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I have reading the print since last few months but never came to such crap where everything is just what opposition needs, there is no mention of the real reason why must is best. I mean there should have been at least some logical reference to what could have if perceived but all they care iss because opposition needs a cause, because opposition needs something..lol at print for such bullshit news.
BJP had two seats in 1984. Nothing is finished till it is finished
It is not as if NYAY is a bad idea, but the COngress today cannot make use of even good ideas. This is because of the sloth and devil may care attitude of Rahul gandhi . Otherwise he would have campaigned for NYAY hammer and tongs in Maharashtra and Haryana. Instead he kept up the same tale of Rafale etc.
Even his close colleagues must be disheartened now and must be wishing that he simply leaves for good so that they can try a hand at campaigning.
Shivam writes virtually one article a day and pontificates . Most are inane . Best to ignore him . Sadly THE PRINT has given him platform to write rubbish
You’re one more with severe problems of logic. Nowhere in the article the name of Rahul is mentioned.
What do they teach in Indian universities?
1. Opposition today consists of Indian National Congress, the Left parties and many regional parties (who have no national agenda and who are simply not capable of providing a stable government in the Centre). 2. As regards Minimum Income Guarantee Scheme (MIGS) or NYAY, let us not overlook fact that MIGS providing income guarantee of Rs 72,000/- per year to all the Below Poverty Line or BPL families is an unviable proposition. Total outgo of such a scheme would be huge, and unbearable. My view is that if Congress and its alliance parties wish to press for MIGS with Rs 72,000/- as income guaranteed per year, they will have to explain how the government can raise resources for that kind of outgo. 3. My suggestion to opposition parties would be to undertake Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats or SWOT study of each party. I think the SWOT study will be of considerable utility to all opposition parties if it is undertaken in an unbiased manner by independent researchers. 4. If BJP is to be defeated in Lok Sabha election in 2024, Congress and other opposition parties will have to show their unity and strength and come forward with a viable economic and social agenda. Merely playing with schemes like NYAY will be of little assistance in defeating BJP.
Shivam wishes to be Prashant Kishor for Congress for free. Nyay failed because a voter who if he is tax payer, would not vote for it as his taxes will increase to pay for the scheme ( in effect, he would vote to pay the bill for Congress!) and if he is not a tax payer, he would not vote as he or she could hardly believe that the dole of Rs. 6,000 as promised by Congress would be actually paid. It was a stupid idea without first undertaking many other taxation and subsidies related reform. But that is not issue with Shivam, as his main motive is to proffer advice to remove Modi and BJP from power! If Congress now supports the scheme again, it will have to explain how it will finance it. Congress messed it up last time as it could not give answer to this question. So Shivam, your travails will continue for a long time!! But you are brilliant and I am sure you will come out another stunner next week!!
This is true. I, as a tax payer would never support schemes that take money out of my pocket to give it to others as a freebies. But then, Congress is notorious for undertaking such grand schemes that do little to alleviate the real problems the poor in this country face.
And what exactly is the Modi government doing? More or less the same.
NYAY probably isn’t good economics but it could be good politics if managed well. Remember that only 2-3% of population pay income tax and farmers, big or small, pay no tax at all for their produce. Middle class will definitely suffer but poor, which is many in India, will benefit. Modi’s ayushman bharat, PM KISAN and LPG , which are also freebies, probably won more votes than economic growth (which the government didn’t perform any better than UPA). Congress probably lost because of stench of UPA2 corruptions and lack of quality leadership rather than because of NYAY
I couldn’t agree more. Now is the time for the opposition to ser the agenda. What with Piyush Goel, Sitharaman and Prasad type voodoo economics clutching at anything clutchable, now is the time for the opposition to get their act together.
Only Shivam Vij and ThePrint are hell bent to rejuvenate Khongress party for which Pappu and his party leadership themselves not interested. …… Khongressis themselves are not behaving like a responsible opposition party……. Khongressis could not digest their defeat even after six months of defeat…. Khongressis with their leader Pappu still think that they are defeated by EVMs…..
