A statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein being destroyed in central Baghdad
Stalin statue destroyed
Removing the statue of Lenin, during collapse of communism
Lastly, Busts of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi lie broken in full public view at the Congress headquarters. (Source)
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that his ministry did not have enough funds to open any new Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) in the current financial year. This coming from a government who has just enhanced 74% increase in Plan Outlay for Ministry of Minority Affairs (Rs. 1,000 crore in BE 2008-09 to Rs.1,740 crore in 2009-10) and also announced a sum of Rs 50 crore fort wo Aligarh Muslim University campuses to establish at Murshidabad in West Bengal and Malappuram in Kerala.
It seems that UPA govt has taken the policy of starving one child(read majority community) to feed other child(read minorities)
From airports to metro stations, Rajiv Gandhi's name is a popular choice. latest being Bandra-Worli sea link being named after Rajiv Gandhi. Is congress so unimaginative that it cannot think beyond Gandhi Family portfolio of names?
Anyway I am not surprised as Congress even wanted to rename Amethi after Rajiv Gandhi!!! I wonder when India would be renamed as Gandhistan….
Its almost a month since I posted here and I am sure LK Advani would agree with me that one month is a long time in ones lifetime. Since, I believe that one should be humble atleast in defeat, let me start with a hearty congratulations to the Congress Supporters for their stunning electoral performance. I am sure like BJP supporters they might be equally stunned.
By now every political pundit worth his/her salt might have already come out with every plausible reason for the electoral performance of BJP. Let me also give my two cent worth
Myth 1: There was a Congress Wave!
The fact: In the decade between two Lok Sabha elections — in 1999 and 2009 — the Congress’s vote share increased by just 0.5 per cent to 28.6 per cent but its tally went up by 91 seats to 205 this time.
Even this 0.5% increase can be attributed to increase in its vote share in UP from mere 12% last time to 18.3% now.
Victory of congress has Déjà vu written all over. Congress owes this victory to split in non congress votes. The Congress-led UPA has three men to thank for its seat surge in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls: Raj Thackeray, Chiranjeevi, and Vijayakanth. They helped the victorious alliance win nearly 50 more seats in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu than anyone would have expected, as a result of which the UPA ended up with 262 seats, against the 222 it won in 2004
In Andhra Pradesh, YSR has Chiranjeevi to thank for the Congress' unexpectedly strong showing. The Andhra Pradesh results are an irony of these elections. The Congress registered a drop of 3.84% in vote share but an increase of four seats. With Chiranjeevi's newly formed Praja Rajyam picking up an astounding 15.7% of the votes, however, the TDP suffered a sharp drop in its vote share from 33.1% to 24.9%, allowing YSR a comfortable ride back to power.
In Tamilnadu, Captain sank Amma’s ship. Despite contesting more seats this time, DMK and Congress between them managed to raise their vote share only a tad from a combined 39% last time to 40.1% this time. Even after adding the 2.4% that the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) added to the alliance’s tally. Vijayakanth and his Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) got 10% of vote share. In fact, it seems that Tamil Nadu chose DMK, rejected Congress, In TN Congress won 08 seats against 10 seats in 2004 elections.
The third game-changer was Raj. His Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) did exactly what it was expected to do. It cut into Shiv Sena-BJP votes and helped the Congress-NCP alliance to victory in 10 constituencies. Considering that the MNS contested only 12 seats, its delivery for the Congress-NCP was almost 100%. The UPA registered a spectacular second successive sweep in Mumbai and won Pune and Thane thanks to Raj.
The vote share picture is interesting here too. The Congress party's vote share fell 4.11% in Maharashtra but its seat tally rose by four, to 13. In contrast, the NCP's vote share is up by a slender 0.97% but its seat tally came down by one, to eight.
Myth 2: This is end of road for Hindutva.
Fact: Nothing can be further from truth than this. Inspite of the best efforts of Secular Brigade consisting of Media and assorted chaddi activists BJP’s has held on to its bastions.
