025 Indians are capable of prostrating and pulling down

025 Indians are capable of prostrating and pulling down
Topics for discussion: BJP, Political Culture, Venkaiah Naidu, Narendra Modi, L.K. Advani, M.M. Joshi, Politics of Prostration

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Mr. M. Venkaiah Naidu, Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs is reported to have said:

I do not like people prostrating before us.

I never used to prostrate in front of seniors like Advani and Vajpayee though they gave me political birth.

Many are prostrating in front of me after I became Union Minister. I will be careful with them. ... Many pretend to prostrate and suddenly pull a person as happened in case of then CM NTR. ,,,

Mr. Venkaiah Naidu is said to have recollected how four to five people mostly women prostrated to NTR and when he asked, NTR remarked it was their love and affection. Mr. Naidu is said to have proceeded to explain how Nadendla Bhaskara Rao pulled down NTR later.

ybrao a donkey's comments

It is not poor people who may pull down the persons before whom they prostrate.

It is politicians, who prostrate and also pull down. Pulling down is their nature, whether they prostrate or not.

Now see this picture, Like mythological Suyodhana Mr. Narendra Modi is prostrating before Mr. L.K. Advani, the Bhishmacharya of BJP.

In the right side photo Mr. Modi was prostrating before Advani. In the left side photo he was bending forward to seek blessing of Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi.

Now, what is happening to the Gurus and deliverers? How could Mr. Modi suddenly bring a bench mark of maximum age of 75 years for being taken into Cabinet? Mr. Modi has the audacity to take into his Cabinet Ms. Smriti Irani who has not completed her XII Standard or Part I of her Correspondence Course and entrust her the administration of Human Resource Development of 1200 million Indian Citizens, supervising IITs, IIMs, UGC, AICTE, Public and Private Sector Universities and what not!! Mr. Joshi was a Physics Professor and was a stalvart in many Educational Commissions and Committees, besides being a Senior HRD Minister in Vajpayee's Cabinet. Mr. Advani needed no introduction.

Actually, it seems to be the fault of Mr. Vajpayee, Mr. Advani and Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi to have encouraged Mr. Narendra Modi, by exporting him from Delhi to Ahmedabad as Chief Minister in 2002.

The trinity sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind. They deserve their downfall.

Mr. Venkaiah Naidu might not have prostrated before Mr. Vajpayee or Mr. Advani. But one thing is definite. Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, Mr. Rajnath Singh, Mr. Arun Jaitley, Ms. Sushma Swaraj played their AshADha bhUti roles in letting down Mr. Advani and Mr. M.M. Joshi. Now, Mr. Advani and Joshi must have been repenting for encouraging flunkeys like Messrs. Naidu, Rajnath, Jaitley, and Swaraj.

What will happen to Indian Parliament after prostration?

This photo shows, Mr. Narendra Modi prostrating before the entrance of Indian Parliament.
We have to wait and see what he is going to do to the Indian Parliament, having prostrated before it.

023 Modi wave or BJP wave or anti Congress wave?

23 Modi wave or BJP wave or anti Congress wave?
topics for discussion: BJP, Murali Manohar Joshi, Narendra Modi, Advani, Adani, Rahul Gandhi, Modism

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"Modi is the representative of the party as the prime ministerial candidate. And whenever a dynamic person moves with the support of the party, he creates a very strong sympathy and support for him, because of his track record also. So its not a highly personalized thing, it is a representative wave. He gets support from different parts of the country, from different sections of society, and from all leaders of BJP. So, he represents the general mood and the desire for change. You may call it a Modi wave, there is no harm in it. But it is a sum total of what is happening inside the country, it represents that,"




It is now the developmental model of the country as presented by BJP. In a country like India, what developmental model is true for Jammu and Kashmir or Arunachal Pradesh, may not be true for Kerala.



"So to say that this model or that model -- no. So some good points may be there, some good points from the government of Tripura will also be there, it is not some straitjacket model,"

ybrao a donkey's feelings

We should, first, appreciate the courage shown by Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi, amidst all-pervasive Modimania. I hope he will persevere with it.

This type of courage Mr. Advani couldn't show.

But it will be better to call the waves roaring today, as 'anti-congress waves', rather than Modi waves or BJP waves.

There is no wonder or speciality in BJP winning in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgadh and Delhi, because they were and are BJP ruled states even before the advent of Modism on the BJP's horizon.

We can prove that there is a BJP wave or a Modi wave, only when BJP secures victories in Non-BJP ruled States like Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu.

In the mean time we can compare the publicity, marketing blitzkriez, paid-news we see in print and electronic media, only to the market promotion campaigns of film distributors.

