to defect from the BJP to the Congress. C’est la vie.
Poohi is a CONGRASS journalist. Her party’s divide and rule meant divide Hindus and ensure the FAMILY that is corrupt is kept in power through undereducated jhollawallas writing history, that started with mughals and ended with the family and rent a journalist types TO promote FAKE NEWS NARRATIVE . They promoted proselytizers and allowed in foreign funds for the same. Perhaps poohi is upset NON of that is happening.
How do you say that Congress adopted ‘divide and rule’ policy. It is history that the British used ‘divide and rule’ policy to keep their colony weak a perpetrate their hegemony. Gandhiji, Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, all endeavoured to maintain the unity in diversity that is India, and that is what made India what it is today, from a country that was exploited and subjugated by the British. Don’t become more saffron than the saffron brigade!
Looks like you have the way to speak only negative about government, and if you get nothing for a day then always negative analysis.
But I suppose we need this point of view too, for the corrections and better administration
Their Next target and drama is on Kerala. They have taken capital on their control and will watch what they are going execute ,? Onscreen – helping Delhi. Behind screen – arrest of the protesters. They diasing on Bihar. This is a big test for PK on Bihar.
Divide and Rule is a British strategy and through this the country was divided. It was copied by Congress Leaders and Congress Party was divided into many small groups .The communist party got divided into many groups due to personal rivalry. Also if we look at the history most of the powers have disintegrated because of internal squabbles. Shahjahan fell because Aurangzeb made him house arrest. So BJP will follow the same path unless of course RSS assumes power.
What are you talking about ? RSS is in power. I guess you are a sly supporter of Hindu Nazism.
Rasgolla: Can you stop prefixing and suffixing Hinduism with your hate-filled adjectives? You are no better – and perhaps much worse – than the very Hindutva Nazis that you criticise.
Or as they: “Pot calling kettle black”.
Nothing new. BJP has been importing all sort of Congress ideas – on economy, on political control, on dynasty, divide and rule, authoritarianism etc. Being endowed with so much political capital means that Modi-Shah have no equal in India today on gaining power. So everyone who is desirous of gaining power will gravitate towards them. In time unscrupulous people who are lusty for power will replace all old BJP hands. By then perhaps there will be no Modi but the seeds of the downfall for BJP-RSS in the future is being sowed today.
Every party will go the congress way the day there are obvious monitory vested interests. We are seeing that happen to every party so to expect that BJP will be what it is today and will remain so in perpetuity shows a lack of understanding of how people behave when they come to gather.
All you commentators, the nay-sayers as well as the toadues (it’s a carefully chosen word), unerringly miss something that bothers us “Indians” i.e. those of us not committed to worship at any altar other than the nation and Constitution: The “BJP” is actually the “MJP,” i.e. Modi Janata Party rolled by two parochialism, narcississtic politicians grown too big for their boots. God forbid, what would happen to the nation of they’re were, suddenly, to be no Modi? With BJP non-exustent and opposition parties in disarray, that would leave India in a ptiable condition.
It would be worth analysing, what then?
The writer is missing the wood for the trees in each and every case here.
What threads Karnataka, Assam and MP together is that there are recent defections into the BJP from erstwhile rival parties, so there is bound to be friction at the start and competition.
Karnataka : There has been a large scale defection to the tune of change of govt, so things will take time to settle and time will tell.
Assam : Further, Sonowal has been popular and so is Sarma. Both belong to different tribes and that matters in a tribal society like Assam. how can any journalist worth her salt even miss that!
MP : Scindhia has always been a member of Parliament and Shivraj has openly said he’ll stay in the state only, so giving Rajya Sabha seat to Scindhia is ensuring that two swords don’t remain in one sheath! Only a completely biased or noob in political affairs will miss that point. My bet is on former!
Shia , sunni protestant are obc
Fiction print news. Findings ways to divide indians opinion and another modus of vote bank politics. They hate it when we say we are indians. They love it when said we are shia, we are sunni. Divide and rule
To all purveyors of a vivid imagination…there is a saying….. ASSUMPTION IS THE MOTHER OF ALL SCREW UPS.
It’s possibly because in your experience you have not managed or lead groups of people.
When there are thousands involved, there are bound to be opinion based factions. Thats reality. Were there no factions in the 1940’s under Gandhi.?.
There is also another saying…Do not teach your grandfather how to make babies….