Shivam wants an opposition party that is understood but he wants Khongress itself to emerge as a ruling party next time, even after Khongress’s ten years disastrous rule speaks volumes about Shivam’s credibility. …..
Media particularly English media tried its best that people should forget the follies of Khongress during MMS rule….
Hope by next election Shivam may get his due from Khongress by contesting electionx on Khongress ticket…..
Like Kumar Ketkar supported Khongress as a Journalist and getting Rajya sabha Seat….
The author seems to be recommending Congress go back to its age old strategy of ‘Garibi Hatao’. NYAY seems to have got another lease of life with the Economics Nobel Prize being awarded to Prof Banerjee. I would like to remind the author that the Nobel prize was given for Randomized Control trials and not the Universal Basic Income. The jury is still out on UBI and there is no evidence yet about its efficacy. As of now it is nothing more than a cash splash driving the economy into massive deficit
We want Nysys too: unmask Anonymous. The campus Anonymous who writes porn.
That’s Nyay and not Nysys.
I like your honesty and candidness.. man! Atleast, everybody knows your reading preferences now.
Enjoy. 🙂
That’s why I always like to read your posts against Shivam as they bring pure pleasure to me ;). So please keep writing!
Thanks.. My pleasure! By the by, did you read the We…zzzzz article? 🙂 🙂
I put the question back to you: did *you* read the article? If you did, and have commented that Shiv wants Rahul as PM, then you have serious problem of comprehension and logic (like so many others who comment here). Go back and reread the article: he has not even used the word Rahul once. It’s a generic article on how the Congress (anf the Opposition) can use the Rs. 72K figure to change the agenda.
Presuming that so many of the BJP supporters who comment here are well-educated, it is a cause for grave concern that so few of them have any sense of logic. No wonder that the BJP keeps winning.
Logic & your reading habits? Come on!
Elementary.. Mr. Watson! Look up and see the photo used for the article.
Logic & no-Rahul gaye Pardes mein!!
So that photo is supposed to show that the article is supporting Rahul? It’s worse than I thought.
You *are* a porn expert, no more.
When logic leaves the room, abuse takes over.
It’s not abuse. It’s exasperation. You miss the flow of the whole article and focus on a photo of the NYAY scheme to prove that Shivam is rooting for Rahul. That’s more than what I can stomach.
Actually, I did not even comment on Rahul. Since you mentioned it, I pointed out the disconnect between the picture and article. “A picture is worth more than 1000 words”. In Shivam`s case, it is 1000 useless words. After initial attempts to make sense of his articles, I stopped.
Nowadays, I see a new narrative to detach Rahul from NYAY (or similar failed attempts) from media/ your comments. You know what? However much you try for it, ‘Prince of Misfires’ – Rahul somehow makes sure it fails (either by tweet/pressmeet/soundbyte).
To put it bluntly, he is ‘Betal for the Congress’. They don’t know how to get rid of him off their back.
Read Ruhi’s column on Rahul Gandhi today. She has repeated the same point in multiple ways.
Your very first comment starts with pappu..and why this focus anyway on him? He’s out of the picture. Congress will take care of him. Why not focus on more serious issues like the economy? The mess made by Modi has
badly damaged India. And not only Demonetization. See how he backed Trump when it was clear to everyone with a bit of intelligence that he was about to be impeached. These are not trivial errors. And he keeps winning elections using incredible tactics (killing Pakistan soldiers a day before the elections in Maharashtra and Haryana).
The Opposition needs to hang together, or they will most assuredly hang separately. Whether NYAY is the elixir that will rejuvenate them, one cannot say. MoF is projecting a two trillion revenue shortfall this year. It is not as if someone will press the button on Raisina Hill and 72,000 rupees – remember 15 lacs ? – will flow into each poor family’s bank account. Both the government and the opposition need to study the economic situation and have their plans ready. The former is more accountable / responsible in a democracy. 2. I neither admire nor detest Shri Rahul Gandhi, although one honestly cannot see prime ministerial qualities in him. Five years remain. The opposition needs to regroup, get its act together. Nothing is permanent in politics.
