World-Me-My viewpoint

Well the Indian elections are over and the so called Maa-Bete ka Sarkar (Government of Mother and Son) swept away by Moditva and Modi wave. This is reminiscent of another time same country around 40 years back. A similar Maa-Bete ka Sarkar (of Indira and Sanjay Gandhi) was swept away by the Janata wave in 1977. If you look at the similarities further the same Garibi Hatao slogan of Indira Gandhi of 1972 was revived in 2009 by the current form of Congress (it was Congress - I then). Looks like history repeats itself. However, hopefully the current government which has a excellent majority will not fritter away the opportunity like the Janata experiment in 1977. Very few of that era are still around like Mr Advani who was a minister in Janata government then. We cannot count on AB Vajpayee who has retired from politics. Another development is the debut of Aam Admi Party on the national level albeit with only 4 MPs. But remember even BJP had only 2 MPs in 1984. May be we expect somethin...

With only two stages of polling remaining we are now looking at the climax of the fight in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The same set of Modi-Pawan Kalyan - Chandra Babu combine who admitted in Telangana that they were in support of the Telangana now are putting the blame on Congress and YSR Congress for the bifurcation of the state. It is a well known fact that UPA which is currently ruling the country and is expected to go out of the power on 16th May does not have the requisite strength in Parliament to pass the Telangana Bill and the main opposition BJP supported them in both the lower and upper houses for the passage of the bill. Had BJP opposed the bill it would not have gone through ending congress with egg on its face. However had they opposed the bill, BJP would have lost Telangana region but would have gained something in Andhra. May be the gain is not sufficient to offset the loss in Telangana which is why they supported the Telangana Bill. It is ridiculous now by the abov...