It’s been two months since the embarrassing 2019 poll defeat and the Congress doesn’t seem to have learnt any lessons. Any other party would have been planning to get back with a bang.
Everybody is talking about the winners and losers of the just concluded general elections. However, nobody is talking about NOTA that got a significant vote share. Interestingly, not many people know that NOTA does not have any bearing on the vote counting. It is merely a feedback mechanism to register a voter’s disappointment.
08 November, 2016 – This date will be etched in our memories for a long time. It was this day that the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced his government’s flagship scheme of demonetisation. 50 days is what the Prime Minister asked for, and we are here beyond that period. I am one of those who have turned from being hopeful to despondent.
Given the current political scenario, to ‘not’ say that Narendra Modi is likely to be the next Prime Minister of our country, is to risk being discarded as ignorant and naïve. So, having established this as a foregone conclusion, let us look at what Modi’s plans or focus areas could be and should be, if he actually becomes the head of the next government at the centre.
Given the current political uncertainty surrounding the UPA-II and the constant media projections of early elections, it would only be opportune to evaluate how prepared is the BJP for the political battle ‘today’. What are the odds that if the general elections were to be held today, the BJP would come to back to power?
It takes some amount of confidence in oneself to say what Narendra Modi recently said in an interview to Shahid Siddiqui, editor of an Urdu newspaper, Nai Duniya. On being asked yet again about the 2002 Gujarat riots, Narendra Modi said that he did not see the need to apologize because if he was found to be guilty, he deserves to be hanged. On the face of it, it would seem that a man who has the courage and conviction to say such strong words must be a believer in justice. However, politics and politicians are not as transparent as ...