Posted on 05/14/2004 11:02:44 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
Confusing reports are coming in regarding the election results, and impact of the changes in Lok Sabha. Perhaps input from others, political consultants or international affairs analysts can provide more information to elucidate more clearly the recent developments for the conservative American audience, such dialog is welcome. The bad news is, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA, consisting of the conservative and center BJP and alliances) has lost the elections. The loss is a surprise, polling as recent as May 6, 2004 showed the NDA would met the magic number of 272 Lok Sabha seats, and that Vajpayee had a change to continue as Prime Minister. But, there were some very late indicators that the BJP-led (Bharatiya Janata Party-led) NDA (National Democratic Alliance) would fail to get a majority in parliament. The Congress Party, receiving huge sums of money from Muslim and Arab-based foreign sources, was aligning Muslims with the Left (similar to what we see on a smaller scale in the US, the alliance between politicized and anti-Israeli Islamicists and the Left-wing/Democrats).
The results of the elections, Lok Sabha Results (539/543) are:
Party Won
BJP+ 186 (center, right of center)
Cong+ 217 (left, socialist )
Others 136 (communist, terrorist)
The “coalitions” that make-up the “parliament” alliances are:
BJP + Allies Congress + Allies Others
BJP 138 Congress 145 CPI-M (Communist Party of India, Marxist) 43
SHS 12 RJD 21 SP 36
BJD 11 DMK 16 BSP 19
SAD 8 NCP 9 CPI (Communist Party of India) 10
JD(U) 7 PMK 6 IND 4
TDP 5 TRS 5 JD(S) 4
AITC 2 JMM 5 RSP 3
NPF 1 MDMK 4 RLD 3
MNF 1 LJNSP 3 AIFB 3
ADMK 0 JKPDP 1 AGP 2
Others 0 Others 2 Others 10
TOTALS
185 217 137
The Congress Party is now saying they are confident Sonia Gandhi will be Prime Minister of India, after a stunning upset of the NDA (consisting of the BJP, moderates, right and center). Stunning, in that earlier polling indicated the center and right would win because the current NDA government led India into one of it’s strongest economies, market, trade, and military force, and many have risen to middle class status under the conservatives. Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party (wing once known as “Congress (I), for Indira, who had become a dictator during her socialist regime), has told political analysts that she will be also aligning with and communicating with the far leftist parties later, starting today, and there is little differences between the Communists parties “who will come together”.
Sonia Gandhi is not an Indian.
She is an Italian, who was the wife of former assassinated Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
That is the part that I don’t understand. Sonia is a white European, not an Indian, was not born in India, and if she becomes the Prime Minister the fact will remain that a foreigner, even if a dual citizen, will become the leader of India, and again India will come under the power of Congress once again led by a woman. Woman and the corrupt Congress Party aside, in regards to a foreigner running one of the next super powers of the world with the largest blue water navy, her rise to power would be the equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger, also foreign born, who is currently the 38th Governor of California but not born in the United States, becoming the President of the United States. Currently, that is not possible by mandate of the US Constitution if the current writing of the Constitution is not changed. There is nothing wrong, per say, with the idea of Arnold becoming a US President if the will of the people change the Constitution, but currently that is not allowed, and I thought that this was the same for India and the office of Prime Minister, but apparently it is perfectly legal in India or no one is bothering to read “the fine print”. Of course, there are differences between the Sonia and Arnold analogy, such as Arnold is much more of an American than Sonia is an Indian. Also, the analogy between Sonia and Arnold isn’t exact, in that Arnold currently holds office, Sonia has not held office and suddenly she will take control of the most powerful office in India.
In the US, we are being told by members of our own Congress, that the election in India is “a miracle of Democracy”, and US lawmaker Joe Crowley, Democrat from N.Y. and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans said the elections only proved that India had a vibrant and mature democracy in action.
