RJD and SP have withdrawn support and their Rajya Sabha MPs have openly said that they will do anything implying physical disruption to stop the bill from being passed. After initial hesitation JD(U) has come around to supporting it thanks to Nitish Kumar. While there is no doubt that Lalu and Mulayam Singh do have a right to protest and they may have some logic in their argument as well but frankly speaking, their protests have very little to do with logic or their good wishes for women of Muslim community or Dalits for that matter, whose cause they seem to be espousing.

Posted on March 8th, 2010 under India calling. Tags: bill, BJP, BSP, Congress, reservation, RJD, SP, women. Comments: 4

What we saw yesterday in Delhi was display of democracy at its worst. First the govt comes out with a ridiculous ordinance which is against sugarcane farmers and pro mill owners. Then the opposition gets together to organize a farmer’s protest wherein the entire city is held to ransom and monuments vandalized while the police just looks on. The parliament too is not allowed to start its session by the opposition and then by evening the govt bows to the demands and says that they will do what’s best for the farmers. Is this the way a democracy supposed to function? Well, If this is indeed democracy I don’t want it. Give me communism for all I care but not this. Here are some naked truths which led to this sorry episode.

Posted on November 20th, 2009 under India calling. Tags: BJP, communism, Congress, democracy, farmers, prices, Protest, SP, sugar, UP. Comments: 13

Some people like Rahul Gandhi matured pretty early in life. Some people like Bakhtiyar Irani and Rahul Mahajan of Bigg Boss fame promise that they never will and yet there are some others like Akhilesh Yadav of SP who threaten to mature but do exactly the opposite. When SP lost miserably in by elections of UP it was maturity on his part to have accepted the verdict but he went absolutely bonkers when he took it so personally and went ahead and challenged Rahul Gandhi for the next battle in UP. And it helps him score brownie points with her too who must be feeling dejected after this loss. Though theoretically speaking there is one more possibility. Dimple Yadav may have told Akhilesh to take on Rahul Gandhi in a direct one to one challenge. Quite possible, theoretically at least.

Posted on November 13th, 2009 under India calling. Tags: Akhilesh, Bigg Boss, BJP, BSP, Congress, Gandhi, Mahajan, Mayawati, Rahul, SP. Comments: 1

Godhra will not die down. Our politicians will not let it to. Because every time they rake this issue up they whip up public sentiment. And that is exactly the reason why Nanawati has only forwarded Part I of the report which deals with the Godhra train carnage only. The rest of the report [...]

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under India calling. Tags: accident, Babri, Bannerjee, BJP, carnage, commission, commitee, Congress, country, demolition, elections, Godhra, Gujrat, Jagdish Tytler, Justice, Lalu Prasad, Masjid, mileage, Modi, Nanwati, Narendra, NDA, Political, public, Railways, report, revenge, riots, sentiment, sikh, Smajwadi Party, SP, train, truth, UP. Comments: None

Yeah, he’s the target again. It was bound to happen. In fact it was only a matter of time before the govt acted against him, again. Not very long ago we had a Congress spokesperson saying that Amitabh and his family be left alone. But that was then. it’s not the same any [...]

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under India calling. Tags: Amar Singh, Amitabh, Bachhan, cash for vote, Congress, elections, Family, NDA, Samajwadi party, scam, SP, support, target. Comments: None