Monday 24 February 2014

The Political Equations in Bihar


Politics of Bihar is feeling storm these days. Here and there an incident come forward which diverts the Political Landscape. Why? First, lets have some understanding of Caste Politics and who need whom in Bihar. In Bihar, Journalists and The Present government will try to convince you that Caste is not the issue this time. Well it's true to some extent but not entirely, It's still in play and the Nitish Kumar and his Party also understands it. For all of his development talks( Yeah, I know Roads have improved under formerly NDA GOVT and most people praised the government and 1st time we had some GOVERNANCE) or more accurately a repetitive attempt to steal the credit of development in entirety and to trick people into buying his attempt to discredit BJP, Well People are not buying his 'GUHAARS'.
All the pre-poll surveys showing BJP leading the way and it's the only party which will get votes of Youngsters of all community except one. Even If Nitish try to convince his Cadres that these polls are all fakes, truth will not change and the truth is he is not going to win more than 7 seats. I am predicting without any survey of mine, Pollsters send their team. I have my friends spread all over the state and they feel the 'wave' on daily basis in the evening talks. All the polls are either absolutely on the mark or little bit underestimating the 'Wave'. These are the same polls which accurately predicted the landslide win of NDA in 2010, Nitish didn't complained at that time. These are the same polls which Predicted the NDA rout of UPA in 2009 LS Polls, Nitish didn't complained. Now he is crying foul when Polls are predicting his disappearance from Bihar.
Nitish Kumar's all Political bet is on Muslim votes and the Mahadalit votes. Laloo Yadav's political career survived on the 'MY samikaran' or Muslim-Yadav votes. The 'samikaran' destroyed, Laloo Yadav gone extinct. Muslims have never voted for JDU in majority in any election this time it is no different, their votes are going to spread and the majority will vote for the upcoming 'the Congress-RJD alliance 235'. So, this Nitish's bet is going to 'daga' him. Next up are Mahadalits? These are the most backward people of Bihar, they formerly called 'dalits'. Dalits divided by Nitish in two groups on the basis of most backward and the backward class. Most backwards became Mahadalits and the backwards remained dalits, the truth was they were all backward class of our society except one 'Mushars' who are the most backward people on this whole Universe. Why Nitish divided these people, How can you divide people when all are evenly poor(the difference In my view existed of 0.00001% Maybe that's why they disintegrated dalits). Well that was the political masterstroke of All time by Nitish. All the Dalits were made Mahadalits except the community of Paswan(The biradiri group of Ram Vilas Paswan). before the divide, all Dalit groups were the regular voters of Ram Vilas Paswan. Now after the divide, Mahadalits got the new survivor in Nitish Kumar while Dalits(Paswan) sticked to Ram Vilas Paswan. The Newly formed Mahadalits were new voters for Nitish Kumar's NDA. After the dissolution of NDA in Bihar. Nitish Kumar still betting on this group for votes. Laloo also has a eye on this group. Ram Vilas Paswan even if not their survivor anymore still very respected and potent force among these groups, he has his votes intact in dalit votes. BJP may get some votes in the name of Narendra Modi but after forming coalition with Ram Vilas Paswan they can get majority of votes of Mahadalits and Dalits combined. Overall, Both of these groups are going to have their votes split up in JDU, LJP and BJP ...very less so for Laloo-CONGRESS. These groups alone can not win seats for Nitish.
What about other castes, groups. In Upper castes votes, things are very bright for BJP and not so much for other Parties especially JDU. These groups are in block going to vote for BJP for only one reason. i.e Narendra Modi. Bhumihars, Rajputs, Brahmins and Kayastha traditionally or only represent this group of votes. Don't misunderstood it as they are United because they aren't. They are going to vote for Narendra Modi. You can talk to the youth of these communities they are seriously excited and hopeful of NaMo. How Nitish Kumar is going to win seats and his last hope is....
OBC(OTHER BACKWARD CLASS) these group is consisted of Yadavs, Khurmis, Bania, Koeri and .......... Yadavs or Ahirs are the traditional and still secure voters of Laloo Yadav but unfortunately for him, Not the case this time. This time they will vote for the OBC leader who is going to lead country... not Laloo Yadav But Narendra Modi. Some Yadavs will remain with Laloo but lots of new Yadav votes coming up for BJP. Khurmi voters the caste group of Nitish Kumar will still remain with JDU but that is not going to make much difference as the population of this caste group is very low. Other backward groups like Bania, Koeri, Vishwakarma and others are going to vote BJP in majorities, but then 100% votes of any community is impossible so some will vote for RJD-CONGRESS and JDU.
Not much chance for Nitish left. And his coalition with Left Parties was never going to help him markedly.
This Was no attempt of mine to divide voters, It was just an attempt to understand voters, I just hope they will vote for development instead of caste based votes and they will vote for development mostly as the last few elections proved. I hope they will vote for the ouster of incompetent government. So, BJP has formed an alliance with Upendra Kumar 'KUSHWAHA'.....MASTERSTROKE NUMBER 1

Sunday 23 February 2014

NO PERFECT JOURNALIST


He is noisy. He creates raucous. And for some people He is fish market anchor. Most of you and I am definite certain about this may not know his name but If you see news on English news channels, You probably had seen him grilling Politicians without any point blank hesitation and with full aggression, conducting no holds barred interviews
You must have to know about him because he is the only journalist who is asking tough questions to the Politicians who probably get away most of the times with awestruck interviews. But he is different. he is different because he has views which show it up on camera while other Journalists pretend to be neutral. Is it really fair for us viewers that the journalist whom we are watching has views? We expect a journalist to be fair, First let us be clear on one thing 'Like us every journalist has political bias and choice', for some it's journalistic duty to hide this bias and they consider it as a question of their integrity. Well My friends that's a bad journalism, these are journalists who will talk up about the Politician's family and their pets and will rarely bring up real issues related to you. For some they will be tough and for some they will be stone cold cool. The journalist in the centre has views which he never pretends to deny or hide on air, while he has views that doesn't necessarily means that he ask soft questions to the panelists who share his views, Most of the times his views are Anti-establishment, Anti-Politician and the opinion which our brains usually tend to produce. And that's the main reason its treat to watch him beating down politician. Other Journalists who claim to be neutral have their political bias reflected when they debate with the people of different views, they generally grill these people. These so called neutral journalists have views which are poles apart from the general public perception on the issue. But then they claim to be 'Neutral'. Neutral Journalism in our country are aligned with the western Journalism. Our Neutral Journalists in India never look up matter with the general public eye, their opinion come from their western idol's perception on the issue and that's the unfortunate reason why they consider as neutral. This journalist differs from the rest for this very reason he sees matter with the Indian eye, he is little bit nationalistic, most of the time boiling, little bit dramatic, sometimes irritating, neutrally biased anchor. He is biased because all other award winning, Padma vibhushit anchors are neutral. For all of his sometimes irritating behaviour 'he is the most watched news anchor of this country'.His name is Arnab Goswami This is the man who exposed Rahul Gandhi and This is the man who is boycotted by AAP because they don't want to be questioned. He is doing little but then we have no other choice.