In Karnataka, its vote share has risen from 34.8% last time to 41.6%. In fact in Manglore novice Nalin Kumar Kateel humbled Congress veteran Janardhan Poojary by 40,420 votes. In MP, it still has 43% of Vote share, In chattisgarh, It has 47% of vote share etc.. etc. If this is a symptom of end of road, I donot see it.
Myth 3: Modi didnot deliver!
Fact: The secular media is at it again. Now they are saying that Modi has not delivered. Some even had the audacity of suggesting that BJP lost on the seat where Modi campaigned! Why… because the vote share of BJP in Gujarat decreased by 0.9%!!!! They conveniently forget the fact that vote share of congress also dropped 0.5% and BJP has won 15 seats, 1 more than last elections!
Heard at the corridors of BJP……salla eak maachar aadmi ko hijda bana deyta hei
I am surprised by this website! is this website maintained by Congress party. I suspect so otherwise how can they get so much information? It donot have even a picture of Manmohan Singh or infact any other congress leaders!
I wonder what congress supporters have to say about this?
In fact, I am personally shocked at this!
Today, The Gandhi family officially launched their Gen five from Priyanka - Rehan (7) and Maira (5) during the auspicious occasion of “"canvassing for mama" . The new offering from Gandhi family was escorted by an old loyal former pradhan of Chandosi gram sabha Kanhaiya. Even though nation has no doubts about capabilities of any new product from Gandhi Family, Mr. Singh humbly summed up their capabilities with an old Awadhi saying,
"Kathi ki bili bhi gungunati hai (even a cat in the house of a katha singer knows how to hum)."
He didnot clarify if it only hums or whether it catches mice also? I guess being Katha Singers cat brings its own benefits.
He also added how they needed no tutoring
"the two took to meeting people like fish takes to water". . "Gandhi parivar ke bachcho ko bhala kya samjhane ki zaroorat hai (where's the need to train a Gandhi kid),"
Of course, who would disagree. Its all ingrained and preprogrammed into the special genes some may say pedigree. The villagers narrate stories of how one of them used to fly rockets even when he was 10 years old. I am sure it might be an exaggeration but as in case of Katha Singers cat who knows?
Like a consummate politician, Little Rehan had a busy day, he hit it off with elders by bending down and touching their feet….. of course without any prompting(at least visible) and then parting with a crisp one-liner: "Rahul mama ko zaroor vote dijiye (please vote for Uncle Rahul)." Rehan, while walking the lanes of Hardoia, a Dalit dominated area, stopped by an ailing old man. He inched closer, looked at the man and asked, "How are you uncle?" before repeating the all-important message. The children even walked into huts to meet and chat up veiled women who were reluctant to come out in presence of village seniors.
Its a proud day for the nation. The awestruck audience at Amethi watched with their mouths wide open. The Media gathered for witnessing the special occasion has gone hyper with Joy. Some of the anchors were seen weeping with joy, some even fainted at first sight of Gen 5. There is no truth in usual opposition canard that the degree of fainting/weeping was directly proportional to advertisement revenue from Government of India.
I only hope “Maira” changes her name when traveling to Kerala!! I can only imagine the face of Anthony trying to call the girl by her name………
Even Bhagwan Sri Krishna got swayed in presence of fairer sex, then how can we blame Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for making some macho statements in presence of capitals Women Journalists especially at a time when he is being called and his “strength” under evaluation.
