Political Diary | Mixed bag with lessons for future
The high commands in both the BJP and the Congress will have to take immediate steps for correction and also change their style of functioning.
The high commands in both the BJP and the Congress will have to take immediate steps for correction and also change their style of functioning.
On the whole, the Congress has made a mess of the one state it could have won easily.
Indira Gandhi was the first woman prime minister in India, and there have been many chief ministers in the last five decades.
Afghan women activists admit that the fear is there.
A new entrant in preparing for the unity move is the political strategist used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee and Sharad Pawar and some regional satraps.
Obtaining support from senior party leaders and cadres is also necessary.
The BJP’s central leadership is fully aware that nudging Yediyurappa to step down will be difficult.
Many states like Delhi, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu has prepared their own action plans.
For all its failures, it is needed to maintain India’s democratic character. But to remain relevant it has to change and be in step with the present-day realities.
Azad, the Dalit youth leader, is already claiming to be the future leader of the Dalit-Bahujan movement in Uttar Pradesh.
Meanwhile, it is the people of Puducherry who are hit hard despite having given a decisive victory to the NDA alliance.
The use of money power has not come down.
Some experts feel that the measures announced are not sufficient and require careful restructuring, While the government had announced short-term policies to deal with migrant labour in 2020, what is required are long-term as well as short-term policies.
Interestingly, realising the potential of student power, most political parties create a strong youth wing. The BJP has the ABVP, the Congress has the NSUI and the CPI-M the SFI and so on.
The first priority for the Congress is to lift the sagging morale of workers.