Reasons for widespread anti-congress wave, are well-known:

1. anti-incumbancy factor.

2. sky-rocketing prices

3. hardships suffered by people owing to unilateral enforcement of Adhar scheme.

4. great scams and corruption.

5. displacement of farmers from their ancestral lands for setting up SEZs and parks.

6. suicide of farmers, as farming turned into an unviable high-risk commercial venture, resulting in debt and harassment from money-lenders.

7. suicide of small traders as small-scale trading could not compete with malls and super markets, bolstered by foreign investments and Chinese goods.

8. Conversion of education and health care into Corporate businesses, turning them inaccessible to common people.

9. Widespread unemployment both of unskilled labor and educated youth, as agriculture, agro-based industries and manufacturing sectors turned sick.

10. Excess emphasis on speculation in gold, shares, bonds, real estate, resulting in creation of nouveau-riche in the midst of deprivation and squalor.

Common man's dilemma is, whom to vote, to reflect their anger towards Congress? Though Mr. Modi is projected as a solution, his economic agenda does not differ from the economic agenda of Congress.


Example: Mr. Narendra Modi patronised the Adani Group. Congress too wanted to patronise the same Adani Group. When Rahul Gandhi pointed out Modi's fetish for Adani saying 'Advani out and Adani in', photos showing Adani and Vadhra discussing something, went viral on internet.

As far as crony Capitalism is concerned, no party can be immune in India, including AAP and Communists.

Mr. L.K. Advani's about turns

“This is the first ever election where it can be felt that people have already made up their minds to throw out the present (UPA) government. There is no doubt that BJP will form government under the leadership of Narendra Modi. I will take up any role which will be offered to me after election,”

Feelings of ybrao a donkey

We should not forget that SrIvAru has retweated a tweat which compared Mr. Modi to a snake.

Now, how Mr. Advani takes an about-turn? Because Mr. Modi fell down on his feet?

What responsibilities does Shri Advani want to shoulder in Mr. Modi's regime? Does he want to be anointed as President of India? Then, he has to wait another four years. Will he be satisfied if Lok Sabha's speakership is offered?
Or does he wants restoration of his Dy. Prime Ministership, with charge of Home Ministry? This may not be possible, because it might have been reserved for Mr. Amit Shah.







The election canvassing work of Mr. Advani in his Gandhinagar constituency used to be, earlier entrusted to his daughter. This time, Shri Advani has entrusted it to his son. One question which occurs to my mind is, why didn't he entrust this work to a second string leader in Gandhinagar? Why always close relatives and family members? Probably, it involves handling of cash.

Probably, because Mr. Advani might have thought that time for him is going to be up by 2019 when he may not be given even a ticket at Gandhinagar, and that it would be better to pass on the mantle to son, as customary in Indian politics. Mr. Advani might have entrusted his son's future to the gloves of Mr. Modi. Second string leaders in India can never get a chance, unless they start manoeuvering for themselves a la Mr. Modi.

22 Marital affairs and Illicit Relationships of Indian politicians

Topics for discussion, चर्चांश: Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley, Rahul Gandhi, Congress, BJP, Andhra Pradesh.

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Mr. Arun Jaitley, BJP Vice President was reported to have said on 12th April 2014.

"I do not understand how disclosing a legal relationship is wrong in any way. Narendra Modi has done the right thing the right way. There are many people in illicit relationships in Rahul Gandhi's party. If people have the right to know this, then, they also have the right to know things which are not yet disclosed..."

ybrao a donkey's feelings

Disclosing a legal relationship is not wrong in any way. The question is why it was not disclosed in the previous elections. It is true, that as pointed out by Mr. Jaitley, Mr. Narendra Modi has now done it in the right thing. But, still, it is not fully in the right way. Truth should be disclosed in full in an honest manner, and not like Yudhishthira of Mahabharata who said 'aswaththama hataha kunjaraha' (AswaththAma was dead, the elephant).

The object of the Election procedure requiring candidates to disclose their spouses names and asking for the details of properties held in their names seems to be that corrupt politicians should not accumulate properties in spouse names.

In February 2014 Mr. Modi said at Sujanpur:

"Mere liye na koi aagey, na peechhey. Kiske liye bhrashtachaar karunga? (I've no familial ties. Who would I ever try to benefit through corruption?)."