Prime Minister speaking to Capital's women journalists became “unusually” combative and claimed that
"I was very clear that if the nuclear deal had not gone through, I would have resigned as prime minister”
The surprise macho statement is completely opposite to what Manmohan Singh told his audience while replying to a question after he received the ‘Leader of the Year’ Award from NDTV. At that time he had said
I have already said that if the deal does not go through, it will be a disappointment but in life one has to learn to live with many disappointments
Ashok Sahu is being hounded for his following statement in an interview:
"Who killed Swamiji? Did he not know that there would be dire consequences for such an act? If I say it too often, I am accused of being communal and blamed for spreading communal hatred,"
Laloo Prasad Yadav, threatens Varun with Gory death
"Had I been the country's home minister, I would have crushed Varun Gandhi under a roller and destroyed him without caring for the consequences for his hate speech against Muslims,"
Mr. Vaiko threatens to break India and bloodbath in Tamilnadu
“India would not remain one country” if Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa did not stop the war and if India did not urge him to stop the war.
"The Tigers will continue to fight the Sri Lankan army. If something happens to Prabhakaran, there will be bloodbath in Tamil Nadu.''
Senior congress leader kagodu Timmappa
Whosoever speaks of Hindutva, first their hands should be chopped off.
Imran Kidwai a senior Congress leader says on his regret on not being a mufti
"I regret not being a mufti. Had I been one, I would have issued just one fatwa that going with the BJP amounts to committing kufr".
Andhra Pradesh Congress committee president D Srinivas threatens to chopoff the hands
“any one pointing a finger against minorities will have his hand removed”.
MMS to Bush: “The people of India deeply love you,”
MMS has taken similar line with Obama. He said "You are much loved and respected in India." He even got a copy of Obama's book autographed for his daughter. The PM described him as having "brought a ray of hope" and said the youth looked up to him "as an icon".
The flattery laced language of MMS is shocking, he should remember that he is PM of worlds largest democracy and he should not do anything which will lower the self esteem of 1 Billion people whom he represent.
Literal translation of speech
Background: BJP candidate of uttara kannada(Canara/Karwar) had said that "He doesnt want even a single vote from Muslims, He would ask for vote only from Hindus,Jains,CHristians and Buddhists".
The exact translation of the speech:
"why should only the carpenter do the wood work, Why should only Dhoby wash the clothes"
(comment: I dont understand How Hindutva /Hinduism is preventing others doing this work)
Eee Hindutva antha haluvera kayi(hand) munche kadi (chop) bheku
Whosoever speaks of Hindutva, first their hands should be chopped off.
" Ananthkumar hegde has said that he doesnt want minority vote and wants oinly majority vote, Who is Majority, When did these(Majority) people come here?"
(comment: He might be thinking that Muslims were original inhabitants of India, I really dont get what he meant)
"You people (Brahmins) are the one who does the pooja and we are here only to take prasad, Aren't you ashamed of it"
(comment: Current law permits one to worship even inside the temple if he has scholared the veda and follows the rules defined for it..In fcat in many temples of Karnataka even Non-brahmins perform Poooja..)
In last several days, the Secular Messiahs has worked themselves into a trance over speech of Varun Gandhi. In the frenzy, the secular channels went to town telecasting the tapes sometimes more than 20 times a day. They even lined up a full range of aunties and nephews of Varun Gandhi to condemn him. Some of aunties sounded as if Varun need some serious butt smacking to mend himself, no wonder he is AWOL for last couple of days.
I am not sure what channels are going to achieve from repeated telecast of the tapes? If they are exposing the ugly face of communalism. Constant repetition of the offending message is hardly the best way to fight it unless it is being done to promote certain political interests.
Till date the channels has not explained the source of the CD, which surfaced a full nine days after the actual speech. An analysis of the CD shows 17 cuts proving that it has been spliced and taken out of context and sometimes a voice has been superimposed in parts.
Moreover, the alacrity with which channels went to town telecasting the tapes without any counter checks, is in sharp contrast to their reservations, on allegedly ethical and professional grounds, to airing the tapes allegedly showing MPs accepting cash before the trust vote in Parliament.
Meanwhile, the secular messiahs completely turned a blind eye that congress has decided to nominate Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar for the Lok Sabha elections from Delhi.
