The present politics is power politics, loss of power makes political parties and politicians restless, mentally unstable, demonic, destructive, thoughtless, leading them to gain the power, do all sorts of sins, destabilize the Nation, by pulling down the well oiled, smooth running, good Governance; now what we citizen to do, is to protect the Good Governance ...
Opinion
25/04/2018
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| A Rainbow Coalition Or a Mirage for April 2, 2018. |
The general election of 2014 changed the political landscape of this country dramatically. For the first time in 25 years, a single party won a majority. The reason was the birth of a political colossus in the form of Narendra Modi.
A charismatic leader and a revitalised party swept across most of India destroying rivals, following it up with wins in 12 out of 23 state elections since.
The demoralised Opposition saw a glimmer of hope after the BJP’s lacklustre performance in the prime minister’s home state of Gujarat. This was succeeded by the loss of three by-elections (two Lok Sabha and one Assembly seats) in Rajasthan followed by the more recent loss of three major Lok Sabha by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In all these states, the NDA was the ruling regime.
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Ref : 70 years in Indian politics and policy
Media report
Livemint
25 April 2018
A timeline of the key political events that have shaped Indian politics and democracy in 70 years of independence
*Youngsters in Jammu ahead of India’s independence day on Tuesday. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: At 70, India has come a long way from the country the British exited in 1947, and which they believed (and hoped) would not survive in its then form. India has since evolved into a vibrant constitutional democracy and made rapid strides in several domains (although there is a lot of work still to be done).
Over the next few days, to mark 70 years of Independence, Mint will profile 70 milestones across the years, and across domains—politics, business, entertainment and sport.
Put together by Mint’s reporters and editors, these entirely subjective listings are far from comprehensive, as is only to be expected when one is dealing with the seven-decade-old post-independence history of a country as large and complex as India.
1947: India gains independence from British rule.
1947: India fights first war with Pakistan after Pakistani tribesmen supported by the army invade Jammu and Kashmir.
1948: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
1948: Indian troops enter the Nizam-ruled princely state of Hyderabad under Operation Polo and annex the state.
1949: The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts Article 370 of the Constitution,ensuring special status and internal autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir.
1951: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru introduces India’s first five-year plan, which defines the Nehruvian model of centralized economic planning and development. The Soviet-style five-year plan also creates a typically Indian model of mixed economy and big government.
1952: India holds its first general elections.
1954: Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India is ratified by the state’s constituent assembly
1956: Second five-year plan presented, with a focus on rapid industrialization.
1957: Jammu and Kashmir approves its own constitution, modelled on the lines of India’s.
1959: The Dalai Lama escapes to India. India’s sheltering of the Tibetan spiritual leader is seen as a trigger for the 1962 war with China.
1960: Bombay state is split along linguistic lines, forming Maharashtra and Gujarat, after a series of violent protests.
1961: Indian Army liberates Goa from the Portuguese; it becomes a Union Territory.
1962: French-ruled Pondicherry (now Puducherry) becomes part of India as a Union Territory.
1962: China’s People’s Liberation Army invades India in Ladakh, and across the McMahon Line in the then North-East Frontier Agency (now Arunachal Pradesh),inflicting heavy damage on Indian forces.
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1964: Jammu and Kashmir National Liberation Front floated to launch an armed struggle for an independent and unified Kashmir.
1965: India’s second war with Pakistan over Kashmir .
1966: Punjab is divided into three states along linguistic lines—Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab
1967: Laying the foundation of the Green Revolution, farmers harvest the first crop of high-yielding wheat
1967: Armed peasant revolt in Naxalbari in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal gathers momentum.
1969: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) founded.
1969: Government nationalizes 14 major Indian scheduled commercial banks to serve the needs of development.
1970: Meghalaya is formed as an autonomous state within Assam in 1970. It becomes a separate state in 1972 with Shillong as its capital under the North Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) Act,1971. The Act subsequently creates the states of Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and present-day Assam.
1971: India fights third war with Pakistan; East Pakistan breaks away from Pakistan and Bangladesh is born as an independent nation.
1972: India and Pakistan sign the Simla Pact, under which the two sides agree to sort out differences and disputes bilaterally.
1974: India conducts peaceful nuclear test at Pokhran, comes under international sanctions.
1975: The Congress government imposes Emergency.
1975: Socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan leads the anti-Emergency movement.
1977: Emergency ends, first non-Congress government elected at the centre.
1980: The BJP is formed after internal differences in the Janata Party result in the collapse of the Janata government in 1979.
1980: Sixth five-year plan marks the beginning of economic reforms.
1983: N.T. Rama Rao-led Telugu Desam Party forms government in Andhra Pradesh for the first time.
1984: Operation Blue Star is launched to drive out the Sikh extremist religious leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the premises of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
1984: Prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards.
1984: More than 3,500 people die and 500,000 are injured in the Bhopal Gas Tragedy following the leakage of toxic methyl isocyanate from Union Carbide India Ltd’s pesticide plant in the city
1987: India-Sri Lanka pact signed to establish peace and normalcy in Sri Lanka after tensions between majority Sinhala and minority Tamils. India deploys troops in Sri Lanka to ensure peace.
1988: Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi visits China and meets Deng Xiaoping—the first visit to China by an Indian prime minister in 34 years; they agree to set up a joint working group to ensure peace in the border areas and make concrete recommendations for overall resolution of the boundary question within a definite time frame.
1989: Outbreak of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.
1989: Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Jammu and Kashmir
1990: Cauvery tribunal formed to resolve 150-year-old river water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
1990: V.P. Singh government tables Mandal Commission recommendations for 27% reservation for OBC candidates in all levels of government services.