May be he might have unofficially, unilaterally, in his mind, he broke his ties with Ms. Jashoda Ben, whereas Ms. Jashoda Ben still says that she is his dharma patni, like legendary Sita who was abandoned in the forest. He did not apply for his divorce through Indian courts, as per Hindu Marriage Act and customs under which he was married. According to Hindu traditions, and Indian laws, a husband has to bear his wife (bharta = one who bears. bhArya= one who is borne), unless and until he gets a legal divorce. Simply dropping wife at her parents' does not discharge his responsibilities.

By withholding essential, material facts, Mr. Modi has withheld information needed by the election process. The Returning Officers at that time acquiesced to the non-disclosure and blindly validated his nomination.

Even in the 2014 Vadodara affidavit, Mr. Modi, ought to have included an additional explanation for not providing the details of assets and liabilities of Ms. Jashoda Ben.

Example:
I and my spouse have been living separately for the last 45 years. She has her own sources of income. She has her own assets purchased from her income. I am unable to provide those details, because we live separately and do not have contacts.

What is missing here, is the required transparency. Once transparency is maintained, criticism from other parties and people may arise: How can a person who cannot look after his wife, can empower the women of the whole Nation? But this question is to be handled separately, outside the election nomination affidavit.

About illicit relationships of politicians

Unfortunately, the election procedures and the affidavits to be submitted are silent about persons in illicit relationships with the leaders, and the assets they own. Assets held by such illicit partners (we can't call them wives/husbands. Use of the word concubin will be harsh) can also be sizeable. Probably, election rules may have to be amended, seeking additional information on assets and liabilities of persons having illicit relationships with politicians.

Mr. Narendra Modi and some BJP leaders were vociferous about the assets of Ms. Sunanda Pushkar (Tharoor) before and after her marriage with Mr. Sashi Tharoor. Mr. Modi referred to her as "Rs. 50 crore girl friend". Mr. Narendra Modi himself did not hesitate to raise personal issues. Where did the political ethics pointed out by Mr. Jaitley go?

Discussion in Andhra Pradesh State Assembly

As far as I could remember, there was once a discussion in erstwhile United A.P. State Assembly about the extra marital relationships of M.L.A.s. It transpired that nearly 70-80% of A.P. M.L.A. had relationships of some type or other. I also recall that Mr. Suresh Reddy, the then appointed a House Committee to inquire into facts. The Committee went to dogs.

A.P., though we cannot generalise, still can be taken as a representative sample of India. At least 50% of M.L.A.s of other States, and Indian M.Ps may have this type of relationships. Four issues arise from these relationships:

1. Whether corrupt moneys are diverted to buy assets to illicit wives/husbands.

2. Whether the illicit wives/husbands interfere into the working of the M.L.A.s, M.Ps and Ministers? .

3. If the M.L.As, M.P.s and Ministers stay at the houses of their live-in illicit partners, how far the first wives are neglected?

4. Do prior wives remain silent out of fear, or out of hope to get property shares of the politicians from their corrupt wealth. If the prior wives take divorce, they will only get some maintenance. By remaining mum, they will get property shares, even if they lose husband's cohabitation and love.

Mr. Jaitley was reported to have commented:--

"There is the political ethics that women and personal life of people are never brought in politics. It has never been made an issue in our country. Because the Congress party is on the verge of defeat and it has no other topic to bring up, it has taken up the marital status of Narendra Modi as an issue."

ybrao a donkey's feelings

Ethics in this country requires rulers to set exemplary standards to the common people they rule.

Bhagavad Gita 03/21. Whatever elite and leaders in society do others will emulate. Whatever the elite take as standard, the world will copy. ——↠↠ yad yad Acharati SrEshThas tat tad dEvEtarO janah sa yat pramANam kurutE lOkas tad anuvartatE.

If a ruler neglects his wife, leaving her to fend for herself, howsoever noble may be his reason for doing that, what will the common people do?

Why political ethics in India ignores personal behaviors? It is very inconceivable to expect that a person who is unethical in his personal life, will be ethical in his political life. Personal life and political life go hand in hand, and are inseparable. However, politicians can have complete rights to justify their behaviors and even right to privacy, as long as they do not pontificate and harangue to common people on the same affairs and subjects.

There is a story about Gandhiji. A parent went to Gandhiji with his son and requested Gandhiji to counsel the boy suitably and persuade him not to eat laddus. Gandhiji went on postponing his advice, until one day he conceded and counselled the boy suitably. The surprised parent was said to have asked Gandhiji, why this couldn't have been done during the first visit itself. Gandhiji said that he too had a fetish for laddus, and that he could not advise the boy to restrain from eating laddus, until he himself stopped consuming them. The postponement was time needed for Gandhiji to resist his own temptations.

