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Political Bog: Sid Harth
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His fate undecided, Soren gets back to work
Indo-Asian News
Service
Ranchi, May 02, 2010

First Published: 16:11 IST(2/5/2010)
Last Updated: 16:13
IST(2/5/2010)

With his fate still hanging in the balance, Jharkhand Chief
Minister
Shibu Soren on Sunday went back to work by clearing
files in his
office and inspecting a road.

"Guruji (Shibu Soren) inspected an under-construction four-lane
road
at Pijthoria (outskirts of Ranchi). He also attended his
office,"
Safiq Ansari, Soren's press advisor, said.

A day after a marathon meeting in New Delhi between the Bharatiya

Janata Party (BJP), the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and allies
on
forming an alternative government ended in a stalemate, Soren
went
back to his official duties.

It was decided at the meeting that Shibu Soren will remain at the
helm
till a decision is arrived at.

According to sources, the JMM wants a graceful exist for Shibu
Soren
and the party is insisting that he be allowed to continue
till June
30. Shibu Soren, a Lok Sabha MP, is not a member of
the state
assembly. He can remain chief minister till June 30.

However, the BJP is against the proposal and wants new
arrangements,
the sources said.

"We have agreed to meet again to evolve a consensus on the
political
situation of Jharkhand," Hemant Soren, son of Shibu
Soren and JMM
general secretary, told reporters in New Delhi
after the meeting
Saturday night.

Jharkhand is facing political uncertainty since April 28 after
the BJP
decided to withdraw support to the Soren government
after the chief
minister voted against the party's cut motions
in parliament. However,
the party on April 30 decided to put on
hold the decision and started
exploring the possibilities of
forming a new government in the state.

The BJP summoned the leaders of the JMM and other coalition
partners
All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) and Janata
Dal-United (JD-U) to
New Delhi for a meeting on Saturday.

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BJP is another idiotic party with idiots and always after power.
And
the party has not learnt nothing from it's past deeds. It
had
coalition with Mayawati's BSP and that suffered a
miscarriage and same
fate with Kumarswamy's Govt.at Karnataka
not long back and now they
are again with Sibu's JMM and we the
unfortunate people of Jharkhand
are suffering from the misdeeds
of so called a party not long ago
professed to bring back
SURAJYA and believe in Ramrajya and it is very
much sure even
Ravan would have last laugh after seeing the today's
power
hungers and their and ways to cling to power at any cost.

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BJP wants letter of support from all 18 JMM MLAs
Press Trust
Of India
New Delhi/Ranchi, May 02, 2010

First Published: 22:33 IST(2/5/2010)
Last Updated: 22:49
IST(2/5/2010)

Wary of reported rebellion among JMM MLAs in Jharkhand, BJP
leadership
has sought letters of support from the 18 JMM
legislators to provide a
stable BJP-led government in the tribal
state, failing which the
alliance will fall through.

BJP has insisted that the JMM MLAs give their letters of support
to
the party by Tuesday. A BJP leader told PTI that in the
meeting held
on Saturday, BJP President Nitin Gadkari had
categorically told
Hemant, son of JMM chief Shibu Soren, that
all JMM MLAs will have to
pledge their support as BJP could not
form a shaky government in
Jharkhand.

"Even if one of the 18 JMM MLAs says he will not support a
BJP-led
government, we may decide not to form a government. We
do not want to
give the impression that we are dying to form a
government in
Jharkhand or that we are hungry for power," the
BJP leader said.

As political uncertainty in Jharkhand continued for the sixth
day, JMM
today asserted that Shibu Soren will stay
on as
chief minister for now.

"As of now Shibu Soren is Chief Minister and will continue in
that
post... Our talks with the NDA leaders in Delhi were very

constructive," Hemant, Soren's son and JMMLP leader, said in
Ranchi
after meeting the BJP leadership
in Delhi to end the
deadlock.

The apprehension in the BJP, which has 18 MLAs, is that in case
it
forms a government with the support of JMM,
AJSU and
JD(U), it would face a bigger embarrasment than it is facing

today.

BJP has threatened to withdraw support to the Shibu Soren
government
when the JMM chief voted with the Congress-led regime
during the cut-
motion in Lok Sabha.

"If the government, led by a BJP Chief Minister, falls soon after

being formed, the party will lose credibility," a member of the
BJP
Parliamentary Board said.

While six of the 18 JMM MLAs had raised the banner of revolt, two
of
them- Teklal Mahato and Champai Soren-
backtracked and
joined Hemant in the meeting with Gadkari and other
Jharkhand
leaders on Saturday.

Three of the rebels are Christian MLAs and have reservations
about
supporting a BJP government. The main concern within the
BJP still
remains a President's Rule in the state. This would
virtually mean a
Congress rule in Jharkhand as the UPA would
control everything from
the Centre.

"Under President's Rule, Congress is likely to poach our and JMM
MLAs
to form a government in Jharkhand," a BJP
Central unit
leader said.

BJP leaders are now engaged in finding a way out which would keep
its
image and ideological stand - of being a
party with a
difference-remains intact.

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Shibu Soren will continue as chief minister, says son

Indo-Asian News Service
Ranchi, May 02, 2010

First Published: 20:20 IST(2/5/2010)
Last Updated: 20:21
IST(2/5/2010)

Hemant Soren, who has emerged as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha's
(JMM)
key negotiator with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to
save the
Jharkhand government, claimed on Sunday that his father
Shibu Soren
would continue to be the chief minister.

Talking to reporters at Ranchi airport after his arrival from New

Delhi, Hemant Soren said: "At this moment Shibu Soren is chief

minister and he will continue on the post."

He refused to divulge details of the meeting with the BJP in New
Delhi
Saturday.

"The talks with BJP leaders took place in a good atmosphere and

further talks will be held."

Hemant Soren returned to Ranchi along with BJP state president
and
Deputy Chief Minister Raghubar Das and the All Jharkhand
Students
Union's (AJSU) chief and Deputy Chief Minister Sudesh
Mahto.

The JMM-BJP government is supported by AJSU and Janata Dal-United

legislators.

Jharkhand plunged into political crisis after Shibu Soren voted
in
favour of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance on the
cut
motions in parliament moved by the BJP April 27.

The following day, the BJP parliamentary board decided to
withdraw
support to his government, but has put the decision on
hold and is
examining possibilities of forming an alternative
government.

The BJP, JMM and AJSU leaders, at their meeting in New Delhi
Saturday,
are believed to have agreed to continue Shibu Soren as
chief minister
till they decide on their next move.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/jharkhand/Shibu-Soren-will-continue-as-chief-minister-says-son/Article1-538456.aspx&usg=AFQjCNGm4YaYa9pxGyQAhQBbRAbkFT7Ogg

Soren stays CM for now, BJP sets conditions
Gautam Mazumdar
and Shekhar Iyer, Hindustan Times
Ranchi, May 02, 2010

First Published: 20:04 IST(2/5/2010)
Last Updated: 00:05
IST(3/5/2010)

The Jharkhand government has got temporary respite following the

crisis created when the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha voted against the
cut
motion brought by ally BJP.

On April 28, the BJP parliamentary board had decided to withdraw

support from the state government, led by Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
(JMM)
President Shibu Soren.

However, the decision has been put in abeyance after the BJP

leadership had a discussion on this with alliance partners JMM,
Janata
Dal (United)  and All-Jharkhand Students’ Union
Party.

Soren, by all accounts, will remain chief minister for now.

JMM legislature party leader Hemant Soren, who is the chief
minister’s
son, had suggested to BJP President Nitin Gadkari a
change of guard in
the state.

However, the BJP reportedly could not thrash out a solution
because
there were differences on the issue of leadership.

There were several candidates for the post of chief minister:
party
general secretary and former CM Arjun Munda, former
finance minister
Yashwant Sinha, and deputy CM Raghubar Das. The
name of Lok Sabha
Deputy Speaker Karia Munda was also
considered.

Meanwhile, the BJP has set three conditions against the JMM’s
offer to
back a new coalition arrangement in the state.

First, all the JMM MLAs must stay united and commit themselves to

supporting a government headed by the BJP. Second, the JMM must
give
the commitment that the arrangement will hold until the
term of the
present assembly expires. And finally, the JMM has
to agree to a
common minimum programme for improving governance
and development.

BJP chief Nitin Gadkari conveyed this to JMM leaders, led by
Hemant,
during more than four hours of discussion on Saturday.
The BJP’s
parliamentary board may meet on Tuesday or Wednesday
to decide on the
matter after the JMM’s response.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/eastindia/Soren-stays-CM-for-now-BJP-sets-conditions/Article1-538451.aspx&usg=AFQjCNGvOQfWNFhUvBY7uCcUPqr-etoXHA

BJP to decide on govt formation in Jharkhand tomorrow
Press
Trust Of India
Chennai, May 02, 2010

First Published: 16:32 IST(2/5/2010)
Last Updated: 16:42
IST(2/5/2010)

Amid efforts to break the stalemate over government formation in

Jharkhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on ...

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Huddle of 8 MLAs thickens JMM plot
SUMAN K. SHRIVASTAVA

Ranchi, May 14: The anti-Hemant Soren lobby became active again
today
to drum up support in favour of chief minister Shibu Soren
taking
advantage of the BJP’s inability to declare a chief
ministerial
nominee.

At least eight MLAs went into a huddle at a hotel in Jamshedpur
and
vowed to ensure that Soren wasn’t replaced by a BJP nominee.
They
included Simon Marandi, Teklal Mahto, Champai Soren, Deepak
Birua,
Vidyut Baran Mahto, Lobin Hembrom, Nalin Soren and Lobin
Hembrom.

The group also claimed support of two other MLAs, namely, Soren’s

daughter-in-law Sita and Paulus Surin, who is in jail.

Simon told The Telegraph the MLAs were firm in their support for

Soren. “It is inhuman to humiliate and oust Guruji, who has
struggled
for 40 years for a separate state,” he maintained.

Though none would admit it, party sources claimed the MLAs might
have
got tacit support from Soren himself. “Soren senior might
be using
these MLAs to cut Hemant to size,” a source close to
Guruji said.

