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The Official Indian Politics Thread

Cevno

Cevno

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Absolutely hated the politics of Bal Thackeray, but Wow @ The crowds gathered today in Mumbai.

10,000,000 + people on the streets and marching from everywhere. The City right from Cinema theatres to Taxi's is shut.

He almost literally ran Mumbai, which on population terms is probably equal to a very large country.
 
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Cevno

Cevno

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The Master of divide and rule politics. He had different shades and then more shades.




The last time probably such scenes were seen was for NTR in Andhra. But unlike Bal thackeray NTR was a more inclusive figure.

(Edit - Maybe YSR to a lesser extent recently too.)

 
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Cevno

Cevno

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smalishah84 said:
people are growing up too I think, am pretty sure Raj Thackeray isn't as big a figure is he?
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Yeah, he isn't as demographics of Maharashtra and Mumbai has changed now and he is growing after splitting from the Main Shiv Sena anyways. But he's made some space by going down a somehwhat similar path at least.

Edit - The interesting thing in this btw is that Udhav thackeray who is the son of Bal Thackeray and running the Shiv Sena now, is more moderate naturally. And so is his other son who lives seperately Jaidev.

The militant mantle was taken over by Raj, his nephew.
 
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smalishah84

smalishah84

The Tiger King
I was talking to some of my indian colleagues and they said that they were not certain as to who would come back into power. A leadership crisis of sorts looming among all parties
 
Cevno

Cevno

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So ridiculous and outrageous that.

Section 66A and Shiv Sena goons. Lethal combination.
 
Cevno

Cevno

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Btw, this incident is a symptom of a larger churn that is happening in India right now.

The citizenry and especially the growing middle class is getting more aware and restless and questioning the leaders more and more. Tools like Social Media, RTI and even the broadcast media amongst others are also helping in this regard.

On the other hand the leaders who are used to sitting in ivory towers, and being above the rest without being cross questioned and criticized don't like this growing change one bit, and are trying to resist by using whatever sly means possible.
 
Fusion

Fusion

Global Moderator
Cevno said:
Btw, this incident is a symptom of a larger churn that is happening in India right now.

The citizenry and especially the growing middle class is getting more aware and restless and questioning the leaders more and more. Tools like Social Media, RTI and even the broadcast media amongst others are also helping in this regard.

On the other hand the leaders who are used to sitting in ivory towers, and being above the rest without being cross questioned and criticized don't like this growing change one bit, and are trying to resist by using whatever sly means possible.
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I’m sure you won’t be surprised that all of this is happening in Pakistan as well. One of the favorite activities of the government is to ban Facebook/Twitter on flimsy grounds like “hurting religious sentiments” (YouTube is currently banned in Pakistan for example due to that Prophet Muhammad video). Of course, it wouldn’t take much for the government to stretch the religion card to apply the ban in cases where they are getting criticized. The hallmark of a weak and oppressed society is the suppression of freedom of speech. Things are improving on that front in Pakistan, but we have miles to go still.
 
Fusion

Fusion

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Yup, has been for several weeks. The Defenders Of The Faith in Pakistan have figured out that banning YouTube is the best way to defend Islam. Your move infidels!!
 
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Daemon

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Smalishah pretty lucky he stays in the middle east then, else he wouldn't be able to get his daily dose of Imran videos
 
Cevno

Cevno

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Yeah, finally. Good move by the new president Mukherjee though, don't get why it took long anyway.

Even Human rights activists were finding it difficult to defend him, and the secrecy while executed well wasn't really needed in this case.

Afzal guru however will be the real test of metal for the new president and this government. Heard some rumours that could happen this week too.
 
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