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India will benefit from China’s decline .

China’s current economic crisis  has  worried the world.  Since 1990, China had climbed the economic ladder like a miracle. China is now the second biggest economy after the USA .  The white men of the world always  criticized the “ yellow race”. But the rise of China has  frightened them .India is China’s  closest neighbor and India has had a  very bad relationship since 1958 with China. The rise of China has intimidated India.   Every comparison of India with China has  been un-flattering .

China has a civilization of 5000 years  old like India.  If India discovered the “Zero”   in mathematics and was advanced in astronomy , China invented the  wheel and  many other things thousands of years ago .The wheel changed mankind.  Imagine the  5000 mile Great Wall of China which was started 2000 years ago.  It is an architectural marvel. In India, today, we are struggling to build a good fence around India’s borders . The Chinese built the Great wall  in areas like our Himalayas .   China calls itself  the “ Middle  Kingdom “, meaning that it is the center of the world.

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Greece has Dared to Fail by Pullarao Pentapati

Pullarao Pentapati – Greece is perhaps the oldest and greatest civilization of man. The Chinese and Indian civilizations and some South American civilizations have also been very old. But Greece has been a continuous trend-setter of humanity. Greece is part of the 19 European nations union. They have a common visa and a common currency. It is no longer a Greek crisis since the deadline has past. Along with Portugal, France and Italy, Greece forms part of the Mediterranean nations. They have no oil or major minerals and now all suffer from economic problems. These countries are unable to avoid a large State benefits programs and a big state-employment sector and pension and socials services. These 4 nations are now undergoing serious recession and there is no visible light at the end of the tunnel.

PTI-UNI Report - Rights AP Polavaram Dam

PTI-UNI report. Appeal by eminent personalities to Govt.of India to apply new Land law of 2013 to Polavaram dam displaced.

Eminent writers and personalities today urged the BJP-led NDA government at the centre and the Andhra Pradesh government to provide relief and rehabilitation to one lakh displaced people following the construction of Polavaram dam acoss River Godavari in the first phase. Press Council of India member K Amarnath, economist and senior journalist Dr Pentapati Pulla Rao, Centre for Media Studies, Delhi Chairman Dr N Bhasker Rao and Supreme Court Advocate Shravan Kumar, in a statement here, asserted that the governments had to apply the latest land law of 2013 to Polavaram Dam affected people. Polavaram dam, a Union Government project, located in residuary Andhra Pradesh, is now under the jurisdiction of the central Ministry of Water Resources.

A total of four lakh people, according to the statement, will be displaced by the time the Polavaram Dam is completed, constituting the largest displacement of people in India for any single Project. Thus far, the government has been fixing Relief and Rehabiliation under the terms of the 1894 Land Acquisition Act, which has now been replaced by the Land Acquisition Act of 2013. 'We appeal that the Union government apply its latest land laws to the entire process of land acquisition and displacement to Polavaram dam.The displaced and a project affected people have been agitating peacefully only for their due compensation,'' they said. The eminent writers also said the new Land Acquisition law clearly states under section 24(2) that the entire Land acquisition process has to be made anew, if people are still living on their land and properties.

Prime Minister Modi's visit to Indian Ocean countries

It is welcome that the Indian Prime Minister is visiting countries in the Indian Ocean who are extremely close, both geographically and ethnically to India. Aside from centuries-old relationships with such countries in the Indian Ocean, a significant number of Indians went over there and settled there. There is a huge Indian Diaspora in these countries. Such a population composition makes for both good and sometimes tricky relations.

Nitesh Kumar Trapped in His Own Drama

While India is fixated on   Kejriwal, there is a much more serious political drama going on in Bihar. While BJP lost Delhi, Bihar will have new political equations favorable to   BJP.  The was the  Bihar fight erupted between  Ex- Chief Minister   Nitesh  Kumar and  present Chief Minister  Jitan Ram Manjhi  has become a  comedy and  Nitesh Kumar looks like the comedian  . Delhi is a small state with 7 MPs and Bihar has 40 MPs.  What happens in Bihar is closely watched by Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bengal, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.  Nitesh Kumar is facing a very embarrassing situation as one of his followers has rebelled. “A man in my position cannot afford to look ridiculous “said a famous Hollywood film producer in the greatest film “The Godfather. Nitesh Kumar looks ridiculous now. In May, 2014, after   Nitesh Kumar’s party lost the Parliament elections, he resigned from post of Chief Minister, saying   he was morally responsible. The country applauded him for his principled stance. Instead of appointing a senior and powerful minister as Chief Minister, Nitesh Kumar appointed a docile Dalit leader Jitan Ram Manjhi as Chief Minister.




