The new blogger dashboard is seriously bugging me now. I just can't save anything on Internet Explorer anymore. Most who read this will ask why I am using the Internet Explorer in the first place. That's a good question, and I want to spend no further time on it than to explain that my hands are technologically tied in a lot of ways.
Moving on, no matter how I look at the world, it always comes back to how quickly this country is descending into economic chaos. It feels like an absolute massacre out there, with the media howling at how bad the stock markets are, the prices are, inflation is, INR is at an all time low, the blue chip stocks are doing wonderfully bad, there is absolute lack of policy and direction, and thanks to the pork-barreled policies of the worst government this country have ever voted in, its fiscal deficit is inching upwards.
All in all, thank you Sonia Gandhi. Thank you Rahul Gandhi. Thank you Sharad Pawar, thank you all shameless creatures. Mr. Pawar, this must be particularly exciting time for you, considering your political astuteness has kept your name away from any of the scams that have surfaced in the past few years, and yet there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that you, and your cronie Praful Patel, have already made your billions. A job well done.
As for the fraud Gandhi family, well, as R. Jagannathan said a few days ago in Firstpost.com, the preparation to put Raul Maino as the Prime Minister of the Republic of India had begun in 2009 already. May 21 was the third anniversary of the dark day in Indian shamocracy when the people fell for the charm and name of the Gandhi family and as the country reaped the benefits of the economic decisions taken during Vajpayee ji's government, and UPA I not being able to unleash its socialist and self-serving agenda thanks to the Left.
It is their limbo that has allowed the third front to come up again and JJ and Mamata are making so many noises. I used to think JJ is a good administrator, maybe she is, but I hate to see her turn into yet another Tamil politician who wins votes through open bribery of voters, using public money.
Coming back to the BJP, the national headlines are now revolving around the entry of Narendra Modi on the national stage. A friend of mine said that if Modi comes, no Muslim will vote for the BJP, and I told him that the Muslims already didn't vote for the BJP, but what they will appreciate is that whatever the tag Modi carries since Godhra, there is no doubt in anybody's mind that Gujarat under him has become India's most prosperous state and this country could really, really use an administrator of his caliber who can actually get things done.
Modi also has lined up support from BS Yeddyurappa, who again was sulking against the BJP national leadership till recently. Thats good. In a way its good that the BJP, and the NDA, have good state level leaders. Most of the BJP led states are perceived to be doing better than the CONgress led states in administration and economy, with Gujarat being the poster boy of economic progress.
There are rumblings that the BJP national leadership, led by Advani, Arun Jaitly, Sushma Swaraj and Nitin Gadkari is really out of touch with a lot of things, and really do not seem to be trying to put the NDA house in order. I agree with that statement. What's scary is that these four leaders do not seem to be generating any national followership at all. The thing about Modi is that it may alienate a lot of Indians, but at the same time, it will get a lot of Indians to vote for who their safety and economic well being is important and who see Modi as the only administrator who can get this country in this downward spiral to come back up again.
And where are all these people? Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh, Murali Manohar Joshi? Other than running into Yashwant Sinha a few weeks ago at the Palladium mall in Mumbai, I really haven't seen him anywhere. What about Arun Shourie? Surely Mr. Shourie's sensibilities find resonance with so many straight thinking forward looking urban Indians?
The economy well, it needs a major major push up after the way it has been handled the past few years. Politics and economics can't be separated, as some commentators said Sonia Gandhi believed, and I really hope she and her family face justice, and so do her coterie and other spineless Congress leaders who stand around without taking a stand.
So another weekend is here and as I figure out how to spend it nicely, I do hope things improve for me, my stocks, and my salary, for everyone else in this increasingly God forsaken country.
Moving on, no matter how I look at the world, it always comes back to how quickly this country is descending into economic chaos. It feels like an absolute massacre out there, with the media howling at how bad the stock markets are, the prices are, inflation is, INR is at an all time low, the blue chip stocks are doing wonderfully bad, there is absolute lack of policy and direction, and thanks to the pork-barreled policies of the worst government this country have ever voted in, its fiscal deficit is inching upwards.
All in all, thank you Sonia Gandhi. Thank you Rahul Gandhi. Thank you Sharad Pawar, thank you all shameless creatures. Mr. Pawar, this must be particularly exciting time for you, considering your political astuteness has kept your name away from any of the scams that have surfaced in the past few years, and yet there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that you, and your cronie Praful Patel, have already made your billions. A job well done.
