The most ludicrous rumour this weekend:the prime minister told the Congress boss that he would resign if he did not get his nuclear agreement with the US. It strains credibility because Manmohan Singh doesn't have the back bone to make such a threat.Also,the only person who might get scared by such a threat is not Sonia Gandhi,not Comrade Prakash Karat,but probably American President George W Bush. There was real drama in Delhi on Friday: the prime minister has cancelled all his appointments;he's not meeting anyone;he's gone underground.Bad news ahead, they said. He apparently had a bout of viral fever.Sounds like his resignation threat scared himself most of all.You would think that everyone would be bone-chillingly frightened by the prospect of the prime minister resigning and early elections. With inflation having gone into the stratosphere, there is only one vote that will be cast by the 300 million-strong electorate: the anti-incumbent vote.With the way the Left mishandled the protests in Singur & Nandigram, you think it more than anyone else would be terrified of facing the voters. Instead,the Left dares Manmohan to go ahead and make their day.Indeed, the comrades would go into martyr mode —they suspect the prime minister of being an American plant; witness the book A Prattler's Tale by former West Bengal Finance Minister Ashok Mitra,which says Manmohan was planted by the Americans as India's finance minister in 1991.
RE:Manmohan's dilemma
by hindhu communist on Jun 24, 2008 07:50 PM
The Left would see itself as the nation's saviour if it manages to weed out the plant, even at the cost of losing the seats it occupies in the current Parliament.It's certain that Sonia is worried about the disaster that early elections would be; that's why she has been busy making alternative arrangements to ensure the UPA continues till the last constitutionally allowed moment.Part of the arrangement is with the Samajwadi Party,with whom the Congress was warring till last year's assembly elections; a year later they have managed to let bygones be bygones.The deal for the SP's support has been worked out by SP chief Mulayam Singh's main lackey,Amar Singh. The contours are believed to be as follows:the SP will not allow the government to fall, and in return,the government will either dump or significantly dilute a Bill that is close to Sonia's heart —the Women's Reservation Bill.In addition,the SP will jettison an unsavoury businessman who is in a bit of a fix in UP these days. Helping to broker the deal was a young industrialist close to the party. The Left has obviously got wind of the deal, which is why they have threatened the SP with a pull-out from the Third Front if the SP bails the UPA out. This has not caused the SP any grief, which remembers how the Left continued to support the Congress despite the bad blood between the Congress and the SP in the final year of Mulayam's government.As far as the Third Front is concerned, its possibilities were in any case receding.
RE:RE:Manmohan's dilemma
by hindhu communist on Jun 24, 2008 07:55 PM
The other arrangement that Sonia and her political team are attempting is with the NDA. The Congress is not looking for support from the BJP, which has time and again said it opposed the deal in its present form. At the same time, however,prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani has,of late,gone out of his way to mention that he was not opposed to a deal as such;his party claims credit for making the first move towards a strategic alliance with America.What this means, of course,is that there's nothing holding the Congress back from approaching some of the NDA's smaller partners. It appears that the Orissa chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, may play ball with the UPA if only to see the nuclear deal through;the TrinamoolCongress's Mamta Bannerjee is another possibility if it isolates the Marxists;and the Punjab chief minister,Parkash Singh Badal,is another person in favour of the nuclear deal with America.How these negotiations turn out is yet to be seen, but Sonia is obviously taking no chances, and knowing this, it would be utter stupidity for the prime minister to try emotional blackmail with her.And it would be completely out of character, for Manmohan Singh has not exhibited this kind of machismo at any point of his life. Besides,everything that he is at the moment,he owes to her.This is not to say that Sonia does not need Manmohan at all. As you would have noticed from our front page, the economy isn't doing too well,and Sonia wants elections deferred in the chance that thin
RE:RE:RE:Manmohan's dilemma
by hindhu communist on Jun 24, 2008 08:06 PM
This leaves us with just one conclusion: that the prime minister's threat is meant to scare the American president, George W Bush. If Manmohan is the 'American plant' as alleged by Ashok Mitra and coyly hinted at by Jaswant Singh, then what his quitting would mean is that the Americans would lose their highest-ranking mole ever (John le Carré, where are you?). But for some reason, it does not seem likely that even the Americans would get scared. India is one of only two countries where a majority has consistently rated the US favourably in the Pew Global Attitudes Project annual surveys. The US doesn't need a plant, or a mole.