Sadly Nehruvian socialist/Marxist mindset seems to have set in permanently in India’s ruling classes.
You sir, (Mr Ashok) are known in this forum for your balanced views and even you, I notice, have been affected by this virus of thinking in black and white. The problem with everybody (not just in India) is thinking about problems and issues in binaries. Everything is either good or bad – no weightage or thought is given to the grey areas in between when all our lived experience tells us that issues are seldom black and white and it is the grey area in between that dominates. The trick of this government is to make everyone think of issues in binaries – one is Rama and one is Raavan. Everything one does is right and everything the other does is wrong. Let me ask you a question – if you have a daughter and would like her to marry a man, who would you like the man to be – someone like Mr Modi or someone like Mr Gandhi? Must one be a better human first and then a better PM or is being a better PM enough? A better PM can only be so much – a better human has vast potential to be so much more.
NM – My question to you. Should the girl marry someone who has shirked responsibility, when he had every opportunity to do so (like any rich brat that one sees in Hindi movies) or someone who actually took responsibility, made a difference that could be showcased? Where’s ‘leadership’ in your argument? Leaders can be good or bad. Modi can be a bad leader, but does that make Rahul a good leader? In fact is he a leader at all?
Finally, what kind of a game is this in the potentially most potent opposition party in the country that mother quits, son takes over, fails and quits and mother takes over? Give this a thought please, independent of Modi’s lousy performance. Modi is RAVANA for sure but does that make Rahul maryada purush Ram?
Can we please devote this extraordinary energy devoted to Rahul Gandhi to other more pressing needs, like the economy?
I have reading the print since last few months but never came to such crap where everything is just what opposition needs, there is no mention of the real reason why must is best. I mean there should have been at least some logical reference to what could have if perceived but all they care iss because opposition needs a cause, because opposition needs something..lol at print for such bullshit news.
I agree with you completely…..its almost as if the author is giving ideas to the opposition as to what it should do…
Can you flog a dead horse to life? Why do you persist Shivam Vij? Stop the self-humiliation. Join the good side.
BJP had two seats in 1984. Nothing is finished till it is finished
It is not as if NYAY is a bad idea, but the COngress today cannot make use of even good ideas. This is because of the sloth and devil may care attitude of Rahul gandhi . Otherwise he would have campaigned for NYAY hammer and tongs in Maharashtra and Haryana. Instead he kept up the same tale of Rafale etc.
Even his close colleagues must be disheartened now and must be wishing that he simply leaves for good so that they can try a hand at campaigning.
Shivam writes virtually one article a day and pontificates . Most are inane . Best to ignore him . Sadly THE PRINT has given him platform to write rubbish
Why stop at 72,000 per person? Give 72 lakhs. Age teetar, piche teetar, beech me Shivam Vij aur Rahul Gandhi.
You’re one more with severe problems of logic. Nowhere in the article the name of Rahul is mentioned.
What do they teach in Indian universities?
1. Opposition today consists of Indian National Congress, the Left parties and many regional parties (who have no national agenda and who are simply not capable of providing a stable government in the Centre). 2. As regards Minimum Income Guarantee Scheme (MIGS) or NYAY, let us not overlook fact that MIGS providing income guarantee of Rs 72,000/- per year to all the Below Poverty Line or BPL families is an unviable proposition. Total outgo of such a scheme would be huge, and unbearable. My view is that if Congress and its alliance parties wish to press for MIGS with Rs 72,000/- as income guaranteed per year, they will have to explain how the government can raise resources for that kind of outgo. 3. My suggestion to opposition parties would be to undertake Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats or SWOT study of each party. I think the SWOT study will be of considerable utility to all opposition parties if it is undertaken in an unbiased manner by independent researchers. 4. If BJP is to be defeated in Lok Sabha election in 2024, Congress and other opposition parties will have to show their unity and strength and come forward with a viable economic and social agenda. Merely playing with schemes like NYAY will be of little assistance in defeating BJP.
