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SP bungling funds
by milind gadkari on Apr 23, 2007 09:59 AM  Permalink  | Hide replies

Dear Rahul,
last so many years congress was supporting the same government of SP, that time you people were dozing off or what?
what business do you have now saying so many things about the government, you were part of which in any way.
do you really think that all indians are fool or what?


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RE:SP bungling funds
by Avinash Dsouza on Apr 23, 2007 10:06 AM  Permalink
Hey Milind

Jai Maharashtra - I think you should jump into politics; still vociferous :)

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RE:SP bungling funds
by Ram Sharma on Apr 23, 2007 10:53 AM  Permalink
milind
u r correct.

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Rahul's comments
by Vivek Vadke on Apr 23, 2007 09:41 AM  Permalink  | Hide replies

Rediff appears to have decided that Rahul is the future of UP and of the country. Why else wud they cover him costantly and widely ? For rediff, no other leader in the UP campaign is worth covering !! We expect rediff to be balanced and unbiased please.

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RE:Rahul's comments
by sudhakar sk on Apr 23, 2007 10:06 AM  Permalink

We WELCOME rediff.com's "change of attitude" towards young Congress MP "covering his balnced and truthfull" view's on UP (Ulta Pradesh)election campaign,
rather then projecting the corrupt, fundamentalist,
fanatics bandwagon of
BJP, SP, BSPwala's.

Today, UP can look forward youthful,
talented and
futuristic leadership
rather-then synic, haggered and
willfully misleading RSS, Hindutvawadi lots.

Please continue this show REDIFF.COM, for Good of UP and India.



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RE:Rahul's comments
by bunty on Apr 23, 2007 10:32 AM  Permalink
indra and rajib and sanjay all r youngs when they entred the politics BUT THEY just distroy the india

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RE:Rahul's comments
by sudhakar sk on Apr 23, 2007 10:58 AM  Permalink
U r totally wrong Mr. Bunty!.

Most invaders, including Moghuls and last but the least Britishers too thought they could distroy India.

Indian sprit is beyond any body's capacity to distroy.

Look at the Indian Democracy's strength; we have a Muslim President, Sikh PM and the Congress Party, which driven-away, most powerful invaders the British; the kind of cruelty they(British) inflicted upon our
fore- fathers, freedom fighters of all cast and creed were far deadlier then Hitler's
gas - chamber;
led by a Christian Lady.

Open your eyes Mr. Bunty!!! don't fool yourself by denying the reality & facts.

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RE:RE:Rahul's comments
by ashok leyland on Apr 24, 2007 01:03 AM  Permalink
Where has Sudhakar been since he was born? living in some dream world probably if he cheers the Congress! Do you know Sudhakar that Congress lead India for 45 years and still the poverty was 90% of the population?
The present progress and even internet would not have come to India if Congress and soicalist views were prevalent! Ask your parents, your grandparents how well they were under Congress.
There is NO talent in India in the political arena today, certainly not amongst the youth who have NO idea what the actual situation in the world is, where progress is measured by cell phones and cars. Progress for us means providing alternative energy for the cities and energy at last for the villages. It means harnessing water resources, protecting the environment and assisting the rural areas with aid for agriculture and otehr sustainable economies.
What is Rahul speaking of? If he was so worried for the poor why wasn't his party pressing the state govt. to see that aid went to the poor?

He's far more sly and acute than you are, if he can fool people like you he's succeeded.
And those who write that Rediff should give other parties space are right. How can you choose if you are not given the choice? Rediff is probably funded by pro congress groups, so they play the music they are told to. This is against all rules of good journalism.
Unfortunately Rediff does not reply to any feedback nor does the editor put his face online with his direct email like other papers do. In India it is easy to fool the public because we are not used to asking questions or demanding replies.

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RE:Rahul's comments
by chaitanya kumar on Apr 23, 2007 10:26 AM  Permalink
Congress is a selling dead beet with Rahul Gandhi in action. He will most likely lead the party without doubt in 5-10 years to come, but the party will reduced to fringes by then. Lately, Congress reminds me of the Swatantra Pary, Hindu Mahasabha and Dravidar Kazhagam. Rahul will have to live with being a minor player in a larger coalational framework in the years to come. Congress will most likely lose Andhra in sweeping way in 2009 and there starts it's real decline. This Rahul guy seems like an authoritarian type who doesn't wish to give room for capable party workers to make it big and lead the party. Too bad for the age old party since India has changed a lot since past couple of decades. Sonia is a disaster for Congress and Rahul will do the cremation work.

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RE:Rahul's comments
by Ram Sharma on Apr 23, 2007 10:55 AM  Permalink
sudhakar
congress is the fountainhead of corruption and nepotism.

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Rahul, The warrior against Caste based Politics.
by Rajesh Toppo on Apr 23, 2007 09:33 AM  Permalink  | Hide replies

Rahul should focus on a prolonged fight to uproot caste based politics. The lone voter is being intemedated to vote along caste lines, by some very lacklusture politicians. The caste ridden society is bound to be backward and riddled with violence and hartred.Congress should do its best to avoid caste politics within it's own party.