As mentioned earlier, any talk of the prime minister threatening to resign is ludicrous. Any talk of him threatening anyone is laughable. Any talk of him actually resigning is welcome.
RE:Manmohan's dilemma
by Anand on Jun 24, 2008 09:07 PM
Reading an article is good.But you have reproduced word by word of sapan das gupta's article in Indian Express. Pls think independently, don't act like congresswalla's.Any way good article.Thanks for painstakingly typing all the contents
congreess and left have done more bad then good STOCKMARKETS:-fell as they introduced on pnotes fii issue and also increased stt tax AGRICULTURE:- farmer suicides continued as elections neared loans were waived but only for those farmers who took from banks let me tell u farmers have no access to bank loans. they take loans from friends and money lenders 80% farmers are still suffering and this is not a solution to problem u made them beggers first and now giving them alms. INDUSTRIES:- corporate taxes were raised, SEZ blocked and no new initiative taken for infra development. no electricity made life hell for corporates also. SERVICE SECTOR:- KILLED BY SERVICE TAX even mandap decoraters were not spared. ECONOMY:- GDP GROWTH IS B/W 7-8% AND INFLATION IS AT REALISTICALLY AT 13-15% as in our inflation these people still consider black and white televisions rate as figures as if they dont know it is not selling now. so growth is = -7% DEPOSITS :- ROI to u 9% inflation 14% nett profit to u is -5% annuam see u are dead everywhere. AUTOMOBILES:- encouraged small petrol cars, did not gave exemption to HYBRID cars which run on battries killed environment increased fuel consuption. EDUCATION:- is becoming costlier day by day nuersery student pays rs.500/- per mth. imagine poor people and what govt is doing LIST IS ENDLESS BUT I EXHAUSTED MY CHARACTERS ALLOWED HERE TO TYPE U CAN IMAGINE HOW GOOD IS CONGREES AND LEFT WHAT ELSE U WANT
RE:JUST READ THIS AND UNDERSTAND OUR FUTURE HOW SAFE IS IT
by Johnny G on Jun 24, 2008 07:58 PM
my friend...GDP is calculated at constant prices (i.e. it contains the impact of inflation in it)!! Being judgemental is good, but being judgemental without apt knowledge is dangerous!
RE:JUST READ THIS AND UNDERSTAND OUR FUTURE HOW SAFE IS IT
by Sitaram on Jun 24, 2008 07:57 PM
This is just a upper middle class feeling,if i have surplus money ,i will spare little for stock gambling,farmer sucide's is mainly because of private money lender ,partly a mistake of farmer too.. farm gambling. corportes are overdemanding from government. education and automobile - there are variety of schools and automobile industry- see the mat length and push your leg.
RE:all party committee to decide about whow good it is
by Jo Ho on Jun 24, 2008 07:23 PM
About the deal, India is minority. The real tussle is between USA and China. India is just a pawn, it's their playground. The spies are fighting.
RE:all party committee to decide about whow good it is
by Sujeet Kumar on Jun 24, 2008 07:47 PM
The only technical matter involved is filling congress patry's treasure.They are never concerned about several issues plaguing the country.hey just want to put a price on country's sovereignity.
According to Economic review,the 2 countries who are going to become most fast developing economy in next 25 years are China & India.
China already got a good market.India is growing in slow pace..
but now India is becoming the biggest market in the world for American products.
So what USA really want is to take the whole market of India under it's custody.Just remember how soon Macdonalds & other American companies make their market in India.
USA don't want to attack India or do any war.They want economic colonisation.American companies already stared to eat Indian companies.And this will later lead to USA monopoly in Indian market.
USA was never India's friend.Just remember the Bengladesh war time,when American president Nixon openly supported Pakistan & even try to send Army.But it was India's friend USSR,who stopped this act & helped India to win.
India's remittance mostly come from middle east Islamic nations where more than 62 million Indians works.
Through the N deal USA want only 3 things.
1)India must support USA in their futre wars,like the one the done in Iraq & Afganistan(India didnot support USA in both wars)
2)Indian nuclear developments must be under their secret eyes..