Chaibasa MLA Deepak Birua said the political stalemate was
sending a
wrong message to the people. “So, we decided to ask
Guruji to tell the
BJP clearly that he will be continuing till
June 29,” he said, adding
the BJP’s indecisiveness was leading
the state to President’s rule.

However, their rivals claimed the MLAs’ stand was denting the

credibility of the JMM further. “We are already known for taking

whimsical decisions. So, if we go back on our pledge to the BJP,
no
political party will be willing to do business with us in
future,”
said a source close to Hemant.

For now, the JMM has constituted an 11-member core committee to
take
decisions on the organisational issues in view of the
changing
political scenario. The members include Hemant Soren,
Teklal Mahto,
Haji Hussain Ansari, Champai Soren, Hemlal Murmu,
Sudhir Mahto,
Shashank Shekhar Bhokta, Mohan Karmakar, Supriyo
Bhattacharya,
Jagannath Mahto and Vinod Pandey.

The notification was signed by Soren.

Ajsu chief and deputy chief minister Sudesh Mahto appeared cut up
and
said the BJP and JMM should behave responsibly to end the
impasse
immediately in the larger interest of the state.

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RSS whip only way out of govt deadlock

- Gadkari holds late night discussions with Rajnath, Advani;
plans to
meet Bhagwat in Nagpur today
RADHIKA RAMASESHAN

New Delhi, May 14: The RSS is expected to finally step in and
sort out
the BJP’s sticking points that have thwarted a
resolution to the
Jharkhand impasse, a final decision on which
is likely by Saturday or
Sunday.

BJP president Nitin Gadkari will be in Nagpur — the RSS’s
headquarters
— on Saturday and will meet “sarsanghachalak”
Mohanrao Bhagwat and his
aides to thrash out the problems. It
will be communicated to New Delhi
after which a formal
announcement is likely.

The BJP president was back in New Delhi late this evening from a
three-
day visit in Punjab and went into a meeting of party
general
secretaries to sort out organisational matters. Late
tonight, he held
a meeting with Rajnath Singh and L.K. Advani on
the Jharkhand impasse.

Gadkari was spending his last few hours in New Delhi because
after his
Nagpur stopover he would proceed to Mumbai and fly to
Europe on a
vacation. He will be back on May 27.

But if the RSS made up its mind and by implication the BJP’s, the

announcement could be made by Rajnath or another central leader.

Among the outstanding issues were Advani and Sushma Swaraj’s

opposition to the JMM’s demand for a “28-28” arrangement that

essentially entailed sharing the chief minister’s post for those
many
months between the BJP and the JMM.

Since other leaders were inclined to accepting the formula, the
RSS
might decide to disregard Advani and Sushma’s objections and
go with
the majority view.

This apart, the JMM hasn’t complied with any of the BJP’s primary

demands. Soren and Co is yet to issue a comprehensive letter of

support to a BJP-led government. The letter would have to be
signed by
all its 18 MLAs so that the BJP was certain there was
no split in the
party.

The BJP also sought Shibu Soren’s resignation letter
simultaneously.
So far, there has been no sign of that.

Lastly, the BJP, too, hasn’t been able to firm up its chief

ministerial candidate.

Arjun Munda, the projected front-runner, is camping in New Delhi,

having enlisted the patronage of a Mumbai-based corporate house
with
mining interests in Jharkhand. “Friends of this industrial
house, it
is reliably learnt, have been meeting MLAs and some
central leaders to
push for Munda, a former chief minister and
now MP from Jamshedpur.

Munda, who refused to take calls today, is backed by Rajnath
Singh,
M.Venkaiah Naidu and Ananth Kumar.

To scuttle Munda’s chances, a couple of central leaders opposed
to
Rajnath, floated former Union minister Yashwant Sinha’s
candidacy,
resting their case on the point that Jharkhand needed
“good
governance” and he had the experience and skills for
providing it.

Sinha, who hasn’t been on the best of terms with any of those
leaders,
was baffled when his name cropped up and has since made
himself
incommunicado for fear of falling foul of the RSS that
might suspect
him of leveraging his perceived image.

Gadkari and BJP general secretary in charge of the organisation
Ramlal
have favoured the deputy chief minister Raghubar Das.
Their clout with
the Sangh — Ramlal is the designated
pointsperson dealing with the RSS
— might boost Das’s chances
but for the fact he was a non-tribal.

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Shibu Soren fails to appear before court
PTI
Saturday,
May 15, 2010 17:53 IST

Giridih (Jharkhand): Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren today
failed
to appear before a local court, which is hearing afresh
the 1974 Kodko
double murder case in which Soren is the lone
accused.

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The court of ADJ (Fast-track-9) Mohammad Qasim's court fixed June

three as the next date for hearing.

The court will start fresh hearing after the case was transferred
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it following a request by the First Additional District and
Sessions
court of NN Singh, on April 16, which had already
concluded hearing
and reserved its judgement on April 3.

An FIR was filed on April 15, 1974 by one Bahadur Singh accusing
Soren
of heading a group that allegedly killed Khirodar Singh
and Chundi
Singh following slaughter of a goat at Kudko village
under Pirtand
police station. The charge-sheet was filed in
1978.

Soren is the sole accused now since eight others were acquitted
in
1986.

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should end suspense, says AJSU; Cong waits in Jharkhand

Updated on Saturday, May 15, 2010, 20:32 IST

Tags: Jharkhand, BJP, AJSUBuzz up! Share  Ranchi: With the
BJP still
indecisive over formation of a new government in
Jharkhand, an ally of
the Shibu Soren government Saturday urged
the saffron party to end the
suspense, while the opposition
Congress said it was still waiting and
watching.

"We would like the BJP to take a decision at the earliest to end
the
suspense," AJSU vice-president Pravin Prabhakar said.

In the 82-member Jharkhand Assembly, the new coalition will have
45
members. JMM and BJP have 18 members each, AJSU five and JD-U
two. Two
Independents are also in this grouping.

Jharkhand PCC president Pradeep Kumar Balmachu, on the other hand

said, "We are not in favour of pushing out somebody from his
chair or
in favour of a mid-term poll. We are just observing. If
a situation
emerges, then we will see what can be done."

Asked about the reported meeting between him and some JMM MLAs
led by
Simon Marandi, who has been demanding that Shibu Soren
continue as
chief minister, he said "every day he talks to me."

Marandi at a meeting with eight JMM MLAs yesterday in Jamshedpur
had
said they favoured continuation of Soren as chief minister
and there
was no need for replacing him midway.

He had also accused Delhi-based political parties of hindering

Jharkhand's development and said he did not want Jharkhand to
run on
"remote control" or "Delhi's interference".

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BJP blackmailing JMM, claims JPCC president Balmuchu
Updated
on Friday, May 14, 2010, 22:46 IST

Tags: BJP,  blackmail,  JMM, JPCC,  president,
BalmuchuBuzz up!
Share  Ranchi: With the uncertainty
over formation of a new government
in Jharkhand due to
differences between the BJP and JMM, JPCC
president Pradeep
Kumar Balmuchu on Friday claimed that the BJP was
"blackmailing"
its ally.

"The BJP has been blackmailing the JMM for seventeen days now ...
they
have failed to decide on ending the political uncertainty
in
Jharkhand," Balmachu said here.

He said he would go to Delhi tomorrow to apprise the party
leadership
about the political situation in the state and meet
the governor on
his return.

Meanwhile, five JMM MLAs -- Champai Soren, Bidyoot Barun Mahto,
Ramdas
Soren, Dipak Birua, who had yesterday demanded that Shibu
Soren
continue as chief minister for the first 28 months of a
new
government, were meeting in Jamshedpur.

Senior party MLA Simon Marandi was also joining the meeting, a

Jamshedpur report said.

PTI

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Dissolve Soren Govt: Marandi
Updated on Thursday, May 13,
2010, 18:57 IST

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Former
Jharkhand Chief Minister today urged Governor M O H
Farooq to dismiss
the Shibu Soren government "as the Chief
Minister was not inclined to
enter the assembly by June 30".

"As it is there is no time left for the Chief Minister to fight a

bypoll and enter the assembly. This is the third time Shibu
Soren
became the chief minister without being a member of the
house. This is
against constitutional norms," Marandi who led a
party delegation to
the Rajbhavan told newsmen.

Soren, who took oath on December 30, should enter the house by
June
30. There is no vacant assembly seat in the state.

Heading a delegation of his Jharkhand Vikas Morcha
(Prajatantric),
Marandi said the 17-day stalemate between the
BJP and the JMM had
halted the state's development work,
"putting the state's future in
jeopardy'.

"At first we want dissolution of the house. After that we will
see,"
Marandi said when asked whether he had requisite numbers
to claim
formation of government.

Meanwhile, the BJP is still to make a formal announcement on its
chief
ministerial candidate and the JMM's demand for power
sharing on 50:50
basis.

PTI

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JharkhandI work for the people: Soren
Updated on Thursday,
May 13, 2010, 14:26 IST

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everyone
guessing about his intentions on the formation of a new
government in
Jharkhand, JMM chief Shibu Soren on Thursday said
that he "worked for
the people as a social worker and not as a
politician."

"I work for the people... I don't go to anybody nor do I call

anybody," Soren told a news agency apparently referring to the

lingering stalemate over the vexed issue of government
formation.

He evaded giving a clear reply on the BJP's insistence of heading
the
government for the remaining four-and-a-half year term and
his party's
demand for a rotational government.

"Jharkhand was destined to be created, and I have struggled hard
for
this... but things did not happen as desired," the JMM
chief,
popularly known as Guruji, said.

PTI

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BJP squabbling holds Jharkhand decision hostage
Neena Vyas

During the long dialogue, JMM kept changing its “offer”

NEW DELHI: The more the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership
discusses
the Jharkhand tangle, the more it seems confused and
unable to move
forward. Even if a decision is taken in a day or
two, the BJP would
still have taken about 20 days to resolve the
crisis it had created
for a government, in which it is a
partner.

The issue, it seems, has now become hostage to the BJP's internal

squabbles that were papered over in the first few months of
Nitin
Gadkari's presidentship as individual leaders tried to
influence him
to make appointments of their political ‘chelas'
and flunkeys.