 

BJP Made Too Many Mistakes in Delhi Elections

Strangely, it does not matter who rules the capital of USA, England, Russia or France. Can anyone remember the name of the Mayor of Bombay?  Though Delhi is smaller than most cities, the election in Delhi has become extremely important for politicians. The media gives more importance to Delhi than all the states combined.
The Congress controlled Delhi for 15 years.  In 2013,    AAP of Kejriwal defeated the Congress decisively and took away all its vote banks.  In 2013, BJP won 31 MLAs out of 70.   Kejriwal ( AAP) won 28 and  Congress  got  only  8 MLAs, with the  15 years  Chief Minister  Sheila  Dikshit   losing  her own seat. Congress   has not recovered from this shock.

Telangana can be very successful

Greater Hyderabad is the largest concentration of Telugus in the world. For Telugus to be a successful ethnic and language group in the world, Hyderabad and Telengana must be economically successfully.  Since the division of the State into two, people would have realized that the promises made to the two States in Parliament and outside are not honored at all and no one really cares.  We are on our own.  One cannot predict political success. But one can definitely plan an economic success story. Actually it is very simple. If Telengana is to be successful, all it has to do is to ensure that things go on as usual. There will be automatic economic growth and prosperity.

Importance of Delhi Elections

Strangely, it does not matter who rules the capital of USA , England , Russia or  France. Can anyone  remember the name of the Mayor of  Bombay ?  Though Delhi is smaller than most cities , the election in Delhi  has become extremely important  for  politicians . The media gives more importance to Delhi than all the states combined.


The Congress controlled Delhi for  15 years.  In 2013,    AAP  of Kejriwal defeated the Congress decisively and took away all its  vote banks .  In 2013, BJP  won  31 MLAs out of 70.   Kejriwal ( AAP) won 28 and  Congress  got  only  8 MLAs, with the  15 years  Chief Minister  Sheila  Dikshit   losing  her own seat. Congress   has  not recovered from this shock.

In 2014, after the BJP won the  7 Parliament seats in Delhi  with great margins,  winning Delhi should be very easy. But state elections are different from national elections  and suddenly  AAP of Kejriwal  has become a  strong challenger .

Challenge for all  parties  :

The BJP has to win the Delhi elections as it has won  all elections  held after  Parliament elections.  If it loses Delhi, then it will be a  major political  setback. The Congress  wants to stop the BJP somehow.   Even  allies of BJP  like Telugu Desam ,  Shiv Sena and  Akali Dal will be happy  if   BJP loses so that it  comes under  control. In fact, within the BJP, the retired   senior leadership wants  BJP to lose Delhi.

The Congress party   must improve its performance over  2013 when  It won   8 MLAs.  Otherwise, it will become an existential crisis.

Kejriwal  must form the government . Or he will become a  big loser and be forgotten. A great political  experiment in India, where a non-establishment party  led by Kejriwal could capture power in Delhi  will never happen again. So Delhi is an  issue of survival for both  Congress  party and  Kejriwal. For the BJP, if it loses Delhi, then Modi   and Amit  Shah will lose their prestige and  entire Opposition will start getting together to  stop  the BJP.

Congress  party’s strategy :

The Congress is fielding senior leaders everywhere feeling that they might get  sympathy.  If the Congress gets less  than the  24 %  votes it got in 2013 , then its revival will be a dream. Many former sympathizers   and  beneficiaries who got posts,  became  advisers , other  political parasites and nominated MPs , Governors  and some “ intellectuals “ are all waiting. The rats on a ship know if it is going to sink and  they jump off the ship first.

Kejriwal’s strategy and weaknesses:

