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Hilarious Media Articles on Gujarat ElectionsDecember 24, 2007 by secularindia Assembled here are a collection of articles from the mainstream media for your reading pleasure, so to speak. Some are plain mischievious, while others are devious, and a few genuinely erroneous. All the same in retrospect they are all hilarious, especially the “profound insights” of the political analysts such as Praful Bidwai and (clueless) poll pundits like Yogendra Yadav and team. One cannot help feeling that these folks’ analysis are heavily clouded by their sickular prejudices and arrogance which prevents them from grasping a basic understanding of the Hindu voters’ mind. Opinion Pieces Opinion Pieces This one takes the cake – Modi’s modus operandi failing in Gujarat — Praful Bidwai, (Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist!!??!), Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - Dec 14, 2007 “IS THE tide turning in Gujarat? A month ago, most Gujarat politicians, social scientists, activists, bureaucrats, and citizens agreed on the dead certainty of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in the Assembly election - but with a smaller margin. Today, they say, the BJP could lose - despite the Congress’s timid campaign. The Congress skirted issues concerning the 2002 violence, didn’t take on the BJP’s “Glorious Gujarat” slogan, or gather the nerve to field more than half-a-dozen Muslims in a state where 20 Muslim MLAs used to get elected. But it might still get catapulted into power. All exit polls after the first-phase voting in 87 constituencies (of a total of 182) forecast a vote-swing away from the BJP. NDTV forecasts a loss of 13 seats for the BJP, placing it behind the Congress. Such a defeat will be a seismic shock for the BJP and a historic setback for the Sangh Parivar. LK Advani’s laughable anointment as the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate will only aggravate the shock. Even the party’s assessment is reportedly that it’s sure to win only 63 seats; and optimistically, another 15. The BJP is clearly on a downswing in Gujarat.. ” Modi’s moment of truth Yogendra Yadav (political scientist and pollster) Eminent psephologist (??!!), Indian Express, India - Dec 9, 2007 Why Modi must goShiv Visvanathan (The writer is a social scientist currently based in Ahmedabad) The message is simple. Narendra Modi must go. He is bad for BJP, bad for democracy, bad for Gujarat.. Congress Speaks Sonia’s gloves off: ‘Gujarat run by liars, peddlers of religion and death… Cong confident, rejects exit poll predictions Congress claims to win 110 seats in Gujarat If we win we will book Modi: Cong Get rid of double-faced Govt, says Sonia Fear in Gujarat dangerous for country: PM PM says no rule of law in Gujarat Sibal says Modi is anti-development and anti-Gujarat In Gujarat, if you are not with CM, God save you: Manmohan Rahul Gandhi attracts huge crowds in his road show in Gujarat Modi Govt a regime of ‘falsehood’: Rahul Gandhi Polls/Satta/Media Analysis Satta rates show Modi slipping Satta bazaar trashes Modi, swings in favour of Cong In what is seen as a dip in confidence on the BJP in the satta market, the bookies now say there is a positive vote swing towards the Congress. It is, however, not clear if this vote swing will be enough for the Congress to come to power. Psephologists not sure if Modi in indeed winning – *****must read*** The results of the CNN-IBN-Indian Express-Divya Bhaskar-CSDS Exit poll on Gujarat Assembly Elections are out. Eminent psephologist (”the man who has seen it all”), Yogendra Yadav led the CSDS team which carried out the post-poll survey. Yogendra Yadav: I would still wait for 23rd to be sure if Mr Modi is indeed winning the elections. The consensus of exit polls is still not the actual outcome. Modi will scrape through in Gujarat, surveys predict First round cause for Modi to worry Exit polls predict BJP setback in Phase 1 Punters root for a coalition in Gujarat The Modi poll mystery Why good turnout in polls is bad news for Modi —- Experts give their pseudo views. Must read “It’s possible. There is a big shift from the BJP stronghold in the region in 1998. From the 56 seats the part won out of 58, it could now go down to even 28-29 seats. Reports now suggest from the ground, that the Kolis, who have come in big numbers to vote, could be an important factor in determining the result. The Saurashtra Kolis are angry and rebellious and that could hurt Modi. The Patels, who have also come out in large numbers, however, seem to be staying with Modi,” said Rajdeep Sardesai. BJP worried over poor