Nitin Gadkari of Maharashtra has become the new BJP ( Bharatiya Janata Party) on Saturday, 19th December 2009, succeeding Rajnath Singh.

A day before, L K Advani resigned as leader of opposition in Loksabha ( Lower House) paving way for Sushma Swaraj to become leader of opposition. Most probably, this completes “Rule of Women” in India now. India has women as President, Speaker, Chairperson of ruling UPA ( United Progressive Alliance) and now leader of opposition.

Resigning by L K Advani may signal the end of Prime Ministerial ambition of Mr. L K Advani. Though L K Advani became chairman of party’s parliamentary party, but that post seems to be just a ceremonial post. One may judge that, era of L K Advani in BJP has ended.

RSS will have mor influence on BJP and it can be safely assumed that no major decisions in BJP would be taken without tacit RSS support. While this may be good for BJP in terms of poll prospect as RSS has many grass root supporters which had worked for BJP in the past, but not last two elections. Most probably, BJP leadership had identified that to be one of the reasons of two successive failure by BJP to capture power at the center.

Nitin Gadkari is known to be close to RSS leadership and he is from Nagpur, head quarter of RSS. He is the youngest BJP president at the age of 52. The BJP leader, who was till now the chief of Maharashtra BJP, proved his mettle as an effective minister in the Shiv Sena-BJP government in the state ten years back.

It will be interesting to observe, how BJP reacts to various affairs concerning India at global as well as domestic arena.

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On 6th December, 1992, Babri Masjid in India was demolished by karsevaks in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, Indian state. Hindus claim that, a mosque was built on Ram Temple after demolishing it. This history of Babri Masjid thus goes back to many years which can be read at Wikipedia.

Babri Masjid

Intellectuals opine that, it has increased Hindu-Muslim divide in the country and gave birth to communal politics in India. Also, it resulted in serial bomb blast in Mumbai in 1993 which is said to be orchestrated by Dawood Ibrahim in retaliation to the Babri Masjid demolition.

It resulted in presidents rule in Uttar Pradesh and BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) government led by chief minister Kalyan Singh was dismissed. Sangh Parivars, rightist Hindu parties are blamed for the demolition.

Even after 16 years, Babri Masjid demolition is hotly debated in Indian TV channels, and questions are asked, opinion polls conducted if BJP should apologise for the demolition of Babri Masjid or not. RSS ( Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ) is considered parent organisation for all Hindu organisation like Visha Hindu Parishad, BJO etc. RSS vehemently opposed any call for regret over the Babri Masjid demolition and strongly suppot construction of Ram Temple.

It is interesting not note that, many politicians still use this incident as minority appeasement tricks. India should forget the past and move ahead.

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Last general election and recently concluded state assemblies in four states saw decline of BJP (Bharatiya Janta Party, the right wing Indian political party, who was the only non-congress government in independent India to complete a full term.

BJP Leader LK Adwani Worried man

First they lost general election second time to Congress. Though their vote share remained almost same and their number of MP came down marginally, but they have seen few infighting between their top leaders. Jaswant Singh has been ousted from BJP and many uncomfortable questions on BJP top leadership has been raised.

In the recent assembly election, BJP-Shivsena combine was expected to do well in Mahrasthra, one of the most industrially developed state in India. The present ruling coalition between Congress and NCP ( Nationalist Congress Party, a breakaway group of Congress led by union agriculture minister Sarad Power) had been very poor in governance, was in power for last 10 years. 26/11 incident where Pakistani nationals attacked Mumbai city and killed more than 180 people including foreigners and top police officers of Mumbai, happened during their rule. Still, surprising everyone, NCP-Congress combine came to power. Many analysts opine that BJP-Shivsena vote share was eaten away by MNS ( Maharasthra Navnirman Sena), a break away Shivsena party led by Raj Thackeray, which won handful of seats. They even emerged as the second largest party in prestigious Mumbai city.

BJP has done very poorly in Haryana ( another prosperous Indian state near Indian capital New Delhi) too. Though, no body expected BJP to win in Haryana, but their tally of 4 seats is meager for a national party like BJP.

Also recently, BJP is facing infighting in Karnataka which BJP is ruling for the first time. Karnataka is also first south Indian state where BJP came to power. Most probably, BJP needs a introspection and should act as powerful opposition party.

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Recently, India has witnessed a stranger political drama in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. The incidents might seem like a sequence of Hindi B-Grade movies. The sequence goes like this:-

10 July 2009 : News about Uttar Pradesh DGP visiting Dalit victims in his state and paying compensation as per SC/ST atrocities ac has hit

Rita Bahuguna Joshi arrested for hate speech against Mayawati, UP CM

16th July 2009 : News broke that Congress state president Rita Bahuguna Joshi remarked about his compensation that it is very inadequate, and said “If Mayawati thinks that such an amount is fair compensation for the mental and physical trauma suffered by a rape victim, then I would be ready to offer her a compensation of Rs.1 crore”. Source.

