Warning bells are ringing
19 Nov 2012 10:51 PM GMT
CONGRESS LEADERS RELUCTANT TO SERVE IN THEIR OWN STATES
Delhi power leaders are not keen to go back to their own states. Ambika Soni, who resigned from the government, may not get a place in the AICC but can be sent off to Punjab as the PCC chief. The thinking in the party is that Punjab needs a real voice of the High Command to control the warring factions of Amarinder Singh and Rajinder Kaur Bhattal. And Ambika alone can do it. But the question is, will Ambika agree? Ambika is not the only one tipped to be sent to the state. Mukul Wasnik, who resigned with her, too, can be sent as the Maharashtra PCC chief. But he, too, is reluctant and wants to continue in AICC. Hari Prasad is another reluctant AICC general secretary, who is likely to be sent to Bangalore as PCC chief. Similarly, Shakeel Ahmad, the CWC member in charge of Bengal and Jharkhand, is tipped to go back to Bihar as PCC chief. Â
MIFFED JAIPAL REDDY MAY QUIT
A revolt is brewing in the Congress. Jaipal Reddy, who was shunted out of Petroleum to an insignificant ministry of Science and Technology to appease Mukesh Ambani, can quit both the government and the Congress. Pressure is mounting from within his supporters that he should no longer bear with the insults heaped on him by the Congress leadership, but should quit the party come out and lead the movement for the creation of Telengana. Sources close to Reddy claim that he is waiting for the government to announce their decision on Telengana. Reddy is likely to make Telengana the basis of his resignation as the Congress government is unlikely to create Telengana. Â
MUSLIMS DISILLUSIONED WITH MULAYAM IN UP
Warning bells are ringing for Mulayam. Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP), who came to power in Uttar Pradesh on the tide of Muslim support, is in for a shock in 2014. The Muslims in the state are feeling cheated and feel that the SP supremo is taking their support for granted. The Muslim leaders in the party are appalled at the spate of riots that have taken place after Mayawati demitted office and the SP came to power. Azam Khan, who had quit the party, but returned after Mulayam severed ties with Kalyan Singh, has once again expressed unhappiness over the current Akhilesh administration. Shahi Imam, who supported Mulayam in the assembly polls, is also extremely disillusioned with the SP government over the continued state failure in containing the riots. He has threatened that if 30 per cent of UP Muslims can catapult a Yadav government to power, they can even withdraw their support in 2014 if left high and dry. Abu Asim Azami, who was not allowed to visit the riot-affected Faizabad, too, has given similar threats to Mulayam Singh Yadav. Â
EXCLUDED SECTION ANGRY WITH CONGRESS TOP BRASS
The Congress leadership is under the scanner for keeping a large section of the party out of the just concluded Samvad Baithak on FDI held at Surajkund last week. Resentment is simmering within the section of leaders who were left out of the deliberation. Questions are being raised over the very purpose of such a deliberation, wherein AICC secretaries, as well as the ministers of state, PCC chiefs, CLP leaders of states, and chief ministers of Congress-ruled states, were excluded from. All these leaders, who were kept out of the Baithak, are asking why have they been appointed on these posts if their opinions hold no significance, particularly when PCC chiefs and CMs are not taken into confidence. The perception in the party at large is that this was a move by the anti-Rahul group to keep members of Rahul’s team out. It was just a jamboree of the same old ageing leadership of the Congress, with just a few young exceptions. Â
BLUNDER BUG BITES BJP
The BJP president Nitin Gadkari seems to have passed off his infamous comparison bug, when he compared Dawood Ibrahim with Swami Vivekananda before the BJP leaders of Madhya Pradesh. It was in Bhopal in MP that Gadkari made the controversial comments, and now a cabinet minister of BJP government in Bhopal, Kailash Vijayvargiya, triggered the controversy by comparing Lord Ram with Ravana and Lord Krishna with Kansa. Close to Vijayvargiya’s comments came the state BJP chief’s comparison of the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan with Jawaharlal Nehru. He said Nehru was famous as chacha and the CM is popularly known as mama. This has evoked strong reactions from the Congress, which said, Kahan raja bhoj aur kahan Gangu teli?
RAHUL’S GAFFE ON KARGIL
Rahul Gandhi is under attack for his Ramlila ground speech on 4 November where he said that ‘we (Congress) supported the NDA on Kargil when we (the party) were in the opposition.’ But after saying this, his own credibility is under the scanner. Although, Rahul used the personal pronoun ‘we’ to signify Congress, he himself was nowhere around and not a part of the party. People are heard asking that Rahul should clarify where was he during the days of Kargil war. While the Kargil war broke out on 16 May 1999, Rahul was not in India. He was busy enjoying life with his girlfriend on foreign shores. He was spotted watching matches even as India was plunged into a war with Pakistan. Â
CONGRESS PLANS TO PLAY UP MODI’S MISOGYNY
The Congress plans to pay back Narendra Modi in the same coin. Modi had called Shashi tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar ‘a 50 crore girlfriend.’ Now, Congress spokesperson Renuka Choudhury is going to Gujarat with a photograph of Modi’s so called wife and she would be asking everywhere around about her identity and whereabouts!
