The landslide victory that the Bharatiya Janata Party got in the northeastern state of Tripura has rattled Kerala the most. The saffron party s first ever victory over the Communists has not only shaken the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) but also the Congress-led opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) in the southern state. The two fronts which have been ruling the state alternately for the last three decades were contenting themselves that the secular-minded people of Kerala will not allow BJP to sell its Hindutva agenda in the state. Thiruvananthapuram-based political analyst Jacob George said the BJP had exploded this myth in the Assembly elections by ending the quarter-century communist rule in Tripura and taking the party close to power in the two minority-dominated states of Nagaland and Meghalaya. BJP supporters hold up a placard of Prime Minister Narendra Modi after party s victory in Tripura Assembly elections results in Agartala on Saturday. PTI He pointed out that the saffron party had achieved this without playing the communal cards that it used effectively to conquer the Hindi belt. Jacob attributed BJP s success to its master campaign tactics and willingness to join hands with anybody including divisive forces. BJP wiped out Congress in Tripura by buying its top leaders and then made inroads into the Communist bastions by highlighting the raw deal the people received from the 25 years of Communist rule. If the party adopts the same tactics in the state it will be able to capture power in Kerala Jacob told Firstpost. Dhanraj another political analyst pointed out that the saffron party was able to make inroads into all regions of Tripura including the Bengali belt by projecting an alternate development agenda that would bring jobs to youths and better living conditions to the common man. BJP in Kerala has been focusing its attention on political issues so far. The party will be able to sway the youths and the middle class if it presents a credible development agenda before the people who have been voting for either front in the absence of a third alternative he added. BJP national president Amit Shah who is considered as the architect of the party s victories in at least a dozen states has signalled that his next target is Kerala. Dhanraj feels Shah may adopt the same strategy he has experimented successfully in Tripura in Kerala too. This will be catastrophic for both the fronts since they have not been able to break the development jinx in the state. Both have been resting on the laurels of the past achievements on the social front. With these achievements showing signs of crumbling in the absence of corresponding growth in the productive sectors disenchantment against the two is mounting among the people he added. The BJP has not been able to cash in on this as it did not have a leader with a wider appeal. The party s national leadership is trying to solve this problem by cultivating leaders like Alphonse Kannanthanam who belongs to the minority community which accounts for 46 percent of the population in the state. Political observers believe that he was promoted as a union minister with this objective in mind. The two dominant fronts have been going easy thinking that the BJP will affect the other. The optimism of the Congress was based on the calculation that BJP s alliance with Bharatiya Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS) a new outfit of the lower caste Ezhavas will affect the CPM the most. The party believed that the alliance would take away the CPM votes since Ezhavas constituted the major chunk of the Communist cadre. But the local body elections in November 2015 and the Assembly polls in May 2016 proved its calculations wrong. The Congress was relegated to the third position in most places where the BJP made advances. This is one reason why the state unit of the CPM is opposing any understanding with the Congress tooth and nail. Jacob said that if the party does not recognise the danger posed by the BJP Pinarayi Vijayan will be last Communist chief minister in Kerala as predicted by Shah. The state leadership of CPM has been following a strategy of weakening the UDF by wooing its constituents. While the party has already brought the Janata Dal (U) out from the UDF it is trying to bring the Kerala Congress (M) which quit the Opposition coalition in the wake of the Assembly election into the LDF fold before the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. The state leadership of the CPM believe that they will be able to continue in power as their counterparts in West Bengal and Tripura did earlier if the Congress is crushed. However a large section of the cadres believes it will pave the way for the BJP to capture power in the state. Party general secretary Sitaram Yechury who advocated electoral adjustments with the Congress and other secular parties to defeat the BJP and its communal agenda had viewed this as the result of parochial thinking on the part of the state unit. Terming it as suicidal at the state conference of the party last month Yechury had warned the state leaders not to consider the party as Communist Party of Kerala Marxist. Defending his line Yechury told the comrades that CPM was not what they perceive in Kerala and added that the party could not take a political line for the entire country based on one state or one group. Jacob believes that the huge setback the CPM has suffered in Tripura may force the state unit to have a rethinking on the stand they had taken on the political line at the central committee meeting at Kolkata in February. If they fail it will be described as another historic blunder at the coming party congress at Hyderabad in April he added. Jacob said that there was strong resentment among a large section of the cadres about the adamant stand the state unit had taken on the political line. Many of them believe that it is part of the widening power equations in the party than based on the ground realities. Jacob feels that the resentment will grow following the ignominious defeat the party has suffered in Tripura forcing the state leadership to change their stand. Indications in this regard came when CPM Ernakulam district secretary P Rajeev conceded that the party may have to think of strategies to check the BJP without affecting its support base in the state. Jacob thinks that the CPM as well as Congress will face extinction in the state if they were not ready to take a united stand to counter the BJP surge.
