What the hell Jinnah has to do with our country now???

How does it matter that Jinnah was a secular leader or not??? How does it affect our daily lives??? The person concerned is resting and let him rest in peace. If there are books on him, they are the personal opinions of the book writers and they have the right to pen down their opinions. And if they don’t, then the freedom of speech is just a point in the constitution which looks good only on reading but its implementation....
So why such a hue and cry on the thoughts of Mr. Jaswant Singh to the extent that even his book has been banned. If he feels that Jinnah was a good man than what’s the harm in that. BJP has a history of producing controversial leaders. Be it Uma Bharti or Varun Gandhi or Lal Krishna Advani or Arun Shourie or Jaswant Singh. So what’s up with these high class leaders of BJP. They are critically analysing a historic character (which is of no use), then they go on to publish a book containing this analysis, then they fight internally to ban the book and then the party dismisses these leaders which have been there for 30 long years. What’s happening to our democracy??? Or is it just a ploy by the BJP leaders to change their image from the Hindu pro party to a more secular one. If this is the case then they are seriously troubling their interests with the RSS.
I am not against BJP or Congress for that matter. I just want to see these parties as strong as they can be so that Indian voters have two healthy alternatives to chose from. However after the elections, BJP chose the path of slow death or the path of suicide to be very precise, which is not only harmful for the party but for the entire nation. Because if the voters don’t have any other alternative to vote for, then it will become a sort of monopoly for the single party that remains i.e. Congress.
While history is just to study and be informed about and not to be worried about, the most important concern should be the present and the future. Are we running out of issues that we have to discuss those issues which have no relevance at all in the country’s growth? At the time when the entire world is thinking about growth our honourable leaders are busy extracting the dead bodies out of the coffin. Why don’t they debate the trivial issues of poverty, employment, economic growth, infrastructure, education with the same intensity as they are debating the non sense issue of Jinnah?

Rahul Gandhi + Youth + Gareeb Bharatiya = Congress victory

While the results of Indian Premier League are still awaited, results of Indian Political League are out and are quite welcoming. Congress has clearly won the elections and gained a thumping majority. The victory can be devoted to UP, West Bengal, Bihar, Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi and many more such states all over India where BJP and other local parties suffered setbacks. These elections have given many positives to the Indian politics.

The first and the foremost is the destruction of “Red Fort” of West Bengal, formed by the Left front. After so many years of their stern traditional sticky control over west, the Mamata Bannerjee brigade has destroyed the Jyoti Basu army and has created history.

Then comes UP. They had only 9 seats out of 80 in the last Lok Sabha which has seen a sharp increase this year to 21. The major losers were SP and BSP. So the dreams of Mulayam and Mayawati have been thrashed and the primary reason is Rahul Gandhi. It was his industrious efforts which led Congress to have its feet in UP after many years.

Bihar was another state which suffered the aberration. The balloon named Lalu Yadav deflated and his party got only 3 seats with himself defeated from one place. Even Paswan and his party suffered badly as well. We can expect something good out of this sweep out.

Even Shiv Sena in Maharashtra was way below in its performance and so were many local parties.

So can we conclude that the verdict of the Indian voter is changing!!! Is he now consciously giving his precious vote to the national parties only??? Is he using his judgement to wipe out inefficient people from the politics??? Is Indian politics on the verge of turnaround???

Well these questions can be better answered in the next elections only and that will be 5 years from now and this is almost certain. UPA will be making a government in which there will be no place for Left, Lalu or Paswan. But still they have given a call to Lalu as of now, the hazy picture will become more clearer in days to come.

But one thing is sure, these people will now have very less bargaining power and very less say in the govt working and hence the govt can impose the decisions which it wants to, more freely and without the fear of stepping down from power (I hope we remember what Left did during the Nuke Deal).

Stability, improved economy and a better politics is what we expect now from this government. Lets wait n watch what this govt. has in store for us!!!

But there are some questions which rose after the elections and are still unanswered. The BJP PM Candidate, who was termed as PM in waiting has refused to become the Opposition leader in Lok Sabha. So who will take his place??? What will be the future of LK Advani??? Who will be the next candidate from BJP??? Will it be Narendra Modi??? With Ajit Singh changing ends soon after the results, what is the loyalty of a member to his party??? Will Rahul Gandhi become a Cabinet minister??? 

OLD POLITICIANS......NEW POLITICS

From last few days, you must have noticed a hyperlink following you wherever you go (like a Hutch network) on a newspaper sites, or even on gmail. This hyperlink is a portal created by the BJP Prime Minister candidate Sri Lal Krisna Advani, www.lkadvani.in. This is a way to establish a connect with the youth and is on the same lines as of Barack Obama.

This website exhibits the benefits of voting to BJP, conditions prevailing in Assam, his own career and life. It also contains blogs to pour the bitterness against Congress, enemies of secularism and the nation as a whole. These days, on eve of women’s week the home page says “I salute the women of India and the world”—LK Advani.

This is quite clearly a great innovation from a person who is neither a marketer nor has done a MBA degree, but he is just a politician serving his country from past so many years. This is actually a counter attack against all the existing ways of campaigning by other political parties and a unique way to create a sustainable competitive advantage in this election.

He is actually doing things differently to attract the largest youth population in the world. He was seen in a gym lifting dumbles, clearly illustrating the fact that he wants to remain fit to serve the people of the country as against many politicians who are of the age of retirement (Advani is older than many of those).

Congress tried to gauge this youth by introducing many faces....obviously young ones and giving them tickets to contest elections against the old heroes. So to fight this experience v/s youth trade-off, they, especially Advani has found innovative and unconventional way of marketing BJP to the hearts of younger generation of India.

But they have to understand that it’s not just about reach. Though internet will be a great medium for penetration of his and his party’s thoughts; but message is more important than medium. They must understand that the youth wants to know about employment, social security, poverty, economic conditions, and foreign affairs and the one who will be able to provide this to them and satisfy them on these issues will be the one who will form the government.