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RE:Rahul, The warrior against Caste based Politics.
by kraft on Apr 23, 2007 10:21 AM  Permalink
Do u expect Rahul, a family-based Politician to do that? Even with 450 MPs Rajiv bowed before Religious Muslim Fanatics! These worthless gandys [mosquerading as Gandhis-by a clever change of Name] deserve to be booted out of Power completely.

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Who bungled on bofors guns
by sg sg on Apr 23, 2007 09:30 AM  Permalink 

I think he knows who bungled on the bofors guns, so the less he say the better. Come clean and accept that his family has caused the most harm and created the most hurdels in the developement of India and then may be we might change our attitude about him. They continue to have a stangle hold on the govt through proxy withour any accountability.

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what about amethi and raibarelli
by different spin on Apr 23, 2007 09:11 AM  Permalink 

many thousands of crores are spent in amethi and raibarelli ,may we know who is swindling the money there!!!!!!!!

krishna

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Rahul's Immaturity
by Surender K on Apr 23, 2007 08:58 AM  Permalink  | Hide replies

The scion of Nehru-Gandhi family, the greenhorn MP from Amethi, Mr. Rahul Gandhi on his election campaign of Uttar Pradesh is trying to score brownie points against his rivals by his immature utterances. Sample how Bangladesh came into existence, he takes the credit that his grand mother, Mrs. Indira Gandhi planned and executed the partition of Pakistan. This has created a diplomatic row, as India had always held that Bangladesh came into existence because of brutality of Pakistan Army.

Second, without being least charitable his talk of demolition of the disputed structure of Babri Masjid while the then Prime Minister, the late P. V. Narasimha Rao, could not prevent it. Mr. Rahul Gandhi claimed that had his father been the PM such horrendous display of religious intolerance would have not taken place.

It would have done the Congress Party a lot of good if Mr. Rahul Gandhi should have been briefed what to say and what not to say. Without arming him with a coherent alternative to the kind of regressive caste and communal politics preponderant in the state he has emphasised his family's 'pro-Muslim' credentials, has now apparently sought to beat the BJP at its own game by alluding to his grandmother's role in the creation of Bangladesh.

His campaign style smacks of identity management, the Congress's time-worn political-electoral approach in the Hindi heartland. But that is unlikely to revive its cloud-capped fortunes. Identity management can no longer deliver in UP. A perverse and degenerate form of composite politics, identity management has outlived its utility. The networks of identity management, which had, since Independence, apportioned the socio-economic pie and political power, came unstuck under pressure from a large mass of people displaced from their traditional habitats and livelihoods by the nation-building project of the '50s and '60s. That led to the collapse of the Congress consensus, and the eventual rise of competitive identity politics.

Rahul's concerted campaign in UP is a clear indication the Congress is desperate to capitalise on the wide-ranging nostalgia for the Congress raj under the Nehru-Gandhi family. And yet, Rahul's charisma would have translated into political-electoral gains, only if it had been supported by focused organisational and mobilisational work. The only agenda that could now match up to the party's comprehensive pre-independence programme, especially in UP, is that of social transformation. One that would seek to mobilise people on concrete issues, which are beyond the scope of traditional social identities.

Such aggregative politics, if it's allowed to take root, is bound to weaken the nostalgia for the Congress of the past, and thus undermine the central, almost dynastic position of the Nehru-Gandhi family. It is now for Rahul to decide on whether he wishes to be remembered as a dynamic leader who gave UP, and India, Rahul's pique is understandable as Rao posed the first serious challenge to the Nehru-Gandhi family's dominance of the party. He successfully completed his term, unlike the unfortunate Lal Bahadur Shastri, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's successor, who met an untimely death in Tashkent.

In essence, Rahul's statement amounts to a vainglorious boast for the vast majority of theists, who believe that not even a blade of grass can move without divine sanction. Whatever happens is preordained, while men and women play out their parts. Muslims and Hindus, revivalists and communists have all condemned his foot-in-mouth declaration, albeit for different reasons. The divine right to kingship is implied as much as his or some other kin's right to govern.

The imputation is that India is safe only in the hands of the dynasty, an idea that is utterly preposterous in the era of coalition politics. Since no single party or leader or family now dictates politics, the parliamentary ideal is better realised. The old unilateral system, which Rahul fondly remembers, works no more. The irony implicit in his call to end the rule of one-leader outfits such as the BSP and Samajwadi Party is lost on him. Otherwise, his mother, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, reported to be orchestrating party moves behind the Prime Minister's back, might take him to task.

