Trinamool Ministers Withdraw support from UPA Government

Six Ministers in UPA Government from Trinamool Congress (TMC) have tendered in resignations.  With that, the Government has – on numbers – lost its majority.  However, surely it must be dangling the “share-in-our-plunder” carrot to other parties – NDA and the third front – to make up the numbers, should there be a contest on… [Continue Reading]

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“Public forgot Bofors, it will forget Coalgate”

The corrupt elite of Indian politics does what it does because of short term memories of the public and media.  The collective amnesia of their crimes lets them indulge in all the plunder with complete impunity.  And this was very well underscored by the Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde who was mocking the sincerity… [Continue Reading]

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BJP cannot throw out its own values to uphold those of others in NDA for long

Continuing from last week’s Opinion piece, we will go into Nitish Kumar’s stance and motivations a bit more. Like we discussed last week, in a group called NDA where BJP is the bigger constituent, it is not democratic for the smaller constituents to want overwhelmingly more share of the who direction. Another point, if BJP’s… [Continue Reading]

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Karunanidhi calls for a Non-violent Jail Bharo on 4th July – a la Anna

Many of the DMK senior leaders, former minister Veerapandi S Arumugam, have been detained under the Goondas Act.  So on July 4th, the DMK cadres have been asked to fill the jails.  That is, start the “Jail Bharo” agitation. DMK President M Karunanidhi has reiterated to his party cadres to do a non-violent protest.  Lest, they… [Continue Reading]

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Yeddyurappa wants his proxy Jagadish Shettar to replace Gowda as state CM

Ex Karnataka CM B S Yeddyurappa is creating trouble in BJP.  He resigned last year on July 31st, 2011 following the Illegal Mining case. He was the first BJP Chief minister in a Southern state. He was replaced by D. V. Sadananda Gowda, another BJP stalwart. Somehow Gowda didn’t go well with BSY, so he wants a… [Continue Reading]

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BJP cannot throw out its own values to uphold those of others in NDA for long

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Continuing from last week's Opinion piece, we will go into Nitish Kumar's stance and motivations a bit more. Like we discussed last week, in a group called NDA where BJP is the bigger constituent, it is not democratic for the smaller constituents to want overwhelmingly more share of the who direction. Another point, if BJP's core election … [Read More...]

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Trinamool Ministers Withdraw support from UPA Government

TMC Ministers who resigned

Six Ministers in UPA Government from Trinamool Congress (TMC) have tendered in resignations.  With that, the Government has - on numbers - lost its majority.  However, surely it … [Read More...]

“Public forgot Bofors, it will forget Coalgate”

Sushil Kumar Shinde

The corrupt elite of Indian politics does what it does because of short term memories of the public and media.  The collective amnesia of their crimes lets them indulge in all the … [Read More...]

Karunanidhi calls for a Non-violent Jail Bharo on 4th July – a la Anna

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Many of the DMK senior leaders, former minister Veerapandi S Arumugam, have been detained under the Goondas Act.  So on July 4th, the DMK cadres have been asked to fill the … [Read More...]

Yeddyurappa wants his proxy Jagadish Shettar to replace Gowda as state CM

Jagadish Shettar

Ex Karnataka CM B S Yeddyurappa is creating trouble in BJP.  He resigned last year on July 31st, 2011 following the Illegal Mining case. He was the first BJP Chief minister in a … [Read More...]

Why is Sharad Yadav sucking up to Sonia Gandhi?

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Sharad Yadav is angry with ex-Prez Abdul Kalam.  In fact, very angry.  So much so that he is saying things that only he can probably understand. Prez Kalam says in his book … [Read More...]

Narendra Modi’s Wax Statue to Arrive in US for World Gujarati Conference

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A Three-day World Gujarati Conference is being held in New Jersey from August 31 to September 2.  And in that, three wax statues from Madam Tussaud's will arrive there.  The … [Read More...]

Narendra Modi’s Wax Statue to Arrive in US for World Gujarati Conference

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A Three-day World Gujarati Conference is being held in New Jersey from August 31 to September 2.  And in that, three wax statues from Madam Tussaud’s will arrive there.  The three are: Mahatama Gandhi, Sardar Patel, and Narendra Modi. Even as Modi is not given a visa to enter the US, his presence is pronounced [...]

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Sunil Tatkare – Maharashtra Minister – amasses his wealth using companies in his Gardner’s name!

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Maharashtra’s Water Resources Minister Sunil Tatkare has amassed huge amounts of wealth.  Using over a 100 companies, Tatkare’s friends and family own 1000 acres of agriculture land in Ambivali, Dhagadwadi, Kihim, Shekhadi and other places from Mumbai to Goa. In a yet new expose by BJP’s national secretary Kirit Somaiya, Somaiya showed how brazen Tatkare had become. [...]

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Virbhadra resigns after HC indictment feigning “Moral Responsibility”, 3rd UPA Cabinet Minister to go

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After A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Industries is the third Cabinet Minister to have lost his place in the cabinet. He gave in his resignation to the PM Dr. Singh today at his 7RCR residence. “I have given my papers to the Prime Minister.” He announced after coming out [...]

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Slippery Deshmukh dodges all responsibility in Adarsh Land Scam

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The Adarsh Land scam case is becoming a “He did.. he did” kind of a fight between the Maharashtra politicians.  And the most slippery guy in the mix seems to be Vilasrao Deshmukh, the ex-CM of Maharashtra. Ex-CM and Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde deposed before the Two member inquiry committee and put the [...]

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Sangma woos MamataDi, but she keeps her cards close to her chest

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Mamata Bannerjee and P. A Sangma had a 30-minute meeting at the state secretariat, Writers’ Building in Kolkatta, where Sangma asked for support from “Mamatadi”. When Sangma had left Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in 2004, he had merged his faction with Trinamool Congress. And he is bringing that incident up to appeal to the Bengali [...]

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Calling Nitish Kumar’s PM Qualification Bluff on Modi

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Nitish Kumar, the Bihar Chief Minister is trying to be vaguely but surely disruptive in the NDA front. He has unilaterally announced the “qualifications” of the Prime Ministerial candidate from NDA. They are: The NDA should have a leader who can feel for the underdeveloped states like Bihar. It should not be someone who can [...]

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