Two days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dethroned the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Tripura a Vladimir Lenin statue has been toppled in the state s Belonia town allegedly by BJP workers. The statue s vandalism was part of large-scale violence reported from Tripura as CPM offices in different parts of the state were defaced. Visuals of CPI (M) offices vandalised in different locations in #Tripura. pic.twitter.com/YUxpzRTksl ANI (@ANI) March 5 2018 A report on The Indian Express said the Lenin s statue had stood in Belonia s College Square for the last five years before it was brought down by BJP workers on Monday afternoon to the cries of Bharat Mata Ki Jai . The CPM has decried the violence and termed it Communism phobia . Eyewitnesses told me that after the statue fell its head was dismembered from the body. And then the BJP workers played football with Lenin s head Tapas Datta CPM s Belonia sub-division secretary was quoted as saying in the report. BJP national secretary Ram Madhav tweeted out a post saying people are taking down Lenin s statue and used the party s slogan for the Tripura elections Chalo Paltai with it. However he later deleted it. Ram Madhav deleted his tweet later Tripura had been ruled by the CPM for four straight terms before the BJP stunned the Left Front alliance winning 35 out of the state s 59 seats that went to Assembly polls while ally Indigenous People s Front of Tripura (IPFT) won eight. Outgoing deputy speaker of state Assembly Pabitra Kar Power Minister Manik Dey Tribal Welfare Minister Aghore Debbarma and Forest Minister Naresh Jamatia all suffered defeats from their respective constituencies. The CPM has accused the BJP of large-scale violence against its cadre saying there had been 1 500 incidents of attacks on CPM party offices in which 514 party leaders and supporters were injured. A report on The Telegraph quoted CPM state secretary Bijan Dhar as saying the attacks were not only on the party offices but also on personal properties of the party s leaders. Nearly 196 houses of party supporters were ransacked while 64 party offices were gutted in the 48 hours after Assembly election results were declared Dhar said. However the BJP has denied the party s involvement in these incidents instead saying it was a result of discontent of common people . BJP spokesperson Mrinal Kanti Deb said he was not aware of any such incident but even if they took place they weren t approved by BJP. Statues of Lenin and other communist statesmen were demolished after the Soviet Union broke up. Similarly such an incident would be a result of discontent of common people Deb told The Telegraph. After activists expressed dismay at the political targeting of Leftist icons Tripura governor Tathagata Roy appeared to defend the move saying all democratically elected governments are within their rights to revoke the decisions of their predecessors. What one democratically elected government can do another democratically elected government can undo. And vice versa https://t.co/Og8S1wjrJs Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) March 5 2018 However BJP south district secretary Raju Nath seemed to have a different explanation for the statue s destruction painting it as an accident . The Indian Express report had quoted him as describing the incidents leading up to the statue s vandalism: We were carrying out a victory rally this afternoon. When we reached College Square there was a bulldozer that was trying to make its way through the crowds. In the process the driver lost control and hit the railing around the statue. When this happened the supporters surrounded the driver and made him bring down the statue. This was not an unnatural feeling for these people who have been oppressed by the CPM for so long.