After hastily announcing withdrawal of support to the Shibu Soren

government, the party quietly put that decision on hold. It
suddenly
dawned on the BJP that withdrawal of support would be
like cutting off
one's nose to spite the face.

It would have meant loss of a government in the mineral-rich
State and
much else. Worse, imposition of President's Rule by
the Centre,
justifiable given the fractured mandate of the last
Assembly election,
would send a wrong political signal to Bihar,
where Assembly elections
are due in 4-5 months.

And all this for what? After all, what did Mr. Soren do except
vote
against the NDA-sponsored cut motion in the Lok Sabha? The
Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha was under no obligation to follow the
BJP's diktat on the
vote, it is a separate party with its own
views on various matters. It
is not even a member of the
National Democratic Alliance, which the
BJP leadership was fond
of emphasising as a conglomeration of
alliances at the State
level. For years various NDA partners fought
elections against
one another except in those States where an
electoral
understanding had been reached.

Just a day before the cut motion, Leader of the Opposition Sushma

Swaraj herself pointed out that only three parties were the
BJP's NDA
partners — the Shiv Sena, the Janata Dal (United) and
the Akali Dal.
The JD (U) voted differently from the BJP on the
crucial women's
reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha quite
recently, while the Sena had
refused to follow the BJP line in
the presidential election,
preferring to vote for the United
Progressive Alliance candidate,
Pratibha Patil. The BJP then did
not threaten to break the alliance
with the JD(U) in Bihar and
bring down the Nitish Kumar government, or
snap its decades-long
relationship with the Sena. Then why the fuss on
the JMM vote?

When all this was discussed and the JMM dangled the carrot of

supporting a BJP-led government in Jharkhand, the leadership had
to
give in and keep in abeyance its withdrawal of support
decision.

Then began the long and painful dialogue with the JMM, which,

apparently, kept changing its “offer.” It first agreed to extend

support to a BJP Chief Minister for the remainder of the
Assembly
tenure, but later insisted on rotation of the post
between the two
parties.

Again, that was logical for, less than five months ago the BJP
agreed
to support a JMM-led government for a full term of five
years. (Both
parties have 18 MLAs each.) Most leaders agreed,
except a few
including L.K. Advani. What his argument was
against rotation was not
quite clear, as he himself had
recommended such an arrangement in
other States.

Then as the BJP leadership began discussing possible chief
ministerial
names, many leaders jumped into the fray either to
get their man in
that hot seat or ensure that the person
perceived to be the “other”
leader's man did not get the job.
This led to tussles in the party
making a deal with the JMM
difficult.

Party sources disclosed that the latest effort was to scuttle the

consensus on Arjun Munda — who is apparently the Jharkhand BJP

legislators' choice. One State leader, Raghuvar Das, who has the

backing of BJP general secretary (organisation) at the central
level,
reportedly incited a few JMM legislators to make a new
“first turn for
the JMM in the rotational arrangement” demand,
knowing this would not
be accepted by the party leadership.
There is a view that this is
being done deliberately to scuttle
the consensus on Munda.

Here is where the matter is stuck. Mr. Gadkari will be away for
10-15
days on a holiday — that plan has been postponed by a day
to enable
him to attend the funeral of the former Vice-President
Bhairon Singh
Shekhawat on Sunday — and he is expected to
authorise a couple of
senior leaders to take and announce a
decision in his absence. There
are some in the party who are not
happy about this delegation of
authority. And that is where the
matter stands.

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2010
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Arjun Munda to become Jharkhand CM?
STAFF WRITER 16:59 HRS
IST

Ranchi, May 16 (PTI) BJP MP from Jamshedpur Arjun Munda today
appeared
to be the chief ministerial candidate in Jharkhand as
the party has
given him the responsibility to explore government
formation in the
state.

"The BJP leadership has decided that government should be formed
in
Jharkhand, and has given me the responsibility to talk to the
allies
in this regard," Munda, a former chief minister, said at
the airport
here on his return from Delhi.

Asked whether that meant the BJP had officially named him as the
chief
ministerial candidate, Munda said "A decision will be
taken at a
meeting of the legislative party, where central
leaders will be
present."

He said he would meet all the allies, including Chief Minister
Shibu
Soren.

BJP sources said the party had not announced Munda's name for the
CM's
post officially due to the death of former Vice President
Bhairon
Singh Shekhawat yesterday.

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Some parties are trying to divide votes: Mamata
STAFF WRITER
19:58  HRS IST

Kolkata, May 15 (PTI) In a veiled attack on Congress with which
it
failed to reach a seat-sharing deal for the May 30 civic
polls,
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said some
forces were
trying to divide votes to help the ruling CPI(M)
win.

"Some are contesting to divide votes and help the CPI(M) win. But

Trinamool Congress is the actual anti-CPI(M) nationalist party,"

Banerjee told an election meeting in support of party candidates
for
the Kolkata Municipal Corporation here.

She said that the last Lok Sabha election had shown that the
CPI(M)
could be defeated. Of the 15 Lok Sabha seats which the
Marxist party
had won in the state, seven were due to BJP, she
claimed.

Banerjee alleged that the CPI(M) were intimidating people by
saying
there would be bloodshed. "We don't compromise with
CPI(M).

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BSP to decide on contesting SGPC elections tomorrow
STAFF
WRITER 21:47 HRS IST

Phagwara, May 15 (PTI) The BSP will take a final decision on

contesting the forthcoming SGPC polls tomorrow, its secretary
Narendra
Kashyap said.

"The decision will be taken only after discussing the issue
threadbare
with party colleagues at a meeting in Jalandhar
tomorrow," Kashyap who
is also in charge of the party's affairs
in Punjab told reporters.

Punjab BSP President and Rajya Sabha member Avtar Singh Karimpuri
was
also present at the press conference.

He was here to address the state-level conference of BSP's newly-

constituted youth wing with Pritpal Singh Moga as its Convener.

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SP to extend issue-based support to UPA: Mulayam
STAFF WRITER
13:20 HRS IST

Ballia (UP), May 15 (PTI) After helping the UPA to breeze through
the
cut motions in the Lok Sabha, Samajwadi Party supremo
Mulayam Singh
Yadav today said his party would continue to
extend "issue-based"
support to the Congress-led coalition.

"Samajwadi Party will continue to give issue-based support to the
UPA
government though on people's issues it will continue to
register its
protest," Yadav told reporters.

SP with 21 MPs in the Lok Sabha had bailed out the UPA during
voting
on the cut motions on April 27 by staging a walkout.

Asked about chances of evolving a Third Front, Yadav said as of
now he
was not making any efforts in this regard and has not
talked with any
political party. SP was a key ally of the
erstwhile United Front
government at the Centre.

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BJP's pick Munda meets Soren; consensus still eludes
STAFF
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Ranchi, May 16 (PTI) After getting a nod from the leadership to
go
ahead with government formation in Jharkhand, senior BJP
leader Arjun
Munda tonight met Chief Minister Shibu Soren, but
it appears that a
consensus is not evolved to end the
three-week-old political crisis in
the state.

Munda, who was closeted with Soren and his son Hemant at the
latter's
residence for about 50 minutes, drove away to his house
without
speaking to the media.

The Sorens also did not speak to the waiting media, indicating
that
there were some more "glitches" to settle among the allies
before
installing a new government.

Earlier during the day, Munda said, "The BJP leadership has
decided
that government should be formed in Jharkhand, and has
given me the
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BJP objects to MLA's comments against party
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Batala, May 16 (PTI) A BJP MLA's comments against party today
landed
him in trouble with some demanding his resignation from
the
legislature.

Party also levelled allegations of corruption and nepotism
against
Jadgish Sahni.

In a press conference, State President Bhartiya Yuva Janta Morcha

Vivek Sharma and city BJP president Ashok Modgil asked him to
resign
from the post.

He had allegedly called BJP as a party of impotents and corrupt

people. They alleged that in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the

highhandedness and corrupt practices of the MLA had played a
decisive
factor in the defeat of the SAD-BJP candidates.

"Before blaming others, Sahni should check this own deeds. He had

grabbed 30 and 12 marlas of land belonging to Sanatam Dharam
Sabha by
transferring the land in the names of his relatives by
using his
influence.

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Munda finds going tough
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Chief minister Shibu Soren comes out of his Kanke Road residence
in
Ranchi on Monday. Picture by Hardeep Singh

Ranchi, May 17: BJP leader Arjun Munda is trying his best to get
the
JMM on board to hammer out an amicable solution to the
20-day
political crisis facing the state government, but Shibu
Soren is
proving to be a tough cookie by playing his cards close
to his chest.

Munda spent the day holding a series of meetings with Ajsu chief

Sudesh Mahto and Speaker C.P. Singh and also spoke to BJP as
well as
JMM MLAs to find a way out of the impasse.

He also held a closed-door meeting with his party’s
organisational
secretary, Saudan Singh, Jharkhand in-charge
Karuna Shukla and other
office bearers. Earlier in the day,
state BJP chief Raghubar Das also
met Shukla.

According to high-level sources, the BJP was ready to accede to
the
JMM’s demand for a rotational chief minister provided it got
the first
shot at the chair. But, the JMM, it seemed, was
opposed to this,
insisting that Soren be allowed to continue as
chief minister.

“We want the JMM to lead the government for the first 28 months
for
the sake of stability and continuity,” said Vinod Pandey, a
member of
the party’s core committee, set up to take policy
decisions in case of
political exigencies.

Munda wouldn’t admit the difficult nature of his assignment,
claiming
to The Telegraph instead that his talks were positive
and that a
solution was in sight. Guruji, too, was positive, he
claimed.

For a moment though the BJP thought it was all over when word
spread
that Governor M..H. Farook had met advocate-general R.S.
Mazumdar,
sparking speculation that President’s rule was
imminent in the state.

The governor is understood to have discussed his constitutional
duties
under the present circumstances, but Mazumdar denied that
politics was
discussed. “It was a general discussion,” he added.

Shukla said that Munda had been asked to work out a formula with
the
JMM to run the government. But she clarified that the BJP
won’t wait
till June 29 for Soren to step down.

“I believe the imbroglio will be over in a day or two,” she
asserted.

However, a key BJP negotiator said that the JMM’s inner
contradictions
were holding back a solution.

