Maharashtra & Haryana Assembly Elections

It is turning out to be fierce battle for power in Maharashtra and Haryana elections.

While, it has been largely limited to local leaders in Haryana and Maharashtra, PM Modi's campaign has given booster shoots to BJP chances in these states.

In Haryana - Congress is not looking very strong and the regional parties are struggling.

Even in Maharashtra congress is not at the fore front , but Shiv Sena could garner good numbers. NCP and MNS may end up at similar results. Again, BJP is gaining ground in Maharashtra.

It is important election for Amit Shah to proove his credentials after taking over as BJP President. But BJP has never formed govt on its own in these states, and if results favour BJP, Amit Shah's position would become more formidable in the party.

Do go and vote on 15 October 2014.

Regards,
Nishikant

By Polls loss for BJP genuine

By-Polls cannot be great indicator of voter's mood and they are likely to vote party already in power.

The by polls results declared today gave some hope to dying powers like Samajwadi Party and Congress, while rubbing some reality check on BJP

The results of by-polls declared on 16 Sept for which the voting was held on 13 sept. were genuinely disappointing for BJP.

Primarily BJP made effort in UP to retain its seats and while in Rajasthan and Gujarat - it should have grabbed all.

It may not be anything significant in terms of voter's mood yet it reflects the missing charm at the local level.

It seems that transformation of BJP has not happened at the lower levels and the party workers on ground are not in sync with ideas of new central leadership at the moment.

It may just be time for bjp to make some notes now to avoid any major set backs in coming up Maharashtra and Haryana elections

-nishikant

Appeasement Politics and Majority Safety Rights

Indian politics is witnessing shameless appeasement of Muslims by various politics parties. A trend started by congress to stay in power and today being used by likes of Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav and Mamta Benerjee.

How appeasement works:

=> Give them money
=> Overlook minor crimes
=> Give them reservation
=> Give them soaps (exclusively)
=> Wear their topi and go to mosque for votes

By doing all the above the political parties has tried to ensure that Hindus feel secluded and unattended completely. Their concerns are now being looked at as 'communal'. Anything to do with Hindus is being labeled as communal by minority appeasing political parties.If for construction of road - a small mosque is broken then it would be communal while if temple would be broken it might not even make news.

Then comes TV debating intellectuals - who are always worried about communal riots. They themselves seems to have overlooked the dangers of appeasement rather it might even be considered secular to appease.

The so called appeasement is now shadowed in name of secularism.

The impact of this would slowly come with majority backlash and it would time up for this appeasement and communal politics. 

Some parties are purely working on governance like BJD in Orissa or AIADMK-Jaya in Tamil Nadu, though there is slight bend to minorities to justify their secular credentials. They are likely to sustain their existence but the parties focusing only on 'secularism shadow - appeasement to survive' might soon would struggle with their existence.

- nishikant

100 days of Modi Sarkar

The new Indian Government marked its 100 days and all media houses started the debates about its analysis.

Most analyst felt the govt led by Mr. Modi is moving in right direction and international diplomatic relations management of Mr. Modi were hailed by all.

My sense is 100 days are too less to look at govt's performance. The govt's performance would become more evident only after 2 years.

Mr. Modi must work on implementation of his govt ideas and new processes must be developed to do away with corruption.

Regards,
Nishikant

Haryana Break ups and Patch ups

Since the day Mr. Hooda took over as Haryana CM, the congress party starting breaking up with first victims being Bhajan Lal.

In last few years, the rebellion within Haryana congress has grown and with stupendous BJP LS victory, number of senior haryana congress leaders have joined BJP.

while most haryana congress leaders are shifting to BJP, the ones who felt lack of space or visibility started their own parties. It line starts with Late Bhajan Lal's son Kuldeep Bishnoi's Haryana Janhit Congress, then Venod Sharma (manu sharma's father) is having own party and also Gopal Kanda (MDLR airline case) having own party.

Indian National Congress has almost been broken into pieces at leadership level in Haryana and the patch-ups at the moment only help the BJP.

With assembly elections coming soon, its advantage BJP in Haryana

By Polls

Everyone is reading too much in by-election results.

Primarily if you go by trend of last couple of years, it is evident that the present ruling party of the state usually gets advantage in the by-polls. Probably the new age voters believe that its better to vote for existing government as it would continue in office anyways.

My sense is that these by-polls do not really reflect mood of the people when it comes full assembly elections.

-nishikant

Power Shift

Era of Political Change - 21st Century

I have created this blog to share my view and analysis of the political situations, politicians and urban aadmi - which is not 'aam' anymore.

this is an exciting era of politics in India.

after decades, Indian voters has given full mandate to a single party - BJP while Congress was reduced to lowest ever total in Sonia Gandhi era. There was whole new way the elections campaign were managed and it is likely to change the political campaigning in India forever.

Mr. Modi worked hard to do rallies across India, there was whole dedicated team to strategies social marketing, tv media, print media, radio media and also huge ground force to reach out to the most remote areas as well.

social media is now being used consistently by most politicians to connect with their voters and infact, the many ministries of new govt. is on twitter.

the voter is now more engaged, can read through english and urban aadmi and aurat are now actually voting. for sometime now, it is likely that Indian elections - state & center both would through up single party mandate and make them accountable for their actions.

keep coming back for political masala.
nishikant