.story-content span .story-content p .story-content div color:#000!important;font-family: open sans Arial!important;font-size:15px!important ALSO READ Tripura elections 2018: Modi says Cong CPI-M have secret pact - 10 points Here are the rising stars of BJP who helped it conquer the Northeast Nagaland assembly election results 2018: Allies help NDA go past the line East turns Right? 10 takeaways of Tripura Meghalaya Nagaland poll results span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 After the Tripura Assembly election results 2018 which saw the BJP demolishing the CPI(M)-led Left Front and winning a two-thirds majority together with its ally the IPFT there have been reports of sporadic violence and clashes among rival political groups in different parts of the state. Section 144 has been imposed in several violence-affected areas of Tripura. Also a statue of communist icon Vladimir Lenin was demolished at Belonia town in South Tripura on Monday. On Tuesday Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to the state s Governor and the DGP and asked them to ensure peace till a new government was installed. Singh was in the Northeast to attend the swearing-in of the Conrad Sangma-led Meghalaya government. In the recently concluded Assembly elections the state witnessed a change in rule after 25 years. The BJP-IPFT coalition swept the February 18 polls the results of which were declared on Saturday winning 43 of the 59 seats that went to the polls. The BJP secured 35 seats in the 60-member Assembly while its ally IPFT a tribal-based party won eight seats. The BJP has warned its leaders and supporters of stern action if they are found to be involved in post-poll violence in Tripura. Here are the top 10 developments around the cases of post-poll violence in Tripura: 1. BJP scored ideological victory in Tripura: Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday termed the BJP s performance in Tripura an ideological victory and said the message should be spread across the country to maintain its winning streak. Modi was addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party meeting where he was felicitated by the party leaders amid chants of Jeet Hamari Jaari Hai Ab Karnataka Ki Baari Hai (our winning streak continues now it is Karnataka s turn). The party s victory in Tripura is the victory of BJP s ideology because it was the citadel of Left since the last 25 years. We will have to maintain this winning streak by working hard Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar quoted Modi as having said in the meeting. 2. The CPI(M) charged the BJP with unleashing a reign of terror on Left workers in Tripura and sought the immediate intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in bringing the violence to an end before the situation worsened . In a memorandum to the prime minister the party claimed the BJP had begun attacking Left supporters in the northeastern state immediately after the results of the Assembly polls were declared. We request your immediate intervention to stop these attacks and violence and to maintain peace and normalcy in the state before the situation worsened it said in the memorandum addressed to the prime minister. 3. Mamata slams BJP for razing Lenin statute Sounding a warning to the Bharatiya Janata Party which has taken power in Tripura the Trinamool Congress chief said she would not accept such activities despite having a ideological fight with the Communist Party of India-Marxist. If you feel just because you have come to power you will demolish the statue of Marx Lenin Gandhiji Netaji Swami Vivekananda we won t accept that. I have fought with the CPI-M. We also came to power after 34 years. Please remember our slogan was we want change not revenge . So despite the CPI-M carrying out so much atrocities on us we did not pay them back in the same coin. This is not our nature. Whatever is happening there (Tripura) is not democracy. 4) Swamy defends pulling down of terrorist Lenin s statue in Tripura On Monday a statue of Left icon and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin was also demolished at Belonia town in South Tripura with the help of a bulldozer. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today defended pulling down of a statue of communist icon Lenin in Tripura saying the late Russian leader was a terrorist and questioned if the statue of such a person could be installed in India. 5) RSS loyalist Biplab to be Tripura s 11th Chief Minister: Biplab Kumar Deb the Chief Minister-designate of Tripura has been a long-time RSS volunteer who is largely credited for the BJP s turnaround in the state elections -- winning 35 out 60 assembly seats and demolishing one of the last citadels of the Left Front in the country. Deb replaced Sudhindra Dasgupta the longest-serving BJP state president in January 2015 after he was handpicked by BJP s Prabhari (central incharge) Sunil Deodhar to lead the party in the state. 