Soren, apparently oblivious of the BJP-led brainstorming
sessions,
attended office today and cleared files for around
three hours from 11
am to 2 pm. “He seemed relaxed… not worried
at all,” said an aide.

The JMM was waiting for a final word from Soren. He had assured
the
party’s core committee of arriving at a decision by Monday.
“But he
has not given any signal to step down,” said a source
close to Guruji.

Asked for a comment, Seraikela MLA Champai Soren said like
everyone
else he too was waiting for Guruji’s decision. “We have
nothing to say
when we have authorised him to take a final
call,” he added.

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Congress test case in north
BARUN GHOSH

Mamata Banerjee at a civic poll rally in Calcutta on Monday where
she
dubbed Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee “a blot on Left politics” and
said her
politics needed no certificate from him. The chief
minister had on
Sunday described Trinamul as a “violent, lawless
and coercive party”.
Picture by Amit Datta

Calcutta, May 17: The collapse of the alliance with Mamata
Banerjee
has presented a challenge before the Congress even in
its citadels
like Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Malda and
Murshidabad.

In 2009, all the six Lok Sabha seats the Congress won were from
the
north Bengal districts.

This time, it had almost stitched up the alliance with the
Trinamul
Congress in seven municipalities across Malda, Cooch
Behar and
Jalpaiguri when the alliance fell through following
Mamata’s refusal
to give more than 25 wards to her ally in the
141-ward Calcutta
Municipal Corporation.

“Barring Murshidabad (where six municipalities are going to the

polls), the alliance with Trinamul was almost final in north
Bengal.
But Mamata’s unilateral move to snap the alliance in
Calcutta prompted
our leaders in north Bengal to field
candidates against Trinamul
nominees,” said state Congress
working president Pradip Bhattacharya.

The Congress is now fighting its ally to retain its pockets of

domination in the 13 civic boards across north Bengal.

The region is crucial for the Congress because that is where its

strength lies. Bhattacharya said if the party could reaffirm its
grip
on north Bengal, “we would be in a position to enter a hard
bargain
with Mamata over seat-sharing for the Assembly polls”.

“A good showing will also allow us to give a fitting reply to
Mamata’s
humiliating offer in Calcutta,” a Congress source
added.

However, it is easier said than done with Trinamul gnawing at the

Congress’s citadel.

“Going by the overwhelming response to our campaign for change,
we are
optimistic about all 13 municipalities,” said Trinamul’s
north Bengal
convener Gautam Deb.

Of the four municipalities going to the polls in Cooch Behar, the

Congress controls one — Cooch Behar. The others — Dinhata,
Toofanganj
and Mathabhanga — are with the Left.

Much has happened in Bengal politics since the 2005 civic polls,

though.

“Despite our strong presence in Cooch Behar and Dinhata, we are
facing
a tough contest from Trinamul nominees in all four
municipalities.
Even in a Left bastion like Mathabhanga,
Trinamul has two councillors
in the CPM-controlled board,” said
district Congress president Biren
Kundu.

In the 2006 Assembly polls, Trinamul had snatched the Dinhata
seat
from the Left.

In Jalpaiguri, the Congress controls Jalpaiguri municipality, but

Trinamul hopes to cash in on its infighting. “We shall also use
our
victory in the adjoining Rajganj Assembly seat in 2006 as a
plank,”
said Jalpaiguri Trinamul president K.K. Kalyani.

In Malda, the Congress and Trinamul together run the Englishbazar

municipality, while the Left controls Old Malda.

“This time, we are confronting Trinamul in both municipalities,”
said
Congress district president and Malda South MP A.H. Khan
Chowdhury.

In Murshidabad, Trinamul has for the first time fielded
candidates for
all 103 wards in the six civic bodies —
Murshidabad, Kandi, Beldanga,
Jiaganj-Azimganj, Jangipur and
Dhulian. The Congress here controls
Murshidabad and Kandi while
the Left controls the remaining four.

“To be able to field so many candidates in Murshidabad is itself
a
proof of our strength,” said Utpal Pal, Trinamul’s district
youth
president.

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Congress secular jab at Left
SANJAY K. JHA

New Delhi, May 17: Panned over price rise, the Congress is
hitting
back at the Left for “sitting in the BJP’s lap”.

Exactly a year after the May 2009 elections threw up signs of
Congress
revival, the party claims to have become the sole
protector of secular
politics, while accusing its former ally of
digesting flagrant
violations by RSS outfits.

“Have we heard even a single strong statement condemning the BJP
in
the last one year. Have the CPM and the CPI, continuously
attacking
the Congress on price rise and even resorting to a
Bharat bandh,
attacked the rent-a-riot saffron brigade of the
Ram Sene?” Congress
spokesperson Manish Tiwari said.

“The leaders of the Left are found at the leader of Opposition
Sushma
Swaraj’s door; we can say the Left is sitting in the
BJP’s lap,” he
added.

Tiwari said the Left must clarify if the threat to India’s
secular
polity had ceased, particularly when needles of
suspicion for the
blasts in Malegaon, Mecca Masjid, Ajmer and
the Samjhauta Express
pointed to outfits that had links with the
Sangh parivar.

“The time has come for the government to holistically look at the

entire web of the larger RSS pantheon,” he said, before going on
to
add: “Will the secular parties sacrifice their ideology at
the altar
of anti-Congressism?”

When pointed out that the Left was only trying to forge
parliamentary
strategies on policies they ideologically oppose,
he said: “…We have a
simple question: has the threat of
communalism died? The Left should
realise there is a permanent
fault-line in Indian politics and that is
the RSS challenge to
secularism. No party should ignore that.”

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Farcical proceedings
Good governance is at a premium in
Ranchi today

Someone once said that history repeats itself, the first time as
a
tragedy and the second time as a farce. A plot of this kind is

unfolding in Jharkhand.

On Monday, a senior Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader, Champai Soren,
said
his party wanted Shibu Soren to continue as chief minister.
This comes
at a time when the Bharatiya Janata Party is unable
to decide on a
name for chief ministership, something that has
been attributed to
internal squabbling in the party.

Something similar had happened in 2009 when Shibu Soren was asked
to
step down by his alliance partner, the United Progressive
Alliance. He
complied reluctantly. He is showing the same
reluctance again, much to
the detriment of Jharkhand. At that
time, too, indecision on the part
of his alliance partners hit
governance in the state ...

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Govt betrayed us, sent Bill to Cong-led panel: SP
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Tags : SP, Congress, Nuclear Damage Bill, Mulayam Singh Yadav

Posted: Sat May 15 2010, 03:57 hrs

New Delhi:

UPA govt had sought Mulayam Singh's support in letting the
N-damage
Bill being introduced in Lok Sabha.

Just when it seemed that the SP was moving towards evolving a
working
relationship with the Congress, the government’s
decision to refer the
Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill to
the standing committee on
science and technology — and not the
one on energy headed by Mulayam
Singh Yadav — has led to fresh
heartburn between the two parties.

The government had sought Mulayam’s support in letting the
contentious
Bill being introduced in Lok Sabha on the last day
of the Budget
session on the assurance that he would anyhow have
the opportunity to
suggest changes in the Bill as it would be
sent to the committee under
him.

But the government seemed to have had a change of mind and, in a
rude
shock to the SP, decided to refer the proposed legislation
to the
standing committee on science and technology, headed by
Congress MP T
Subbarami Reddy. The passage of the Bill by
Parliament is essential
for operationalisation of the Indo-US
civil nuclear cooperation
agreement.

Taken aback by this decision, a visibly angry SP general
secretary Ram
Gopal Yadav called it a “betrayal” by the
government.

“It (the government’s decision) is shocking and unbelievable.
More so
because Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Minister
of State
Prithviraj Chavan had personally assured me that the
Bill will be
referred to the standing committee on energy,” Ram
Gopal told The
Indian Express.

“This is a complete betrayal of the promise made by the
government.
This decision casts aspersions on the impartiality
of the standing
committee on energy. It is very unfortunate
because it reflects a
clear bias on the part of the government
based on party affiliation to
those heading the standing
committees,” he added.

Endorsing Ram Gopal’s comments, an upset SP chief Mulayam Singh
Yadav,
when contacted over the phone, said: “I need not add to
what the party
general secretary has said... but it is clear
that the government
sends bills to the committee which it trusts
the most.”

The CPM was not to be left behind, particularly after Mulayam had

desisted from joining them in the walkout when the Bill was

introduced. When contacted, senior CPM leader Basudeb Acharia
said he
would take up the matter with the Speaker. “I will write
a letter to
the Speaker of Lok Sabha and will also speak to
Mulayam on the
issue.”

Given its rigid line on the nuclear deal and stringent opposition
to
this bill, CPM Politburo member Brinda Karat came out
strongly against
the government move. “The government is
manipulating the parliamentary
system of standing committees to
suit its own interests. In this case,
we believe it would better
suit them to have a chairman from the
Congress party for every
standing committee,” she said.

On its part, the government clarified that it was only going by
rules
on jurisdiction of standing committees which state that
the Department
of Atomic Energy (DAE) falls under the ambit of
the science &
technology committee. But the government seems
to taking advantage of
a grey area as the standing committee on
energy has been discussing
matters relating to nuclear power.

The confusion is mainly on account of the fact that the DAE has
not
piloted any legislation since the late 1980s. The system of

parliamentary standing committees did not exist at that time.
From
available records, all routine DAE matters, including
Demands of
Grants, were dealt with by the standing committee on
energy until 2005
but after that they have been handled by the
standing committee on
science and technology.

What has incensed the SP is the fact that its leader had
personally
discussed the matter with Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee on the eve
of the introduction of the Bill besides the
PM’s personal assurance as
claimed by Ram Gopal.

Given that the government is keen on having the standing
committee
complete its report by the monsoon session, Reddy
being from the
Congress party is more dependable because the
chairman holds all the
cards when it comes to timely report
preparation and charting a
consensus. Still, the irony is that
Ram Gopal and Mulayam’s son
Akhilesh Yadav are also members of
the science & technology
committee.

In the context of what has happened, the committee proceedings
are
bound to be more stormy than expected. The Yadav duo is
unlikely to
make it easy for Reddy to fast-track matters, which
may add to
Congress woes as it tackles a recalcitrant BJP and a
firmly opposed
Left.

