BREAKING NEWS: SC TO HEAR CONTEMPT PETITION AGAINST HDK GOVT ON OCT 29TH ON BMIC VIOLATION
I have got some basic ethics in life.
I have not come here in search of this office, with any aspiration, with any ambition.
There is no need for me to make any manipulative politics.
I am not a person to stab behind the back
We should have some basic manners in public life.
It is not a question of wooing anybody or pampering anybody to continue in office.
You must try to give respect to your elders
The office which I am holding today for another one hour, is the highest office.
The destiny dragged me here and made me to sit in this chair
I will never bother about the office
I do not know what sin I had committed
It has been stated that we are hungry of status.
But it is a question of respect.
We are not hungry of power.
I would go before the people and I am not going to run away
If I have done a mistake, let the people punish me.
I am prepared to go for the ultimate – political judgement of the people of this country
But I have never, never aspired and made any ambition to come to this office. Never. I am not going to hide the facts.
the destiny is there for me to rise again from the dust in the Indian politics, I would come back with the same force. That is what I want to prove
I am never afraid of anybody who wants to play a bullying politics.
I may be a soft man outwardly but if I start fighting then I have already shown in Karnataka as to what I am.
Offstumped Bottomline: Not just Karnataka but the whole of India has seen what you are Mr. Gowda and now what your son is.
That precisely is the reason why Kumaraswamy should not be allowed the luxury of a vote of confidence on the floor of the house as you were a decade ago.
The BJP must not just withdraw support but demand an imposition of President’s Rule without delay. It is time for the people of Karnataka to decide if they want to suffer the Gowda brand of politics or chart a new course for their state.
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Illiterate Democracy + Corrupt Socialism = Third world country India!
at first i thought u had penned one of ur occasional poems
. The BJP has no one but itself to blame.They are very poor negotiators.everyone knew from the very beginning that this is going to happen.so why did they get into this mess in the first place? and now they are screwed.
they should have let congress-JD(S) combine stew and then take advantage of the anti-incumbency by now.
I think BJP lost a great chance to become the first among equals in karnataka. from now on they will be the perpertual third party there.
Gowda’s planned the whole drama to perfection. Populist acts, success in local body polls and now a TV channel to spread his message.
The BJP which was the single largest party in the 2004 polls now looks like a junior player.
If the BJP had let the Congress-JD(S)govt sink last year and not propped up Kumaraswamy they could’ve come to power by now.
BJP’s hurry undid them in 1999 too, when they hurriedly allied with then CM JH Patel’s discredited JD(U), only to hand over the polls to the Congress
Yossarin, good compilation. The father-son doublespeak might sound baffling and trecherous to the uninitiated, but these are just another sordid examples of Machiavellianism within the Indian political class.
And I feel not all is lost for the BJP. They not only can ride on the sympathy wave, but also take as much credit as the JD(S), for any good governance, since they were an important ally. But, I do hope the people give a more decisive verdict this time around and not have parties like the JD(S) call the shots.
Hi Yossarin,,
Whatz up with this government? Sonia gandhi says those against nuclear deal are enemies of development. Immediately after that AB bardhan comes out with statement “We have to pullout. There is no doubt about it. We told them categorically not to go ahead, they are going ahead. We have no other alternative but to withdraw ourselves,â€.
It sounds like government is going to fall tomorrow.
apollo – that was the fumble harmer on his way out in the lok sabha 10 yrs ago when sitaram kesri pulled the plug on him
joseph – agreed it was a bad deal but then who knows maybe the bjp wud have split if they had not struck the deal
maverick – will have to see how this plays out if cong depletes jd-s by attracting some more folks to defect it could be a whole different ball game
gujjuman – hard to read whats going, if pranab mukherjee out his way to clarify sonia’s remarks to the left then this may just be a false alarm, on the other hand if he doesnt and the usual spin meisters defend her remarks it maybe a case of congress forcing the issue on the left. A lot depends on this question – should they time LS polls with gujarat that way keep the bjp boxed and tied down in gujarat or should they buy time but risk a bjp on the upswing with modi as the new poster boy. Now modi as the poster may work well for the congress as it could polarise the debate and consolidate minority votes in its favor. So in the end they may just drag this out till after gujarat polls. Bardhan’s remarks themselves mean little unless of course he is echoing karat’s private thoughts in which case this may get serious. Let us see how it plays out in the next 48 hrs.
Ethics apart, the Karnataka debacle is going to impact BJP from a funding point of view (for Gujarat elections) !
