1. Like Alexander the Great travelled east to conquer India, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu crossed his northern border to win Telangana — or at least some Assembly seats there. 2. Alexander made friends with Taxila ruler Ambhi to defeat King Porus. It worked. 3. Naidu allied himself with the Congress to overthrow Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR). It flopped.
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17/12/2018
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1. Like Alexander the Great travelled east to conquer India, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu crossed his northern border to win Telangana — or at least some Assembly seats there.
2. Alexander made friends with Taxila ruler Ambhi to defeat King Porus. It worked.
3. Naidu allied himself with the Congress to overthrow Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR). It flopped.
Ref : - Tale of two Telugu biddas: KCR wants to be kingmaker or king in Delhi in 2019, and so does Chandrababu Naidu : Dec 16, 2018 : Srinivasa Prasad : FIRSTPOST
Even as the results of the Telangana Assembly election were pouring out, giving KCR’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) a huge victory, he thanked Naidu for the “gift”. With tongue firmly in cheek, he meant that Naidu’s campaign in Telangana had miffed voters so much that they had voted for TRS en masse. That was KCR’s sarcasm at its usual best, and he didn’t stop at that. He said he would give Naidu a “return gift”.
KCR said Naidu had meddled in Telangana’s politics, and so he must return the favour by stepping into Andhra Pradesh’s politics. (“Would a Madhya Pradesh chief minister poke his nose in Chhattisgarh politics?,” KCR had asked during a campaign rally earlier. Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in 2000.)
Before and after Telangana was formed by partitioning Andhra Pradesh in 2014, the two regions fought like India and Pakistan. And like India and Pakistan agreed not to interfere in each other’s affairs under the Tashkent agreement, Naidu and KCR had an unwritten understanding that each would stick to his own bailiwick. Somewhere along the line, however, this truce was breached, and Naidu’s foray into the Telangana elections appeared to have been the final straw.
What followed was a cry of vengeance from a furious KCR. The tug-of-war between the two Telugu biddas (sons) has thus got a nasty eye-for-an-eye twist after the Assembly elections.
As estranged spouses do, the two talk of how nice each had been to the other. Naidu says he had offered his hand of friendship to KCR without success. KCR says he had even been ready to contribute Rs 100 crore to the building of a new capital for Andhra Pradesh.
KCR didn’t reveal how exactly he’ll give Naidu a taste of his own medicine. But it’s fairly clear he would team up with Naidu’s rivals in Andhra Pradesh to trounce him in the Assembly election to be held there along with the Lok Sabha poll a few months from now. The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) of Jagan Mohan Reddy, the main challenger to Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh, would be the obvious partner for KCR in this score-settling. It’s more than likely that KCR’s ally Asaduddin Owaisi, who heads All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), would put up candidates in Andhra Pradesh’s Muslim-dominated constituencies.
1. Cash-for-vote scam :-
The “return gift” may even transcend electoral politics. To fix Naidu, KCR may also aggressively pursue the on-again, off-again cash-for-votes scam, in which the TDP leader is one of the accused. Registered in Telangana, the 2015 case relates to the allegation that Naidu tried to buy the vote of a nominated Telangana MLA for the TDP’s Legislative Council candidate.
At some point, KCR had apparently gone soft on the case at the instance of some leaders of the BJP, whose ally Naidu was at the time. But besides speeding up the case now, the Telangana chief minister may browbeat the Modi government into stepping up an Enforcement Directorate investigation to trace the source of the alleged bribe money of Rs 5 crore in the scam. This could get messy for Naidu before elections.
The two leaders are also competing over who unifies the Opposition better (or who has a better glue to stick parties together). Naidu is busy putting together a hotchpotch of parties with Congress and without BJP. What KCR wants is a “consortium” of parties without both BJP and Congress.
On 1 November, Naidu met several Opposition leaders and finally Rahul Gandhi to “save democracy”. And on 10 December, a day before the Telangana results were out, Naidu gathered leaders of 21 parties who spoke of a vague “action plan” to take on Modi. KCR too has been schmoozing with some regional party leaders and is promising to throw a surprise soon.
Both Naidu and KCR, however, don’t sound too credible when they talk of uniting parties. Neither has been consistent in his attitude towards—or alliance with—national parties before. When it suited their local ambitions, they flirted with and ditched Congress and BJP. Both TDP and TRS, along with Left, were part of the Third Front in 2009 to fight “the corrupt Congress and communal BJP”. And KCR had been ready to merge TRS into Congress if the latter agreed to make him the new state’s chief minister.