turnout at poll rallies Stunned by poor turnout at public meetings of even bigwigs like BJP leader L.K. Advani, the 51-member election coordination committee of the BJP went into a huddle yesterday to discuss urgent steps to attract crowds.While a powerful orator like Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who has been addressing three rallies daily, has also failed to draw a wall-to-wall audience, television stars like Smriti Irani who toured Saurashtra yesterday, could rope in only 200 people. As one frustrated BJP leader told Khaleej Times, for the past five years, Modi has used the government machinery and sops to ensure jampacked meetings, giving no chance to the partymen to show their crowd-organising skills with the result that the saffronites have turned lethargic. In sharp contrast to the lukewarm response at BJP leaders’ speeches, each of Sonia Gandhi’s rallies on Saturday, were a sell-out. IBNlive Chat: Gujarat Elections 2007, beyond Modi Bhupendra Chaubey: It’s a million dollar question. Honestly I think he is on a weak wicket. The only thing that can really take him past the post is a solid turnout. But how will that happen, given the fact that his own party is against him? Bhavesh L Kookani Do you honestly think that IBN has been objective in its Gujarat poll coverage? Isn’t there an obvious anti-Modi/pro-Congress flavour in the reporting? Bhupendra Chaubey: Not at all Bhavesh, in fact on the contrary I feel that we have been the only network which has dared to show the actual reality of Gujarat. The reality is that the situation on the ground for an ordinary Gujarati is much better. We have tried to move away from the horror of 2002 and talk about the Gujarat that’s supposed to be a vibrant Gujarat in 2007. Interesting Snippet – on Rajdeep Sardesai/ CNN IBN “The English news channels are now obsessed with the Gujarat election. On CNN-IBN they are mindful of the fact that Rajdeep Sardesai made his reputation by trashing Narendra Modi during the Gujarat riots. So the coverage is curiously sympathetic to the BJP, presumably in an effort to demonstrate ‘objectivity’. Times Now has the advantage of the relative anonymity of its anchors and so there’s less baggage to contend with” Must read Interview: Compare and Contrast Here he completely contradicts himself: “Last time there was a wave. There was the emotive issue of Hindutva. Hindu organisations were out on the streets working for the victory of Modi. This time there was no wave. The voter has been quiet about his preference,” Yagnik said. BEST PIECE OF ADVICE One Birju gives to Yadav, but it is applicable to all these pseudo-sec quacks masquerading as experts. Birju: Yogendra, your tribe tried hard to project Modiji as losing the election, and now when polling is finally over, you have now knit up stories about how it is Modiji’s win and not BJP’s. You never adopted these lines for other parties, which are Maino or Maya or Mulayam-centric. Your shady role in NCERT syllabus is another proof of your utter bias and double talk. Why don’t you seek retirement from your pseudo talk? http://www.ibnlive.com/news/psephologists-not-sure-if-modi-is-indeed-winning/54566-3.html _________________________________________________________________________ www.secularindia.wordpress.com
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Posted on December 26th, 2007
These jokers must be hanged in public, shameless creatures !!
In his victory, Modi of course thanked Congress for their mischievous compaign, the final touch being that Congress will book Modi, if they win. This probably made Gujjus to take a solid stand !!
Now at least, NONE of these psecs and media dare open their mouth about 2002 any more !!
Good job, Mr.Modi, keep it up ! We support you all the way !!
Posted on December 27th, 2007
She can only win, never lose!
Wednesday December 26 2007 08:19 IST
S GURUMURTHY
“WHO is the real winner in Gujarat elections?
BJP or Modi?
Who is the real loser?
BJP or Advani or Rajnath?’’
This was how some popular media icons were seen dissecting the Gujarat verdict in chaste English even as the Congress was being decimated.
The media sidestepped the electorate’s verdict, and began to give its own political version about who was the real winner or loser among the victors!
The normal rule where elections are fought between two contenders is that one of them is the prospective victor and the other, the prospective loser. That is, if one wins, the other, without doubt, is the loser. Yet, even after results are fully and finally out in Gujarat — thanks to the media debate — it is not clear to the media who has really won and also who has really lost.
