If the impasse over the Indo-US Nuclear Deal explained the policy paralysis of a delinquent Government at the Center, one must wonder what explains the current spell of dysfunctional governance ?
433 news releases by the Press Information Bureau in the last 30 days.
Not one on the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA.
None on the Cabinet Committee on Security, CCS either.
None on from any of the myriad Group of Ministers, GoM with anything significant to report.
None from any of the many empowered Group of Ministers, eGoM either that Pranab Mukherjee chairs.
34 Press Releases with references to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Almost all of them have to do with the Prime Minister inaugrating some conference. With the exception of the Chief Minister’s Conference which saw some sharp policy differences between the Prime Minister and the rising star of the BJP, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, there was hardly anything substantial that the Prime Minister said or did. If that clash brought to fore Manmohan Singh’s Communal Socialism this particular release by the PIB hardly received any press coverage.
Any guesses what this is about ?
please look at the arrangements that are being made for the comfort of our pilgrims. Whatever efforts were required, we made. We have Antulay Ji, Ahmed Saheb, Pranab Mukherjee Saheb, they have taken great pains to ensure that our pilgrims are looked after well. But, if there are any deficiencies, you can point that out and the officials on the spot will be available to set matters right. So with these words, I once again congratulate you for undertaking this sacred pilgrimage. May the purpose for which you are performing this sacred pilgrimage be successful
The Prime Minister taking time out from his busy schedule while not fighting the War on Terror, while not dealing with Internal Security and not while not securing Indian Strategic Interests to meet with the Haj Goodwill Delegation.
Karan Thapar today wrote an editorial on the Modification of Politics. The piece is honest in its assessment of the likely future impact of Mr. Modi on national politics but it is Thapar’s response to what he calls ”Modification” that is amusing.
there is only one person who can do that …. She has to rival Modi?s appeal ? both his magnetism and his myth ? and symbolise the alternate vision
No not Mayawati. Thapar is not that imaginative.
It?s Sonia Gandhi. It may be an irony that an Italian-born woman, a widow who till 1998 detested politics, should transform into one of the twin poles of Indian politics, but it could also be an inescapable fact. No other person from the anti-BJP parties has the appeal or the nation-wide image to rival Modi.
Offstumped Bottomline: As we enter 2008 the choices will be stark and clear. The likes of Thapar will continue to be in denial that is about being for or against so called liberalism/secularism but the reality is different. It will be a choice between
Executive Delinquency of the Manmohan Singh variety that stoops to appease special interests, Islamist ones at that, or a Strong Executive that delivers while pandering to none.
Events across the border in Pakistan will make an uncompromising attitude on National Security the defining issue in 2008. Manmohan Singh’s lack of leadership, insomina and amnesia will come back to haunt.
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To quote Karan Thapar in his article in HT:…
Only the sudden removal of Narendra Modi can stop this….
‘Excuse me? Is this moron Thapar advocating or subtely suugesting that someone (read jihadi terrorist) should bump-off Modi? “Sudden removal”…what does this phrase imply?
I m sure of one thing…twith this Thapar — a modern day Jaichand — among us, India doesn’t need external enemies or traitors for that matter.
sootradhar – yep he is shamelessly suggesting it.
There is nothing subtle about it, it is blatant plea for the “abrupt removal” of Modi, by any means.
Hell needs to raised about this in the blogosphere, yossarin you should take the lead.
@sootradhaar,
Do some research on the dad of Karan Thapar, things will become clearer.
Archee…thank you for pointing me in the right direction about this twit Karan Thapar’s lineage…;)
I googled his dad P N Thapar (came to know ’bout him thru Wikipedia)…n this is what I came across in one of the articles about one of the greatest military generals of India, and the first Field Marshal, Sam ‘Bahadur’ Manekshaw:
>>…(My emphasis — Karan Thapar’s father P N)…Thapar has the distinction of being the only Army chief who had to quit in disgrace. And Manekshaw has the distinction of having been the most successful chief ever. What many Army officers want to know is: Why is General P.N. Thapar’s son now interviewing people who are willing to throw dirt on Manekshaw?…>>>
Well, no surprises here then…like father, like son! The father accused and did everything within his means to disgrace FM Sam Manekshaw, a true son of the soil and one of the greatest patriots India has ever produced (who had the spine to stand up to Indira Gandhi, when the latter asked the battle date for Bangladesh’s liberation be moved forward, which the former wisely and forcefully declined…& to give credit where its due, Indira accepted his recommendations), while the son…now vilifies another great patriot & leader India has seen in recent times (hell, let me correct it…not seen since Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel)…Narendra Modi.
