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Now, Rahul gandhi will give his resignation to Rahul gandhi which will be rejected by Rahul gandhi because Rahul gandhi says resignation is not a solution of problems created by Rahul gandhi.
Rahul Gandhi then request Rahul Gandhi to continue to guide the Congress which Rahul Gandhi will accept and thanks Rahul Gandhi for reposing faith in Rahul Gandhi.😜😝😝😝
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OMG! This joke became reality....😁😂

Rahul Gandhi offers to resign as party president at Congress Working Committee meeting
Rahul Gandhi offers to resign as party president at Congress Working Committee meeting


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I have based my predictions completely on my knowledge of astrology. You will see that Like Chandragupt Maurya, who unified India in 3rd century BC, Modi too will unify India divided among caste lines and religious lines. He too will take Sanyas after 2026 and will probably be never seen or heard off ever again. Unlike most retired PMs and Presidents, he is not going to occupy a Lutyens Bangalow for lifetime.

Equally important, he has to take strong measures to cripple/destroy India's enemies, both inside and outside (people and nations), permenantly.
 
Three things Indian liberals held dear were tested this Lok Sabha election

Progressives and liberals are now saying the system is broken because it is electing people who are at the opposite end of the spectrum.

RAMA LAKSHMI I Updated: 24 May, 2019 2:17 pm IST
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BJP workers welcome Narendra Modi and Amit Shah at the party headquarters, Thursday | PTI

Every election is an argument about who we are and where we want to go. The massive mandate for the BJP-led NDA coalition of Narendra Modi means many have lost the argument. It isn’t just the Congress that lost, but many of the beliefs that were held as a talisman by Indian liberals, pluralists and progressives have been severely tested this election.

The 300-plus ‘prachanda vijay’ that Amit Shah declared for the BJP and its allies has shaken the three touchstone mantras of Indian progressives.

Pragya Singh Thakur and legal innocence

More than Narendra Modi’s victory, many are grappling with how best to reclaim the ‘idea of India’ from terror-accused Pragya Singh Thakur’s massive mandate in Bhopal. Is the ‘idea of India’ irretrievably lost?
They applied that tenet of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ template to seek solidarity when Muslim youth were arrested and locked up after the Hyderabad bomb blasts, when S.A.R. Geelani was arrested in the conspiracy to attack Parliament and when Binayak Sen was charged with conspiring with Maoists. But the progressives could not bring themselves to extend the template to someone like Pragya Singh Thakur. Now that she will sit in the Lok Sabha, something fundamental has shifted. In the ‘Godse se Pragya tak’ narrative arc of India, her ambivalent legal status challenges the liberals’ faith in legal principles and system.

Belief in democracy

How can liberals, pluralists and progressives reclaim India but still condemn Indians for voting the BJP in such large numbers, and especially for Pragya Thakur?
Many of them were heard saying they have now lost all faith in democracy, and that elections are a flawed concept, especially the first-past-the-post system. The system now appears broken to them because it is electing people who are at the opposite end of the spectrum.

They are saying this to put up a brave front, and to add an intellectual spin to their disappointment. They had held this same parliamentary democracy dear for decades, warts and all. It was expected to offer level playing field in a deeply feudal and hierarchical society, even though B.R. Ambedkar himself called it just a “top-dressing” for an essentially undemocratic society.
If the intellectuals begin to decouple themselves from the process of electoral democracy then they just risk making their privileged bubbles iron-strong. And the exit of ideas from elections means democracy loses the opportunity to improve and becomes a race to the bottom.

Who will speak for the subalterns?

Left scholarship and intellectualism thrived for long on something called “behalfism”, a wonderful coinage by Mukul Kesavan in his seminal book Secular Common Sense. Scholars spoke on behalf of the ‘subalterns’. For them, the term ‘subaltern’ was a formidable centrepiece in Indian postcolonial discourse.
Propounded by renowned scholars like Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Spivak, it referred to all those who are outside the power structure – mostly rural, the underclass, underprivileged, marginalised, and the salt-of-the-earth. It was the responsibility of the intellectual elite to speak for the subalterns – since they could not presumably speak for themselves – and be their guardians.
They looked at India through this prism of multiple marginalisations – identities of castes, tribes, religions and languages as they are reflected on a shattered mirror. They would pose every argument on behalf of the ‘subalterns’, it was their go-to term.
That was until Modi was elected to power in 2014. The subalterns had turned. In fact, Modi was the subaltern. In Gujarat, he was the OBC; in 2014, he was the chaiwala; and then he morphed into the chowkidar in 2019.
The Congress party in its election campaign advertisement showed many Indians saying, “Main hee toh Hindustan hoon” – or the idea of a billion Indias. Against Modi’s One India.