Mr. Jaitley was reported to have commented:

"He has stooped down low by bringing up the marital status of Modi. So, if Rahul Gandhi has stooped down so low, then he should tell about his own party leaders."

ybrao a donkey's comments

If Rahul Gandhi has anything to disclose about himself, he ought to disclose. He will then be setting a great example. He can also advise his followers to be transparent.

020 Barbarous haircut to Seemandhra (Residual Andhra Pradesh)

20 Who will do greater barbarous haircut to Seemandhra?

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topics for discussion: bifurcation, Andhra Pradesh, Congress, BJP, 2014 Elections, haircut

Mr. Arun Jaitley is one of the top leaders in BJP. He is also leader of BJP Parliamentary Party in Rajya Sabha. He has recently written in his blog that Congress could not efficiently handle the issue of bifurcation of the State of Andhra Pradesh. Here is a link to his blog: click to go to http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arun-jaitleys-blog/entry/the-congress-and-telengana?sortBy=OLDEST&th=1

BJP ruled India from 1999 to 2004. Who stopped it from forming the State of Telangana amicably? Its lust for power stopped BJP from undertaking an amicable bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, because it was afraid of Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu who was Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at that time.

Ever since Congress came into power in 2004, BJP leaders, especially the BJP leaders of Andhra Pradesh went on instigating the violent TelangaNa movement. BJP leaders of A.P. joined the Telangana Joint Action Committee and they were too eager to fall at the feet of TRS bosses. Did they ever discourage TRS leaders from their abuses of Seemandhra People and stop extortions?

Did BJP top leadership, from 2004 to 2014, ever arrange for a joint sitting of leaders of Telangana and Seemandhra, for arriving at an amicable settlement? No.

BJP just went on prodding and pushing the Congress for the introduction of Telangana Bill in Lok Sabha.

Does BJP central leaders have any concrete action plan for an amicable separation of Andhra Pradesh? If they have any such plans, why don't they reveal?

They simply say that they will introduce some amendments to the Telangana bill in Lok Sabha. But they will not say, what they are going to do if Congress rejects them.

Their plan seems to be only one thing. Find fault with Congress, somehow or other. Get four or five seats by bargaining with TRS.

If BJP is serious and sincere

BJP top leadership should clearly announce what they are going to do if Congress rejects amendments if any moved by BJP in Lok Sabha. Will BJP vote in favor of passing the bill? Or will they allow the bill to lapse unaccepted? In that case they can go to the 2014 elections, publishing an action plan for bifurcation of A.P. if BJP comes into power.

A fair political party does not play hide and seek with people's sentiments. People are not stones. They have hearts and heads.

My gratitude to Mr. Arun Jaitley

It has been my decade old desire to draw a cartoon and publish it. I could not do it, because I did not have ideas, drawing skills and talent. I used to be jealous of my elder son, who is an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes (not cartoons).

Utterances of Mr. Arun Jaitley, Ms. Sushma Swaraj, Mr. Digvijay Singh (Congress in-charge for A.P.) and Mr. Sushilkumar Shinde (Home Minister) have motivated me to make renewed efforts to draw my first cartoon. Thus, my first cartoon "Who will do greater barbarous haircut to Seemandhra" , I could visualise, draw and publish, spending nearly six hours.

018 Difficult to understand our Bhishma pitAmaha- we can understand Nehru and Patel

Deccan Chronicle 6th Nov. 2013 published a first page headline news item, titled "LK stokes row on police action. Cites book says Nehru called Sardar communalist". Link to open it: Click to go to deccanchronicle.com/131106/news-politics etc.

Readers may be aware that BJP and Congress both want to claim the legacy of Late Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel. BJP's bhIshma pitAmaha Shri L.K. Advani might have thought that it would be worthwhile to quote something which showed that Nehruji called Sardar Patel, a communalist. He made a long search for a book which contained some references relating to Central Cabinet's discussions before Police Action on the erstwhile Hyderabad ruler, the Nizam. With the help of one of his friends, he could at last trace a MalayALam book, a memoir of a 1947 batch IPS Officer, one Mr. M.K.K. Nair. Its English translation is in a stage of further editing and publication. The title of the book is “The Story of an Era Told without Ill Will”.

bhIshmapitAmaha, in his blog, extensively, quoted from the blog.

Link to the particular blog post of bhIshma pitAmaha:

Click to go to http://blog.lkadvani.in/blog-in-english/when-vp-menon-cornered-a-british-general.