The corrupt Congress Party of India in power will, without question, aim the tone, voice, and face of India as a party line machinist of anti-US propaganda. During the former Soviet Union, the same Congress Party was clearly aligned with that communist state, voicing clear anti-US sentiment to the world body politic.
In regards to the war on terror, India of which has been a victim of such Islamic terror over and over again, including attempts to blow up their parliament/assembly, India will become a government voice of criticism of the US, much in the same manner and tone as Al Jazeera, in the U.N., in the media, before the world.
The loss of the NDA could be explained in the following manner:
The right-wing Hindu and “anti-Muslim” VHP and RSS in India turned on the BJP leader and current Prime Minister for what they saw as betrayal in regards to domestic issues. A vague analogy would be, the loss of support US President Bush had from many US conservatives due to domestic issues, illegal immigration, government spending, etc., of which conservatives I included myself up until the obvious attack by the leftist media in the US/world against our military and Bush (“Iraqi prison abuse”) as an attempt to undermine US war on terrorism efforts, upon which of course now I hate the Democrats and the same media so much Iwill do anything to re-elect President Bush working diligently in the culture wars on side of Democracy and not the Enemies of Democracy (such as the Democratic Party).
The right-wing in India turned on the current Prime Minister and the government. They saw the current government as having betrayed campaign promises domestically, and for being “soft on the Islamicists”. They wanted a more conservative domestic policy, pro-India, anti-Muslim, and to declare the Jihadis as the “enemy of all of man’s culture”. The right-wing BJP instead took a moderate stance.
Another reason for the loss, which added to the swing to the left, could be the following and actually involves a swing away from the left to the middle in some high population states of India. In West Bengal for example, the Communist Party of India (CPI-M, the “M” stands for Marxist) pretty much ran the state. We now see a shift away from the hard left among the people, in part thanks to the rising middle class of former poor there thanks to the policies of the conservative administration which has now just lost power, these former constituencies leaving the far communist left and “joining the middle”. However, in this case, “joining the middle” is joining the Congress Party, which is really joining the socialist party.
They didn’t join the right-wing.
So, while the far left lost power due to the policies of the right-wing in India, the shift into the middle in this case empowered the corrupt Congress Party.
Not that the other parties are not corrupt.
They all are.
But, you haven’t seen ANYTHING yet, like what you are going to see now.
You are really going to see corruption now, in India.
And, I think, this Sonia is very bad news.
And, I think perhaps we are going to see that the results of this election will fuel the operations of the Islamic/fascist elements in the region, which are already operating in India though many patriotic Indians there are fighting it.
What do you think?
ping!
Shortly after resigning as prime minister in view of the National Democratic Alliance's stunning defeat in the Lok Sabha election, Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Thursday night pledged to "extend our hand of cooperation to the new government in all its endeavours that are in the interest of the nation and the people."
"We have given up office, but not our responsibility to serve the nation. We have lost an election, but not our determination," he said in an address to the nation.
"Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity," he said.
Vajpayee, who submitted his resignation to President A P J Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan, said, "Elections to the 14th Lok Sabha are over. The voters have given their verdict. I accept the verdict."
The PM had a special word of thanks to the people of Jammu and Kashmir for once again reposing their faith in democracy and for giving a firm rebuff to the forces of militancy.
"India has shown its resolve and capability to overcome the challenge of cross-border terrorism," he said.
The effect will be, in regards to financial mismanagement of such high-tech operations, and the transfer of confidential information to such operations over to China, it will now be much more, worse, and Muslims will also get a "cut". But operations will continue as usual, otherwise.
The Left Front increased its tally in West Bengal. What's happenign, IMO, is that the LF itself is moving ever so slightly away from the hard left.
My guess is none. Too many people are getting rich off of it. They will just have to start greasing palms in the Communist parties and all will be well. The one thing you need to understand about Indian party ideologies - the overriding ideology is and always has been corruption. You pay the right people and you get what you want.
Did you know that the Congress party is one of the
receipients of Saddam Hussain's "oil-fund-for-influence"
money.
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