I guess history does respeats itself…ain’t that so? And, to quote George Santayana, those who forget history are condemned to repeat it!
Karan Thapar hoping for “sudden removal” of modi
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=8368a158-42d4-466c-ba71-685eb2bbc204&&Headline=%E2%80%98Modification%E2%80%99+of+politics
From the article.
>>Only the sudden removal of Narendra Modi can stop this. For he is the agent forcing this change. And whilst he’s with us, he will do just that.
What does sudden removal mean? He is going nowhere and is staying in politics. So what can it mean apart from assasination? The media was a bunch of jokers till now but now they are turning into plain murderers. Someone needs to put a stop to this. And soon.
Either Thapar is suggesting assisination of Modi or HE KNOWS SOME DARK plans about it. Either way he should be arrested and prosecuted.
Guys you need to chill. You are reading too much into this. It is just a way of presenting the current political situation. You all are just twisting an innocent remark in a column which doesn’t even read the same when the whole column is read. This column isn’t even pro congress, just expresses the need of balance between two ideologies. So take it in that spirit and stop exaggerating things. In fact he is one of the rare media persons who doesn’t take sides and treats all political parties in the same manner!
Sorry Spark, I don’t buy your claims of Karan Thapar’s remark being “innocent”. Tilting at the windmills,he manufactured a thesis of an impending cataclysmic change, subtly portraying it as sinister and undesirable. He claims this change is bound to happen “while Modi is with us”, and offers the suggestion that only Modi’s “sudden removal” can stop it.
If not a criminal intent, I see at least an endorsement of it in Karan Thapar’s line of reasoning. The lunatic has crossed limits.
It wasn’t the BJP that won in Gujarat, it was Brand Modi. His genius lay in showing how the anglicised media and politics were barking up the wrong tree. That he gave his victory speech in Hindi, rather than local Gujarati, was political astuteness that made a hash of every single sociological divide. His nationalist sentiments are probably more to do with that astuteness than genuine xenophobia. Should the fact that he’s improved the well-being of tens of millions of others right the wrong of this disregard for minorities?
Can Sonia really match that? I don’t see a Congress equivalent of Modi…
It wasn’t the BJP that won in Gujarat, it was Brand Modi. His genius lay in showing how the anglicised media and politics were barking up the wrong tree. That he gave his victory speech in Hindi, rather than local Gujarati, was political astuteness that made a hash of every single sociological divide. His nationalist sentiments are probably more to do with that astuteness than genuine xenophobia.
Can Sonia really match that astuteness? I don’t see a Congress equivalent of Modi…
You all are just twisting an innocent remark in a column which doesn’t even read the same when the whole column is read
You need some lessons in comprehension, Karan Thapar made his point clearly, and followed it up with “whilst he is with us” to remove all doubts.
Archee
I am sure its people like you who like to misrepresent facts and create riots which kill not Hindus or Muslims but rather human beings!
And all you can give anybody is lessons in miscomprehension!
I am sure its people like you who like to misrepresent facts and create riots which kill not Hindus or Muslims but rather human beings!
I promptly let you have the last word, the lessons won’t work.
Spark >> I am sure its people like you who like to misrepresent facts…
Misrepresent facts? Give me a break!…Its there for everybody to read and understand…its pretty obvious Spark as to what Thapar is suggesting. Even a fifth-grade student can draw the underlying conclusion from Karan’s rhetoric.
People like Archee misrepresnting facts or guys like you who like to obfuscate the obvious…well, my dear friend…its looks as if after all its you who need lessons in comprehension!
Spark >> …and create riots which kill not Hindus or Muslims but rather human beings!…
My dear friend…no matter how hard we, lesser mortals, may try to achieve living a utopian dream, its just not gonna happen esp. when the others (read radical Muslims, evangelical Christians or for that matter the pinkos n the commies) have always been hell-bent on maintaining their separate religious identities, even ahead of India’s national & security interests, and holding the stick of their consolidated vote-banks with which to get the ever docile & PC politicians to play to their tunes.
Bharat-Rakshak thread
http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?t=3715&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=120
“Only the sudden removal of Narendra Modi can stop this. For he is the agent forcing this change. And whilst he’s with us, he will do just that.”
It is a not-so-subtle fatwa on Modi’s head. Thapar is clearly suggesting that assassinating Modi will avert the impending doom that he sees Modi’s “removal” as having positive effects. It is a coded incitement to Islamists, and there’s no enigma about it.