I am writing my comments on bhIshma pitAmaha's blog here, because Mr. L.K. Advani's blog does not allow length exceeding 1000 characters. Besides, they seem not to accept anything which criticises Shri aDvaNi or BJP. Their moderation system is totally intolerant. They do not disclose their Email address, nor contact us when we give our Email address. Hence, I have no alternative, except placing my comments here. Of course, I leave my comment at their post, requesting them to have a look at this post. They will remove my comment, probably because audi alterim partem is not their policy.

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ybrao a donkey's analyses , not intended to be imposed on others

A look at the part of the text quoted at the particular Mr. Advani's blog post, a narration of what might have happened on 30th April 1948, indicates that it reflected the title of the book being without 'ill will'. So far so good.

The text also clearly indicates that there was no gulf between Nehru and Patel. Only one sentence was attributed to Nehru, which I quote here.

...At a cabinet meeting, Patel had described these things and demanded that army be sent to end the terror-regime in Hyderabad. Nehru who usually spoke calmly, peacefully and with international etiquette, spoke losing his composure,...

You are a total communalist. I will never accept your recommendation.

OK, it might have been true that Nehru lost his composure and parted with international etiquette. This can happen in heat of discussions.

We must appreciate that Nehru allowed Patel to frankly speak out his arguments. We must also appreciate that Patel had the courage to speak out his mind. They had no ill will or secret agendas against one another.

This type of frank and open discussion may not take place in Central Cabinet Meetings of today, whether under NDA or under UPA. Our Cabinet Ministers are all pawns for the PMs de jurie, de facto (official and unofficial PMs). We should be sad that "Gone were the days of Nehru and Patel".

Mr. Nair's narration also clearly shows that Nehru changed his mind and supported the police action, after he saw the news that two 70 year old nuns were molested by raZAkars. It was only a question of how much time a chemical may take to ignite. One chemical may take 25 seconds to ignite. Another chemical may take 25 minutes to reach a combustible temperature. Even on the same person, same trigger may provoke different reactions on different days, or at different hours on the same day.

The key element of Mr. Nair's narration quoted at Mr. aDvANi's blog, refers to a treacherous act committed by the army Indian Army Chief Mr. Busher, who passed on the news of impending police action to his Pakisthani counterpart in French language. It was the tapping of Mr. Busher's phone, which revealed his heinous espionage. It was that alertness exercised during the days of Patel and Nehru which should give us great joy, and not the petty differences between Nehru and Patel.

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The following link to The Telegraph Daily dated 5th June 2005, depicts the opportunism displayed by Mr. aDvANi during his visit to karAchi.

Click this Link to The Telegraph dt 5.6.2005 in a new window.

Shri Advani received a guard of honor, given by PakisthAnI Navy. He was given all the pompacities extended to Heads of State. Shri aDvANiji might have been inflated and hoisted by pAkisthan to cloud nine, like Salya who was lifted by duryOdhana before kurukshEtra war . Hence it will be apt to quote what he wrote in the Jinnah Mausoleum's visitors' book. (This quote, kind courtesy The Telegraph).

There are many people who leave an inerasable stamp on history.” ... “But there are very few who actually create history. Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah was one such rare individual."

“In his early years, Sarojini Naidu, a leading luminary of India’s freedom struggle, described Mr Jinnah as an ‘ambassador of Hindu- Muslim unity’. His address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on August 11, 1947, is really a classic, a forceful espousal of a secular state in which, while every citizen would be free to practise his own religion, the state shall make no distinction between one citizen and another on grounds of faith. My respectful homage to this great man.”

Shri aDvANi, the previous day, during his first day's visit to Pakisthan, criticised in Pakisthan, the demolition of Babri Masjid, which he had never done in India, and which his and Mr. Vajpayee's speeches seem to have promoted and prompted.

Jinna's Mausoleum gave him a brochure, which said:

“The necessity of a separate homeland became all the more vital as the Hindu majority made it increasingly difficult for the Muslims in India to live a free and unfettered life according to the tenets of Islam.' So within the short span of a few years, the Quaid rallied the Indian Muslims under the green flag of the (Muslim) League and gave the Pakistani movement a momentum which neither the British government nor the Indian Congress could contain.”

Gist: It is not easy to understand our bhIshma pitAmaha. We can understand Nehru and Patel.

Added on 16.4.14:

Now, this Bhishma pitAmaha -aka- abhinav Sardar Patel has become a beggar at the door of Mr. Narendra Modi. He is prepared to accept any role which the new administration will entrust him.

Added on 1st June 2014

Mr. Modi has not so far come forward with any clear public transparent offer to Mr. Advani or Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi. Mr. Modi may not offer any thing to these Gurus until he accommodates Mr. Amit Shah into the Union Cabinet.