Rahul Gandhi said in Kochi - "A young person looks to the future, the old look to the past. Our prime minister looks to the future. When he introduced economic reforms in 1991, he looked 20-30 years ahead. If you sit with him, he will start telling you one, two, three, four, five, six, seven his plans. His opposition is a person who harks back to the past, to 2004. He only speaks of what has been done - there is nothing about the next five years."
This could well have been said for Bhopal too.
The hoardings of BJP talks about Kailash Joshi the ex-Chief Minister, without any corruption charges. What he offers for the future - after getting nominated as BJP candidate of Bhopal by throwing tantrums and scaring the shit out by holding talks with ex-rebel Sekhawat? Only assurance is that this will be last election of the man. So vote and forget for next five years, just to give him a last chance at getting richer?
Presently 79, he would be 84 by the end of this term. Then he assures he would not contest, but we sadly have our opinions about the politicians commitments. What should one make of this Emotional Atyachar?
Mian Banne Bhopali famously commented the other day "Agar khambe ko bhi Bhopal mein kamal ke nisan pe khara karoge toh woh bhi jeet jayega".
So there.
Meanwhile check out the affidavits filed by contesting candidates of Bhopal.
In other parts of India, in the absence of any actual difference between the contesting parties it is a free for all.
Sample these:
"... I still prefer the Congress to the BJP. This is because the Congress stands for nothing, while the BJP stands for something pernicious. The BJP has, in its DNA, the politics of divisiveness. It is true that the Congress has also played such politics, but out of convenience, not belief. That makes their acts no less heinous, but, in my eyes at least, it makes them slightly less dangerous because there is less chance of things going wrong, of a repeat of 1984 or 2002.
And ya, it burns me up that I need to decide who I support on the basis of who is less dangerous. That totally sucks, but such it is, so there we go." - Amit Verma
"Advani likes to call me a weak prime minister. I cannot help pointing out that when held to the fire during the Kandahar hijacking, the BJP's Iron Man melted." - Manmohan Singh
"... since he has raked up the issue of conceding the demands of terrorists, it would be in order to remind him that a Government of which he was the Finance Minister had ensured safe passage for terrorists who had taken over Srinagar’s Hazratbal shrine. And, till such time they were holed up inside the shrine, the Government had fed them biryani and oranges. But they would have blown up the mosque if we had not done so, Mr Singh will argue. Sure. Just as the hijackers of IC 814 would have blown up the plane with the hostages had the NDA Government not released three terrorists. Mr Singh, representing the Congress in discussions with the Government, would repeatedly assert one point: Do whatever it takes to ensure the safety of hostages - something which he forgets today." - Pioneer
"... will give jaadu ki jhappi and pappi (magical hug and kiss) to the people of Pratapgarh and given a chance I will do the same with the Chief Minister and BSP supremo Mayawati." - Sanjay Dutt In case you are interested in designing Indian Political Posters, adapt suitably for local conditions from this awesome resource.
So who is the winner? Every winner - as said by T N Ninan
"So now we know that, while every fourth member of the Lok Sabha has a criminal record, virtually every member is a crorepati. Quite a few would even qualify for membership of the Business Standard Billionaire Club (those with assets of over Rs 1 billion, or Rs 100 crore). We also know that these standard-bearers of socialism (every political party has to swear to this creed if it wants to be registered with the Election Commission) have increased their wealth manifold in the last five years.
All this suggests a range of possible hypotheses: that politics is India's most lucrative profession, that those with criminal records make more money than honest tribunes of the people, that those who speak in the name of the poor and rail against capitalist excesses are actually plutocrats in mufti, that you can get fat on the "mammaries of the welfare state" (every member can ask for Rs 2 crore to be spent on his favourite project, every year; that's Rs 10 crore in a five-year term), that members can and do make money by asking questions in the House, that members can and do get offered money to vote in a particular way...All this is true even when you do not occupy ministerial office (which brings with it access to more mammaries), and though you have to spend campaign funds vastly in excess of what the law allows?"
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trully this time elections have been a low key affair for bhopal,this was sure that if the congress party would have named a strong canditate or even a film star from bhopal(what about azharuddin)this bhopal seat would have definately moved to congress goal,but a very irresponsible response from congree in naming an unpopular and an outside canditate from bhopal lok sabah seat.the people of bhopal are preety much aware that b.j.p. canditate kailash joshi has not even performed any work in bhopal,rather has spent more then half of his tenure in delhi hospitals(sorry to say but dats the truth)but now people of the city are confused whom to choose,creating a very different situation may be an independent canditate may win ....any thing can happen.......god do sumthing good for my city...
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