E.g. will HT every publish this?-
“Only the sudden removal of Sonia Gandhi can stop this. For she is the agent forcing this change. And whilst she’s with us, she will do just that.”
“Guys you need to chill. You are reading too much into this.”
Quite disturbing you say that Spark. “Sudden removal?” Do you atleast agree that this sudden removal can come only through killing Modi?Or is he not a human being now? Does it not perturb you that so-called liberals are hoping/praying for the murder of their opponent to ? Does the danger it poses for democracy not perturb you in the least? And your reaction to all this “chill”?
How much low can the secularists go? This Thapar guy is disgusting.
Karan Thapar wants to see modi dead, surprise, but this editorial in Times of India seems to want to kill Gujuratis to prove modi wrong. It almost gleefully advocates terrorist strikes on gujurat, as gujurat under modi has the audacity of claiming to be ‘terror free’. And it also seems to assume only reason there have been no terror strikes in gujurat is because all gujurati muslims, even though seething with revenge, are too scared ! This is sickening stuff.
are 5.5 crore gujuratis safe ? TOI
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Are_55_crore_Gujaratis_safe/rssarticleshow/2659800.cms
“There is no point chest-thumping that Gujarat has been successful in its war against terror. If terrorists did not damage Gujarat to the extent feared after the 2002 riots, they targeted Gujaratis in Mumbai.”
gujus were targeted in mumbai, so all the psuedo-seculars can sleep in peace. besides it’s modi fault gujus got targeted in bombay, with its impotent congi govt, right ?
“Akshardham did happen, Haren Pandya was assassinated. And there were some blasts here and there, even if they couldn’t inflict much damage.”
what would the author want, for the blasts to have inflicted maximum damage ? can you read the sick frustration of the author, that no ‘significant damage’ was inflicted ?
“Even police officials would tell you that the security apparatus, as far as tackling terror is concerned, is in tatters in Gujarat.”
oh yeah, that would explain the lack of any terror attacks in gujurat.
“Even if it is presumed that local Muslims are scared of supporting terror activities, security experts said terror networks can easily blend with society without arousing any suspicion and just wait for orders before they get active.”
So all gujurati muslims are terrorists, and they have just been waiting for 5 yr modi rule, awaiting ISI orders. well that certainly explains the lack of terror attacks in gujurat.
I wish that the author of this sick editorial would be ‘suddenly removed’, whatever that hell that means.
Things smell rotten.
Jihad in India: A Interview
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=33adcaa3-1e36-4665-881d-8e6c4f6c8d7b
Excerpts:
Helping India is nothing other than helping to empower a West-friendly Hindu majority to mobilize and take on political Islamic movement, by building on the grievance majority has had in the hands of political Islam. This also involves aiding Hindu organizations and promoting able and strong leaders such as Narendra Modi of Bharathya Janata Party (BJP), which have the wherewithal to take on political Islam.
The current regime of ManMohan Singh-Sonia Gandhi has proven to be, through policies enacted, an unwitting friend of jihadists in India. This shouldn’t be a surprise. Sonia Gandhi’s Congress party, according to Indian intelligence, has been infiltrated by jihadists. Due to the policies enacted by Manmohan Singh’s government, jihadi infiltration into Indian institions is escalating, including its paramilitary forces.
The Congress party has been diagnosed with the politically deadly disease – AIDS – the “Anti-National Incompetent Dysfunctional Syndrome”. All prognostic indicators (Gujarat, UP, Punjab, HP etc) suggest that there chances of recovery are very slim, and no amount of therapeutic medicines (Communal Budgeting, reprieve to terrorists, Modi-bashing, pseudo-secularism, Islamic appeasement etc) can save them from an imminent death.
Hope to see the grand old party RIPped off in 2008…!!!
Karan Thapar…Has the nerve to right this in a national daily….SODS are these so called psuedo SICKULARISTS, I dont know what he studied in Cambridge, when he and Benazir got into arguments about sex ( he said it himselves on CNN IBN to rajdeep sardesai the day the woman was murdered, imagine somebody remembering a person over a debate on sex held some thirty years ago), pervert is what he is….
Karan Thapar….Modi will be the PM of this country so start learning Italian coz thats where you are headed now….
It’ll be interesting to see where Puppet Minister ManMohan lands (World Bank/IMF etc??) after his nautanki tenure is over.
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karan thapar is a cheap bastard if not and extrimist, terrorist. he should not be allowed to live in democratic India. he has no sense how to use his pen. He should be send to pakistan to partner with al qaida and lashar-e-toiba.
i can believe people grow up in a free part of the world to get this mentally sick. cheap stuff from karan!!
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