After this remark were known, Mayawati reacted quickly and ordered Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s arrest as well as charge her with SC/ST atrocities (Prevention) Act and she herself became eligible for Rs. 25000/- compensation as per the SC/ST atrocities (Prevention) Act. provisions.

Also some miscreants torched the house of Rita Bahuguna Joshi in Lucknow. What a quick justice!

Rita Bahuguna Joshi has been remanded to 14 days Jail. Her bail plea was rejected as expected since SC/ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act is a tough law to deal with atrocities against Dalits and other tribal people in India.
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Indian media had a field day. Civil society and educated Indians had a very embarrassing day. Though Mayawati is correct to the letter of the law, but may be she is not correct with the spirit of the law. Most probably, DGP is too high a rank to pay the compensation himself after traveling by Helicopter. One can easily see the political brownie points by this act. The reaction by Congress State Chief, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, an upper caste, is even more deplorable. Her remarks about Mayawati ( though she later apologised to Mayawati as well as regretted that she remarked in a fit of anger) was totally parliamentary.
Sonia Gandhi, Congress President had to regret the remark by her state chief. Mayawati was quick to exploit Dalit sentiment with these events.
A sad episode for Indian political system as well Indian democracy.

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Finally, the voting process in India got over yesterday after the fifth and final phase of voting. There was not any big issue for this election. Most probably this election campaigning saw record laws in terms of political opportunism. 10 incidents which were highlight according to me in this election:

1. Hate speech and imposition of NSA ( National Security Act) on Varun Gandhi, BJP Candidate, Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh.

2. Failure of Congress and its leading partners RJD and LJP to form alliance in Bihar.

3. Failure of Congress and SP ( Samajbadi Party) to form alliance in UP.

4. Break up of BJP and BJD alliance in Orissa.

5. Mr. L P Yadav accusing Congress responsible of Babri Masjid demolition in 1992.

6. Ban on exit polls by Election Commission.

7. Dominating cyber space by Mr. L K Advani, Prime Minister Candidate of NDA.

8. Political opportunistic behavior both by Left Parties and Congress where they fight election against each other at states and try to forge at alliance at center.

9. Shoe throw incidence resulting Congress removing two LS candidate.

10. SP putting up condition for supporting at center to the party who removes elected BSP government in UP.

We will know the result of the election on 16th May 2009, which is only 3 days from today. As per many exit polls by various news paper groups, TV channels, UPA and allies are ahead of NDA group. Also so called third front having a large number of MPs, we might see lot of horse trading.

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Recently, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav has accused Congress Party of being a party to Babri Masjid demolition along with BJP and other Hindu Extremist parties!
Here is the news:

“Bol rahe Babri Masjid girane wale… Aur Congress party bhi hai girane wala, bachaya nahin” (about Babri Masjid demolition, Congress party is also responsible for it, it did not save it), Yadav said during an election rally in Manigachi in Bihar’s Darbhanga district, about 150 km from Patna, in an obvious reference to the Congress government then ruling at the Centre. Source and Complete Story Here.

Babri Masjid was demolished on 6th December 1992. Many in India termed this to be black day for Indian democracy as well as a blot on secularism in India. No death reported during the Babri Masjid demolition. There was a serial blast in Mumbai in March 1993 and a rioting which resulted in death of more than 200 people. Also there were reports that many temples in Bangladesh and Pakistan were demolished in response to the Babri Masjid Demolition.

BJP, RSS, Sivsena and every Hindu organisation in Hindu majority country India were demonised in every news paper, news channels. According to Mr. L K Advani, every year Congress party does not allow functioning of lower house ( Loksabha) on 6th December if in session.

So, Babri Masjid demolition has been reason for many political, terrorist activities. But the recent outburst by Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav about Congress being party to Babri Masjid demolition has been quite an eye opener! I have been thinking about few questions about this statement by Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav:

1. If Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav believes that Congress was also a party to Babri Masjid demolition, why was he and his RJD party a partner with UPA government ?
2. Why did he accuse Congress now and if he had an alliance with him, would he have accused Congress the same ?
3. Why is he still a Cabinet Minister in UPA Government led by Congress if he really believes Congress was party to Babri Masjid Demolition ?

Most probably, he thinks Muslim in India are not intelligent enough to connect these information and will feel great to be informed about Congress being party to Babri Masjid demolion. And Indian Muslim Voters would stop voting for Congress and vote for RJD en mass for enlightening them about Congress double standards.

Babri Masjid demolition was an unfortunate incident which India has paid enough for and moved on. The very fact that even BJP does not claim “credit” for being able to destroy a Masjid as per many Hindu extremist parties demand, proves the strength of Hindu Secularism in India.

It is sad that Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav had raised the Babri Masjid question, though the issue is valid, but the timing seems to be quite inappropriate as it seems a Muslim appeasement for votes.

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