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This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Nehru & Indira Gandhi ruled India over 3 decades without any opposition parties & Rajiv Gandhi rule 5 years with huge majority. At that time, no Journalis or Media never found any instability in Democracy. Now Bajp has secured Full majority since 2014, now every Journalist & Media making hue & cry on instability. Last 30 years, India had coalition Govt causing instability of Govt,plenty of huge corruption scams & in-decision in taking economic reforms. Coalition Govt in India is not workable due to ideological differences,regional self interest,Vote banking,personality ego. In coalition Govt, Common Minimum Program are mostly based on interest of coalition Party vote bank interest & do not care National Interest so long it does not affect. Communist Party which was coalition partner in Congres lead Govt in 2009-2014 was dead against Civil Nuclear deal with USA which Man Mohan Singh wanted to enter with USA in National Interest. Communist Party which has Russian bias & hate USA & West went against Nuclear Deal withdrew support to Govt despite convincing it for almost two years. India require a Govt with full majority whether it is Congress Govt or BJP Govt for fast decision making & full fill electrol promises. If today Congress & other individual fancy parties are in dire situation because of not fulfilling election promises,taking granted voters & corruption scams. They deserve puniishment.
1. I do not see how one can blame Modi Shah for marginalization of regional leaders. They have suffered due to their inherent limitations and contradictions. 2. BJP was always run in duo mode – Vajpeyi-Advani earlier and now Mod-Shah. They will find enough leaders to replace Modi Shah when time comes. 3. Surprisingly, Ketkar does not talk of Congress in this article! 4. The fact of the matter is that Ketkar just invents something to write about every week just like the others in the Print Team like Shivam, Jyoti, Naynima etc. The least they can do is to take cues from Shekhar and do better..
Mulayam, Mamata, Laloo, Pawar and mayawati are professional crooks. They are no ordinary thieves. Ketkar is having pains in his heart every night and it will continue for another five years. In this time he will puke one article every week, or more, to cool his heartbeat, all against Modi who has taken the air of their sails.
This column is a good fit with last night’s Cut the Clutter, which analysed the next generation of political leaders, almost entirely dynasts, and how few of them have lived up to their promise. There are 132 million votes the Congress received in the last general election, despite the Gandhis being in charge, which are up for grabs. 2. Instead of categorising a government as strong or weak based on its legislative numbers or the state of the opposition, we should judge it by what it can get done. Can it change cropping patterns in Punjab / Haryana, prevent an epidemic of lung cancer among residents of some of the most polluted urban agglomerations in the world, that is what we should be assessing.
Urge to hate Modi and the feeling of getting destabilized go hand in hand. So to feel happy simply stop hating Modi / RSS.
I want to see the facial expression of Kumar Ketkar when Congress allies with Shiv Sena.
Nehru & Indira Gandhi ruled India over 3 decades without any opposition parties & Rajiv Gandhi rule 5 years with huge majority. At that time, no Journalis or Media never found any instability in Democracy. Now Bajp has secured Full majority since 2014, now every Journalist & Media making hue & cry on instability. Last 30 years, India had coalition Govt causing instability of Govt,plenty of huge corruption scams & in-decision in taking economic reforms. Coalition Govt in India is not workable due to ideological differences,regional self interest,Vote banking,personality ego. In coalition Govt, Common Minimum Program are mostly based on interest of coalition Party vote bank interest & do not care National Interest so long it does not affect. Communist Party which was coalition partner in Congres lead Govt in 2009-2014 was dead against Civil Nuclear deal with USA which Man Mohan Singh wanted to enter with USA in National Interest. Communist Party which has Russian bias & hate USA & West went against Nuclear Deal withdrew support to Govt despite convincing it for almost two years. India require a Govt with full majority whether it is Congress Govt or BJP Govt for fast decision making & full fill electrol promises. If today Congress & other individual fancy parties are in dire situation because of not fulfilling election promises,taking granted voters & corruption scams. They deserve puniishment.
1. I do not see how one can blame Modi Shah for marginalization of regional leaders. They have suffered due to their inherent limitations and contradictions. 2. BJP was always run in duo mode – Vajpeyi-Advani earlier and now Mod-Shah. They will find enough leaders to replace Modi Shah when time comes. 3. Surprisingly, Ketkar does not talk of Congress in this article! 4. The fact of the matter is that Ketkar just invents something to write about every week just like the others in the Print Team like Shivam, Jyoti, Naynima etc. The least they can do is to take cues from Shekhar and do better..
Mulayam, Mamata, Laloo, Pawar and mayawati are professional crooks. They are no ordinary thieves. Ketkar is having pains in his heart every night and it will continue for another five years. In this time he will puke one article every week, or more, to cool his heartbeat, all against Modi who has taken the air of their sails.
Kumar Ketkar must put a caveat ,that he is a full time politician of congress and any pretension of being journalist is to be treated lightly
This column is a good fit with last night’s Cut the Clutter, which analysed the next generation of political leaders, almost entirely dynasts, and how few of them have lived up to their promise. There are 132 million votes the Congress received in the last general election, despite the Gandhis being in charge, which are up for grabs. 2. Instead of categorising a government as strong or weak based on its legislative numbers or the state of the opposition, we should judge it by what it can get done. Can it change cropping patterns in Punjab / Haryana, prevent an epidemic of lung cancer among residents of some of the most polluted urban agglomerations in the world, that is what we should be assessing.
Kumar Ketkar as usual…Congress voice