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India cannot witness an Ayub Khan moment

By Sidharth Mishra

Historian and political theorist Partha Chatterjee cannot be expected to applaud the efforts of Government of India, which is led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party. The portal, which published his article, is known for following an editorial policy promoting the dismemberment of the Indian state. The article, "In Kashmir, India Is Witnessing Its General Dyer Moment" was a product for a perfect stage for a protagonist wedded to a particular ideology.

The cacophonous media debate which followed the article made the portal and author popular for having taken a large number of 'hits'. In our Google 'moment', it's the 'hit' which one takes makes one the person who should be 'followed'. Again the follower may not necessarily be your admirer. But the followers and the hits make good business and 'The Wire' must have emerged much richer by having demolarised not just the serving Army officers but even the community of the veterans.
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Right winning by going Left

By Sidharth Mishra

It is seldom that I concur with enunciations of psephologist-turned-politician Yogendra Yadav. However, his comments on the completion of three years in office of Narendra Modi government deserve a partial consideration. He wrote on twitter, "Public mood of Modi@3. Modi critics must accept: he is popular; Modi bhakts must accept: he is yet to deliver."
In fact, even his pocket organisation Lokniti, under the aegis of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, has in its latest findings failed to pinpoint the reasons for "Narendra Modi being on the roll" despite not having allegedly delivered on his promises. There has to be logic behind the conclusion and Yadav cannot let the expression of opinion hide behind the veil of the word limit set by the micro-blogging site.
To be fair, the Lokniti-CSDS does also mention that among 11,373 randomly sampled voters in 19 states nearly seven in every ten voters (69 per cent) were satisfied with the performance of Modi as Prime Minister. This satisfaction rating was found to be higher than the satisfaction ratings recorded for Modi's predecessor Manmohan Singh at the end of the first two years of the UPA I and II governments. When Lokniti-CSDS had conducted similar nationwide Surveys in 2006 and 2011, satisfaction levels with Singh's performance had been lower at 61 per cent and 56 per cent, respectively.
If the findings about the satisfaction with the performance of the Prime Minister were so high, then why is Yadav questioning on delivery. The answer for that is better given by him.
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Another year wasted for the Congress

By Sidharth Mishra

During his farewell speech in Lok Sabha during last Budget session, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath Yogi made a very pertinent political observation. He said that he was a year older than his predecessor Akhilesh Yadav and a year younger to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. In making this observation, he underlined the fact that their (the UP CM and his predecessor’s) political maturity was not subservient to their age and that they were the masters of their move.
This was a telling remark on Rahul Gandhi’s lack of leadership qualities, especially his failure to pose any serious challenge to the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre, or for that matter the BJP governments in the states. Ever since Rahul Gandhi emerged as a person of eminence in the Congress leadership pantheon, the Congress beat has always resounded with the talk about who currently enjoys influence over him.
In the past few years, there has been a progressive perception about him that he is unable to act without the crutches of advisors; and more sadly, his public pronunciations are never taken to be his own. In fact they are not; all tutored by some advisor. This has also reflected on the political stance which the party has taken on different issues in the past year.
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Blame divided Opposition, not EVMs, for BJP surge

By Sidharth Mishra

The past week, from news point of view, could be dedicated to the continued controversy which a few political parties have tried to create around the innocuous Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have been specially vociferous in their criticism of the voting machine claiming that they have been manipulated to ensure the trail of victories which the BJP has registered in the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and municipal polls in New Delhi.
In the case of both parties, the political rout has brought in internal turbulence, with BSP supreme leader Mayawati dropping her longtime confidant Naseemuddin Siddiqui and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal removing his powerful water minister Kapil Mishra from the Cabinet. In both the cases, the dropped leaders have struck back with serious charges of corruption against their party leaders, which may give arch rival BJP a stick to beat them with. Today's Notebook comes to the defence of the EVMs.
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As politicians spar, Delhi cries for governance

By Sidharth Mishra

Last Sunday was extraordinary from “news point of view”, whatever that may mean. The prologue for the same was written the night before when Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced sacking Cabinet colleague Kapil Mishra for “having failed to deliver on the water front.” Mishra responded by saying that he will hold a “reveal all” press briefing the next day.
Indian politics has come to witness a fair degree of dramatics ever since Anna Hazare launched his anti-corruption movement in 2011. Delhi in the past six years has proven to be the laboratory of dramatised politics. Thus, no wonder that Mishra on Sunday first travelled with “evidence of corruption” to the Lieutenant Governor, then went to Mahatma Gandhi’s last resting place and then dropped, what many media headlines called, the “bombshell”.
With the script delivered, it was time for media, especially television, to go as cantankerous as possible.
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Delhi poll results: Barometer for national mood

By Sidharth Mishra

It's been a week since the results of the municipal polls were declared. It has given Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a reason to continue to feel upbeat about its political fortune. It has expectedly created a turmoil with the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the disparate Congress rank and file.

In the case of the former, party leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is facing ire of the rivals which now has a new face in his close friend Kumar Vishwas. Within the Congress party, the going was never easy for its Delhi unit president Ajay Maken, given the history of his long-standing political feud with former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her former parliamentarian son Sandeep Dikshit.

During the course of the campaign, the fissures came to the fore with former Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely and Mahila Congress chief Barkha Singh quitting the party to join the BJP just ahead of the polling day. Understandably, Maken and the party general secretary in-charge for Delhi PC Thomas resigned from their position, which party leadership refused to entertain.

On the other hand, the state BJP president Manoj Tiwari is being celebrated as a political leader of immense talent, taking the party to a resounding victory. But beneath the surface lies a very different story.

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Search for opposition unity

By Sidharth Mishra

In the midst of the cacophony created by the high-pitch campaign for the municipal elections in Delhi, most of the national dailies and channels failed to take prominent notice of a more serious political development. In the past fortnight, leading lights of the opposition – Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik took the first steps towards opposition unity.
Given the rise of the BJP over the past few years, especially after Narendra Modi assumed the office of the Prime Minister, the concern of the triumvirate is genuine with the challenge they face from the saffron party on their respective home turfs. To them to rein in the Modi juggernaut, the earliest opportunity could be the election of the next President as the term of the incumbent Pranab Mukherjee ends this summer.
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A new political paradigm

By Sidharth Mishra

At the meeting of the national executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party at Bhubaneswar last fortnight, 13 Chief Ministers from the states ruled by the party were present. This should be signal enough for the Congress and the other Opposition parties that the rise of the saffron brigade cannot be blamed alone on the electronic voting machines (EVMs).
More importantly, the BJP leadership at the meeting said that it did not wish to stop at that with party president Amit Shah claiming that victory in four of the five states which went to polls in the last quarter was just a milestone and not the destination. "We now have 13 Chief Ministers. We can now do it in every corner of the country," Shah said in a terse message to the Opposition, which must have been music to the ears of his party workers.
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