Naidu always reels off laborious logic for whatever he does and whenever he makes a political U-turn without blinking an eye. So does KCR. The Telangana leader’s publicly pronounced equidistance with the two national parties must be taken with a spoonful of salt. It’s possible that, if KCR must make a choice between Congress and BJP in future for his own survival, he may pick the latter.
The posturing by the two leaders depends entirely on the political algebra within their states. Congress is KCR’s main rival in Telangana. Though Congress has been nearly wiped out of Andhra Pradesh, it retains a small part of its traditional vote base there, and that’s what Naidu is eyeing.
* Naidus son and his wife
2. As fathers rise, so will sons :-
And in case of a hung Lok Sabha, regional parties could be kingmakers. As history has shown, kingmakers can end up as kings themselves. Naidu and KCR won’t be averse to the idea of shouldering the responsibility of steering the nation’s destiny by occupying the prime minister’s chair. If that happens, each has a son to fill the chief minster’s vacancy at home.
What’s important for the two parties is that they must pick up as many Lok Sabha seats as they can. That’s precisely what each is trying to stop the other from doing. In 2014, the TDP won 15 of Andhra Pradesh’s 25 Lok Sabha seats, and TRS bagged 11 of 17 in Telangana. Now that the dust has settled over the Assembly election, the parties are losing no time to ensure their Lok Sabha tallies get better this time.
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1. Mani Shankar Aiyar, an Idiot's Idea of a Smart Man : 07 DECEMBER 2017 : DIGITAL PUNDIT
Mani Shankar Aiyar, known for his political hackery with his lifelong history of surviving on the bones thrown at him by his political masters, i.e., the Gandhi family, finally crossed the line that put his leaders in a corner leaving them with no choice but to suspend him from the primary membership of the Congress Party.
Couldn't have happened to a better person.
This man, who was born with a chronic foot in the mouth disease, to prove to his masters that no one was a bigger and loyal suck-up to the Gandhi family than he, called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a 'Neech', or a lower caste person (remember Modi was a 'chai-walla'?) who has essentially forgotten his 'aukat'.
In a widely condemned message to an audience of one (Sri Sri 108 Rahul Gandhi Ji Maharaj) our 'oonch kism ka aadmi' Aiyar Sir said, "Narendra Modi is a 'neech kism ka aadmi'.
Realizing the blowback to the party in view of the highly-publicized Gujarat Assembly elections, Congress leaders moved swiftly by first condemning Aiyar's statement and then suspending him from the party.
The crown prince of the Grand Old Party himself condemned Aiyar's 'well-thought-out' statement and demanded from him to issue an apology to the Prime Minister.
Afraid to raise the ire of his master, Aiyar, like a professional spinmeister that he is, said that it was because of his poor understanding of the Hindi language that he used the word 'neech' adding he was "sorry" if he'd inadvertently offended the Prime Minister.
The non-apology apology began with "I am a freelance Congressi, I hold no post in the party, so I can reply to PM in his language." But when that only added fuel to the fire, the man who represented the Mayiladuthurai constituency in Tamil Nadu in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections only to finish fourth and lose his deposit, said the following:
"I am told that 'neech' has many meanings, many connotations in Hindi, and if Mr. Modi chooses to distort it to claim that it means low born, then all I can do is to apologize for having used a word that could be interpreted as low born. But that was not my intention at all and certainly not a part of my culture," he told the reporters.
"I am told…?" Who told you? Are you an Indian? Are you saying you don't understand Hindi? If yes, then you have no business commenting about anyone in Hindi. Stick to the language you know and speak. I have read many of your tirades on NDTV and have come to the conclusion that the only language you know is the language of a world-class sycophant. And you are undoubtedly very good at it. I have yet to come across a bigger 'chamcha' than you in the Indian politics. JD-U's Sanjay Singh and Neeraj Kumar come very close but you take the cake!
Remember, this is the same man that right before the last Lok Sabha elections said that Narendra Modi could never become the Prime Minister of India, but he was qualified enough to sell tea at the All India Congress Committee meetings.
But if the people think that the Congress did the right thing by asking Aiyar to apologize to the PM and then later by suspending him, then they should think again.
What could have been a simple move by the Congress that could have possibly helped the party in the Gujarat elections, its spokesperson Randeep Surjewala, once again trying hard to impress his employers at the AICC, spoiled the very essence of the apology when he tried to put a political twist on it.
"This shows the Congress party's Gandhian leadership and respect for rival political parties. The Congress has issued a show-cause notice to Mani Shankar Aiyar and suspended him from primary membership of the party. Will Modi ji ever show this kind of courage?" this 'neech', a Jat (OBC), said in a tweet.