30 Destroy India's good relation with middle east countries particularly Iran.(That's why they are opposing Iran-India gas pipeline project,which will help to solve India's Natural gas resource problem)
Just remember the fact that USA is still the biggest supplier of arms to
RE:America's hidden agenda
by randhirkapoor on Jun 24, 2008 07:20 PM
we are not against USA we are just looking at our interests, by your way of thinking we will become aliens on this earth. someone we have to select either china or USA thats it so what there is no option. if we go by USA it is in our best interest, noones asking u to become slave or taking our nation ok so dont diverge the topic.
RE:America's hidden agenda
by Sujeet Kumar on Jun 24, 2008 07:51 PM
With current leadership India is definitely doomed to become slave of US, even if you donot want to. US has that caliber.Don'g give them a foothold else they will piss on you.It is their history.
RE:America's hidden agenda
by Sitaram on Jun 24, 2008 07:26 PM
china has no problem with US ready for anything,they know of economy need.kutty chinse here dont want Indo-US relation,because untilour economy crash-left wont benefit.
RE:America's hidden agenda
by Ramakrishnan Pallipurath on Jun 24, 2008 07:28 PM
But justification by commies are, their concerns about China, and muslims votes.
Tell me, who are the real imperialists historically US or Islamists ?
By the way, better you diclare that "62 BILLION" of Indias are working in Middle East Islamic countries. Nothing other than none sense...
You tell me, what Indian govt did with LTTE ? Who taught them basics of battle field lessons ? Then who killed Rajiv Gandhi ?
Who rbought up Bhindrewala ? Then who killed Indiragandhi ?
The point is that there are leaders in India as well unlike commies, traitors. Without the consent of genuine Indian leaders, no harm can happen to India, and US just cannot stiffle India, and certainly worries of commies are wrongly placed.
RE:America's hidden agenda
by Sujeet Kumar on Jun 24, 2008 07:43 PM
Truly said.Our central isue is the quality of politicians sitting at each level who are always ready to put a price on India. Untill we have such politicians we cannot have truck with US government who is just unreliable.
RE:America's hidden agenda
by muralee krishna on Jun 24, 2008 07:30 PM
this is the time to wholly reply back all those business propsals in equal terms.
falling dollar is weakening position of usa.
why indians should hang on to those drowning usa.
china, spain, brazil have shown tremendous growth in their GDP's in recent past.
indians to decide in big way to see what is going to be our future plans and how to build india.
believing these politicians will make you to be under slavery of ineffective policies.
after 60 years of their ruling
30% of indians still do not have the basic amenities.
floods are common to eastern states.
industrialists are putting india on growth path.
if properly managed , why you need to run to america for better career. why cannot you to creat it in india.
WE HAVE IIM's PLENTY . INDIAN GOVERNMENTS ARE AFRAID OF PAYING THEM IN BIG, BUT THEY GO TO AMERICA OR ANY MNC AND MAKE THEM PROSPER.
POLICIES NEED TO BE CHANGED.
WE ARE AFRAID OF PAYING GOOD WORKING IAS CADRE.
WHY CANNOT IT BE DECIDED THAT ALL THOSE WHO DRAW MORE THAN 50K PER MONTH SHOULD BE PUT TO OPEN CHALLENGE ON PERFORMANCE AND SHOULD WORK ON SHORT TERM PERIOD LIKE 3 YEARS , SIMILAR TO THE WORKING OF MEN IN INDIAN AIR FORCE. THAT WILL IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE HIGHLY PAID AND THEY FEEL HIGHLY SATISFIED HAVING DONE A GOOD JOB.
we got these two parties congress and left 4 years back
both did not work
nor did each allow other to work
all proposals were thrown in dustbin or just kept pending
there is not a single postive work done by these donkeys up there
only one nuclear deal that too they could not get clear
what else look inflation 11% highest in 13 years imagine what worst these people can do
they say inflation is imported, does india import everything contained in inflation.
only fuel is imported what else even that is subsidised and taxed at 50% and they say we subsidies it isnt it giving by onehand and taking away from another who is fooling whom i say i give u 5 rs for every 10 rs u spend but the 10 rs u spend 5 rs comes to me who is subsidising whom govt is fooling us and also all those who are living a poor life.
throw congress and left out now or else we will all go downthe drain please for our childrens sake throw this demons out of centre and states.