1991: Economic liberalization opens the economy to foreign and private investment.
1992: The Babri Masjid in demolished.
1993: Series of bomb blasts in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1998: India conducts five nuclear tests, joins club of countries possessing nuclear weapons. Pakistan tests six atomic weapons in response.
1999: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visits Lahore in the inaugural run of the Delhi-Lahore bus. The two countries sign Lahore pact committing both to bilateral dispute resolution.
1999: Delhi-bound Indian Airlines flight IC-814 hijacked from Kathmandu to Kandahar in Afghanistan by Harqat-ul-Ansar. After a week’s negotiations with the Indian government, militants Maulana Masood Azhar, Syed Umar Sheikh and Mushtaq Latram Jerger released in exchange for the hostages.
1999: Indian army evicts Pakistani army regulars and militants from the heights of Kargil inside the Line of Control in Kashmir.
2000: The states of Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand are formed.
2001: Five terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed storm Indian Parliament.
2002: Communal violence breaks out in Gujarat after a coach of Sabarmati Express is set on fire at Godhra railway station.
2005: Right to Information Act implemented.
2006: National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, implemented.
2008: Ten members of Lashkar-e-Taiba carry out a series of coordinated shooting and bombing attacks at different locations, including Taj hotel, in Mumbai.
2010: Unique Identification Authority of India issues the first Aadhaar card to Ranjana Sonawne, a resident of Tembhli village in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra.
2011: India Against Corruption movement launched against Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
2011: World’s longest running democratic Left rule comes to an end as Mamata Banerjee defeats communists in West Bengal, riding on the success of an anti-land acquisition movement.
2014: The BJP wins a parliamentary majority for the first time, under the leadership of Narendra Modi; BJP-led National Democratic Alliance forms government.
2014: India’s 29th state, Telangana, is created. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) forms the first government in the state.
2014: The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the government’s flagship financial inclusion programme, is launched.
2015: India and Bangladesh swap more than 160 enclaves.
2015: India invites US president Barack Obama to be the chief guest at Republic Day parade, the first time a US president is invited for the event
2016: Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) launched to provide LPG connections to women below the poverty line without upfront charges.
2016: The BJP makes inroads in the north-east, forms government in Assam.
2016: Government announces demonetisation of Rs500 and Rs1000 notes.
2017: The goods and services tax introduced from 1 July.
2017: The BJP creates history with landslide win in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election.
2017: General and railway budgets presented together for the first time.
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The Uttar Pradesh by-elections witnessed the unthinkable, with the two most bitter rivals combining to beat a common enemy only to prove that there are no permanent enemies in politics, only a common thirst for power.
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The anti-BJP movement got another boost when the Telugu Desam, a BJP ally, started quarrelling with it and withdrew its ministers from the NDA government, becoming the second ally to do so after the Shiv Sena.
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Last week, the principal Opposition party also threw its hat in the ring when UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi hosted a dinner for the heads of 20 “like-minded” parties. Earlier, at the India Today Conclave 2018, she announced she would do everything possible to prevent the BJP from returning to power in 2019.
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That may not be entirely in her hands or indeed within her domain, but there is no doubt that politics in the past two weeks has become quite a cat and mouse game. There is a certain restlessness in the air among the political class. Parties formed on regional, ethnic, caste and linguistic basis are especially vulnerable as they jockey for space in an increasingly volatile ecosystem.
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Take Tamil Nadu. Over the past two months alone, it has witnessed three new political alignments after decades of rule by the two rival Dravidian parties. The rise of superstars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan as well as the party floated by TTV Dinakaran will only add to the confusion, with the BJP's role being somewhat nebulous.
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In the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh, there are two regional behemoths, N Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP and K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi as well as the ambitious YS Jaganmohan Reddy of the YSR Congress Party.
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India Today’s cover story this week, anchored by senior associate editor Kaushik Deka, examines the arithmetic of 2019, which shows the BJP is headed for solitary battles in 304 seats in 10 states against multiple Opposition parties.
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Four years ago, it won 140 of these 304 seats when Opposition parties were scattered - 71 in Uttar Pradesh alone. An analysis of the 2014 results suggests that had the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party fought together, they could have brought the BJP tally down to less than 30.
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There is certainly some discontent stemming from unfulfilled expectations. The special package demand for Andhra Pradesh, MK Stalin’s cry for Dravida Nadu, minority status for Lingayats in Karnataka, and the farmers’ protest in Maharashtra have put the BJP on the defensive.
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The critical issue will be the performance of the Congress, especially in the 100 seats in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, where it will be in direct contest with the BJP.
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The BJP may not be able to repeat its stellar performance of winning 282 seats in 2014, but no one can disregard the political acumen, discipline and determination of the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine. Is it enough for the Opposition to have a common enemy when they have been enemies not too long ago?
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Above all, will they be able to agree on who will be the captain of this motley combine? Politics is also not always a matter of arithmetic. There is, however, one certainty. The 2019 general election will not be a cakewalk for either side.
OPINION : -
Can an anti-Modi alliance defeat the BJP in 2019?
India Today cover story examines the electoral math for the coming Lok Sabha
AROON PURIE
1. For the above question, wise people to answer;
2. People must be wise, and not fall into the trap of politicians lies;
3. The union of unlike minds to defeat BJP / MODI, if people capable of discrimination of TRUTH AND FALSE, BJP SHOULD WIN
4. If people have no balanced minds to Analise good and bad, the result cannot be predicted;
5. THIS WE UNDERSTOOD IN THE RECENT GUJARAT ELECTIONS, WHERE EVIL FORCES ALMOST SWALLOWING BJP!!!!!!!!! ????
Thank you for reading
Jaihind
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