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mulayam-RJD-congress
By: s kumar | Saturday , 15 May '10
18:00:02 PM

in Kaliyuga- it is said the evil soul will have a pleasent
looking
honest persons-face, they will rule to destroy the
righetous, it would
have been better SP_BSP_RJD had merged in
congress, and reaped the
apples, in the garden of eden. as it is
congress is lost of all
gandhian values.as such slavery is
rampant in it.

SP
By: Sk | Saturday , 15 May '10 12:58:25 PM

Mulayam and his Chief Sycophant Amar Singh took hundreds of
crores
from Congress last year to save UPA-1 on nuclear issue.
Now Lalu,
Mulayam and Mayawati are taking their share of
corruption from
Congress. People of India are being made fooled
by these pseudo
secular thugs on the name of secularism.

Congress-RJD-Mayawati-Maylyam
By: Madhusudan | Saturday , 15
May '10 20:54:37 PM

I agree with your view that all four parties are same & are
working
for same motive to amass wealth by siphoning all
resources of
country.The trio of Laloo-Maulyam-Mayawati have
ruined Bihar & UP
which led to extreme poverty &
backwardness in both states with lowest
income in India.Congress
party is originator & protector of corruption
in India which
inflicted corruption from top to bottom leading ti
serious
danger for safety & integrity of country.
Betrayal
By:
Varind | Saturday , 15 May '10 12:53:32 PM

Congress has not betrayed Mulayam Singh but has shown him his
right
place. As the people of Bengal are bent upon to wipe the
left for
their sin of supporting Congress and on the same
anology people of UP
will wipe SP out. Mulayam and Lalu are
catching a straw and this can't
keep them afloat for too long.
Yadavs' end is more near than it
appears.

Betrayal
By: Madhusudan | Saturday , 15 May '10
21:16:27 PM

The public must finish this dirty game played by RJD,SP,BSP &
Congress
by voting out in next elections. This is the weapon to
be used by
public to punish such unscrupulous & brazen
people who are deceiving
mass of country.They must be dealt
strongly to save country from such
evils.

congress somersault
By: N.S.Rajan | Saturday , 15 May
'10 12:40:43 PM

This comes as no surprise.What is indeed surprising is that even
after
repeated betrayals and the use and discard instances of
the past,
including the recent past,by the congress
leadership,such veteran
leaders naively believe in assurances
given.However,considering that
they too follow only
opportunistic politics and are too eager to
compromise policies
for practical gains, this is nothing less than
what they
deserve.Mulayam will not find any sympathy from anyone other

than those in the same boat with him now.

Congress used you, and kicked you
By: Ash | Saturday ,
15 May '10 11:59:07 AM

Really? Did you not betray the trust of all Indians by siding
with
Congress, for the cut motion? Congress used you, and kicked
you and
Lallu. Do you still believe that Gadkari, and not
Congress think that
you are dogs?

SP, Yadavs and the Nuclear Bill
By: sailor | Saturday , 15
May '10 11:43:44 AM

Mulayam should have by now experienced more than once that he
does not
command any respect however much he may try to lick the
boots of the
congress. Right from the time of the gate crashing
during UPA-I,
bailing out the Govt. and the recent U-turn, he
still has not learnt
his lesson.

mulayam
By: yohan | Saturday , 15 May '10 11:24:37 AM

either you bow down or quit. you cant survive with this congress
party
unless you surrender completed, and obey their orders.
agree whatever
they say. dont raise your objections on anything.
all purported
autonomous institutions are wagging their tails
for the congress
bosses. hence you cant object to congress
manipulations. if you do so,
the cbi, ec or even judicial
machinery will stand against you. mulayam
and lalu will face
more trouble, as congress has a new successful
friend in up,
mayawati. mr mulayam, even if you are a zero, take a
firm stand
and stand for that cause instead of dilly dallying.

What is the special bond?

By: Irshad Ali | Saturday , 15 May '10 10:10:56 AM
This has
happened for the hundredth time between SP & congress.But

still, there is some magical bond between the two, which makes
SP work
for the benefit of Congress.

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Jharkhand: BJP, JMM to share power on rotation
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Tags : BJP, JMM, Jharkhand, Shibu Soren, Arjun Munda

Posted: Tue May 18 2010, 14:01 hrs
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BJP and JMM will share the power in Jharkhand for 28 months each
with
the BJP taking over in the first phase.

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Marandi Seeks Dismissal of Soren Govt; Files Petition
New
Delhi | May 18, 2010

Jharkhand Vikas Morcha Chief Babulal Marandi today moved the
Supreme
Court seeking dismissal of Shibu Soren government for
accusing him of
misusing the constitutional provision for
occupying the post of Chief
Minister without being elected to
the state assembly.

Marandi, who was the first Chief Minister of Jharkhand after the
state
was carved out from Bihar, accused the JMM chief of
misusing the
special provision under Article 164 (4) of the
Constitution.

Article 164 (4) enables an unelected person to become Chief
Minister
subject to the condition that he/she would get elected
to the Assembly
within six months.

Marandi's petition filed through advocate Anurag Kumar alleged it
was
the third time that Soren took advantage of the
constitutional
provision and has been unable to get himself
elected to the House.

He has sought a direction for the Governor to restrain Soren to

function as a full-fledged Chief Minister and from taking
cabinet
decisions on policy matters.

The petition said it has now become impossible for the JMM chief
to
get elected to the House as only 42 days are left for him to
complete
six months as Chief Minister since he was sworn in on
December 30,
2009, while the Election Commission takes around 47
days to complete
the process of bye-election.

Filed At: May 18, 2010 20:04 IST ,
Edited At: May 18, 2010
20:04 IST
Tags: Jharkhand | JMM | Shibu Soren | Babulal Marandi

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FIR Against Subhash Yadav
Patna | May 18, 2010

The police today registered an FIR against RJD supremo Lalu
Prasad's
brother-in-law and Rajya Sabha member Subhash Prasad
Yadav, his wife
Renu Devi and three others charging them with
kidnapping a liquor shop
employee in the state capital.

The FIR was registered with the Shastrinagar police station here,

police sources said.

A Bihar court had on May 10 ordered registration of an FIR
against
Subhash Prasad Yadav and others.

Chief Judicial Magistrate S P Singh had taken cognizance of the

complaint filed by Umesh Singh, the employee of the liquor Shop,
who
had alleged that the five, including Yadav, had kidnapped
him when he
had gone to "demand payment of dues for bottles of
liquor" bought by
them.

Umesh Singh had on April 28, 2010 had move the court seeking
probe
into the charges levelled by him against Subhash Yadav and
others.

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Rabri Devi Surrenders in Court, Granted Bail
Chapra (Bihar) |
May 18, 2010

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri
Devi
today surrendered before a Chapra court in connection with
a case
charging her with making abusive remarks against former
state JD(U)
president Rajiv Ranjan Singh and Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar.

The leader of opposition in the Bihar Assembly surrendered before
the
court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Y N Singh who granted her
regular
bail.

The court on May 6 had issued non-bailable warrant of arrest
against
Rabri Devi for her alleged remarks against Rajiv Rajan
Singh alias
Lalan and Kumar during electioneering for the 2009
Lok Sabha polls at
Garkha for drumming up support for her
husband and RJD chief Lalu
Prasad from Saran parliamentary
constituency.

Sanjiv Sekhar, the then Sub-divisional officer, had filed the
case
against Rabri Devi after she had made the alleged
uncharitable
utterances.

Filed At: May 18, 2010 11:11 IST ,
Edited At: May 18, 2010
11:11 IST
Tags: Bihar | RJD | Abuse - Invective - Swearing etc |
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Cong Wants DMK To Help Win 2 RS Seats in TN
New Delhi | May
18, 2010

Congress, whose outside support is crucial to survival of
Karunanidhi
government in Tamil Nadu, is seeking to extract its
pound of flesh in
Rajya Sabha elections next month by insisting
on two seats from DMK in
the state.

Hard bargaining is on between the two parties over the issue with

Congress contending that it needed more seats in the Upper House
given
the fact that it was in a minority there and wants to
shore up its
numbers, Congress sources said.

DMK already has four members in Rajya Sabha and Congress'
argument is
that it was in dire need for more members and the
key ally should
reciprocate its gesture in Tamil Nadu by
sacrificing two seats.

Biennial elections to Rajya Sabha for six seats in the state will
be
held next month and the Congress High Command has to decide
the issue
within a week.

Congress, which has a strength of 36 MLAs in 234-member Tamil
Nadu
Assembly, could ensure the victory of only one candidate on
its own
and wants DMK to give two seats.

As per the party arithmetic, AIADMK could have two seats with the

support from its allies like MDMK as also Left parties.

While no official word is available, UPA sources said the tough

bargaining has led to Karunanidhi agreeing to give one seat from
his
party's share to Congress which, however, wants two.

Filed At: May 18, 2010 21:05 IST ,
Edited At: May 18, 2010
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Cong-KC(M) Discussions Fail to Make Headway
Aluva (Kerala) |
May 17, 2010

Discussions between leaders of Congress and Kerala Congress
(Mani)
failed to resolve the differences between them over the
proposed
merger of Kerala Congress (Joseph) with KC (M).

"Leaders of both the parties agreed to disagree," UDF convenor P
P
Thankachan, who was part of the discussions, told reporters.

While Congress leaders feel Kerala Congress(M), a UDF
constituent,
should have held discussions with the front before
taking a decision
on the merger, KC(M) leaders have held that
the merger decision was an
internal matter of the constituent
and there was no need to discuss it
with the UDF.

Thankachan, Opposition leader in the assembly Oommen Chandy,
Kerala
PCC President Ramesh Chennithala and Kerala Congress(M)
leaders - K M
Mani and P C George participated in the
discussions.

Leaders of Congress and KC(M), who were meeting for the first
time to
discuss the merger issue, decided not to air their views
publicly on
the issue with the media.

Both parties also decided to cooperate wholeheartedly to ensure
the
success of 'betrayal day' being observed tomorrow by the
UDF,
protesting against the price rise.

Thankachan said discussions would be held with coalition parties
on
convening a meeting of the front this month itself.