As for the fraud Gandhi family, well, as R. Jagannathan said a few days ago in Firstpost.com, the preparation to put Raul Maino as the Prime Minister of the Republic of India had begun in 2009 already. May 21 was the third anniversary of the dark day in Indian shamocracy when the people fell for the charm and name of the Gandhi family and as the country reaped the benefits of the economic decisions taken during Vajpayee ji's government, and UPA I not being able to unleash its socialist and self-serving agenda thanks to the Left.
To understand this, we need to go back to 2009, when the Congress party was celebrating its huge victory. The party increased its Lok Sabha seat-count to 206 – the highest tally by a national party since 1991 – barely 65-70 seats short of an absolute majority on its own. That’s where voodoo politics began in right earnest.
The 2009 results confirmed two things to the Congress party: that heavy social spending is the way to install Rahul Gandhi in power in 2014; and that the country may soon be ready to give one party complete control of government. What started as a brief dalliance with aam aadmi politics in 2004 (which the Congress unexpectedly won) gathered more steam after 2009.
What remained unchanged after UPA-1 was the belief that the Sonia-Manmohan division of power – where the former influences all major political-economic decisions and the latter keeps a semblance of administration going without doing much – was good enough to ensure a Rahul Gandhi victory in 2014.
In short, far from seeing 2009 as a mandate to govern, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul saw 2009 as an incentive to start planning for 2014. Stated differently, the political efforts for winning 2014 began as early as 2009. This was how UPA-2 squandered its mandate.
This was also why Rahul Gandhi kept playing compulsive populist at regular intervals – turning up suddenly among Orissa’s tribals to claim he was their soldier in Delhi in August 2010, announcing a Muslim quota before the UP elections. Lessons from the Bihar elections, where the party was trounced by Nitish Kumar and the BJP in 2010, were ignored as aberrations.All this is a few days old. Since then, quite a few political happenings have occurred, and the media is making a very big deal of Narendra Modi attending the BJP national summit in Mumbai. This was after the Nitin Gadkari loyalist, and apparent Modi opposer, Sanjay Joshi was removed from his party posts. So it seems that the BJP is finally trying to work something out in preparation for 2014. As discussed already, the CONgress already has its dirty plan in place, the effects of which we already started seeing a while ago, so its high time the BJP national leaders actually got together and realized that this is a great opportunity they are squandering, because the CONgress has brought this nation down to its knees, and the BJP must realize the responsibility on their shoulders as the only other national party.
It is their limbo that has allowed the third front to come up again and JJ and Mamata are making so many noises. I used to think JJ is a good administrator, maybe she is, but I hate to see her turn into yet another Tamil politician who wins votes through open bribery of voters, using public money.
Coming back to the BJP, the national headlines are now revolving around the entry of Narendra Modi on the national stage. A friend of mine said that if Modi comes, no Muslim will vote for the BJP, and I told him that the Muslims already didn't vote for the BJP, but what they will appreciate is that whatever the tag Modi carries since Godhra, there is no doubt in anybody's mind that Gujarat under him has become India's most prosperous state and this country could really, really use an administrator of his caliber who can actually get things done.
Modi also has lined up support from BS Yeddyurappa, who again was sulking against the BJP national leadership till recently. Thats good. In a way its good that the BJP, and the NDA, have good state level leaders. Most of the BJP led states are perceived to be doing better than the CONgress led states in administration and economy, with Gujarat being the poster boy of economic progress.
There are rumblings that the BJP national leadership, led by Advani, Arun Jaitly, Sushma Swaraj and Nitin Gadkari is really out of touch with a lot of things, and really do not seem to be trying to put the NDA house in order. I agree with that statement. What's scary is that these four leaders do not seem to be generating any national followership at all. The thing about Modi is that it may alienate a lot of Indians, but at the same time, it will get a lot of Indians to vote for who their safety and economic well being is important and who see Modi as the only administrator who can get this country in this downward spiral to come back up again.
And where are all these people? Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh, Murali Manohar Joshi? Other than running into Yashwant Sinha a few weeks ago at the Palladium mall in Mumbai, I really haven't seen him anywhere. What about Arun Shourie? Surely Mr. Shourie's sensibilities find resonance with so many straight thinking forward looking urban Indians?
The economy well, it needs a major major push up after the way it has been handled the past few years. Politics and economics can't be separated, as some commentators said Sonia Gandhi believed, and I really hope she and her family face justice, and so do her coterie and other spineless Congress leaders who stand around without taking a stand.
So another weekend is here and as I figure out how to spend it nicely, I do hope things improve for me, my stocks, and my salary, for everyone else in this increasingly God forsaken country.
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