A viewpoint that allows for free will and human errors would also pick holes in the Gandhi scion's theory that seems to ascribe infallible will to his family. It shows his lack of knowledge about our history and events of the past three decades. Or perhaps, he is feigning an ostrich-like ignorance. The Congress's espousal of communal politics after it inherited power from the British has served to ghettoise Muslims, anger Hindus and almost destroy Sikhs. Its lapses are too many to recount but a few need to be mentioned for the sake of truth. The gates to the disputed structure in Ayodhya were unlocked by a court order in February 1986 when Rahul Gandhi's father, Rajiv Gandhi, was the Prime Minister. Since the Congress, which ruled by an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha, was then in a mood to woo Hindus, his government did not appeal against the order though it could well be to demonstrate its commitment to preserving the mosque's identity.

Then again, Rajiv and his Home Minister Buta Singh sanctioned the shilanyas or foundation stone laying ceremony for the Ram-janmabhoomi temple in November 1989. If the Narasimha Rao government at the Centre did nothing to stop the demolition of the mosque, it was because the Rajiv Gandhi regime had helped the VHP lay the foundation of the temple.

Immediately after Independence, Sardar Patel's initiative to restore the fabled Somnath temple on Gujarat's western coast was opposed by Pandit Nehru. The former was Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, and the latter, the Prime Minister. Nehru's objection was specious, hinging on the West's perception of India. In letters to State Chief Ministers, dated August 1, 1951, he stated, "The recent inauguration of the Somnath temple with pomp and ceremony created a very bad impression abroad about India and her professions." Earlier, when images of Lord Ram and his retinue appeared inside the Babri Masjid on the night of inside the Babri Masjid of the night of December 22, 1949, Nehru ordered that they be removed. Then UP Chief Minister, Govind Vallabh Pant, declined to do so, observing that it could anger Hindus.

Thus, before he dons the mantle of leadership, Nehru's great grandson would be well advised to brush up his knowledge of India's history and his family's role in communal politics.

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RE:RE:Rahul's Immaturity
by Prabhakarn Prab on Apr 23, 2007 10:41 AM  Permalink
Rahul is a changed voice different from caste ridden, might abuse and lawless UP. He is a promise I can see. Encourage him, show him the right path which will give the nation a dynaamic person, whom we can hope things would happen... a Great Expectation - or else the misrule of BSP,SP,BJP rule which we witnessed in last 15 years will continue and nobody can hope for a change.

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RE:Rahul's Immaturity
by Ram Sharma on Apr 23, 2007 11:04 AM  Permalink
prabhakaran
rahul is very arrogant person and says that only their family can rule india. other 110 cr people are fools. this is a blatant lie. this type of attitude is bad for democracy.

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RE:Rahul's Immaturity
by ashok leyland on Apr 24, 2007 01:40 AM  Permalink
Prabhakaran: what was he and his family doing all these years to change the injustice? The right path is out of Indian politics, out of the big houses and priviledges the family has in Delhi and UP, out of the picture paying their way for everything they consume.

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why put your foot in mouth
by Final Moderator on Apr 23, 2007 08:51 AM  Permalink 


rahul, why put your foot in mouth ?
its an indian saying' and u have given fodder to opposition - u are doing it time and again

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Bungling Funds
by Anand Vajapeyam on Apr 23, 2007 08:23 AM  Permalink  | Hide replies

Rahul, you are too immature and only due to the fact that you happen to be in the Gandhi(?) family, you are receiving all the media coverage, whether your views deserve this or not. But I would like to ask you and your group of advisers answers to the following 3 questions.
1. Who was instrumental in India to take Kashmir issue to UN and muck up the whole issue?
2. Who was responsible for the creation of Bhindranwale and subsequent developments?
3. Who was responsible for sending Indian Troops to Sri Lanka?
4. Who was responsible for the reversal of Supreme Court judgment in the Sha Banoo Case?
5. Who was responsible for opening of Babri Masjid Locks after nearly 5 decades?
People living in Glass Houses should never throw stones at others Rahul and your coterie of Houng Guns(?)


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RE:Bungling Funds
by Final Moderator on Apr 23, 2007 08:50 AM  Permalink
srilanka was a tactical move, as srilanka were going to ask pakistan for help if india had refused; we did not want pakistan from west, east and south of india then.
rest of the points are valid.

rahul, why put your foot in mouth ? its an indian saying' and u have given fodder to opposition

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RE:Bungling Funds
by sumer singh yadav on Apr 23, 2007 08:45 AM  Permalink
I agree with Anand

Sumer

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RE:Bungling Funds
by Alamgir Rizvi on Apr 23, 2007 11:39 AM  Permalink
Mr. Anad Vajapeyan if you are Indian you never be say first 3-quastion.
Due to what cong and Gandhi are doing for India only.

Question number -4, What Rajiv Gandhi did he is doing right.

Question number -5, time of Opening the Babri Musjid as PM Rajiv also responsible, but you don%u2019t forget all adviser of Rajiv now in Hindu Taliban Party (BJP).
I am totally disagree with you.
A.R.

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RE:Bungling Funds
by ashok leyland on Apr 24, 2007 01:42 AM  Permalink
Mr.Rizvi, if Indians don't ask questions about India, who will?

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