http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/05/10/gps.pakistan.panel.cnn?iref=videosearch

GPS- Fareed Zakaria with Sashi Tharoor as a guest discussing about Pakistan and Indian Election.



There are few underlying sentiments/US viewpoint India being reflected in this video.


1.Sashi Tharoor as the next Indian Foreign Minister in the Congress(I) led government ?. Wishful Thinking as he will loose his deposit to the BSP candidate in his Kerala constituency.

2.Hear Fareed Zakaria ask a direct question,\"Whether there will be a low caste party heading alliance of left people who will also be anti-US who will come to power in India?\". To which Sashi says everything is possible.

US has realized a Mayawati led government supported by Prakash Karat can come to power which will be anti development and anti US.

This scenario is being discussed in the US and the repurcussion of this will be seen in coming days.

If Rahul Gandhi can put together a team with Happy Singh or A.K.Anthony as the PM and then quietly slip in later to take the top job. Anything is possible.

But the greatest Democracy is down the tube and with job losses everywhere, corruption and money being used to purchase votes(M.K.Azhagiri son of M.K - CM of Tamilnadu has spent Rs.200 Crores in his Madurai Constituency), I do not know where the country is heading?.

Recently there was a huge strike in Hyundai, Chennai and after the management threatened that they are moving out production to Europe from Chennai many of the guys came back to work.

God Save the Republic of India.

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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.

In a few hours from now, the election results will start tumbling out. We will know whether we are stuck with the same mafia family, one at the State (Tamil Nadu) and another at the Centre, or whether God has destined better things for us. May be, what we think of as the better alternative, might have been actually worse.

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As of now looks like UPA will form the government. Congress gains big time in UP.

WHAT A VICTORY FOR CONGRESS(I) !.

Congress landslide victory over BJP.

BJP IS FINISHED IN INDIA .

1.P.Chidambaram wins in the last minute by 3300 votes.

2.Sashi Tharoor creates history by record win. Amazing the guy who has lived outside India all his life wins by record margin.

He will be the foreign minister of India.

3.DMK wins smashing the ADMK and its Tamil Eezham issue.

Vaiko the unofficial LTTE representative in Tamilnadu LOSSES. Jai HO!.

Mu Ka to visit Delhi for lobbying for Ministerial posts for his 2 Kids and one grandson.

Watchout for fireworks between Azhagiri and Dayanidhi Maran as they become ministers.

4. I give 6 months to 1 year for Rahul Vinci to become the Prime Minister of India.

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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.

All this euphoria over Congress win will die in due course and hopefully saner analysis will be done. All said and done, Congress has delivered a very poor governance and economic management during last 5 years. However, Congress has imbibed lessons taught by most vicious and vindictive politicians India has ever known - Indira Gandhi and that lesson is to manage the media and follow populist policies and to hell with cost of nation.

Let us first analyze DMK's victory. DMK has little regard for decency and governance. The real reason for its victory is strategic (but anti national to a small extent) polity followed. DMK's advantage became strong during NDA regime. They supported the NDA government and while sharing power, bargained for most lucrative ministries. Their ministers made huge money but at the same time ensured that new industries came up in TN and thus ensured prosperity of the state Read Jobs creation). A smart political ploy.Contrast this with JJ who was content to make money for herself and her cronies.

If you analyze BJP politics, you will always find that though they are COMPARATIVELY decent , they are not politics savvy. Vajpayee raised Haj Subsidy, employed thousands (if I recall correctly, 20,000) Urdu teachers in UP/Bihar but they did not highlight this as they were afraid of Hindu hardliners and thus could not develop/cultivate Muslim electorates. Morons, after ruling for 5 years, could not even cultivate media which is totally hostile, could not set up NGOs sympathetic to them and while he understood economics, could not relate to politics part. India's prosperity today (whatever it is) is thanks to Narsimha Rao and Vajpayee, who invested in infrastructure in huge way in very later part of his rule and as a result of which Madmohan claimed credit for next 5 years.

DMK, as we all are aware, indulged in to populist politics by distributing 25,00,000 color TVs (Must have huge kickback) and distributing rice at Rs2/kg. If DMK can do this, why not BJP in MP or Rajsthan or Gujarat? These BJP guys are real morons and have no idea of politics in India. No wonder they are destined for political wilderness for ever. Their effort to polarize Hindu vote will not materialize as Hindu were never united and never will be. Congress understands this and they polarized Muslim votes which is the only thing which helped them get elected. Look at strategic gains in WB. Trinamool+ Congress success is due to Muslim votes. Likewise, all UP seats where they won are strategic Muslim voters dominated seats.

In AP, YSR promised cash doles to voters, admittedly bad economics but excellent political dividend. It is AP,TN, WB and Kerala which delivered majority.

Contrast this with Modi, who is sort of dictator and has alienated strong PATEL community leaders in Gujarat and could not deliver results. On the other hand , Nitish, equally good CM has kept Muslims (sometimes at cost of appeasing them) but could deliver. I do not believe that Madmohan is a good guy or Congress has capacity to provide good governance. One can write tons of material but then fatigue takes over. Better I sign off. I rue India's fate but then I do not lose sleep as I am better off in Canada.

A dangerous situation
That the BJP at the national level and AIADMK in Tamil Nadu could win this many seats (118 and 9 respectively) is itself a surprise, considering the money power unleashed. That approximately 20 to 25 % of the population still do not succumb to money power, that they think corruption, price rise, anti-nationalism, religious conversion, terrorism etc. are issues plaguing the country is itself a surprise.
We got a taste of things during the assembly elections right after the 26/11. A good chunk of the population think, that it will be only the Congress party which will have a soft corner towards them and pamper them even if their members or their cousins from across the border indulge in terrorist acts killing innocent unarmed people in public places. For another group, more than problems like poverty, illiteracy, corruption, price rise it is their agenda of converting people from other religions to their own religion, which is important. For this group too, Congress will be the patron and BJP will not look kindly to their acts. For some other urban group it is pub going and disco dancing that is important. They are the very antithesis of the principles for which Lord Ram stood for. BJP does not have representation for the any of the above people.
Above all these, the brazen money power unleashed by Congress and their allies like DMK was amazing. All the oratory done by Jayalalitha modeling hers on Martin Luther King or Obama has simply gone down the drain. Her opponents considered the event an auction and not an election. On the appointed day and hour they quoted a price, may be the average one day earning, on what they are going to make in the next 5 years, and walked away with the trophy. More than bribing the voter, it is shocking to know that poll officials, opposition party representatives sitting in poll booths, counting centre staff and even the opposition candidate himself who have fallen victims. It is rumored that the scion of the ruling family in Tamil Nadu had bought over the main opposition candidate himself to ensure his own victory. So what will happen to the people’s problems? It is simply not going to vanish. It will continue to exist and like a smoldering volcano, it will explode and destroy everything around.

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Contrast this with Modi, who is sort of dictator and has alienated strong PATEL community leaders in Gujarat and could not deliver results. On the other hand , Nitish, equally good CM has kept Muslims (sometimes at cost of appeasing them) but could deliver. I do not believe that Madmohan is a good guy or Congress has capacity to provide good governance. One can write tons of material but then fatigue takes over. Better I sign off. I rue India's fate but then I do not lose sleep as I am better off in Canada.

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