To a query, he said no discussions were held today on seat
sharing.

The two Kerala Congress factions have decided to merge on May 27.

Kerala Congress (J) was hitherto with the CPI(M) led Left
Democratic
Front.

Filed At: May 17, 2010 19:04 IST ,
Edited At: May 17, 2010
19:04 IST
Tags: Kerala | Congress

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No Pact With BSP; Will Fight For Better Future: Rahul

Mirzapur (U.P.) | May 18, 2010

Ruling out any political understanding with Mayawati-led BSP,
Rahul
Gandhi today hinted that Congress may go it alone in the
2012 assembly
polls in the state.

"I am ready to fight your battle. Take me where ever you want.

Together, we will change Uttar Pradesh for the better," Gandhi
said
addressing a rally here.

He dismissed suggestions of a political understanding reached
with the
BSP to help the UPA government sail through trying
times in
Parliament.

"Listen to me carefully. There will be no political understanding
or
pact with the BSP. Congress will defeat the BSP government.
The youth
of UP will help us achieve this," Gandhi said.

"During voting in Parliament on the cut motions, newspapers wrote
that
Congress has struck a deal with the BSP. I would like to
say there
will be no agreement with the BSP and no compromise
with the future of
UP," he said.

The Congress leader claimed that successive governments led by
BJP, SP
and BSP have failed to bring change to the state where
people were
forced to seek employment in other states.

"You go to Maharashtra and are chased away. You go to Haryana and

Punjab and help those states progress. If UP strides to
progress, the
entire country will make a beeline to this state,"
he said.

Gandhi exhorted the youth of the state to be drivers of change
and
take UP to the heights of glory it enjoyed in the past.

"BJP said it will work wonders. SP played the caste card and BSP
said
it has formed a government of Dalits. But have you ever
asked the
Dalits, whether the government works for them," he
asked aloud.

"The Dalits say there is no government in Uttar Pradesh and I
know
that you will send the BSP packing as you did with the BJP
and the SP
in the past," he said.

Gandhi claimed that the funds the Centre allocates to Uttar
Pradesh
never reach the intended beneficiaries.

"Government at Delhi is sending crores of rupees to UP, but it is
not
reaching the people. We are sending funds for MNREGS, but it
is not
reaching the people it is meant to benefit," he alleged.

He said that the Centre launched MNREGS, where 100- day
employment was
being provided to the people in the rural areas.

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, May 19, 2010 There is unity in CPI(M), LDF:
VS
Special Correspondent

The Hindu Kerala Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan. File photo

Related

Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan asserted here on Tuesday that
there
was unity within the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
and the ruling
Left Democratic Front (LDF).

Addressing a special press conference in connection with the
fourth
anniversary of the LDF government, the Chief Minister
denied that he
was not getting support from his party for his
work as Chief
Minister.

Mr. Achuthanandan said the sudden exit of the Kerala Congress(J)
from
the front had no justification. The Kerala Congress(J)
leader P.J.
Joseph was working in cooperation with the others in
the LDF. Now, as
he moved towards the United Democratic Front
(UDF), dissentions had
surfaced in the Opposition front.

Munnar Mission

He said it was regrettable that the Munnar Mission had to be
suspended
and that land-grabbers continued to corner government
land. A three-
member team deputed to Munnar under the
leadership of Additional
Secretary K. Suresh Kumar was effective
in resuming encroached land.
He had to be withdrawn as
controversies arose over the evictions.
Though several others
had been deputed to continue the mission, they
were not
effective. And their action attracted court cases.

The government had received reports that Harrisons Malayalam

Plantations Limited was holding excess land. The government was

examining whether the land could be resumed legally.

Kinaloor issue

The Chief Minister said the issue over land acquisition for a
road to
the Kinaloor industrial park near Kozhikode would be
settled amicably.
The recent police action there was an
unexpected development. There
were concerns over the land
acquisition for the four-lane road when
hardly any industry was
coming up in the park. In view of the public
ire over the issue,
he had decided to convene a conference of all
concerned. The
land would be taken over only with the full consent of
the
affected people. Evictees would be given alternative housing.

He said that though there were extremists behind the agitation,
there
was nothing wrong in their being invited to the
conference, as people
had lined up under their leadership. As
they had taken up people's
issues, they could not be kept away.
Industries Minister Elamaram
Karim and the Kozhikode Collector
had invited them for talks.

Mr. Achuthanandan said the government proposed to increase the

procurement price for paddy further. Over the past four years,
the
government had increased the price from Rs.7 to Rs.12 a kg.
The
government had provided considerable succour to farmers and
ended
suicides. There was little reason for the Opposition to
observe the
anniversary of government as ‘betrayal day.' The
government proposed
to increase the coverage of free health
insurance and the scheme for
supplying rice at Rs.2 a kg to 35
lakh families.

The government had taken steps for the formation of eight public

sector units. The Kochi Metro and Vizhinjam international
terminal
projects would take off shortly. One lakh job
opportunities would be
created through the expansion of the
Infopark in Kochi. New IT parks
would cater to the Malabar area.

Keywords: V.S. Achuthanandan, Communist Party of India (Marxist),
LDF,
UDF

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KOLKATA, May 19, 2010 Mamata whips up communal tension: CPI(M)

Special Correspondent

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has charged Trinamool
Congress
leader Mamata Banerjee with creating an atmosphere of
communal tension
through her election speeches, and urged the
State Election
Commissioner to initiate action against her for
violating the code of
conduct.

CPI(M) State committee secretary Biman Bose said the Railway

Minister's remarks at public meetings could lead to communal

disharmony. He said she claimed to have confidential reports on
plans
to use the police to trigger communal clashes in the city.

On Tuesday, Mr. Bose sent a letter to the State Election
Commissioner,
saying she had made statements levelling charges
against the CPI(M) on
these grounds. Choosing to even identify
areas where minority
populations live in, Ms. Banerjee told
public meetings that the CPI(M)
was planning to engineer
communal clashes there, he complained. “She
is trying to create
undercurrents of terror.”

Thus, Ms. Banerjee violated sub-section 1 of Section 1 of the
code of
conduct, besides abetting divisive forces and creating
disharmony
among the various sects and communities. These sorts
of statements
were also violative of Section 125 of the
Representation of the People
Act, Mr. Basu said.

He appended to his letter newspaper reports on her public
meetings.

Keywords: Mamata Banerjee, communal tension, CPI(M), election

commissioner

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KOLKATA, May 17, 2010 Hitlerian propaganda: Buddhadeb
Ananya
Dutta

Describing the Trinamool Congress campaign for the upcoming civic

polls as reminiscent of “the false propaganda of the parties of
Hitler
and Mussolini,” Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on
Sunday said
West Bengal had never seen electioneering sink to
such low levels.

Referring to the Trinamool accusations that the Left parties had

deliberately set afire Stephen Court on Park Street and that
they
might trigger riots in Kolkata, he said here, “the question
of riots
during an election campaign has never been raised
before.”

He appealed to people to oppose the “language of the criminal
world”
that had crept into politics.

Mr. Bhattacharjee said the Trinamool “is breeding a new culture —
one
of threats, terror and violence.”

Ruling out early Assembly elections, as suggested by Trinamool
chief
Mamata Banerjee in her speeches, he said, “she neither
knows nor has
read the Constitution….No one other than the State
government can
propose that elections be held.”

Asked about the inter-party clashes across the State which
claimed
many lives, Mr. Bhattacharjee said the issue was being
dealt with at
the administrative level. But at the political
level, the Trinamool
refused to cooperate with the government in
resolving it.

“I have asked them in the past and still appeal to them to come
for
discussions so that we can identify these areas and resolve
the
issue…..But the opposition party has taken a unilateral
decision to
not cooperate with the government.”

“Dark force”

Mr. Bhattacharjee also alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh,
Maoists, right-wing organisations and fundamentalists had
formed “a
rainbow alliance” with the Trinamool to form “a dark,
toxic force”
that wanted to wrest power from the Left.

Keywords: Buddhadeb, Mamata Banerjee, poll campaign, West Bengal

Assembly elections, TMC

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Kolkata, May 18, 2010 Delhi is not my home: Mamata
PTI

PTI Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata
Banerjee.

In the face of criticism by the Opposition for her frequent
absence
from Delhi, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has
defended her stay in
Kolkata saying the national capital was not
her home.

“Delhi is not my home. When there is no Parliament session, why
should
I stay in Delhi? Kolkata is my homeland,” she told a
public meeting
here on Monday while campaigning for her
Trinamool Congress candidates
in the coming civic polls.

Ms. Banerjee’s remark came in the wake of latest criticism by

Opposition, including CPI(M), charging her of neglecting duty as

Railway minister following Sunday’s stampede at New Delhi
Railway
Station, which left two persons dead and eight others
injured.

“It is a ploy by the CPI (M) to send me to Delhi. No one can
force out
me,” she said.

Keywords: Railway Minister, Trinamool Congress, Delhi stampede,
West
Bengal politics

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KOLKATA, May 16, 2010 Buddadeb: Congress forced to oppose
Trinamool
Ananya Dutta

The Congress was forced to oppose the Trinamool Congress at many

places in the coming municipal elections in West Bengal as the
latter
was a violent political party without any agenda or sense
of purpose,
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here on
Sunday.

At a press conference, Mr. Bhattacharjee said, “We have had
several
experiences of alliances between Opposition parties.
There have been
situations where alliances have been there and
when they have failed.
But in this instance where the Congress
is opposing the Trinamool at
many places, one thing that has
become clear is that the Congress has
been forced to do so.”

He said the Trinamool Congress was a force that believed in
violence.
It neither had an agenda nor intent. That party's
agenda was divorced
from reality and was not based on policy or
thinking.

Stressing on the Left Front's agenda of development for the
coming
elections, he said the process of industrialisation was
on track
despite the obstructionist view of the Trinamool
Congress. The year
2009-10 saw an ...

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Ranchi, May 19 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister and president of
the
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Shibu Soren always hogs the
limelight —
but for controversial reasons.

His critics call him a hard bargainer and an unpredictable
politician
who uses constitutional provisions for self-interest.

In July 2004, Soren, who was then central coal minister,
allegedly
caused embarrassment to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
by trying to
evade arrest against a warrant issued in connection
with a three-
decade-old massacre case.