Print is a sold media, not worth reading
Mr Anurag: Oddlly, not only do you read the Print, you even take the time to write a comment. Hypocrisy …
Now the writer by writing this article is planning for divide and rule of shah and modi
Divide and Rule is a common strategy of BJP and Congress. But the cement that unites the BJP cadres are: promotion of communal divide and the ‘Modi Cult’ symbolised by Modi himself, in his own words ‘Modi hai to mumkin hai’. The muscular jingoism is a subset of the Modi Cult typified by these epic lines of 4th Sept 2019, “Saatven paataal mein honge unko bhi main chodne wala nahin hoon. Main doston intezaar lamba nahi kar sakta, chun chun ke hisaab lena ye meri fitrat hai. Ye hamaara siddhant hai, hum ghar mein ghus ke marenge”. And then Amit Shah saying on 6 Aug 2019 in Parliament in reference to Aksai Chin, “Kya baat karte ho jaan de denge iske liye”.
But this muscularity and the Modi Cult has been busted by weakness of Modi in dealing with Chinese intrusion symbolised by this unfortunate statement of PM Modi on June 19, 2020 in the face of clear intrusion by Chinese forces both in Galwan and in Pangong Tso, “ना कोई वहाँ हमारी सीमा में घुस आया है, ना ही कोई घुसा हुआ है”. If that was true there is no point in the mutual ‘pull back’ announced on 6th July, especially by India.
The ‘Modi hai to mumkin hai’ cult has also been undercut by the Centre’s mishandling of migrant crisis, the inability to control the spread of Covid which is expected to reach 1 Cr mark in November.
The rising unemployment, clearly visible in the expected contraction of GDP for the first time since 1979, has busted the ‘acche din’ promise of brand Modi.
So it’s the relative decline of Brand Modi that is going to hurt BJP the most. Divide and rule is only a crutch to promote Brand Modi.
Looks author is frustrated by rise of BJP. So wants to create difference among BJP. But he forgets that it is BJP and not Khangress to go by presstitutes
Looks author is frustrated by rise of BJP. So wants to create difference among BJP. But he forgets that it is BJP and not Khangress to go by presstitutes
What is perceived by one as “ divide and rule” could also be perceived as a competition amongst potential contenders. If Sharma appears to be better than Sonowan in Assam., then so be it! If Chauhan in MP lost assembly elections because of his overconfidence and high headed ness then he needS to be kept under check! If there is need for Yedurappa to humble down for the betterment of party then so be it! Dirty politics at play and Modi-Shah perhaps are great poker players! So who is the real culprit is a matter of our perception depending upon our own understanding and biases! If the top leadership is looking for division of power to maintain their relative strength at the cost of party interests then the downfall has perhaps already begun!
Next target Delhi (under world) to cover up the riots happened. Bihar- Again taking J&k issues in hand. In J& K no development made since six 6 yrs.
Modi is the brand, without which bjp will fall like a house of cards which will be because of internal fighting, so they should get their act together to survive the winds of politics.
Print is against BJP. Its feeling sad at the downfall of khangress. We know yr income is stopped after khangress downfall.
Don’t compare with Modi& shah with pappu, antani.
They know how to tackle ppl like u. They know how to manage their party affairs also.
Mr Grandhi Srrienivas: Presumably on behalf of Modi & Shah, you issue a threat to The Print:
“.. Modi & Shah .. They know how to tackle ppl like u ..”
So is an encounter in the classic Amit Shah mold about to happen ?
And why should crioticism of the BJP not be allowed Sir ? Is it the new blasphemy law of India that Prophets Modi & Shah should not be criticised for their rank incompetence?
Divide and rule is followed everywhere be it politics, corporates, joint families , so what’s the big deal and ranting about? At least they are doing much better job than others. Print – please stop petty quibbling possibly at the behest of congress
Mr Pravin Gupta: You pontificate:
“.. At least they are doing much better job than others ..”
Did you get your Rs 15 lacs that Messiah Modi promised you? Or were you comatose when demonetisation, a botched GST and the mismanagement of the economy was taking place? And continues to this day? Or were you happy that Muslims get lynched in Modistan? Or are you celebrating the fact that the Chinese got outwitted the 56 inch chested dhokla man?
Third class fiction from a third class person
Don’t worry Modi will come say past is past, let’s import electrical machinery and pharma machinery.