When the progressives and the activists speak of the marginalised and their injustices, BJP president Amit Shah counters them by calling them “tukde tukde gang”. This means the BJP wants to leave no room for conversations about the million mutinies. You can only have conversations about multiple identities in the BJP’s universe if it is done in the cultural pride trope, not in the context of injustices.
Who will speak for the subalterns – is a question that shaped Indian intellectual traditions. Now that the subalterns have spoken for a different idea of India, can they be dismissed as ignorant and bigoted? That is the vexing dilemma cutting through many of their intellectual formulations.

In his victory speech at the BJP headquarters Thursday, Modi said that just like Hindu god Krishna stood by the side of Hastinapur, Indian voters had sided with India. Modi has stitched together a wide coalition with not just upper caste Hindus but also OBCs, Dalits, Muslims and tribal people.
Modi begins his second term by invoking the dark-skinned son of a cowherd, not Ram, the king. The BJP’s mythological goalpost has just moved to a subaltern god. Except in this reimagination, the subalterns were speaking for Modi, not the other way around.

Three things Indian liberals held dear were tested this Lok Sabha election
 
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Assembly wise breakup BJP - 65/70, Congress - 5/70, AAP - 0/70.

Told you, this is why he wanted alliance with congress, to hide this, blame congress for loss and pretend to make a fresh start, just like an addict who cries and promise change when things go bad but just couldn't help it, Kejri too can't help but time pass, working is not in his DNA, made good money in Income Tax department before, used some of it to never get transferred, made few contacts whom he later made ministers by selling tickets, he is even worst than Mayawati.
 

Told you, this is why he wanted alliance with congress, to hide this, blame congress for loss and pretend to make a fresh start, just like a addict who cries and promise change when things go bad but just couldn't help it, Kejri too can't help but time pass, working is not in his DNA, made good money in Income Tax department before, used some of it to never get transferred, made few contacts whom he later made ministers by selling tickets, he is even worst than Mayawati.
It seems AAP was losing deposit in 48 seats in Delhi!!:D
 
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It seems AAP was losing deposit in 48 seats in Delhi!!:D
But don't think of it too much, won't take long for Delhi to elect this same clown if he promise some freebies again.

Delhi CM use most money to provide freebies that leave not much for infrastructure or development budget but since it is capital of India central government can't let infra to degrade, Kejri uses this compulsion and get votes. Bahut bade wale hain Delhi wale, alag hi level hai inka.
 
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But don't think of it too much, won't take long for Delhi to elect this same clown if he promise some freebies again.

Delhi CM use most money to provide freebies that leave not much for infrastructure or development budget but since it is capital of India central government can't let infra to degrade, Kejri uses this compulsion and get votes. Bahut bade wale hain Delhi wale, alag hi level hai inka.
I lived in Delhi for few years and won't be surprised a bit if they flip sides again. But at this point of time I am enjoying every bit of the misery the clown is going through!!
 
I lived in Delhi for few years and won't be surprised a bit if they flip sides again. But at this point of time I am enjoying every bit of the misery the clown is going through!!
Let's face it. Delhi got statehood and the BJP botched it up between corruption & factionalism between the Madanlal Khurana & the Sahib Singh Verma groups. In walks Sheila Dixit & she rules Delhi for 3 terms. Then come the IAC, with Khuljiwal capitalising on it, launching the AAP winning the state elections, resigning & dissolving the assembly and returning with an enhanced majority. This shows Delhi doesn't favour any one party. In keeping with the different voting patterns of the rest of India in state & central elections, you may well see AAP back with a reduced majority. After all in spite of all the traction AAP got in the 2014 assembly elections ( which was later dissolved) BJP swept Delhi in the Central elections.
 
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