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Why blame BJP for Congress mess

By Sidharth Mishra

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has taken to twitter to blame the Centre for the mess Harish Rawat-led Congress government of Uttarakhand finds itself in. The crisis took place on Friday and Gandhi went to town on Sunday, 48 hours later, saying, “Toppling elected Govts is BJP’s new model of Governance. Congress party will fight their demagoguery with Democracy.” He preceded this message with other posts on the micro-blogging site: “First, Arunachal & now Uttarakhand, these attacks on our Democracy & Constitution reveal the real face of Modi Govt.”
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, who is battling the crisis at Ground Zero, must have felt relieved that his party high command has finally woken up to the crisis in the Himalayan state. For those who follow Gandhi’s twitter handle (OfficeOfRG) closely would vouch that the leader looked absolutely oblivious of the crisis as he preferred sharing his thoughts on his visit to Radha Soami Satsang at Beas with this post - “A big thank you to Babaji and everybody at Radha Soami Satsang Beas.”
He even believed that it would be thoughtful to congratulate the Indian cricket team for their victory against Pakistan at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. More than 12 hours after his cricket post, he finally came out on twitter blaming the BJP for the Constitutional crisis the young state finds itself in.
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BJP ups nationalism pitch

By Sidharth Mishra
In a message to both its supporters and political rivals, the BJP has underlined that while development would remain the ensign of the Narendra Modi government’s agenda, it would be held firmly in the ideological flagpole of nationalism.
The two-day national executive meeting of the ruling BJP, which concluded in the national Capital on Sunday, while rephrasing the political agenda of the party and the government stressed the need to promote good governance in equal measure with “nationalistic concerns.”
Briefing mediapersons after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address at the conclave, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said, “We have progressive policies and nationalist thoughts. We can accept political dissent, but not anti-nationalism.” Indications about the emergence of nationalism as a focal point of Narendra Modi government’s agenda came earlier
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In defence of the Uniform

By Sidharth Mishra

People in the profession of journalism have various jobs to perform. They are expected to know everything happening around the world and even an attempt to explain that a reporter reports on his or her particular beat could be interpreted as means to cover up personal incompetence. Such professional hazards are greater when the reporter gets exposed to a community whose interaction with media is negligible.
In the older times, when the reader and listeners had limited access to the media, it was easier to hold ground and also one could manage to speak at length on subjects which may not be part of our beat. These, however, are difficult times with tremendous exposure to social media in particular. Everyone believes oneself to be a “know-all” and such people counter the stand which the media generally may have taken, not particularly the media person in question.
I went to a very prestigious military school – Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC) in Dehradun - and happen to be its only alumnus who made journalism his full-time profession. It has now been more than 25 years that I have been standing trial for the media taking adversarial position vis-à-vis the people in uniform.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream at JNU

By Sidharth Mishra

It goes without saying that the headline for today’s Notebook has been inspired by William Shakespeare’s famous comedy penned sometime during the end of the 16th century. In the last five centuries, this play has garnered varied criticism. Most apt in the context of Kanhaiya Kumar episode - his arrest, his release, and his anointment on the university campus as David, who would take on Goliath the giant that is Narendra Modi - is one which sees the forests in the play as a labyrinth. In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth is an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary craftsman Daedalus for King Minos of Crete. It was meant to hold the Minotaur – the man with the bull’s head. So crafty was the design of the Labyrinth that even its builder Daedalus could barely escape from it. Coming to the point, JNU is a state of mind which is no better than a labyrinth. And a large number of people who practise the craft of politics to justify their overstay on the campus no better than Minotaur.

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Ceding the nationalist space

By Sidharth Mishra
A large section of the media might be pretty happy to have cornered the government with the controversy related to anti-national activities. The Congress is itching to back the privilege motion being brought against HRD Minister Smriti Irani in the House by the opposition parties led by the CPM. In our own limited space, we may feel content at having controlled “the forces of fascism”.
The media always felt that way for nearly 13 years that Narendra Modi ruled Gujarat as Chief Minister from October 2001 to May 2014. However, every time elections were held, Modi came out with flying colours. How did this happen? The Congress failed to wrest power from Narendra Modi, despite earning a respectable vote share every time. It had lost because it ceded the nationalist space completely to the BJP.
Whatever the intellectuals and academia have to say about the JNU crisis at present, I would not be surprised if, at the husting,
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Right strikes Left chord

By Sidharth Mishra

The remark made by the Opposition last year that Narendra Modi government was a “suit-boot ki sarkar” seems to have acted as the mean, median and mode for the Annual Financial Statement 2016-17, which was presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Lok Sabha on 29 February 2016. Just in case the Finance Minister’s nearly two-hour speech did not carry the point deep enough that it was a pro-poor Budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a televised detailed reaction said, “The Budget has focused on development of agriculture, farmers, women and rural areas.” 
To give Modi government a pro-farmer image, the Budget has sought to even resuscitate UPA’s MGNREGA programme. “At least 5 lakh farm ponds and dug wells in rain fed areas and 10 lakh compost pits for production of organic manure will be taken up by making productive use of the allocations under MGNREGA,” the Finance Minister announced.  
Learning lessons from recent political setbacks,
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Working up engine for economic revival

By Sidharth Mishra

The Railway Minister in Narendra Modi government has a tough assignment at hand. While he has his task cut-out to make his mammoth department work as the nation’s growth engine, he is not allowed the luxury of withdrawing subsidies on passenger fares and increase freight charges. 
No wonder the Railway Budget for the year 2016-17 presented by Suresh Prabhu on Thursday, which on the one side energized the social segments, on the other it failed to cheer stock markets. Economic slowdown bogging the nation must have weighed heavily on the Railway Minister’s mind while drafting the financial statement for the gargantuan department. 
But the financial statement in the end succeeded in working up a feel good factor among passengers, which in itself is a large body and their satisfaction goes a long way in deciding political fortunes of governments.
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Reporters as ‘tamasha’ performers

By Sidharth Mishra

Your reporter is a conservative journalist, a breed I would not say is fast getting extinct. Now, what’s a journalist in conservative form? Well, there are several parameters that describe it. First and foremost, a newsperson should never become news, s/he should report the news. I believe a reporter tries to cover the failure to get a meaty copy of the incident by making a story around himself. Those who worked with me closely as part of several news teams that I led for more than a decade would vouch that I never allowed a self-approbation copy.
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