For the unaware, Sajjan Kumar was indicted in the official report of the Nanavati Commission of Government of India on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots for instigating mobs to avenge the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Two witnesses, Salawati Kaur and Fota Singh, deposed that Sajjan Kumar addressed a meeting in front of Block A-4 gurdwara in Sultanpuri and gave instructions to kill Sikhs. The inquiry commission found credible evidence against Kumar, however the Indian government decided not to prosecute Sajjan Kumar due to lack of concrete evidence.
The official report of the Nanavati Commission of Government of India on the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots found some 'credible evidence' against Jagdish Tytler. It was also alleged in the court that then member of the Indian Parliament Jagdish Tytler was complaining to his supporters about relatively "small" number of Sikhs killed in his parliamentary constituency Delhi Sadar, which in his opinion had undermined his position in the ruling Indian National Congress party of India.
Today, Priyanka joined issues with Varun and castigated him for going against values of family.
Now I being not as enlightened as many of secular intellectuals am confused by these statements. I am not sure which family she is referring to?. In Kerala where I come from, we follow Matrilineality in which lineage is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors
I am sure she may not be referring to her maternal family. In that case Sonia's (her mother’s) father was a Fascist sympathizer and was a great fan of Italy's war-time Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He fought in the Russian campaign alongside the Germans and remained true to Fascist Nationalist ideology all his life. In fact, He even gave his three daughters Russian names in honor of the campaign in which he fought.
The picture is not that rosy even if we consider her fathers side. It was her father who justified slaughter of more than 3000 innocents sikhs by saying “ "When a giant tree falls, the earth below shakes". The butchers who led the pogrom still hold important position in congress.
Then comes the million dollar question how can granddaughter of Indira Priyadarshini Nehru and Feroze Khan become a “Gandhi”. Feroze Khan’s father, Nawab Khan, was a Muslim, and mother was a Persian Muslim. Jawaharlal Nehru did not approve of the inter-caste marriage for political reasons. If Indira Nehru were to marry a Muslim she would have lost the possibility of becoming the heir to the future Nehru dynasty. At this juncture, according to one story, Mahatma Gandhi intervened and adopted Feroze Khan, gave him his last name (family name/caste name) and got the name of Feroz Khan changed to Feroz Gandhi by an affidavit in England. Thus, Feroze Khan became Feroze Gandhi. Isn't it too much to cry for an adopted family name!
This year 'Indian' Premier League has gone abroad. The decision was taken after congress 
Has UPA even thought, what message is this sending to the world community? With one stroke UPA govt has downgraded the security situation in India to the levels of Pakistan where you cannot hold even a cricket match safely!
Congress as expected has washed its hands off the Indian Premier League's decision to shift the Twenty20 tournament out of the country, saying politics had not prompted such a move. Well past incidents makes us think differently.
Its only few weeks since, Lalit Modi lost the election for the post of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) president. The election which would have re-elected Modi as president was won by a senior bureaucrat Sanjay Dixit by five votes. After losing the election, Lalit Modi said that the new Rajasthan government has put all its effort to defeat him
The Washington Post said on Sunday citing an article by investigative journalist Steve Coll set for publication in New Yorker magazine.
Coll, a former Washington Post managing editor, writes that the resolution of the Kashmir issue was the cornerstone of a broad agreement. Under the plan, the Kashmir conflict would have been resolved through the creation of an autonomous region in which local residents could move freely and conduct trade on both sides of the territorial boundary.
The attempt ultimately failed, not because of substantive differences, Coll writes, but because declining political fortunes left then Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf without the clout he needed to sell the agreement at home.
With the offer to make Kashmir a Autonomous territory, UPA has made a joke of Indian Parliamentary Systems.
In 1994, Indian Parliament has unanimously passed resolution declaring entire Jammu & Kashmir that includes the territories illegally occupied by Pakistan and China as an integral part of India.
SHAME! with congress party at helm... We dont need Pakistan to try disintegrate India!