Congress is planning to make Modi’s wife an election issue to wean away his woman voters. Renuka would be telling the women of Gujarat how Modi treats women and has no respect for them. [IPA]
Delhi power leaders are not keen to go back to their own states. Ambika Soni, who resigned from the government, may not get a place in the AICC but can be sent off to Punjab as the PCC chief. The thinking in the party is that Punjab needs a real voice of the High Command to control the warring factions of Amarinder Singh and Rajinder Kaur Bhattal. And Ambika alone can do it. But the question is, will Ambika agree? Ambika is not the only one tipped to be sent to the state. Mukul Wasnik, who resigned with her, too, can be sent as the Maharashtra PCC chief. But he, too, is reluctant and wants to continue in AICC. Hari Prasad is another reluctant AICC general secretary, who is likely to be sent to Bangalore as PCC chief. Similarly, Shakeel Ahmad, the CWC member in charge of Bengal and Jharkhand, is tipped to go back to Bihar as PCC chief. Â
MIFFED JAIPAL REDDY MAY QUIT
A revolt is brewing in the Congress. Jaipal Reddy, who was shunted out of Petroleum to an insignificant ministry of Science and Technology to appease Mukesh Ambani, can quit both the government and the Congress. Pressure is mounting from within his supporters that he should no longer bear with the insults heaped on him by the Congress leadership, but should quit the party come out and lead the movement for the creation of Telengana. Sources close to Reddy claim that he is waiting for the government to announce their decision on Telengana. Reddy is likely to make Telengana the basis of his resignation as the Congress government is unlikely to create Telengana. Â
MUSLIMS DISILLUSIONED WITH MULAYAM IN UP
Warning bells are ringing for Mulayam. Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP), who came to power in Uttar Pradesh on the tide of Muslim support, is in for a shock in 2014. The Muslims in the state are feeling cheated and feel that the SP supremo is taking their support for granted. The Muslim leaders in the party are appalled at the spate of riots that have taken place after Mayawati demitted office and the SP came to power. Azam Khan, who had quit the party, but returned after Mulayam severed ties with Kalyan Singh, has once again expressed unhappiness over the current Akhilesh administration. Shahi Imam, who supported Mulayam in the assembly polls, is also extremely disillusioned with the SP government over the continued state failure in containing the riots. He has threatened that if 30 per cent of UP Muslims can catapult a Yadav government to power, they can even withdraw their support in 2014 if left high and dry. Abu Asim Azami, who was not allowed to visit the riot-affected Faizabad, too, has given similar threats to Mulayam Singh Yadav. Â
EXCLUDED SECTION ANGRY WITH CONGRESS TOP BRASS
The Congress leadership is under the scanner for keeping a large section of the party out of the just concluded Samvad Baithak on FDI held at Surajkund last week. Resentment is simmering within the section of leaders who were left out of the deliberation. Questions are being raised over the very purpose of such a deliberation, wherein AICC secretaries, as well as the ministers of state, PCC chiefs, CLP leaders of states, and chief ministers of Congress-ruled states, were excluded from. All these leaders, who were kept out of the Baithak, are asking why have they been appointed on these posts if their opinions hold no significance, particularly when PCC chiefs and CMs are not taken into confidence. The perception in the party at large is that this was a move by the anti-Rahul group to keep members of Rahul’s team out. It was just a jamboree of the same old ageing leadership of the Congress, with just a few young exceptions. Â
BLUNDER BUG BITES BJP
The BJP president Nitin Gadkari seems to have passed off his infamous comparison bug, when he compared Dawood Ibrahim with Swami Vivekananda before the BJP leaders of Madhya Pradesh. It was in Bhopal in MP that Gadkari made the controversial comments, and now a cabinet minister of BJP government in Bhopal, Kailash Vijayvargiya, triggered the controversy by comparing Lord Ram with Ravana and Lord Krishna with Kansa. Close to Vijayvargiya’s comments came the state BJP chief’s comparison of the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan with Jawaharlal Nehru. He said Nehru was famous as chacha and the CM is popularly known as mama. This has evoked strong reactions from the Congress, which said, Kahan raja bhoj aur kahan Gangu teli?
RAHUL’S GAFFE ON KARGIL
Rahul Gandhi is under attack for his Ramlila ground speech on 4 November where he said that ‘we (Congress) supported the NDA on Kargil when we (the party) were in the opposition.’ But after saying this, his own credibility is under the scanner. Although, Rahul used the personal pronoun ‘we’ to signify Congress, he himself was nowhere around and not a part of the party. People are heard asking that Rahul should clarify where was he during the days of Kargil war. While the Kargil war broke out on 16 May 1999, Rahul was not in India. He was busy enjoying life with his girlfriend on foreign shores. He was spotted watching matches even as India was plunged into a war with Pakistan. Â
CONGRESS PLANS TO PLAY UP MODI’S MISOGYNY
The Congress plans to pay back Narendra Modi in the same coin. Modi had called Shashi tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar ‘a 50 crore girlfriend.’ Now, Congress spokesperson Renuka Choudhury is going to Gujarat with a photograph of Modi’s so called wife and she would be asking everywhere around about her identity and whereabouts!
Congress is planning to make Modi’s wife an election issue to wean away his woman voters. Renuka would be telling the women of Gujarat how Modi treats women and has no respect for them. [IPA]
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