Shivam wishes to be Prashant Kishor for Congress for free. Nyay failed because a voter who if he is tax payer, would not vote for it as his taxes will increase to pay for the scheme ( in effect, he would vote to pay the bill for Congress!) and if he is not a tax payer, he would not vote as he or she could hardly believe that the dole of Rs. 6,000 as promised by Congress would be actually paid. It was a stupid idea without first undertaking many other taxation and subsidies related reform. But that is not issue with Shivam, as his main motive is to proffer advice to remove Modi and BJP from power! If Congress now supports the scheme again, it will have to explain how it will finance it. Congress messed it up last time as it could not give answer to this question. So Shivam, your travails will continue for a long time!! But you are brilliant and I am sure you will come out another stunner next week!!
This is true. I, as a tax payer would never support schemes that take money out of my pocket to give it to others as a freebies. But then, Congress is notorious for undertaking such grand schemes that do little to alleviate the real problems the poor in this country face.
And what exactly is the Modi government doing? More or less the same.
NYAY probably isn’t good economics but it could be good politics if managed well. Remember that only 2-3% of population pay income tax and farmers, big or small, pay no tax at all for their produce. Middle class will definitely suffer but poor, which is many in India, will benefit. Modi’s ayushman bharat, PM KISAN and LPG , which are also freebies, probably won more votes than economic growth (which the government didn’t perform any better than UPA). Congress probably lost because of stench of UPA2 corruptions and lack of quality leadership rather than because of NYAY
I couldn’t agree more. Now is the time for the opposition to ser the agenda. What with Piyush Goel, Sitharaman and Prasad type voodoo economics clutching at anything clutchable, now is the time for the opposition to get their act together.
Only Shivam Vij and ThePrint are hell bent to rejuvenate Khongress party for which Pappu and his party leadership themselves not interested. …… Khongressis themselves are not behaving like a responsible opposition party……. Khongressis could not digest their defeat even after six months of defeat…. Khongressis with their leader Pappu still think that they are defeated by EVMs…..
Shivam wants an opposition party that is understood but he wants Khongress itself to emerge as a ruling party next time, even after Khongress’s ten years disastrous rule speaks volumes about Shivam’s credibility. …..
Media particularly English media tried its best that people should forget the follies of Khongress during MMS rule….
Hope by next election Shivam may get his due from Khongress by contesting electionx on Khongress ticket…..
Like Kumar Ketkar supported Khongress as a Journalist and getting Rajya sabha Seat….
Excellent suggestion
The author seems to be recommending Congress go back to its age old strategy of ‘Garibi Hatao’. NYAY seems to have got another lease of life with the Economics Nobel Prize being awarded to Prof Banerjee. I would like to remind the author that the Nobel prize was given for Randomized Control trials and not the Universal Basic Income. The jury is still out on UBI and there is no evidence yet about its efficacy. As of now it is nothing more than a cash splash driving the economy into massive deficit
!! Asatyam Shivam Sadaa Sandesham !!
ThePrint… please.. we want NYAY ! Give us relief from this Shivam We…zzzzz until Pappu becomes PM. Hey Bhagawan.. Daya karo!
We want Nysys too: unmask Anonymous. The campus Anonymous who writes porn.
That’s Nyay and not Nysys.
I like your honesty and candidness.. man! Atleast, everybody knows your reading preferences now.
Enjoy. 🙂
That’s why I always like to read your posts against Shivam as they bring pure pleasure to me ;). So please keep writing!
Thanks.. My pleasure! By the by, did you read the We…zzzzz article? 🙂 🙂
I put the question back to you: did *you* read the article? If you did, and have commented that Shiv wants Rahul as PM, then you have serious problem of comprehension and logic (like so many others who comment here). Go back and reread the article: he has not even used the word Rahul once. It’s a generic article on how the Congress (anf the Opposition) can use the Rs. 72K figure to change the agenda.
