Celebrity Modi Bhakts Behavior when Petrol prices shot up during UPA . Now they are keeping their tail coiled and mum . When Manmohan Singh farts it stinks but when Modi farts it must be considered as high quality perfume and inhaled fully in national interests .
What is the duty of the watchdogs....? I mean the opposition parties.
Is it not their right to raise their voice, make the Government accountable for this.
It is high time, they will have to wake up and swing into action. Will they...???
Yes they have already swung into action starting from Karnataka and that was a good wake up call for all the opposition before the 2019 Parliament elections .
Hope good sense will prevail on the ruling parties in Centre and States and take immediate action to tackle this economic problem.
Brahmanyan
Bangalore.
Sir,
I beg to disagree with you.
Let us wait till 2019 Parliament Elections.
BJP's hopes for 2019 hinges on a single person - Mayawati
The caste based decisions she can make or unmake will decide whether BJP will get 150 seats or 200 seats in 2019...
That may be your opinion.
When BJP lost in Bihar Assembly in 2015 questions were raised. However, in 2017 UP Assembly results showed that the Party was under perfect control.
A lot of BJP's success had to do with effective booth/seat management. In the Karnataka elections, BJP got 37% votes while Congress got slightly more. Still, BJP got a lot more seats because they concentrated on the winnable assembly seats and did booth management there. Their winning margins in these seats over their rivals was quite less but due to the first-past-the post system, they got a big tally. In Mysuru, BJP is still far behind Cong or JDS. These aspects cannot be ironed out in Parliamentary elections and will be reflected there. Now the other parties are also catching up with BJP in booth management.The million dollar question is whether all these Opposition Parties come together ironing out their differences/inherent contradictions and form the 'Third Front' as has been floated every now and then..?
But, the BJP 2019 is going to be entirely different from BJP 2014. Now it is strong with mass support and has already spread its wings into North East.
Petrol price is not a political issue, it is a global economic issue. Even Saudi Arabia cannot fully control the price of crude.
But I agree that the prices should not have been frozen before the Karnataka election. That was a political ploy.
Petrol price is not a political issue, it is a global economic issue. Even Saudi Arabia cannot fully control the price of crude.
But I agree that the prices should not have been frozen before the Karnataka election. That was a political ploy.
That's based on facts. In 2014 and 2017, the SP and BSP fought separately. If you club their votes in each constituency and compare with votes BJP got in each one of these seats in 2014/2017, you will see that had they fought as a coalition, they might have won with an overwhelming majority. Of course politics is not as simple as counting the votes of disparate parties. But in 2014/17 BJP had the Modi effect, which is most likely to wane. And in the Gorakhpur/Phulpur elections, BSP + SP showed a good working combination and excellent transfer of votes on the ground. That is big warning signs for BJP. Gorakhpur was a 'sure seat' for BJP and a defeat there is unacceptable. Akhilesh showed political maturity by talking to Mayawati and keeping her in good humor till now. Mayawati has already been smarting for some time after getting '0' seats in 2014 and negligible seats in 2017. It just remains to see whether she will keep her ego under control and be ready to make sacrifices for a SP-BSP coalition. That decision will reflect on 80 seats in UP + 5 in Uttarakhand - that's 20% of the overall India which is 545 parliamentary seats. Last time BJP got 78 out of these 85 seats. That is a huge dependency. As of now, Akhilesh and Maya have one full year to test the viability of a coalition, in each constituency. If they come together, then down comes BJP tally, to just 20-25 seats at best. That makes a difference of 50 seats from 2014.
BJP's Bihar loss in 2015 cannot be compared to 2017 UP win. In Bihar they fought against Lalu + Nitish. In 2017 they fought against Maya and Akhilesh separately.
A lot of BJP's success had to do with effective booth/seat management. In the Karnataka elections, BJP got 37% votes while Congress got slightly more. Still, BJP got a lot more seats because they concentrated on the winnable assembly seats and did booth management there. Their winning margins in these seats over their rivals was quite less but due to the first-past-the post system, they got a big tally. In Mysuru, BJP is still far behind Cong or JDS. These aspects cannot be ironed out in Parliamentary elections and will be reflected there. Now the other parties are also catching up with BJP in booth management.
Similarly BJP has had some success in northeast with defections but that's just 24 seats in all. Last time, in Assam, the perfume party fought without an alliance with Congress. in 2019 if they join together, as seems likely then that's swaha for BJP there
Bengal is one place where BJP will definitely improve but am unsure of anywhere else in India, as in 2014 they had reached saturation in many north indian states. In Karnataka, Cong-JDS combine (if it holds on till 2019) will take more seats than BJP.
Agreed. But the question is why the Government is hesitating to bring the Petroleum products under GST ?
Brahmanyan
Bangalore.
I have valid answers for all your assumptions, presumption, predictions, etc
But this thread deals with skyrocketing of petrol cost in India
Discussion on anything else, amounts to derailing the thread.
Hence will reply in appropriate thread.