Bharath Rathna Award For Former PM A.B.Vajpayee

Bharath Rathna Award For Former PM A.B.Vajpayee
 


Long pending desire of BJP and Right wing workers may come true with Narendra Modi's announcement on Highest Civilian Award Bharat Rathna to Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on December 25th on the eve of Vajpayee's 90th Birth day.

Modi may take chance to celebrabrate December 25th every year as Good Governance Day Nation wide. And he may announce A.B.Vajpayee as 44th recipient of Barath Ratna award.

For this award The PM’s advice is enough to President. No other way is prescribed. Last year Congress government annouced This award for Sachin Tendulkar and Scientist CNR Rao. And BJP criticized for ignoring Vajpayee's relentless contribution to the nation.

A.B.Vajpayee had a great recognition Indian Politics and Held many posts in governmet. He strongly opposed Emergency rule during Indhira Gandi tenure as PM. He is founder member of BJP and it’s mother party Baratiya Jana Sangh.

Many have speculated that Modi would announce this news on Independence day it self but he had not done.

AW: Kannamsai

After Rahul, it's time for Modi to face Arnab Goswami - will he?

After Rahul, it's time for Modi to face Arnab Goswami - will he?

Rahul Gandhi, the young Congress vice-president not only shushed some of his detractors by giving his first television interview in 10 years of his active political career, batting some straight questions from Times Now's Arnab Goswami (pouting answers that contained little substance whatsoever), but also marked a beginning of a media blitz that has brought him under the arclights like never before.

And now, the Congress party is left with the tough job of vindicating their future PM's guile, unintelligibility, and plain lack of confidence (read the repetitive, pre-meditated, unconvincing, evasive answers that Rahul gave even when questions were specific). The hour-plus interview saw the anchor hurl a volley of crucial questions at Rahul that not only made him fib and fidget with discomfiture, but also revealed how this well-intentioned politician is torn between sharp divergence of his troubled inheritance, dynastic expectations and underlying beliefs.

The big interview has now become the butt of all national jokes and  is likely to botch up Rahul Gandhi's chances or make people queue up in large numbers at the polling stations to vote for the Congress in the upcoming elections.

At a time when Mr Gandhi  is finding himself sandwiched between two political behemoths — Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal — who have the grabbed the initiative and left the Congress looking leaden-footed and resigned to woeful election returns, his chances of catapulting the party by the bootstraps and making it believe it can win, or at least get to a position where it can exert some influence in the 16th Lok Sabha seems bleak.

Now only another cogent and powerful interview by Rahul Gandhi can possibly salvage some of the damages, we believe.

One takeaway for the BJP: Whatever the verdict on Rahul Gandhi, at least, he agreed to be grilled in full public view. Now it's left to be seen if Narendra Modi — a consummate performer when addressing mass rallies —  will allow media interviewers to put him on the hot seat? If so, where his frank talk with Arnab Goswami would lead him? The nation speculates.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

How Rahul Gandhi made a fool of himself on national television

How Rahul Gandhi made a fool of himself on national television

Call him Pappu, shehzada, or the reluctant prince, the young Gandhi scion - Rahul Gandhi - over his low key political career spanning roughly over a decade now, has bagged more petnames than newspaper headlines. And going by the limited public appearances he had made hitherto (where he fared no better than stand-up comedians and made a total mockery of himself and his party), it's not hard to see why. One would have deemed it as a clever move for Rahul to debut on a television interview and dispel the air of hopelessness around him. Nevertheless, his maiden TV interview, dubbed as the biggest political interview, only seems to have firmed the nation's belief that Rahul Gandhi is no leader for the country.

Here’s what could be gleaned about him from the said interview:



1. We are sure that Rahul Gandhi doesn't have any clue on what being 'specific’ is all about. The Gandhi heir seemed far from prepared to grapple Arnab Goswami's tirade of difficult questions. And no, they weren’t questions that struck him out of the blue — all thanks to the BJP, these are the questions that are metaphorically lobbed at Gandhi religiously every other day. So when Goswami declared at the onset of the interview that he wants ‘specific’ answers to his questions, Gandhi should have known that the nation doesn’t want to know about the “Gandhis” from him. However, Gandhi refused to answer a single question in a way that didn’t sound like a particularly unimpressive voiceover for a Gandhi biopic.

2. The interview, that turned out to be nothing more than a laughriot, revealed Rahul’s most favorite word — “system” and his least favorite — “Modi”. Rahul Gandhi clearly loves the word ‘system’ way more than the sound of his own name. While his limited vocabulary is not greatly a concern, what is, is his correspondence to the word, as it applies to India currently, which is completely botched up. Here is the Vice President of the incumbent government, talking about how the ‘system’ needs to be revamped. If ‘system’ is the political establishment that runs the country, Congress while not being wholly responsible for it, is indeed responsible for a large part of things. So did Rahul Gandhi declare he is going to shake the entrenched political malpractices up? No he didn’t. Did he strongly demand all political parties be brought under his trophy policy – RTI? No. Did he clearly enumerate the steps he is taking to make the ‘system’ more accessible to the country. No.

3. Rahul, the hailed captain of Congress' sinking ship, seemed greatly unwilling to shoulder the burden of the wrongdoings of his party, though he doesn’t quite mind lapping up the glorious history of political hegemony in India. Understandably, it would have been wrong to ask Rahul to ‘apologize’ for the anti-Sikh riots as the anchor framed it. But how can one overlook his lack of acknowledgment of this phase of Congress’ history as he was not a ‘functional’ member then. His vile attempt to dissociate a political narrative from selected phases of its own development only runs the risk of being read as disregard for the past, lack of penitence and an evident absence of humility.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

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