Only strength about BJP IS they are not filthy greedy like congress
Mr Ved: There is utterly no difference between the BJP & the Congress. More so when you realise that the greedy Congressmen have defected to the BJP to escape prosecution. And there is no reduction in corruption – either for the citizen when he interacts with local authorities such as policemen, corporators, schools etc. or ahen it comes to big ticket items like defence procurement.
As Arun Shourie put it:
Congress + Cow = BJP.
I woill change that to:
Congress + Cow + Lynchings = BJP
BJP is going Congress way in short span of Six seven years . It seems to have lost it’s way of becoming party with a difference and is different altogether from it’s earlier avtar when it was in opposition criticising the then Govt on any issue but even now behaving like opposition and not taking the criticism in it’s stride.
Ridiculous
U R wasting everbody’s time on BJP where there is harmony unlike Congress where Dynasty rules in CWC only Gandhi’s matter.
Mr Sunil Chohan: There is NO harmony in ANY political party in India.
MPs and MLAs are constantly looking for ways and means to make a quick buck and will jump parties in order to do so at the earliest opportunity. When people join politics and get elected by spending enormous amounts of money. they do not do that for altruistic reasons but expect to get a tangible return on investment. And corruption is rife in every party, including in the BJP. After all, Amit Shah’s son has made a quick buck hasn’t he ? An Patanjali gets allocated cheap land doesn’t it ? And Anil Ambani, with zero experience in aerospace manufacturing gets the Rafale maintenance contract doesn’t he?
When the next electon comes around and should the Congress get a sizeable majority or be able to clobber together a majority, expect people to defect from the BJP to the Congress. C’est la vie.
Poohi is a CONGRASS journalist. Her party’s divide and rule meant divide Hindus and ensure the FAMILY that is corrupt is kept in power through undereducated jhollawallas writing history, that started with mughals and ended with the family and rent a journalist types TO promote FAKE NEWS NARRATIVE . They promoted proselytizers and allowed in foreign funds for the same. Perhaps poohi is upset NON of that is happening.
How do you say that Congress adopted ‘divide and rule’ policy. It is history that the British used ‘divide and rule’ policy to keep their colony weak a perpetrate their hegemony. Gandhiji, Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, all endeavoured to maintain the unity in diversity that is India, and that is what made India what it is today, from a country that was exploited and subjugated by the British. Don’t become more saffron than the saffron brigade!
Looks like you have the way to speak only negative about government, and if you get nothing for a day then always negative analysis.
But I suppose we need this point of view too, for the corrections and better administration
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Their Next target and drama is on Kerala. They have taken capital on their control and will watch what they are going execute ,? Onscreen – helping Delhi. Behind screen – arrest of the protesters. They diasing on Bihar. This is a big test for PK on Bihar.
Divide and Rule is a British strategy and through this the country was divided. It was copied by Congress Leaders and Congress Party was divided into many small groups .The communist party got divided into many groups due to personal rivalry. Also if we look at the history most of the powers have disintegrated because of internal squabbles. Shahjahan fell because Aurangzeb made him house arrest. So BJP will follow the same path unless of course RSS assumes power.
What are you talking about ? RSS is in power. I guess you are a sly supporter of Hindu Nazism.
Rasgolla: Can you stop prefixing and suffixing Hinduism with your hate-filled adjectives? You are no better – and perhaps much worse – than the very Hindutva Nazis that you criticise.
Or as they: “Pot calling kettle black”.
Nothing new. BJP has been importing all sort of Congress ideas – on economy, on political control, on dynasty, divide and rule, authoritarianism etc. Being endowed with so much political capital means that Modi-Shah have no equal in India today on gaining power. So everyone who is desirous of gaining power will gravitate towards them. In time unscrupulous people who are lusty for power will replace all old BJP hands. By then perhaps there will be no Modi but the seeds of the downfall for BJP-RSS in the future is being sowed today.
Every party will go the congress way the day there are obvious monitory vested interests. We are seeing that happen to every party so to expect that BJP will be what it is today and will remain so in perpetuity shows a lack of understanding of how people behave when they come to gather.
All you commentators, the nay-sayers as well as the toadues (it’s a carefully chosen word), unerringly miss something that bothers us “Indians” i.e. those of us not committed to worship at any altar other than the nation and Constitution: The “BJP” is actually the “MJP,” i.e. Modi Janata Party rolled by two parochialism, narcississtic politicians grown too big for their boots. God forbid, what would happen to the nation of they’re were, suddenly, to be no Modi? With BJP non-exustent and opposition parties in disarray, that would leave India in a ptiable condition.
It would be worth analysing, what then?