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Public interest is important in the organizational elections of the Congress party. As the party puts it tongue in cheek, no other party has anything to interest the media or the public. The Congress may be home to all kinds of conspiracies and sabotage, but it remains a dynamic forum for various thoughts and ideas. personality. All other parties have a far more controlled mechanism to decide who is the head of the party and how affairs are managed. The organizational affairs of the BJP are often decided by a handful of RSS leaders and the party’s supreme leaders – Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani in the past and Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in the present. In the Left, a handful of party supremos decide, and in family parties it is quite clear who has to decide. The YSR Congress Party recently elected YS Jagan Mohan Reddy as the “lifetime president” of the party, but the Election Commission of India thought this was an undemocratic move. EC asks party to publicly deny That Sri Reddy was the life president as if it makes a difference.

Internal democracy in Congress is on steroids these days. In Rajasthan, the MLAs decided that they would not accept the wishes of the ‘high command’. We can only speculate that the ‘high command’ (read the Gandhis) wished that Sachin Pilot replace Ashok Gehlot as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan. Mr Pilot had the support of less than 20 MLAs while the Gehlot camp had the support of more than 90. He countered this in total defiance of the ‘high command’ and the end result is that Mr Gehlot remained as CM.

If the Rajasthan episode was instructive of the limits of the high command order, then the ongoing process of choosing a new president for the party is a demonstration of the absolute imperative of the Nehru-Gandhi family for the Congress. To be precise, the complete collapse of a group of dissidents, who called for ‘reforms’ in the party, and questioned the supremacy of the family, is a vehement demonstration of the Congress Party’s most elementary existential truth: that no party leader is like that. Will do Accept the other as a leader who is not Gandhi. Shashi Tharoor was among those who wrote to party president Sonia Gandhi demanding a full-time president, among other reforms. Others who were signatories, and until recently were critical of the family, turned against Mr Tharoor and stood behind Mallikarjun Kharge, who has been elected to the post.

Senior party leader Kumari Selja left nothing to doubt. He posted on Twitter and later deleted it. What is remarkable in all this is that the dissident faction, which claimed to have objective above their own personal interests, could not agree on any candidate and the only recourse they had was to play their trumpet. Choose one.

Therein lies the contradiction of the Nehru-Gandhi authority. While the wishes of the family are supreme, negotiations have to be made for these wishes to be accepted. The Rajasthan episode became chaotic due to lack of prior consultation; The Kharge episode turned out to be a confirmation of the family’s unwavering command over the party. Rahul Gandhi will now be the moral force of the Congress as he has decided not to play a formal role. Their main challenge will be to deal with this paradox.

you mirage

“In developed European countries, prime ministers are seen waiting at bus stops. That’s the culture we have to offer here. This is something we did last time,” said Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal. said in 2015 Second time after winning Delhi election.

AAP had to elevate politics in India so much that after coming to power, the country would become a paradise. As it turns out, the more power it gets, the more normal it becomes. AAP Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann in Punjab At least 42 vehicles attached to his convoy, Which is more than the former Chief Ministers including Parkash Singh Badal, Amarinder Singh and Charanjit Singh Channi. This is for the party that promised to end VIP culture! Mr Kejriwal also followed the same path of throwing out the window all the promises of ending the VIP culture after becoming the Chief Minister.

Meanwhile, the Punjab Government default in payment of wages to employees, However, AAP has left no stone unturned in its promises. It’s raining promises in GujaratWhere the eyes of the party are now fixed.

one side. One Auto Driver Hosting Mr Kejriwal For food now says that he is really a fan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. AAP had launched a campaign on the visit of its leader to the house of the common man – the common man.

Putin as a defender of free speech

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract worker at the National Security Agency in Hong Kong, Sunday, June 9, 2013. USIS, the company that conducted the background investigation of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, allegedly defrauded the government by submitting at least 665,000 investigations that were not properly completed, and then covering it up. When the government suspected what was happening. (AP Photo/The Guardian)

A disregard for facts and fact-based journalism is widely considered to be characteristic of authoritarian regimes, while democracies must respect facts. But the theory gets a bit complicated when conflicting national interests of different countries come into play. The latest display of this conflict between facts and national interest is Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden, A former defense contractor who published classified documents revealing illegal mass surveillance in the United States. There is little support for Mr Snowden from the mainstream press in America, who revealed what the state was trying to hide. The fact that he ended up under the patronage of the Putin regime in Russia underscores the rather ironic relationship between the ‘facts’ and the state. The irony is also in the fact that when good people chime in for fact-based public discourse, they inadvertently tend to follow facts approved by the state, which has a vested interest in what is happening in public.

federalism path

Opposition unity and their divisions

Opposition parties want to unite, or that is their goal. But they are unable to unite because as soon as they try to do something, contradictions come to the fore. we argue in this editorial A better approach for them is to leave multi-state or national level efforts in alliances, and see what is possible within individual state boundaries.

Chola Express

The history of Indian empires taught in schools is mostly focused on the northern kingdoms. new archaeological findings Bringing to life the history of the Cholas, whose expeditions northwards once reached the Gangetic plains. There is certainly a considerable amount of Dravidian politics possible around this.

Kerala wall for BJP

The BJP is making every effort to establish a foothold in Kerala, but so far it has had little success. look here On BJP’s efforts in Kerala.

language and borders

Mizoram shares a border of 510 km with Myanmar. The majority of the nearly 40,000 Myanmar refugees in the northeastern state belong to the Chin community, which is ethnically related to the dominant Mizo people of Mizoram. Now Mizoram government is giving Burmese language in educational institutions,

The two Telugu speaking states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, are Fighting for Polavaram irrigation project.