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    • Pratap Bhanu Mehta Tags : L.K. Advani, Manmohan singh Posted: Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009 at 0135 hrs

    Electoral fortunes depend on a lot of things. But the very longevity of the Congress is a sign that there is something about it that is worth salvaging. But all that remains of the BJP is a long sulk, one that will haunt it even when it is in power. A party whose leader is so quickly “hurt” is a party with no foundations.

    The writer is president, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi

    express@expressindia.com

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    CPR must find ways to reach out to people with its ideasBy: C.Sanjay | 19-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward When we 'thinking people in their 30's' try to understand our political system and political parties, often we get carried away by BJP and its propaganda machine. One simply because most of us dont understand in full about congress and its origins beyond bits and pieces we learned from stories of freedom struggle. However after reading Ram Chandra Guha in his brilliant "India after Gandhi..." it helps getting to the correct perspectives. And more, it helps understand why so many 'thinking' people like CPR's Mehta often make sense which we dont see ourselves in right context. Mr.Mehta, you have always been thought provoking and interesting in your analysis. This one came right at the time when we just concluded our discussion why Modi may not be repeatable beyond Gujarat unless he gives impressive makeover to himself and convinces us for that, and why its high time BJP put itself in correct order or loose our Gujarati votes. Only one problem is, though its true we are judging Congress against the ideals it claims itself to be holding and we look for some rescue and new ideas in to BJP, we endup with BJP probably because we hope something new from them against our almost life time (we are in our 30's so its like since beginning of time for us) of hopeless progression by congress to be party which neither never delivers nor inspires confidence in ourselves as a nation.We just hope congress and BJP evolves or inspires our politics towards a permanent UPA and NDA formations center of left and center of right formations respectively in our polity and all political parties live under that umbrella formations.Not necessarily agree with all but still most of them, glad to read your articles Mr.Mehta.
    Loose connectionBy: Vinay | 18-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward Loose connection in the author's head... no doubt... Mangalore incident was not done by BJP... it was done by SRS...SRS is anti BJP..they had fielded 83 candidates against BJP in assembly elections... Muthalik has openly criticized yediyurappa... get your facts right first.... i can see good development in Karnataka already but its too early to call...
    Wonderful Article!By: Raj | 17-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward And offcourse BJP supporters carrying same feelings, IQ and ED wont like this article... and will start playing vistimhood :P.. Kudos, Pratap Bhanu Mehta!
    Sycophancy is ideologyBy: Devendra Patel | 16-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward For Congress, sychophancy, appeasement
    Biased ArticleBy: saurav | 16-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward Wow, another journalist writing a secular article. what about the scores of rupees staked by the congress MPs in Swiss bank account. Why is there no mention of that?. what about the lack of terrorist defense mechanism from the congress for the sake of vote banks?. why is there no mention of that?.Manmohan singh cannot even win a single seat from any part of India, what kind of a leader is he?. He has no mass base, No party appeal in his own party and no public support. Please do not compare the PM Manmohan singh with Narendra Modi. Modi has a strong base in Gujarat. Over the past few years, his popularity has spread to entire North India and even in states like Tamil Nadu attracts large crowds for his speeches. This is called leader who can inspire Masses of people.Even some Muslims of Gujarat like the way Modi has brought development in Gujarat.Can we say the Prime Minister is having this type of public support which Modi has?
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