Ground Reality

By  Neeraj Bajpai “I had been to other countries-in Europe,Asia and the  Middle East - but none of them had provided even half as much variety, or so much to see and experience and remember, as this one state in northern India. You can travel from one end of Australia to the other,but everywhere on that vast continent you will find that people dress in the same way, eat the same kind of food, listen to the same music. This colourless uniformity is apparent in many other countries of the world, both East and West. But Uttar Pradesh is a world in itself.” - Ruskin Bond . The dance of democracy in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh has assumed gigantic proportions with most of the stake holders have adopted a fierce tone in the campaign .Knives remained out in open.Now polling is almost all over and only two phases are left.       No-holds barred electioneering has touched a crescendo with acidic and sarcastic slogans. More than duels at public pla...

: As the Prime Minister Narendra Modi marches ahead pushing Indian   government's flag ship programmes,grabbling plethora of challenges from opponents outside and within the organisation,Role of newly anointed full term President of the Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah has become more crucial to increase party’s hold in states.He has to bridle fringe elements, having propensity of destroying all good-will with strokes  of intolerance.  As a President Shah hands are full with state assemblies polls in ten states & UT in next two years, and party’s performance in the poll bound swathes will empower  the central government at least in public perceptions and investors’ confidence in the Modi’s Rule. In a way ,success of flagship programmes is also linked with BJP’s performance at the hustings as nothing can be pursued in isolation in a federal state. Cooperative federalism is the essence of the success. Till next elections ...

                           Cut Throat Political games get underway in India, much to bewilderment of The Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Government which was still busy to assess import of the Ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA ) crushing defeat in the Hindi heartland state of Bihar.    Things are changing at a faster pace than anticipated as The Ruling BJP veterans 88 year old LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Yashwant Sinha, former Finance Minister,Former  Union Minister Shanta Kumar virtually raised a banner of revolt and publicly issued a terse statement which said the “consensual character” has been destroyed and no lessons were learnt from the Delhi Assembly poll debacle. Their statement has come within two days of the Bihar polls where the BJP got mere  53 seats out of 243 member state Assembly. The Grand Alliance of Lalu Prasad  Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal, JD...

Bihar polls verdict is a Wake up call for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led ruling dispensation at the centre. If they take it lightly like Delhi polls debacle, Time will be tougher for them  as next two years are packed with state assembly polls . In 2016, polls are to be held in Kerala,Tamil nadu, Puducherry , West Bengal and Assam and in 2017, UP,Punjab ,Goa,Uttrakhand and Manipur will go to  polls. Upbeat with massive victory,Mahagathbandhan –the Grand Alliance of Nitish-Lalu –Congress, will not leave any stone upturned to derail the Modi’s apple cart in other parts of the country too. Recent events  will cast it shadow on coming Parliament session from November 26. After winning almost three fourth majority-178 out of 243 seats in the state assembly polls,the Grand alliance will stitch more such tie ups for mounting pressure on the NDA, which trailed  with meager 57 seats in Bihar. The Verdict has proved beyond an iota of doubt that alliance...