Electoral numbers disclose the simple truth that BJP has won decisively and Congress has failed miserably. Victory, it is said, has many claimants. But, in BJP, the refrain of whosoever spoke for the party was along these lines: the Team BJP has won in Gujarat, with Advani as captain and Rajnath as his deputy, and Modi as the man of the match.
Modi himself has ridiculed those who credited the victory to him minus the party. But, on the Congress side, no one would own the defeat, proving the other rule that failure is an orphan. And some of them would not even see it as a defeat at all, for like M Karunanidhi they say, the Congress got more seats this time, the BJP less! With clues already given by the media, they began saying that it was Modi’s victory, not the BJP’s; in fact, the BJP was the loser!
They were thus searching for the loser from among the victors!
Yet, in a party which has not lost, other than Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Singhvi, no one was available to the media. The Ashoka Road headquarters of the Congress was deserted on December 23, with most rooms locked.
Sonia Gandhi – who, along with thousands of persons invaded the very office some 10 years ago, had the sitting president of the party Sitaram Kesari locked in the toilet, took his chair and became the president – did not go to the party office at all on that day. Nor did the heir apparent to the throne, Rahul Gandhi, was seen anywhere around. Well, this is post-election. See the pre-poll picture. Sonia was the Maharathi of the Congress and, Modi, of BJP.
This time in Gujarat the contest was more direct and most straight, with the NCP and BJP dissidents led by Keshubhai Patel openly aligning against Modi. On day one, Sonia turned the state election in Gujarat into a national affair. Also her by now famous ‘‘Maut ka saudagar’’ (‘merchant of death’) attack on Modi made him the central issue. For Modi, who set his competence against his adversaries’ contempt for him, Sonia’s attack on him proved the jackpot that positioned him against Sonia automatically.
The Gujarat election thus turned out to be a direct contest between Sonia and Modi. All pre-election reports said that the Congress was banking on the ‘Sonia effect’ to beat Modi. She addressed election rallies in as many as 13 constituencies, according to reports.
Her shadow was all over Gujarat. As results showing the decimation of the Congress started coming out, the omnipresent Sonia disappeared from the post-election theatre. Instead of tracing her out, the media began tracking and discussing who was the real winner – Modi or BJP – and who was the loser – BJP or Advani or Rajnath, or the Congress. But no one would dare add the name of the person on whose strength the Congress had almost proclaimed victory in Gujarat and lost – Sonia. In eight of the 13 constituencies in which she addressed huge rallies, the party lost. While the media reported the huge rallies of Sonia before the polls, it would not report that the party lost most of the seats where she held rallies.
Media’s compassion made it easy for the party to distance her from the humiliating defeat. But now that the very ‘merchant of death’ whom she despised and asked the voters of Gujarat to throw out has won, she does owe an answer to her party and to the nation.
Yet, she keeps mum and instead employs her Alsatians to bark at others, hiding herself behind the iron gates of 10 Janpath protected by ZPlus security. While, in Delhi, her party keeps her name out, many Gujarat Congress leaders seem to have told the media, of course in anonymity, that her ‘merchant of death’ remark has cost the party some 30 seats.
Finally poor Hariprasad Solanki, Gujarat Congress party president, has become the ‘bakra’ – the sacrificial goat. He was forced to go to the party office in Delhi and own up the defeat as his(!) so that Sonia remains the victor. Imagine the party had won Gujarat. Would Hariprasad be allowed to share photo with the victor Sonia?
After she made it emphatically known that she is the real key and Manmohan Singh is the duplicate one, this Congress sycophancy has become an accepted media discipline. Result: All good things happening for the party and in the government are unfailingly credited to her. Whether it is employment guarantee or rural development, it is all conceded as her agenda.
She inaugurates all projects and plans with the Prime Minister as the clapper boy. She is all over in government ads. When oil prices rise, the blame goes to poor PM. When it is cut, it is on her orders! When oil prices are not raised, minister says that it is on her directive. If the Congress party wins an election, it is due to her, but if it loses Hariprasads will bear the cross. In sum, she is exempt here from all scrutiny by the media. It is media’s collective endeavour, not just isolated Congress effort, to keep her above blame, faultless. Hence the debate on who is the loser among the victors in Gujarat, so that the real loser, Sonia, is kept out of discussion.
QED: Sonia can only win. She can never lose.
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