Is the Congress playing politics on the Vadodara riots?
539280
Definitely. It remained the policy of Congress (since its birth) to appease minority for vote. This party will always be crying for incidence like post-godhra, vadodara etc. Incidence like elimination of hindus in J&K, Varanasi blast, Delhi, Mumbai, blasts, infiltrations across the border are petty issues for the party as these dont bring profit to their business.
1162176
Absolutely.  There MUST be a debate between the "ins" and the "outs" (those IN power versus those OUT of power.)  It is the job of the INS to get away with as much monkey business as possible and it is the job of the OUTS to act as the watchdogs of the INS.  EVERY political party tries to get away with monkey business.  EVERYONE.  Of course there can be lesser parties but their impact is often to act as a spoiler for the two major parties (eg. 1912, 1948, 1968, 2000 elections)
1085342
there is no such thing politics is the very basis of lying and cheating and stealing. this government needs a good restructuring get rid of the idiots there for money, cut back wages severely then only people who really want to make a difference will try to get elected.
895402
No what you are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg.\nThe IAS is no doubt a close knit entity, But they are being forced to resign because they dont tow the state govt. 's line in many a things,\nModi is as the rest of India knows controlling the gujrathis only by religious appeal and has taken advantage of this support too far (as the supreme court in its landmark observation in the best baker case has noted) by orchestrating and organising riots, trying to make life miserable for muslims in the state, and so on.\n\nThere have been enquiries commissioned and many an investigations into the beauracracy at the levels of IAS and IPS involved, Anyone who is helping such enquiries or replying in the affirmative to court directions regarding cases related to crchestrated riots are being forced out.
1136517
Yes, Rahul Mahajan has been framed in the Drug abuse due to political reasons. It is evident from the fact that when the congress party was asked to replace Rahul Mahajan on his Late father's seat, congress completely refused to do so.
594684
Yes it is.  That is why we need viable third parties, to suck the air out of those windbags in politics.  The game of one-upmanship has taken the place of doing what's best for the people of this country.
22717
Politics is curropt every where it is not just India!
510095
No!\n\n"Sonia Gandhi is an Italian born Catholic who has only been a citizen of India for fifteen years and has never held any public office. She has done very little study of the older traditions of the country. Nevertheless, she is calling the shots for the oldest political party in India, the Congress Party, and is being projected as a possible Prime Minister candidate. \n\nOne wonders if the old freedom fighters of the party, who sacrificed so much to end foreign rule in the land, ever thought that their own party would be so short of native born candidates that it would require a foreign born person to lead the country within fifty years of independence. Would one ever see an Indian-born Hindu projected as an Italian Prime Minister because of marital ties? \n\nRecently Sonia apologized to the Muslims for the destruction of the Babri Masjid that occurred during Congress rule in 1992. In this regard Sonia should criticize her own husband, Rajiv Gandhi, who himself allowed the locks of the Babri Masjid to be opened in 1989 for Hindus to worship (not for Muslims!) \n\nMoreover, if Sonia is sincere in her apology she should promise to rebuild the Babri Masjid if her party comes to power. If she is not promising to rebuild the site, how can she claim that it was wrong to take it down? Of course as a non-Hindu and not born in India this might be easier for her to do. It is very difficult for a Hindu to go down in history as restoring the monument of a foreign invader on the birthplace of the nation's greatest hero, Lord Ram. \n\nOne also wonders, if as a Christian, Sonia will apologize to Hindus for Christian discrimination against Hindus through the centuries of Portuguese, French and British rule in the country. Massive efforts were made to convert Hindus to Christianity, which included denigration of Hindu beliefs and practices, and in a number of instances defacing or destruction of Hindu temples and idols. \n\nWhat rights have Christians, with a history of religious intolerance and genocide, to criticize Hindus in matters of religious tolerance, who have never invaded any country or used the force of arms to convert any one? \n\nIf Sonia is so open-minded about religion, let her say that Hinduism is as good as Christianity and that it is wrong and intolerant for Christians, including Catholics, to seek to convert Hindus. One must remember that the Catholic church recently excommunicated a priest in Sri Lanka merely for writing that other religions could be as good as Christianity! \n\nOne cannot forget that Catholic missionary activities, targeting Hindus for conversion, still prevail throughout the country. In South India, Catholic priests dress up like Hindu swamis in order to deceive the local people into thinking that they are holy men like Hindu Yogis. Such a local appearance was found to be safer for promoting conversion activities. Is Sonia Gandhi a political version of the same? She sports her tilak and wears a sari like a Hindu woman, using a Hindu name and appearance to gain votes, but she has not spoken out in defense of Hindus on any cause. \n\nSonia recently apologized to the Sikhs for the violence agaisnt them that occurred after her mother-in-law was assassinated in 1984. She should blame her own party and her own husband for the anti-Sikh violence that they perpetrated and the lack of punishment for it that they allowed. Rajiv Gandhi did nothing in his five years of rule after the incident. Sonia should also blame Indira Gandhi for her wrong policies that alienated the Sikhs and caused them to turn against her. \n\nIf Sonia does not do these things we can only look upon her projecting a hypocritical appearance, of ignoring missionary agendas, and as insensitive to Hindu religious sentiments. \n\nOf course, India is a tolerant and a secular country. An American or British political party could never project a foreign born non-Christian as their leader, particularly if the religion involved denigrated
821534
Most politicans vote party lines and very few have the nerve to vote whats right for their people who sent them to DC to represent them.\n\nI would like to look at Lotts voting record before I made my mind up.