Karnataka was BJP’s planned source of siphoning money to fund its Gujarat & general elections. Their coming to power with the sources of funds (critical ministries intact) was therefore crucial.
This was the pimary reason why BJP central leadership tried to resolve the situation (even made its minister quit to satisfy Gowda) till the last minute…
Yossarin,
Gujarat polls will be announced soon, the electoral rolls are finished and everything. Could be over as early as late November or as late as mid-Dec…it would be impossible for the EC to set-up LS polls until they finish revising rolls in large states like MP, Rajasthan which they are not expecting to go to polls until late 2008.
What Sonia did was call the Left’s bluff. She has already seen them blink after the initial N-Deal tussle when the mention of elections came forward, now she wants to see how far she can push it. If it leads to polls, she is quite fine with that.
For ROW,
I think BJP is ruling in more than 10 states, why will it want to fund its activity just from Karnataka. I think your leaving ethics apart has resulted into unbelievable and illogical argument.
Yossarin,
I dont think EC can prepare for LS election before, with or immediately after Gujarat election.
niraj, janpar – electoral rolls seem to be upto date except for goa as per ec website. with atleast 4 states due for polls between now and feb if mid-term polls are inevitable why not club all of them rather than havw 2 waves of states polls, 1 mid term poll and then in nov another wave of state polls. if i were congress i would go for polls now rather than later. but i agree chances of that happening are slim.
Niraj – If you are saying that loss of Karnataka will not matter much because BJP can siphon-off money from 10 other States (where it rules) to fund its elections – you have indeed made a logical statement ! But, believe me, Karnataka was big loss from funding point of view….
No political party including the BJP has the ethical standards and moral will to root out corruption. It will be no surprise that BJP will desist from raising the corruption issue of its ex-political partner in Karnataka.
Kumarswamy is Johnny Gaddar.
THE Cong has started to deplete the JD-S and has asked Karnataka Guv to impose Prez rule.
Looks they want to try their hands at the polls.
Whatever happens, they can cobble up things later
It is politics of brinkmanship, say, Congress-I’s, and Left Parties’, style. A section of left parties has openly accused Sonia that she was wanting Rahul to become PM and hence the urgency of midterm polls felt by Sonia, as per that section of left parties.
If Gujarat elections for BJP were to be funded from Karnataka, why did BJP withdraw support to JD-S govt.? There is no clearcut answer to this conjecture.
Modi was felicitated in Mumbai the other day. It would be more logical to think that the organisers of that event might be interested in funding the elections.
If LS polls are to be held within the near future, no party appears to have done its homework sincerely.
After Sonia’s lambasting all parties as anti national yesterday for not supporting nuclear deal, Sonia’s party has clarified that her speech was not intended to hurt left parties. So this game of blowing hot and blowing cold is going on.
Today’s Sensex has gone down nervously sensing that immediate LS polls are on order.
So it’s all the politics of brinkmanship, and whistling in the dark.
People of India are fed up with this kind of dirty politics, and the politicians will have to pay their price for this dilly-dallying at the next polls.
Found this latest news on rediff
“The Bharatiya Janata Party’s B S Yediyurappa may finally form the next government in Karnataka with the Janata Dal-Secular’s support.
After days of hard bargaining and brinksmanship, Chief Minister Kumaraswamy has finally consented to become deputy CM as per the arrangement between the two parties, sources revealed.”
Almost final: Yediyurappa CM, Kumaraswamy Dy CM.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/08kgovt4.htm
Gujjuman – saw that, I must say hats off to the great indian political drama not even the most clairvoyant can predict how it eventually climaxes, just sit back and watch the fun.
Found this interesting comment on the one of the related articles on Rediff:
“Bottomline is, Gowda planned that he can get Congress support to run the govt for the balance period. Since earlier he has ditched Congress, this time though Congress
has indicated that they will support, keeping their assurance he started behaving with BJP badly. But at the end Congress ditched him as he did with Congress and BJP. Tit for Tat. All are preplanned but sufferers are Voters and Tax Payers.
What a waste to have these type of leaders.”
There were recent reports that cracks have resurfaced in the Gowda family, with HDK even going to the extent of saying that – “My family has given me mental torture in the past 20 months”.
Moreover, as it turns out, the real reason why JD(S) did not transfer power is because the senior Gowda was obsessed with astrological predictions and was, ostensibly, advised by his personal soothsayers, to do so.
It’s time for the mindless prime time “saas-bahu” K-serials to give way to the real-life family melodrama – “Kahaani Kapat aur Kismet Ki” !!