Kejriwal won one of the greatest election victories in India  in 2013 .  Kejriwal performed miracles and won  an election defeating both  Congress and BJP  . After becoming Chief Minister, aside from poor governance and drama ,  Kejriwal  showed that he lacks soft skills. He alienated all his close colleagues.  Why have all his close associates like Shazia Ilmi ,   lawyer Prashant Bhushan ,  Yogendra   Yadav and thousands of others  left him after Kejriwal became Chief Minister ? Thousands of distinguished people canvassed for  Aam Admi party in 2013 .  When Kejriwal became Chief Minister , he showed  another side to him. Ancient Greeks  used to call this “ hubris “ or arrogance which comes with power and destroys the person. Or in India, it is called “ Vinasha kalum, Vipruthi Buddhi “.  He lost the  great strength of un-paid  enthusiastic political workers.  Kejriwal  got thousands of un-paid intelligent enthusiastic workers.  After victory,  Kejriwal embarked  on a suicidal  route where he  started insulting all popular leaders and now he is all alone. He still has  great support  amongst the poor . But his  major weakness is that he has lost  talented  leaders  to the BJP. Kejriwal has now got the Muslim support since he contested against Modi in Varanasi and continues to make  noise against MODI.  But he will lose middle class and Dalits.
The other mistake  Kejriwal committed is that he started attacking the BJP for not having a great  Chief  Minister candidate . He was right  as BJP leaders were jaded and colorless.   Kejriwal thought that people will select him as others are useless. Amit Shah started thinking and he corrected the mistake by inducting  Kiran Bedi and Shazia Ilmi, who are as  popular as Kejriwal.  Napoleon said 200 hundred years ago “ Never  interrupt your enemy when  he  is making   mistakes “. Amit  Shah  found Kiran Bedi who is equal to Kejriwal. The  lesson  that Kejriwal needs to learn is that continuous criticism of your opponents will make them correct themselves.

There is also a  desire in former supporters of Kejriwal  to extract revenge on Kejriwal . Earlier, Kejriwal had un-paid enthusiastic supporters. Now he has enthusiastic  enemies .   

BJP’s strengths and weaknesses:

The main weakness  of the BJP was that there was no leader with charisma  in Delhi. BJP  had to find  someone to equal  Kejriwal . Surveys done by  BJP showed that people wanted a strong dynamic leader in  Delhi and the BJP had none.  Then the BJP approached  retired Police Officer  Kiran Bedi to join it and she joined  BJP.

The great Chinese war strategist Sun  Tzu  2500 years ago  said that  “the element of surprise can provide a great  advantage. With an enemy, surprise can  be employed by attacking where he least expects it. “.

The  BJP surprised  both  Kejriwal and Congress by suddenly  bringing in popular  Kiran Bedi . Kejriwal never expected that  BJP would  project  Kiran  Bedi as  Chief Minister candidate as she is  the female version of  Kejriwal. The BJP gained a great advantage by this surprise move.

A large number of middle class people and youth who voted for  Kejriwal  in 2013  have gone to the BJP. The economy  is now better  than what it was  earlier. Thanks to the fall in oil prices, inflation has been controlled.

It is a triangular  fight in Delhi. The BJP cannot get   the same votes for the Delhi assembly as it did in 2014  parliament  election. The  BJP was very confident  till a month ago. But there was worry that it might not actually get a  majority. If the BJP fails to form a government in Delhi, there will be country-wide consequences. Such a defeat will harm  the BJPs’ efforts to  grow  in Kerala ,Tamilnadu , Andhra, Telengana, Odisha, Bengal and Assam.

The Bihar  elections are coming in November, 2015. A defeat in Delhi will make it difficult  for the BJP to win  in Bihar and will mean that Modi will run into a  serious united  opposition . A victory in Delhi will mean that the Congress and opposition will be de-moralized.

There is also a lesson for the BJP in its problems in Delhi. Its  leaders are not  enough anywhere in the country . If the BJP wants to grow in the  country, it will have to import leaders . The people are not un-happy. But the people are also not happy. Modi  has  to satisfy people and not just the stock market and corporate sector . If  Modi’s personal popularity goes down, then the BJP will collapse . The Delhi result will show  which way the BJP is going.

Most importantly, there was no need for this expensive  election in Delhi. The political parties should have allowed a coalition to be formed without making pious noises .  Nearly 60  sitting MLAs are contesting again.  The country could have been spared  this costly and distracting election in Delhi. Though elections were held in Kashmir, there is no government.  Can we go on having elections till some party gets a majority ? The election law should be amended  to avoid repeat elections. People are paying for this damage, not the politicians . Frequent elections cheapens democracy .

The law must be amended to avoid  a waste of money , time and cheapening of democracy.  All political parties united  to pass hard  anti-defection laws to protect themselves, not democracy . Other countries do not have such anti-defection laws.   Why  should  India ?

By Pullarao Pentapati

Modi And BJP Are Failing in Parliament

The end of the year should have been triumphant  for Narendra Modi . Government was running well and   electoral victories in  Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand  and  Kashmir  were  stunning.  But the Winter session in Parliament was not successful . The BJP has a  majority in  Lok Sabha . But in  Rajya Sabha,    BJP has no majority. In such  situations,  if  Government wants  a  Law  passed, it can  have a Joint session of both  Houses and get  Bills passed. However this is an extreme remedy and rarely done.  The BJP government wanted to pass many laws in Rajya sabha   to help the economy. The Opposition sensed this urgent need of the Government and started raising  difficulties, using  any pretext.