4 issues for concern:
1. Mr. Narendra Modi will go on a fast starting 17 September for 3 days. He wants to build a stronger and unified [the words used are peaceful and harmonious] Gujarat / India; integrating people of all communities and shades. This must be one of the most obscene jokes that can actually make you cry! The Supreme Court [SC] is becoming very popular of late because of its activism in the corruption cases, which are essentially corporate crimes of a monumental magnitude. While the SC cannot be faulted on technical merits in the Gujarat case – relegating the lower court in Gujarat to decide on dispute of facts – however one ponders whether going by the background and climate of the events under question it should have worded and safeguarded its judgment in a manner so as to insulate it from being manipulated and misused by the political masters in furthering their personal agendas – Mr. Modi is not fighting for the BJP at this moment; he is fighting within the BJP for his space to become its nominated PM candidate in the national elections of 2014.
2. Listening to the interviews given by Mr. Anna Hazare to NDTV, CNN-IBN and TIMESNOW I get a feeling he is much smarter than what he sounded between and during the 2 fasts conducted at Delhi recently. There is a group working with and behind him invisibly who are aware that with the irreversible fall of the Parliamentary Left there is a space that requires filling: the space belonging to the anti-right [anti-Congress and anti-BJP to be specific]. As such this group is fast extending its articulation to multifarious subjects apart from the Janpal Lok Pal Bill, which has been their principal talking point until now. If they tend to be aspirational, which they seem to be at the moment, they are likely to switch over to a structured political formation from their NGO style of operation and hit the roof to enter the political system. While NGOs can aspire to get issue-based funding, a political formation requires substantial amounts of money on a sustained basis to win elections to be of some relevance. Who will fund them and why?
3. Ms. Mamata Banerjee clearly runs a party made up of goons. That is the story unfolding in Bengal for the moment. It is not in her capacity to control this mess. She will be heard making a few loud sound bytes against her own party men and women; very soon she will switch over to a mode of ignorance to be followed by a mode of denial. The Left in Bengal [I mean whatever is left of them] is only shouting from rooftops against TMC’s atrocities against their party cadres and forceful shutting down of their offices. Nobody is listening to them, actually they are not interested and in many a case people are happy that the arrogant Left is getting a good thrashing and being roughed up so ruthlessly. What is absolutely missing the Left by zillions of miles is: they have to go back to the ways of painstakingly organizing economic movements, social movements and political movements from the grassroots to be able to reengineer their organization. To me the Left, which actually believes the madness of the TMC will automatically usher them in a resounding comeback victory after 5 years in spite of its tired [almost extinct] leadership and uninspiring cadres, can never make a meaningful come back.
4. Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar is a strange phenomenon, well rather a strange oratorical fashion icon. He is deeply entrenched inside the capillaries of a centre-right political party and yet he mouths uproariously all kinds of leftist and at times ultra-leftist talks. Talking, of course, one has to admit he does it quite well. But the point is very few political personalities exhibit this dichotomous [what kind of a jerk can imagine that words like ‘dichotomous’ are only known to a breed named Stephanians!!] proclivity so effectively. Strangely he is never slapped with charges of sedition or abetting militancy / extremism!
1. Mr. Narendra Modi will go on a fast starting 17 September for 3 days. He wants to build a stronger and unified [the words used are peaceful and harmonious] Gujarat / India; integrating people of all communities and shades. This must be one of the most obscene jokes that can actually make you cry! The Supreme Court [SC] is becoming very popular of late because of its activism in the corruption cases, which are essentially corporate crimes of a monumental magnitude. While the SC cannot be faulted on technical merits in the Gujarat case – relegating the lower court in Gujarat to decide on dispute of facts – however one ponders whether going by the background and climate of the events under question it should have worded and safeguarded its judgment in a manner so as to insulate it from being manipulated and misused by the political masters in furthering their personal agendas – Mr. Modi is not fighting for the BJP at this moment; he is fighting within the BJP for his space to become its nominated PM candidate in the national elections of 2014.
2. Listening to the interviews given by Mr. Anna Hazare to NDTV, CNN-IBN and TIMESNOW I get a feeling he is much smarter than what he sounded between and during the 2 fasts conducted at Delhi recently. There is a group working with and behind him invisibly who are aware that with the irreversible fall of the Parliamentary Left there is a space that requires filling: the space belonging to the anti-right [anti-Congress and anti-BJP to be specific]. As such this group is fast extending its articulation to multifarious subjects apart from the Janpal Lok Pal Bill, which has been their principal talking point until now. If they tend to be aspirational, which they seem to be at the moment, they are likely to switch over to a structured political formation from their NGO style of operation and hit the roof to enter the political system. While NGOs can aspire to get issue-based funding, a political formation requires substantial amounts of money on a sustained basis to win elections to be of some relevance. Who will fund them and why?
3. Ms. Mamata Banerjee clearly runs a party made up of goons. That is the story unfolding in Bengal for the moment. It is not in her capacity to control this mess. She will be heard making a few loud sound bytes against her own party men and women; very soon she will switch over to a mode of ignorance to be followed by a mode of denial. The Left in Bengal [I mean whatever is left of them] is only shouting from rooftops against TMC’s atrocities against their party cadres and forceful shutting down of their offices. Nobody is listening to them, actually they are not interested and in many a case people are happy that the arrogant Left is getting a good thrashing and being roughed up so ruthlessly. What is absolutely missing the Left by zillions of miles is: they have to go back to the ways of painstakingly organizing economic movements, social movements and political movements from the grassroots to be able to reengineer their organization. To me the Left, which actually believes the madness of the TMC will automatically usher them in a resounding comeback victory after 5 years in spite of its tired [almost extinct] leadership and uninspiring cadres, can never make a meaningful come back.
4. Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar is a strange phenomenon, well rather a strange oratorical fashion icon. He is deeply entrenched inside the capillaries of a centre-right political party and yet he mouths uproariously all kinds of leftist and at times ultra-leftist talks. Talking, of course, one has to admit he does it quite well. But the point is very few political personalities exhibit this dichotomous [what kind of a jerk can imagine that words like ‘dichotomous’ are only known to a breed named Stephanians!!] proclivity so effectively. Strangely he is never slapped with charges of sedition or abetting militancy / extremism!
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