Flamboyance at its BEST

Vijay Mallya is known for his flamboyance and style. If you have got money, you gotta enjoy life and flaunt it, exploit people. So true, I am completely gasped by this man and his style and would never condemn any of the practices that he follows. So much so, Vijay Mallya is the generalized term of flamboyance and style, for the way he lives and parties. Many can only aspire to live that kind of lifestyle.

If you feel and think, Vijay Mallya is, think for a moment again and the other name which comes is Mayawati. MAYAWATI……!!!!!!! #$%%^&*@? ?????
Yes, our very own Behanji, didi and mata for many homeless, destitute, lower class people of Uttar Pradesh. OK, well not in the same manner. Or some may say, the parallel drawn is not too interesting. We are talking about flamboyance.

Mayawati surely gives Mr. Vijay Mallya, a huge competition for turning his position in flamboyance. She is extremely flamboyant and classy when it comes to honoring dates of her party (Elephant, Bahujan Samaj Party) and the dead people of her party and herself. Mayawati’s birthday, her party’s founding, winning, losing day (God knows which all days are celebrated), Kanshi Ram’s birthday, death day, AMbedkar’s birthday or whichever way she feels.

Every time, the Opposition raises hue and cry over her flamboyance, which they say is unacceptable. Because she celebrates on public money. Everybody can splurge with his/her money, but to do it in style with the State exchequer is the highlighting factor of Mayawati.

Better part is not the celebrations, but the unveiling of new standing monuments of Elephants, Ambedkar, Kanshi Ram, Mayawati. Mayawati’s birth date is celebrated as Swabhimaan (Self-respect) diwas for the sake of all oppressed classes. How much self respect they have achieved ever since Mayawati has been in power? Or better I’d say the Oppressed are still the Opressed under the Oppressed. Oppressed has no relation to the economic status but to the tag they carry of their DALIT caste.

The whole State machinery is moved back and forth for her celebrations. We have heard it all, the statues of Ambedkar, Maya and Elephants, the parks for them, ladoos (which consume enough raw material to feed the entire India for a day), PWD officials working overtime, stage, Mughal-e-Azam sets, her penchant for diamonds, Developmental money coming in trunks, 25,000, 50,000 or 1,00,000 odd people celebrating for the occasion.

This time, it was above it all, I was surprised to look at the elegant and beautiful shape of flowers of her garland, which when opened can wrap the whole of Uttar Pradesh or the money spent on garland can help in constructing 100 elephants (on the conservative side). You look carefully and the garland has been made from 1000 Rupee Notes. Clearly hats off to Mayawati, in the times, when people are thinking about making love to save condom costs and the Govt. is preaching austerity (of course Govt. and Mayawati are in Opposition), but who cares.

Who preaches and who listens? As a famous researcher once said, “God exists, you arrive in UP/Bihar and you realize, yes certainly God does exist”.
As for our didi, she is guided by the Constitution of India, written by Ambedkar,
to the people,
for the people and
by the people.

Is it about the book or nationalism?

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I supported Advani when he praised Jinnah: Jaswant
Modi’s ‘budhiya’ remarks, Varun speeches caused defeat: BJP

It was quite disheartening to read such kind of news in newspaper. BJP is the only Hope of an ordinary Indian. They were the first organization to demonstrate running a coalition in India. It is the only party which can play the role of an opposition. There should always be an intelligent and healthy opposition in India to avoid the country running into autocracy. Moreover we know and understand that Congress is an autocracy only. Govt. is Congress. BJP definitely has to behave a little responsibly.

They are fighting cats and dogs out of the issue which is not going to affect India or even the prospects of their party whatsoever. They themselves are responsible for creating an issue out of a mole hill. Launch of the book on Jinnah by Jaswant Singh. I have not read the book. I do not understand what is so bad about hailing Jinnah as a nationalist, secular. Praising Jinnah over Gandhi is not a crime. I am quite sure it is not going to affect their vote bank either. Everybody knows all the important tasks that Mr. Nehru had undertaken in those times of which even his family feels ashamed.