RE:HATE CONGRESS AND LEFT
by Sitaram on Jun 24, 2008 07:18 PM
bjp is worst than congress,they are just waiting for abreak,they dont mind licking the left,if given a chance.Know atleast Money flow is there,what ever inflation is.
RE:HATE CONGRESS AND LEFT
by randhirkapoor on Jun 24, 2008 07:23 PM
what has congress done in 4 years please mention here u will get your answer automatic
bjp started golden quad triangle and also economic boom which carried thru this govt also and remember one thing chinda stopped fiis pnotes that was when stock markets plummeted dont u know that so please... and whats the use of any money u said is coming fiis are exiting and incase u still feel money is coming inflation is eating it so think again
RE:HATE CONGRESS AND LEFT
by Sitaram on Jun 24, 2008 07:31 PM
stock market is gambling money,i didnt mention that.Ask any gambler?if he uses that money for any other purpose? uses and loses and uses...
RE:HATE CONGRESS AND LEFT
by randhirkapoor on Jun 24, 2008 07:49 PM
what gambling stock markets reflect economies and are considered as investments ..companies get money from stock markets thru ipos...i did not mean trading ok
RE:HATE CONGRESS AND LEFT
by PRKUMAR on Jun 24, 2008 07:49 PM
PLZ dont be mouthpiece of congress. This government shun everything. 1991 is back. BJP done well, irrespective of their rel fanatics. they made INDIA proud.
Listen all politicians u people i think r like school children fighting in groups on petty matters just to save and safeguard ur own interests than the nations.
if the nuclear deal is going to benefit India why not get along wz it? u should understand that the nation comes first. u keep on solving ur internal matters later.
One thing is for sure that sooner or later we will be at war wz china over the Tawang issue and also wz the dispute of Arunachal pradesh. Today pakistan has a democratic govt. but still the army rules that country and can go for a coup anytime. beware of china and pakistan. the most of the latter who is willing to avenge its defeat to India in all the four wars and to win back kashmir. not to forget we have bangladesh on the east aswell plus all the internal dangers.
COME ON GUYS SHOW SOME PATRIOTISM AND HELP IN MAKING A STRONG AND PROSPEROUS INDIA.
RE:NATION COMES FIRST
by PRKUMAR on Jun 24, 2008 07:54 PM
as per study, we rely on nuclear source for energy to the maximum of 6%. Hidden agenda here is only nuclear weapon. Drama by US is now to keep INDIA on check. We should have scientist in the committee to decide this 123 agreement.
its a real sad story of india, we got these two parties congress and left 4 years back both did not work nor did each allow other to work all proposals were thrown in dustbin or just kept pending there is not a single postive work done by these donkeys up there only one nuclear deal that too they could not get clear what else look inflation 11% highest in 13 years imagine what worst these people can do they say inflation is imported, does india import everything contained in inflation. only fuel is imported what else even that is subsidised and taxed at 50% and they say we subsidies it isnt it giving by onehand and taking away from another who is fooling whom i say i give u 5 rs for every 10 rs u spend but the 10 rs u spend 5 rs comes to me who is subsidising whom govt is fooling us and also all those who are living a poor life. throw congress and left out now or else we will all go downthe drain please for our childrens sake throw this demons out of centre and states.
The Left parties on Tuesday asked the government to come clean at Wednesday's crucial meeting of the United Progressive Alliance-Left panel on the Indo-US nuclear .........every success man behind successful women but here every success PM behind successful UNCLESAMUSA formula.......
I have not seen a worse surd than this ... Why isnt our PM willing to give the details the left is asking and finish with them once and for all.
Is there something to hide ???? Only the lousy PM knows this. Trying to score brownie ego points with a muck called - LEFT. Maybe he is also lying on the issue regarding the Hyde Act points.
Knowing the congress - its a party of deceipt - they are an untrustworthy party - promising in the beginning and not living up to it - like telengana for instance. It doesnt have the courage to go ahead and sign it off. When it wants to project so much nationalism - it can sit in the opposition for the next term in the interest of nationalism.