Lesson for you, Surjewala-ji – Never use a conditional clause like 'if' in an apology. NEVER! And never try to capitalize on an apology. Just let it be! While Aiyar's apology was far from perfect, you made it even worse by giving it a second layer of political spin! With the party bubbling with idiots like you and Aiyar, no wonder Congress is in tatters.
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2. Mani Shankar Aiyar embarrasses India in Pakistan, says Narendra Modi hurdle in Indo-Pak relations
"First, it is required to remove Modi, otherwise talks will not move forward," said Mani Shankar Aiyar.
New Delhi: Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Tuesday stoked a controversy by saying that relations between India and Pakistan will improve only if Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being removed from his post.
As per ABP news, while speaking during an interview to a Pakistani news channel, Duniya TV, Aiyar said, “First, it is required to remove Modi, otherwise talks will not move forward. We'll have to wait for four years. These people are very optimistic about Modi, they think that talks will move forward with Modi's presence, but I don't think so."
However, when the journalist said that it wouldn’t be possible, the Congress leader said then ‘Pakistan would have to wait’.
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3. BJP labels Salman Khurshid, Mani Shankar Aiyar as 'ISIS propagandists'
Mani Shankar Aiyar who went to Pakistan before the Bihar Assembly polls courted a controversy by saying that Islamabad should help India in defeating Prime Minister Modi.
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday labelled Congress leaders Mani Shankar Aiyar and Salman Khurshid as propagandists for the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) following their very public criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"While the world is getting together against terrorism, the Prime Minister's words and agenda to fight terrorism have been accepted the world over. It is in this context the G-20 summit has happened. 130 people have been killed in Paris on an open assault to civilization and it seems that these people (Congress) are behaving and conducting themselves as propagandists for ISIS and Taliban," BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi told media here.
"When it comes to condemnation atleast Azam Khan's statement was condemned by Samajwadi Party(SP) and they disassociated with it completely, but Congress party has chose to not do so in this context against Salman Khurshid and Mani Shankar Aiyar," she added.
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4. Suspension of Mani Shankar Aiyar Is Puzzling : DECEMBER 12, 2017 : ANKUR MUTREJA
The recent suspension of Mani Shankar Aiyar just doesn’t reconcile with the current political scenario. The apparent reason, as stated by Rahul Gandhi, is as incredible as Rahul Gandhi himself. Nobody can suspend a long time loyalist of the family for calling Modi a Neech Aadmi. More confusing is the fact that not even a single voice in the Congress has risen against this suspension. Jaitely claims it to be a strategic suspension. However, by doing so, he also admits, albeit unconsciously, the desperation of BJP in Gujarat.
I am no psephologist. Nor do I like making poll predictions. Rather, after UP elections, I have even stopped making wild guesses. But BJP losing Gujarat elections is so wild a guess that it gives the pleasure of having sex. So, just for the sake of pleasure, let us fantasize, but even then it would be a victory of Hardik Patel’s PAAS, not Congress — Yes, that would be a nice revenge for the Sex CD. In any case, there was no occasion to suspend Mani Shankar Aiyar just because he called names to Modi. Any negative effect of the ill-timed comment was hardly noticeable but for the tweet of Rahul Gandhi. So, in a way, it was Rahul Gandhi, not Modi, who made mountain out of mole. But why, is the question.
(I have held a view that Hardik Patel is a product of the convergence of the AAP politics with some disgruntled members of the BJP. So, I present a conspiracy theory that the Gujarat election, this time, is being fought by the Congress and the AAP together, and many of the soft-Hindutva tools of the political campaign are actually the brainchild of the AAP.)
The dinner at the Aiyar’s was attended by some of the most respectable names in the Congress. Modi’s linking of the dinner to the Neech Aadmi comment can therefore appeal only to people with below par IQ. There is no data on IQ levels of Gujaratis, but I don’t think they are idiots. So, the dinner is puzzling, and so is puzzling the suspension of Mani Shankar Aiyar following the dinner. What actually transpired in the dinner? Was it just a normal courtesy call on a visiting dignitary? Or was it something more than that? If it was something more than that, which in every likelihood it was, where arose the occasion for suspension of Mani Shankar Aiyar all of a sudden. This riddle will be solved only after the election results. (Where is Prashant Kishore these days?)
Whatever, Rahul Gandhi has not proved himself smart by suspending Mani Shankar Aiyar. Let the reason be very pertinent, for too many people, including myself, have raised eyebrows on his competence for the title of the Congress President (unless the Congress is winding up before 2019, and Rahul Gandhi shall be managing the distress sale).
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