6) Section 144 imposed: Section 144 has been imposed in several violence-affected areas of Tripura news agency ANI reported on Tuesday. Section 144 imposed in several violence affected areas in #Tripura pic.twitter.com/bkTJV6QqTN ANI (@ANI) March 6 2018 ALSO READ: Tripura elections: BJP win over Left an ideological victory says Modi Singh asked the Governor and the DGP to check all kinds of violence and ensure peace till a new government was installed in Tripura. ALSO READ: Northeast elections 2018: Why BJP is so desperate to hype its Tripura win 7) BJP blames CPI(M) migrants warns of stern action: On Monday BJP Vice-President Subal Bhowmick said at a press meet that a section of unidentified BJP supporters who have migrated to the party from the CPI(M) were creating unrest in parts of Tripura. Anyone found to be involved in post-poll violence would be immediately expelled and legal action will be initiated against them he said. Bhowmick added that the situation was being closely monitored by the party. He warned that no one would be spared if they were found creating tension in the state. Further he alleged that CPI(M) activists too assaulted 49 BJP supporters 17 of whom had to be hospitalised. ALSO READ: IPFT puts pressure on BJP demands respectable position in Tripura cabinet 8) CPI(M) claims 240 people injured in attacks: On its end the CPI(M) has alleged that supporters and activists of the BJP-Indigenous People s Front of Tripura (BJP-IPFT) alliance were terrorising its workers since the announcement of election results on March 3. The Left party also accused them of burning its party offices. CPI(M) office secretary Haripada Das said over 240 people were injured in attacks on party offices offices of Left trade unions and homes of prominent leaders in the past 48 hours. 9) D Raja says violence not acceptable in democracy: Reacting to the news of vandalism emanating from the state CPI leader D Raja said that he strongly condemned the violence which was not acceptable in a democracy. We are a multi-party democracy some parties win and some lose does not mean they can resort to vandalism and violence like demolition of Lenin statue will take place. Law needs to take its course he said. I strongly condemn this violence this is not acceptable in a democracy. We are a multi party democracy some parties win and some lose does not mean they can resort to vandalism&violence like demolition of Lenin statue will take place. Law needs to take its course: D Raja CPI pic.twitter.com/L3nl0UUgm6 ANI (@ANI) March 6 2018 ALSO READ: Tripura results will not impact Karnataka no Modi wave here: Siddaramaiah 10) PM Modi Amit Shah will take a call on IPFT s demand: Further while answering a question on the IPFT s demand for a separate state for tribals Deb said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP party chief would take a decision on this. BJP President Amit Shah and Prime Minister Modi know how to give right direction to public s suggestion he said. With agency inputs
Conrad Sangma was sworn in as the 12th Chief Minister of Meghalaya today.New Delhi: Conrad Sangma Chief of the National People s Party was sworn-in as the next Chief Minister of Meghalaya. He will not have a deputy BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma announced after Mr Sangma staked claim to form government and received an invite. The Congress which has been in power in the state for the last 10 years was not able to stitch a coalition in time despite emerging as the single largest party.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP President Amit Shah arrived in Meghalaya today to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of the National People s Party (NPP)-led government in the state Assam BJP leaders said on Monday. Meghalaya threw up a fractured mandate on Saturday with the ruling Congress emerging as the largest party marginally ahead of its rival the NPP an ally of the BJP at the centre and in Manipur. The Congress won 21 seats in the 60-member Assembly making it the single-largest party but it was 10 seats short of an absolute majority. A Lok Sabha member from Tura parliamentary constituency Mr Sangma was the state s youngest Finance Minister in 2008 and was later leader of the opposition in the assembly.Here are the highlights of Conrad Sangma s swearing-in:Mar 06 201811:22 (IST)Rajnath Singh also took to Twitter and congratulated Conrad Sangma after he took oath as the 12th Chief Minister of Meghalaya.Congratulations and my best wishes to Shri Conrad Sangma on being sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya. I am confident that he and his team of ministers will put the state back on a development track.- Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) March 6 2018Mar 06 201811:06 (IST) The National People s Party (NPP) congratulates Conrad Sangma on becoming the Chief Minister of Meghalaya on twitter.The National People s Party congratulates Shri Conrad Sangma on becoming the Chief Minister of #Meghalaya. #MeghalayaElection2018#MeghalayaResults#OneMeghalaya#Shillong#Tura#NorthEastNews#NorthEastIndiapic.twitter.com/eJbnkBiaTC- National People s Party (NPP) (@nppmeghalaya) March 6 2018Mar 06 201811:03 (IST) Visuals of Council of Ministers being sworn-in at oath ceremony in Meghalaya s Shillong. Eleven other ministers also took oath this morning. Mar 06 201810:56 (IST) Sarbananda Sonowal Chief Minister of Assam says We will walk together for our growth. Now it is Congress Mukt bharat. There is no scope for congress now. Mar 06 201810:47 (IST)Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh says that I want to congratulate him. Earlier it was a perception in the country that only congress can only survive.But the recent victory in NE has changed this perception.It is no less than a grand victory. Mar 06 201810:41 (IST) Conrad Sangma takes oath as the 12th chief minister of Meghalaya.Mar 06 201810:38 (IST) The swearing-in ceremony of