As a true Indian concerned about their best interests, they should raise the voice if anybody bad is said about Gandhi. Though personally I don’t feel anything is wrong in that even. Its been sixty years since we have suppressed the reality behind the partition and creation of India, Pakistan and the roots of Bangladesh.

But the bull shit that BJP is running after. It is bringing their frustration onto the streets. They are throwing all the skeletons out of their closet. It is not a healthy stuff in the democracy. On number of occasions, politicians stage such fights themselves but this time it is leading to the direction of self-destruction.

BJP knows and understand the reasons for its debacle in elections. Keeping all things aside, they don’t have a national ace to project. After Mr. Vajpayee, everybody wanted something better from BJP. No party in India has a reverend statesman like Mr. Vajpayee.

Some of the quotes from newspapers after release of Mr. Jinnah’s book, which makes me feel sad. Our only hope of freeing ourselves from the clutches of INC. I believe more in Congress theories but still something new and different needs to be brought on the table. BJP possessed the capability for the same. But now it seems we were just dreaming.

Former union minister Jaswant Singh on Thursday said he had supported LK Advani, who nearly resigned as BJP president in the wake of internal criticism for praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah during his visit to Pakistan in 2005. “I had stood up against the treatment that was meted out to Advaniji because I believed that he had not said anything that was contrary to facts,” Singh told reporters on returning to Delhi from Shimla after his expulsion from the party. “I had stood up for the right of Advaniji to say what he had said,” he said.

“Various reasons for the defeat like personalised attacks on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, lopsided campaigning, projection of weak and shady candidates, and in-fighting among top leaders were discussed in detail,” the leader said. “Failure of the party to motivate the youth, debacle in the Delhi assembly elections and Varun’s hate speech were also the reasons for the party’s defeat,” the leader added.

An internal report of BJP has reportedly blamed senior party leader L. K. Advani, Modi and Jaitely, besides other top leaders for the BJP’s debacle in this year’s general elections. According to a report, there was a perceived lack of unity among the party leadership and the BJP squarely failed to advertise its agenda among the general public.

The report also says the projection of Modi as the prime ministerial candidate by certain members of the party and the personal attack on the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (which did not go down well with the people), were key factors in contributing to the BJP’s electoral loss.

The other factors responsible were: (1) The highlighting of the Varun Gandhi issue, which pushed aside the other main issues; (2) The party failed to assess the public mood in Haryana and conceded a virtual walkover to the Congress; (3) Elections were lost in Delhi even before campaigning began; (4) the BJP failed to corner the Congress on 26/11 and (5) Allowing the Congress and the media to corner the BJP on the Kandahar hijack issue.

A section of the BJP feels that the dilution of Hindutva had led to confusion in the party cadres and cost the BJP dearly in the recent Lok Sabha polls. It contended that Hindutva was “inclusive, representing the finest imprints of our cultural and civilisational ideas. This profound concept is the real inspiration for a resurgent India with which the BJP is proud to be associated.”

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Tuesday asked senior Rajasthan leader Vasundhara Raje to quit as leader of opposition in the state assembly within the next three days.

“She wants a respectable exit. She has made three conditions to resign -- that she be given a plum organisational post, the suspension of the two MLAs should be revoked and the new leader of opposition be of her choice.”

Javadekar said, “This is not a show cause. Nor has he been sent a notice for explanation.” The exceptional caution in dealing with Shourie, who on Monday had fired a barrage of charges at the BJP leadership calling them a “humpty-dumpty” and an “Alice in blunderland” while making a strong pitch for an RSS takeover, came from a concern that he could well churn out a steady stream of embarrassing “truths”.

The former editor has provided more than a glimpse of this when he criticised party chief Rajnath Singh for sacking B C Khanduri as Uttarakhand CM and acting against Raje.

The world of books requires some chintan, but fortunately no chintan baithak. Who or what, then, is the story: Jinnah or the BJP? The two are not entirely unrelated, for the BJP was formed as a direct consequence of the creation of Pakistan. The umbilical cord still sends spasms up its central nerve.

Two questions frame the Jaswant-Jinnah controversy. Was Jinnah secular? Do Nehru and Patel share the “guilt” for Partition?

It does affect any Indian whether Jinnah or Nehru was responsible for partition? It is like asking who is WORST.