Soren seems to be the only politician in the country who became a

state’s chief minister thrice without being a legislator.

As per constitutional provisions, a person, who is not a
legislator,
can be sworn-in as chief minister but he has to get
elected to the
state assembly within six months.

“Soren has made a mockery of the constitution. He became chief

minister thrice without being a legislator,” said former chief

minister and president of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik
(JVM-P)
Babulal Marandi.

Marandi has filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging
Soren’s
continuation as Jharkhand chief minister without being a
member of the
assembly.

Soren became chief minister for the first time in March 2005
despite
the fact that the numbers were against him. At that time
he was
central coal minister and a Lok Sabha MP. He had to quit
as chief
minister after he failed to prove his majority in the
house.

He became chief minister for the second time in August 2008. At
that
time, Soren was a Lok Sabha MP and lost the Tamar assembly
bypoll in
January 2009. As a result, he was forced to quit as
chief minister.

Soren’s third stint as chief minister started Dec 30 last year.
He is
still not a member of the state assembly.

He was undecided about fighting an assembly poll when the present

political crisis in the state began. The crisis was sparked
April 27
when he voted in favour of the United Progressive
Alliance government
on a cut motion moved in the Lok Sabha by
his ally in Jharkhand,
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The BJP reacted sharply for his act and April 28 announced
withdrawal
of support from his government in Jharkhand.

On Tuesday, soon after the JMM and the BJP inked a deal for
sharing
power in the state for 28 months each, Soren announced
he will quit as
chief minister.

Arjun Munda, BJP national general secretary and former chief
minister,
is likely to head the new government. According to BJP
leaders, Soren
will quit May 25.

“History will remember Soren for using constitutional provisions
for
self-interest. This is the worst example of misusing the
provisions,”
Shailesh Sinha, Jharkhand Congress general
secretary, told IANS.

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Shibu Soren waits for Court to decide his fate
Pratyush | Dec
4 2006

Shibu Soren, Former Union Coal Minister, has been shifted to
Tihar
jail hospital from AIIMS on Sunday.

He has been found guilty in the connection with murder of his
personal
secretary, Shashinath Jha in 1994.

Later he was admitted to AIIMS after complaining of severe chest
pain.

Soren will be taken to the court from the Tihar Jail hospital.
The
court will deliver the nature of punishment for him on
Tuesday.

According to the Law officer of Tihar jail, Sunil Gupta, the jail

doctors have said that Soren will be able to go to court on
Tuesday.
He said further that the doctors are planning to shift
him to his cell
in the evening.

Soren has been made accused under the charges of criminal
conspiracy,
abduction and murder case. Now, on Tuesday, the Tis
Hazari court will
decide Soren’s fate.

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SC refuses urgent hearing to petition of Marandi
STAFF WRITER
10:59 HRS IST

New Delhi, May 20 (PTI) The Supreme Court today refused to give
urgent
hearing to the petition filed by JVM chief Babulal
Marandi seeking
dismissal of Shibu Soren government for misusing
Constitutional
provision by occupying the post of Chief Minister
without being
elected to the state Assembly.

A vacation bench comprising Justices G S Singhvi and Chandramouli

Prasad said that there was no urgency in the matter and it will
be
heard during the routine course.

Marandi, who was the first Chief Minister of Jharkhand after the
state
was carved out from Bihar, accused the JMM chief of
misusing the
special provision under Article 164 (4) of the
Constitution.

Article 164 (4) enables an unelected person to become chief
minister
subject to the condition that he/she would get elected
to the Assembly
within six months

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No problem with Achuthanandan, says Vijayan
STAFF WRITER
15:17 HRS IST

Thiruvananthapuram, May 20 (PTI) CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi

Vijayan today said there was no difference of opinion between
him and
Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan as portrayed by the
media.

"Achuthanandan has no problem with the party or with me as
reported by
the media," he said during a meet-the-press
programme organised by
Kesari Memorial Journalist Trust here.

Vijayan had yesterday described former chief minister and slain
CPI(M)
leader E K Nayanar as a team captain who paid due
attention in taking
care of cabinet colleagues at times of
crisis.

It was seen as an indirect attack on Achuthanandan who had a
bitter
fallout with Vijayan over the SNC-Lavalin case, in which
the latter is
being prosecuted by the CBI.

"I have not criticised Achuthanandan. I only talked about Nayanar
and
his personal qualities. But the media gave a wrong picture
about the
statement," he said.

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Ker CM downplays Vijayan's criticism against him
STAFF WRITER
14:50 HRS IST

Thiruvananthapuram, May 19 (PTI) Kerala Chief Minister and senior

CPI(M) leader V S Achuthanandan today downplayed criticism that
he was
"not protecting" his cabinet colleagues, though holding
the highest
executive post in the state.

"Some baseless media reports are coming out with these kind of

allegations. I am not taking them seriously", he told reporters
to a
question during a cabinet briefing.

He was answering a query that CPI-M State Secretary Pinarayi
Vijayan,
considered his bete noire, had levelled such a charge
at a function at
Kannur.

At the function, organised in memory of former Chief Minister and

veteran CPI(M) leader E K Nayanar, Vijayan had reportedly stated
that
Nayanar had always protected his cabinet colleagues and won
the
admiration of all and that he was a role model for all
Communists to
follow.

Achuthanandan has been at loggerheads with the official faction
in the
CPI-M, led by Vijayan.

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BJP helps CPI(M) during elections in Bengal: Mamata
STAFF
WRITER 21:40 HRS IST

Kolkata, May 19 (PTI) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee
today
slammed former ally BJP for "helping" the CPI(M) during
elections in
West Bengal.

"What strength has the BJP in Bengal? Their only task is to
divide
votes during elections and help the CPI(M)," Banerjee
told a rally for
the May 30 civic elections.

She claimed that the seven Lok Sabha seats that the CPI(M) won in
2009
Lok Sabha elections was because of division of votes by the
BJP.

She said Assembly elections in West Bengal would be held within
two to
three months and that the time had come for the Marxists
to go.

"CPI-M has been in power in the state for 34 years.

Why should you vote for them?" she asked.

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Sharad Pawar not to attend UPA-II anniversary event
STAFF
WRITER 21:19 HRS IST

New Delhi, May 19 (PTI) NCP supremo Sharad Pawar will not be
attending
the first anniversary celebrations of the UPA-II here
on May 22.

Pawar, who is Food and Agriculture Minister, left for abroad
today on
a week-long visit. It is not immediately known who will
represent NCP
in the celebrations. Union Ministers Praful Patel
and Agatha Sangma
represent the party in the government along
with Pawar.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will be present at the

celebrations and she conveyed her decision to Prime Minister
Manmohan
Singh who had rang her up yesterday to invite her on
the occasion.

DMK sources said that Union Minister M K Alagiri is unlikely to
attend
the celebrations as he is on a personal visit to the US.
DMK leaders T
R Baalu and Dayanidhi Maran are likely to attend.

Government sources said that DMK chief M Karunanidhi has also
been
invited.

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Naveen forging links with Cong to speed up Posco: CPI
STAFF
WRITER 21:15 HRS IST

Paradip (Orissa), May 19 (PTI) Accusing Orissa Chief Minister
Naveen
Patnaik of forging links with Congress leaders to speed
up Posco
project near here, CPI leader A B Bardhan today alleged
that police
cracked down on protesters last week on the
instruction of the BJD
supremo.

"Naveen Patnaik has links with Congress. Whenever the BJD chief
visits
Delhi, he holds talks with Congress leaders," Bardhan
said at a
meeting at Balitutha, entry point to proposed Posco
site, where many
people were injured in police operation against
anti-project
agitators.

Though CPI always considered BJD as a friendly political party
and had
entered into seat adjustments with it for the general
elections last
year, Patnaik ignores us and interacts with
Congress leaders when in
Delhi, he claimed.

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Small, Not Beautiful
May 21, 2010, 12.00am IST

Tags:BJP|Jharkhand|JMM|Shibu Soren

Has the creation of small states helped the cause of governance
and
development? Jharkhand is a bad advertisement for small
states, if one
chooses it as a test case. The end of Bihar's
domination has not
brought better governance to Jharkhand's
people, especially the
tribals. The state performs poorly on
poverty and key human
development indicators. Such conditions
reinforce Maoist propaganda
about underdevelopment. To top it
all, there is the prevailing
political uncertainty.

A miffed BJP pulled its support from the JMM-led coalition
government,
when the incumbent chief minister Shibu Soren failed
to support BJP-
sponsored cut motions in the Lok Sabha. A
power-sharing formula has
now been struck up with the JMM, with
Soren agreeing to step down as
part of the deal. Soren's
resignation, apparently, will pave the way
for an Arjun
Munda-led BJP government in the state for the next 28
months,
followed by a JMM-led government for the remaining 28 months.

Despite the latest arrangement, political uncertainty persists
in the
state, as the JMM remains divided over allowing the BJP
to head the
government first. The simmering discontent in both
camps may erupt
over the distribution of cabinet portfolios, and
will remain a
challenge for Munda. Moreover, the ability of the
saffron party in
running such formula-based coalitions is in
question. Its experiences
with Mayawati in UP in 1997 and H D
Kumaraswamy in Karnataka in 2007
are ominous precedents.

Ever since its creation in November 2000, Jharkhand has become a

cauldron for coalition politics with no party getting a
clear-cut
majority. It has seen seven chief ministers in the
previous decade.
There's been rampant corruption over its mining
leases. Madhu Koda, a
former chief minister, was accused of
stashing away Rs 4,000 crore
garnered through mining scams. The
current power-sharing formula, if
at all it lasts, will produce
another two chief ministers before the
state goes to assembly
elections in 2014. Compare that to Chhattisgarh
and Uttarakhand,
which have seen stable governments and a decade of
sustained
infrastructure development.

Jharkhand's rulers have failed its people repeatedly on
governance and
redressal of their problems. The state's
political elites need to
remember their ideals when they fought
for a separate state, and
arrest the slide now. Otherwise
Jharkhand may end up illustrating
precisely the dangers of
carving out small states when they happen to
be rich in
resources: they are subject to capture by tiny,
kleptocratic
elites.

