Will the call for conscience vote in the upcoming presidential election in India trigger some unpredictable outcome? An internal rebellion in the Congress? The nomination papers of B.S.Shekhawat,the Opposition candidate for the Presidency by Natwar Singh,till the other day a leading light of the Sonia Gandhi’s inner circle points to a new development.Mr.Singh is still…
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From a subservient Prime Minister to a subservient President?
Presidential election loses its dignity and gravitas? Is democracy only a numbers game? If so, then, is politics is all about mere political survival for some persons or some families? It looks Sonia Gandhi’s approach to matters of high state, the legacy of the Congress party and its ideals and much else seems to be…
President of India must rise up.
How a high Constitutional office was dragged to a low common denominator! The Presidential contest between Mrs.Pratiba Patil and the incumbent Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has taken some ugly turns.This is most unfortunate. Given the high office of the President under the Indian Constitution,an office that is both ceremonial and symbolic of the hopes and…
Third Front in Indian politics
How it would transform Indian politics? A new Indian political flavour, this new coalition of regional and smaller parties? Yes, it looks like that. So long it was the two big national parties that headed the coalition politics in India. Now, it is the regional parties, the smaller parties that are converging towards a new…
Will the UPA government last its full term?
Political morals and political legitimacy The current contradictions and confusions raise many questions! Democracy in India is now reduced to numbers games.All norms and high principles are thrown away.So,the coalition politics has been taking so many opportunistic survival strategies. Do political morals and political legitimacy matter in a democracy?Is Indian democracy at this point of…
We need a bold new vision!
Agriculture is an economic and political power! There is now a new sense of urgency to do something in the agricultural sector. That is a welcome development. But do the public also know why this sense of urgency? The most obvious explanation is the current mood of despondency of the ruling UPA, more so the…
Letter to Sonia Gandhi
In the series of defeats in the State Assembly elections and in the critical municipal elections in Mumbai and Delhi,the latest wipeout in the major state of UP where the Congress finished fourth, the party faces the certain defeat in the 2009 general elections.Already its major ally,the DMK had started weakening the Central Government’s morale…
Facing the next general elections in 2009!
Why Manmohan Singh is seen as a poor performer? That a professional economist can’t make a successful Prime Minister is proved beyond doubt by the three years of Manmohan Singh government. The report to the people put out by the UPA chairperson ,Sonia Gandhi, is proof enough. There will be few takers for this report…