Presuming that so many of the BJP supporters who comment here are well-educated, it is a cause for grave concern that so few of them have any sense of logic. No wonder that the BJP keeps winning.
Logic & your reading habits? Come on!
Elementary.. Mr. Watson! Look up and see the photo used for the article.
Logic & no-Rahul gaye Pardes mein!!
So that photo is supposed to show that the article is supporting Rahul? It’s worse than I thought.
You *are* a porn expert, no more.
When logic leaves the room, abuse takes over.
It’s not abuse. It’s exasperation. You miss the flow of the whole article and focus on a photo of the NYAY scheme to prove that Shivam is rooting for Rahul. That’s more than what I can stomach.
Actually, I did not even comment on Rahul. Since you mentioned it, I pointed out the disconnect between the picture and article. “A picture is worth more than 1000 words”. In Shivam`s case, it is 1000 useless words. After initial attempts to make sense of his articles, I stopped.
Nowadays, I see a new narrative to detach Rahul from NYAY (or similar failed attempts) from media/ your comments. You know what? However much you try for it, ‘Prince of Misfires’ – Rahul somehow makes sure it fails (either by tweet/pressmeet/soundbyte).
To put it bluntly, he is ‘Betal for the Congress’. They don’t know how to get rid of him off their back.
Read Ruhi’s column on Rahul Gandhi today. She has repeated the same point in multiple ways.
Your very first comment starts with pappu..and why this focus anyway on him? He’s out of the picture. Congress will take care of him. Why not focus on more serious issues like the economy? The mess made by Modi has
badly damaged India. And not only Demonetization. See how he backed Trump when it was clear to everyone with a bit of intelligence that he was about to be impeached. These are not trivial errors. And he keeps winning elections using incredible tactics (killing Pakistan soldiers a day before the elections in Maharashtra and Haryana).
The Opposition needs to hang together, or they will most assuredly hang separately. Whether NYAY is the elixir that will rejuvenate them, one cannot say. MoF is projecting a two trillion revenue shortfall this year. It is not as if someone will press the button on Raisina Hill and 72,000 rupees – remember 15 lacs ? – will flow into each poor family’s bank account. Both the government and the opposition need to study the economic situation and have their plans ready. The former is more accountable / responsible in a democracy. 2. I neither admire nor detest Shri Rahul Gandhi, although one honestly cannot see prime ministerial qualities in him. Five years remain. The opposition needs to regroup, get its act together. Nothing is permanent in politics.
Sadly Nehruvian socialist/Marxist mindset seems to have set in permanently in India’s ruling classes.
You sir, (Mr Ashok) are known in this forum for your balanced views and even you, I notice, have been affected by this virus of thinking in black and white. The problem with everybody (not just in India) is thinking about problems and issues in binaries. Everything is either good or bad – no weightage or thought is given to the grey areas in between when all our lived experience tells us that issues are seldom black and white and it is the grey area in between that dominates. The trick of this government is to make everyone think of issues in binaries – one is Rama and one is Raavan. Everything one does is right and everything the other does is wrong. Let me ask you a question – if you have a daughter and would like her to marry a man, who would you like the man to be – someone like Mr Modi or someone like Mr Gandhi? Must one be a better human first and then a better PM or is being a better PM enough? A better PM can only be so much – a better human has vast potential to be so much more.
NM – My question to you. Should the girl marry someone who has shirked responsibility, when he had every opportunity to do so (like any rich brat that one sees in Hindi movies) or someone who actually took responsibility, made a difference that could be showcased? Where’s ‘leadership’ in your argument? Leaders can be good or bad. Modi can be a bad leader, but does that make Rahul a good leader? In fact is he a leader at all?
Finally, what kind of a game is this in the potentially most potent opposition party in the country that mother quits, son takes over, fails and quits and mother takes over? Give this a thought please, independent of Modi’s lousy performance. Modi is RAVANA for sure but does that make Rahul maryada purush Ram?
Can we please devote this extraordinary energy devoted to Rahul Gandhi to other more pressing needs, like the economy?