759351
Yes.Why not? Lalu himself said in 2004:" one day I will become prime minister;not today;not tomorrow.ONE DAY" Any politician has ambition to become PM. Lalu's dreams may come true if:(1)UPA/ NDA don't win clear majority;(2) Congress party's tally is about 20 to 22% of seats; (3) Leftist combine does not get more than 8% of seats.(4) Regional parties in the pre-poll alliance win massively; (5) motley congress crowd cries wolf and make their incumbent PM a scapegoat for debacle;(6) Lalu emerges as a significant political force,without whom no government is possible and also collects a bunch of post-poll small parties and enhances his bargaining capacity;(7) the arithmetic of seats is such that with laloo and his friends even minus his baiters like Mulayam singh and Ram Vilas Paswan, formation of government is possible. It may appear there are so many IFs but era of coalition governance can throw strange bedfellows. after all the PM'spost went abegging in 1996, and when regional satraps were not willing sacrifice 'the bird in hand for two in the bush',a rank provincial casteist obscurantist of Deve Gowda became PM
563074
All politicians use Hindus and Muslims to get the vote bank .... people say they add fuel to fire..but I say they add fire to the fuel .....
367599
probably some politics is going on in cricket board
521558
Yes, reservations like in jobs and education may also come for legislatures. But the policy makers are unable to clear the women reservations bill since a long time due to lack of consensus between various political parties. If this is the case, there are various castes and religions in India, so we cannot expect reservations for MPs and MLAs in the near future.
380875
Obviously he should be shot. The politicians just want the SC/ST/OBC votes. If they were interested in welfare, they would have concentrated on primary education, so that these "weaker" sections become competent by the time they reach graduation level.\n\nSCs/STs/OBCs think they are going to benefit from the quota -- they will not. Even if the quotas are implemented with "creamy layer" restriction, only rich SCs/STs/OBCs will benefit from the quota. I've seen well-dressed people coming in cars to admission centers with "Non-creamy layer" certificates stating that their father's yearly income is less that 48,000 rupees. Quotas are injustice to everybody -- the poor SCs/STs/OBCs as well as the meritorious General Category students.\n\nAs about Arjun Singh, he is the biggest politicial dramatist. If we have more scoundrels like him, we will soon see bloodshed and riots between General candidates and reserved candidates.
369431
Nope. Congress creates holidays, and the Republicans control Congress.
1123454
No city government in India has responsibility for the railways, you zero watt bulb. And the BMC can't even keep Mumbai clean forget about about handling railway accidents. It's the Railways Ministry that's responsible. Laloo's the Railway Minister. And no, he's not doing anything either. Big surprise.
922669
Every time we just get away with our inefficient system by blaming just politicians. The real problem is with our democracy and not with our politicians. Who said we are not hard working?.We have no.1 intelligent work force in the world and we have all the potential to make our India 10 times better than present super power countries. Just think what is stopping us. In the false name of democracy we are fooling our selves. You can see the situation in Mumbai where whole lot of beggars in the country are flocked in the airport road with lot of slums. You blame our politicians. But maharashtra CM took initiative to remove and shift these slums elsewhere so that our country's image can be maintained. Everyone who just land from western countries have first vision of India at the airport road and those people take us for granted. Now let me tell you what happened after that. There were lot of cues and cries from human right organisation,media , NGO and what not supporting the slum dwellers. In the democracy we have lot of problem in implementing the things efficiently.\n\nLet us take a hypothetical case .\n\nIf we want to build beautiful highway in India with 8 lanes same as in New york or Washington DC what will happen in India? \n\nEnvironmentalists will started crying deserting vast lands will result in cutting of trees , then reduction in rain etc.,\n\nWhat those people who have to vacate houses (Though most of them are illegal only)to implement highway project will do ? They will hold demonstration and will move the case to court and will challenge the might of the government with the power of so called democracy!!!!\n\nWhat will Communist(India) claim is that there is plot of international community to hinder our progress by arousing so many people to insurgency.\n\nNext day Opposition will claim resignation of CM because so many people are pushed to vacate their houses.\n\nAlso there is no unity among Indians. If TamilNadu state ask for Cauvery water for TN agriculture Karnataka state refuses to give as if TN is another neighbour country.\n\nThere is no Single national leader in our country who have support of 1 billion people. All leaders enjoy influence only in their home state. Nobody know them out side their home state. \n\nThere is no understanding between each states in India. They act like as if collection of small small individual countries and Govt of India behaves like Indian Union sounds similar with European union.\n\nIn order for India to become super power linking of river gaunges with river cauvery is very important. For that we may need support of all the concerned states in India and huge fund to implement that.\n\nWe have lot of inefficiency with our democracy and simply the system which produces irresponsible people and corrupt politicians. So we to focus on making a good democracy and system instead of blaming polticians.\n\nThank you very much for asking good question which will force every Indian to think.\n\nJay Hindh