Ground Reality

Results for the 403 Members State Assembly in the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh are out ,scripting a new normal political scenario in the caste and communal politics ridden state,with Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerging as a successful Skipper. The state elections in the state and its outcome- giving landslide victory to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) –has put a stamp of approval on the disruptive politics of Modi who has scaled down traditional parameters in the ground politics in the most vibrant political hinterland of the country. The massive mandate to the BJP in the Hindi state, which sends 80 seats to the lower house of Parliament ,has proved beyond an iota of the doubt that the Modi-Amit Shah style of politics has created a new normal for the politics where fresh ground rules for polls have been laid- throwing political pundits for a toss. Some of the journalists went on air to admit that they were caught off the guard with staggering seats tally...

Caught in cleft stick of CPM and Trinamool Congress, Ace strategists of the Grand old party, having only 45 members in the Lower house of the Indian Parliament are mulling over its strategy for the forthcoming  State Assembly polls in the West Bengal. Communist party of India (CPM) ,fresh from the party’s plenum in its old citadel WB,is holding two days meeting of the party’s central committee in the National capital on Feb 16 and 17 to frame its poll strategy in tune   with the W.B state committee meeting recommendations in Kolkata .  The state   committee will send its proposals about the Political-Tactical line ( P-TL) to the Central committee and on those recommendations , top heads of the Red brigade will have   brain storming session to crystallize its strategy. The P-TL approach was approved in the Vishakhapatnam Congress of Party and it was under discussions at plenum, held after more than three decades.   Knowing fully well that th...