The curious case of Maharastra's political circus has enticed the entire nation at this point.
AJIT’S PRICE FOR BACKING BJP: Rs 70,000 crores probe dropped, screamed the headline of a newspaper yesterday.
The Maharashtra fiasco has ended, as Fadnavis, had put in his papers ending a coup of sorts. As the surreptitious manner in which Mr. Fadnavis and Mr. Pawar, were sworn in as CM and Dy Cm respectively on Saturday early in the morning. We have all seen BJP which has made anti-corruption the credo of its Congress Mukt-Bharath has not only bought over the tainted Ajit Pawar but decided to hide his black-book. Reports indicated that investigation in 9 cases, related to Rs 70000/ crore Maharashtra Irrigation scam was closed on Monday, two days after he was sworn in. What a travesty considering the first thing that Fadnavis did when he became CM in 2014, was to register these cases. BJP has made brazenness the new normal not bothered about perceptions.
This is not a first overnight coup planned and executed by BJP. Stealth and speed was the calling card in operation Bihar if some of you remember. The timeline of the past event goes like this:-- On July 26th Nitish Kumar resigned and called off the JDU alliance with RJD-Congress, around 6:30 pm, the reason was the refusal of Tejaswi Yadav to quit despite corruption charges. By 7:30 pm Modi ji, had congratulated Nitish for his stand against corruption. At 9:30 pm BJP hinted at backing JDU and by 10:30 pm Sushil Modi presented a letter of support to JDU, at 1 am Nitish was invited to form the government and was sworn in as CM by 10 am. This is all Therefore a different ball game, as the party is still Bharatiya Janata party as it was during Vajpayee and Advani era, but the design and architecture of its politics have been reconfigured and are drawn from experiential years of Gujarat. Unlike its previous avatar, BJP 2.0 is no shrinking violet.
It has internalised the maxim that politics is the art of possible and conviction is a matter of electoral convenience. It must rail about dynastic politics but that doesn’t preclude alliances with Akalidal, the LJP, PDP or even Shiv Sena for that matter. Neither did it prevent the nomination of dynasts on party tickets. The induction of individuals, be it Sukh Ram, Rane, and crafting of alliances, the one with Chautala is determined by macro objectives.
And adding spice to the happenings on the ground are the TV channels. Depending on their affiliations some predicted the downfall of Fadnavi's government. Some took pleasure in the decimation of Congress, some called it "murder of democracy" and some others called in a "black day." But none of them had the guts to call spade a spade and pinpoint the wrongdoers.
Unfortunately, principles and ideologies are things of the past. In today's day and age, it's all about opportunism (Power and Money decide the push and pull of the political parties).
AJIT’S PRICE FOR BACKING BJP: Rs 70,000 crores probe dropped, screamed the headline of a newspaper yesterday.
The Maharashtra fiasco has ended, as Fadnavis, had put in his papers ending a coup of sorts. As the surreptitious manner in which Mr. Fadnavis and Mr. Pawar, were sworn in as CM and Dy Cm respectively on Saturday early in the morning. We have all seen BJP which has made anti-corruption the credo of its Congress Mukt-Bharath has not only bought over the tainted Ajit Pawar but decided to hide his black-book. Reports indicated that investigation in 9 cases, related to Rs 70000/ crore Maharashtra Irrigation scam was closed on Monday, two days after he was sworn in. What a travesty considering the first thing that Fadnavis did when he became CM in 2014, was to register these cases. BJP has made brazenness the new normal not bothered about perceptions.
This is not a first overnight coup planned and executed by BJP. Stealth and speed was the calling card in operation Bihar if some of you remember. The timeline of the past event goes like this:-- On July 26th Nitish Kumar resigned and called off the JDU alliance with RJD-Congress, around 6:30 pm, the reason was the refusal of Tejaswi Yadav to quit despite corruption charges. By 7:30 pm Modi ji, had congratulated Nitish for his stand against corruption. At 9:30 pm BJP hinted at backing JDU and by 10:30 pm Sushil Modi presented a letter of support to JDU, at 1 am Nitish was invited to form the government and was sworn in as CM by 10 am. This is all Therefore a different ball game, as the party is still Bharatiya Janata party as it was during Vajpayee and Advani era, but the design and architecture of its politics have been reconfigured and are drawn from experiential years of Gujarat. Unlike its previous avatar, BJP 2.0 is no shrinking violet.
It has internalised the maxim that politics is the art of possible and conviction is a matter of electoral convenience. It must rail about dynastic politics but that doesn’t preclude alliances with Akalidal, the LJP, PDP or even Shiv Sena for that matter. Neither did it prevent the nomination of dynasts on party tickets. The induction of individuals, be it Sukh Ram, Rane, and crafting of alliances, the one with Chautala is determined by macro objectives.
And adding spice to the happenings on the ground are the TV channels. Depending on their affiliations some predicted the downfall of Fadnavi's government. Some took pleasure in the decimation of Congress, some called it "murder of democracy" and some others called in a "black day." But none of them had the guts to call spade a spade and pinpoint the wrongdoers.
Unfortunately, principles and ideologies are things of the past. In today's day and age, it's all about opportunism (Power and Money decide the push and pull of the political parties).