Meghalaya Chief Minister elect Conrad Sangma and other s begins in Shillong.Mar 06 201810:34 (IST) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP President Amit Shah arrive for the swearing-in ceremony of the National People s Party (NPP)-led government in Meghalaya.Mar 06 201810:04 (IST) Visuals of preparations for the oath taking ceremony of Conrad Sangma from Meghalaya. Mar 06 201807:53 (IST) Conrad Sangma is the youngest son of former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma and took over the reins of the party after his father s death in 2016. Mar 06 201807:44 (IST)Meghalaya Election Results: Conrad Sangma Backed By BJP Faces First Challenge Before OathMinutes after he picked up his invite from Meghalaya s Raj Bhavan on Sunday to take oath as Chief Minister on Tuesday morning Conrad Sangma had admitted that it wasn t going to be easy running a coalition government. itemprop= descriptionNo more content CommentsClose X
ALSO READ No NPA during PM Modi s rule: BJP Slogan Congress Mukt Bharat never aimed at one party: PM Modi PM hails state BJP for rising vote share in Bengal bypoll Rajasthan MLA attacks Modi hints at new party Rajasthan BJP to woo people for PM s rally with yellow rice span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said not a single loan given under Prime Minister Narendra Modi s rule has become a non-performing asset (NPA).Addressing a press conference here Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said These days the Congress has been asking too many questions about the NPAs. We have categorically said that not a single loan given under our rule has become NPA. Presenting figures the Union Minister further stated that the NPAs increased manifold under the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. In 2008 the total advance given by the banks was Rs. 18.6 lakh crore. During the subsequent six-year rule of the UPA till March 2014 it rose to Rs. 52.15 lakh crore. Out of these advances 36 percent loans were identified as stressed assets. Now the stressed asset has risen to 82 percent out of that advances made in the UPA government Prasad said. There was one economist prime minister (Dr. Manmohan Singh) and one super economist was his finance minister (P. Chidambaram). The truth is that on the one hand there was no NPA during Prime Minister Modi s rule; and on the other hand advances increased but did not reflect in records under the UPA rule. As a result the stressed asset of 36 percent actually became 82 percent Prasad added.He also said that entire banking system in India went haywire under former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh s rule due to all kinds of interference in it. The BJP would like to say with a full sense of responsibility that under the so-called economist Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh the entire banking system was completely sought to be derailed because of interventions patronage and pressure Prasad said.The Union Minister said since Modi government came to power in 2014 the politics of confusion fear and concoction is the basis of the Congress campaign against it.(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
The Narendra Modi government s procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France under a deal in 2016 is actually cheaper than the one negotiated by the previous UPA government top government sources told The Indian Express. The report quoted sources as saying that the Rs 526 crore or approximately Euro 79 million per aircraft which the http://www.magcloud.com/user/kkmyntra Opposition has been talking about is actually based on Rafale s 2007 bid at the then exchange rate. File image of a Rafale fighter jet. Wikimedia Commons Alleging a scam the Congress has been asking the government whether the per aircraft price of Rafale according to international bids opened on 12 December 2012 comes to 80.95 million (Rs 526.1 crore) as against the Modi government s per aircraft negotiated price of 241.66 Million (Rs 1 570.8 crore) as per current exchange rates. The UPA government floated a tender in 2007 for purchase of 126 MMRCA for the Air Force and post negotiations two of them Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon remained in the reckoning. However the deal could not be finalised by the UPA regime. Asked why NDA government did not go for Eurofighter Typhoon as it had offered a 25 percent price cut the sources said several European countries were involved in manufacturing of Eurofighter and France was preferred for the inter-governmental deal. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had also retaliated to the Congress allegations and said that the party was looking for a scam every day to throw mud on the corruption-free NDA government. The Congress wants to equate their corrupt and scam-hit UPA government with ours. So it is looking for a scam every day. Here we go there is one pick it up and throw mud and it is for us to keep wiping it and saying we are clean. I am sorry it is somewhat not so responsible way in which you want to criticise the government she had said. Sitharaman had also said there was no controversy over the Rafale deal as there was no deal under the UPA government. Let s get this out of our system that they (UPA government) had the deal and it was much better. Where was the deal under the UPA? There was just no deal. With inputs from PTI
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