Readers' opinions (2)

R.K.Malhotra New Delhi 21/05/2010 at 09:17 am
The adage or
punchline 'small is beautiful' is right,provided it has

requisite carat,cut and clarity.The small state of Jharkhand is

endowed with mineral wealth--from Coal to Uranium--it is the
small
minded polticians propped up by national parties which are
proving its
bane.

Offensiverohitchandavarker panjim,goa 21/05/2010 at 08:57 am

The reason Soren is hankering for the CM's post has nothing to
do with
improving people's lives

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Mayawati to attend UPA-2 dinner?
TNN, May 21, 2010, 03.54am
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Tags:Dinner|UPA|mayawati|Mulayam singh

NEW DELHI: Suspense looms over BSP chief Mayawati's attendance at
the
UPA-2 dinner on Saturday but SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav
has
regretted his absence with a letter that contains a strong
vote of
support for the ruling coalition.

The biggies from Uttar Pradesh have been invited for the dinner
to
celebrate UPA-2 completing a year in office, a gala which
seeks to put
focus back on how Congress is ruling the polity
without much
challenge. BSP surprised manyby voting against
Opposition-sponsored
cut motions in the budget session of
Parliament. The decision was seen
as tactical as there was no
real threat to the government.

DMK is likely to be represented by parliamentary leader T R
Baalu,
though there may be additions. Trinamool Congress chief
Mamata
Banerjee has agreed to attend the dinner despite being
caught up by
civic elections in West Bengal.

While the railways minister was seen to have been upset over
Congress
decision to not accept her terms of seat-sharing, it is
learnt that
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh personally spoke to
her over telephone.
Her absence would have robbed the
celebrations of some of their sheen
with a message of dissonance
in the ruling camp.

SP chief Mulayam Singh's absence is unlikely to be felt as he has
more
than compensated with an "effusive and friendly" letter to
the PM. He
is learnt to have praised the UPA's tenure in office
for its
achievements and committed his continued backing of his
21-MP outfit.

Mulayam Singh will be busy with the SP national executive being
held
in Kolkata from May 21-23, where the party is expected to
chalk out
its agitational plan against the Uttar Pradesh
government headed by
rival Mayawati.

Other allies like NCP will be present though Sharad Pawar is

travelling abroad. This is a changed UPA set up with sharp
decline in
the number of allies owing to a handsome tally
notched up by Congress
in 2009 Lok Sabha polls.

The event will be preceded by the release of a `report to people'
on
the government's performance in office. The ritual show of
strength
will see Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief
Sonia Gandhi
and leaders of allied and supporting parties in
attendance.

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A wasted year: The common man's woes only increased
May 20,
2010 16:37 IST
Tags: Sonia Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, United
Progressive Alliance-
II, Rahul Gandhi, Rajya Sabha
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year of the UPA-2, non-performance is visible in all
areas of
governance, writes Virendra Kapoor.

If you asked the aam aadmi if there was anything to celebrate at
the
end of one year in office of the United Progressive
Alliance-II
government, the answer would be a big yawn. The
ubiquitous aam aadmi
never had it so bad. His staple dal-roti
has become so costly that he
has had to cut down on the family's
monthly rations.

Never mind the rising costs of electricity, petrol, cooking gas,

public transport, schooling etc. Besides, the law and order
situation
even in the big metros has worsened further in recent
months. In
short, the Congress-led coalition has failed to
protect the interests
of the very aam aadmi in whose name it had
won the second successive
mandate.

Indeed, the non-performance is visible in all other areas of

governance. After winning the second term in office, it was
hoped that
Manmohan Singh [ Images ] would emerge from the
shadows of the
Congress President Sonia Gandhi [ Images ], and
conduct himself as a
leader in his own right. But, then, he has
got where he has being self-
effacing and modest.

A lifetime's habits are unlikely to change at this late stage
even if
the manna from heaven in the form the prime ministership
of the
world's largest democracy literally fell in his lap.

In a newspaper column, author and historian Ramachandra Guha
compared
Singh with India's [ Images ] second Prime Minister Lal
Bahadur
Shastri [ Images ]. It is quite off the mark. For one,
Shastri was a
politician of long standing. As an understudy of
Nehru, he was the
natural choice for heading the government
following the death of the
former. Yes, initially Shastri did
evoke ridicule in some quarters but
that was not due to his
performance as prime minister.

It was his physical stature which caused titters whenever he
figured
in the obligatory documentaries screened in cinema
halls. However
following the 1965 war with Pakistan, such
ridicule stopped as Shastri
gained political stature in his own
right. As against Shastri, one has
been waiting in vain for six
years for Singh to acquire that status in
the popular mind.

So, Singh continues to be the non-leader he was when sheer
destiny
first catapulted him into the prime ministerial gaddi in
May 2004. The
failure of the prime minister to acquire a stature
of his own has had
a deleterious effect on the quality of
administration. For, when the
constitutional head of government
is a cipher and is obliged to take
orders from someone outside
the government, his authority stands duly
undermined.

Given that the exigencies of coalition politics had inevitably
freed
ministers belonging to the allied parties from the
obligations usually
enjoined upon them by the Cabinet system of
government, the scant
importance Congress ministers accorded the
prime minister in matters
of governance has further emasculated
his authority. To begin with,
the peculiar arrangement of
government formation ...

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JMM-led Jharkhand Govt to complete its five-year term: Soren

Friday, May 21, 2010, 13:16 [IST]

Bokaro (Jharkhand), May 21 (ANI): Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu
Soren
on Friday said the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-led
Government would
complete its full five-year term in the state.

"I have formed the government for five years, and shall complete
the
tenure. Who will remove me?" said Soren exactly three days
after he
had agreed to form the government in Jharkhand on a
rotational basis
with the help of the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP).

"The question of a change of government comes if there is no

development. But now development is going on," said Soren giving

indications that there was no deadline for his resignation.

Earlier on Thursday, Soren did not rule out the contesting by
poll to
enter the house, which he must do constitutionally by
June 30, as he
is a Member of Parliament (MP).

Meanwhile, Soren's son Hemant said: "The party has to abide by

whatever decision the president (Soren) has taken or will take."

The JMM-BJP coalition government plunged into a political crisis
after
the BJP withdrew support to government in the wake of
Shibu Soren
voting in favour of the UPA during the cut motion in
parliament on
April 27.

The BJP first announced it would immediately withdraw support
from the
JMM-led government, which would have brought it down
and effectively
led to the imposition of President's Rule or
attempts by the Congress
to form an alternative government.

However, by April 29 when the party received a letter from Hemant

Soren, offering to support the BJP in leading the coalition, the

withdrawal of support was "put on hold" and a dialogue was
pened.
(ANI)

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LUCKNOW, May 21, 2010 Manmohan's dinner invite puts Mayawati in
the
soup
Atiq Khan

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's invite to Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister
Mayawati to a dinner he is hosting to commemorate one
year of the UPA-
II government has created a piquant situation
for the Bahujan Samaj
Party. For, it is gearing itself to stage
a State-wide public protest
(janhit andolan) the same day,
Saturday, against the economic policies
of the Congress-led
government at the Centre. The protest programme
was finalised
about a month ago by the Chief Minister herself.

Dr. Singh has invited all UPA allies and those who have extended

outside support to his government. Ms. Mayawati and Samajwadi
Party
president Mulayam Singh fall in the second category. The
SP chief, who
is in Kolkata in connection with the national
executive meet of his
party, has expressed his inability to
attend the dinner.

There is no official word till Friday on whether or not the Chief

Minister will attend or send a representative to the dinner, the

invitation was received a couple of days ago. Officials in the
Chief
Minister's office here remain tight-lipped, as were BSP
sources.

As the invite clearly mentions one year of the UPA-II government,
the
BSP ranks see the dinner party as a political gathering of
its allies
and supporters. As it is not an official function,
Ms. Mayawati is
under no obligation to attend, say sources.

Dr. Singh's invitation to Ms. Mayawati assumes significance in
the
backdrop of the BSP's support to the UPA government to
defeat the BJP-
sponsored cut motion in the Lok Sabha last
month. Ms. Mayawati then
said her party wanted to thwart
communal forces coming to power at the
Centre.

Members of the SP staged a walkout when the motion was put to
vote.

Ms. Mayawati's support notwithstanding, both the BSP and the
Congress
were quick to dispel suggestions of any bonhomie
between the parties.
For, each wants to score points over the
other ahead of the 2012
Assembly elections.

Ms. Mayawati blamed the UPA government for the State's
backwardness
and even saw in it a Congress-designed conspiracy.

During a visit to her constituency, Rae Bareli, on May 17, UPA

chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi said the
Mayawati
government was not putting Central funds to judicious.
The very next
day, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi
predicted the defeat of
the BSP at the hands of his party in
2012. Addressing a rally in
Mirzapur district, he rejected the
possibility of an understanding
between the two parties.

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Defiant Soren challenges BJP
Agencies

Tags : Shibu Soren, BJP, L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley

Posted: Fri May 21 2010, 17:27 hrs

Jharkhand/New Delhi:

Jharkhand appears to be headed for another spell of political

uncertainty with a defiant Chief Minister Shibu Soren refusing
to
resign and a frustrated BJP saying that state has become a
‘theatre of
the absurd’.

"I have formed the government for five years, and shall complete
the
tenure. Who will remove me?" Soren asked while backtracking
on his own
announcement on May 18 that BJP and JMM will share
power for 28 months
each.

Echoing growing resentment in the BJP top brass over JMM's
flip-flops,
senior party leader M M Joshi told reporters in
Delhi that the state
"has become a theatre of the absurd. I
would not like to say anything
more on this."

Several members of the BJP Parliamentary Board including L K
Advani,
Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, were in favour of
withdrawal of
support to the Shibu Soren government in the
tribal state.

Under the JMM-BJP power-sharing deal, BJP's Arjun Munda will lead
the
coalition in the first phase. The BJP-led government under
him was to
be sworn-in on May 25.

Why Is Congress Playing Favorites?  And How Does This Impact
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Soren, who had agreed to the arrangement, told reporters in
Bokaro
there was no deadline for his resignation.

"The question of a change of government comes if there is no

development. But now development is going on."

Jharkhand had plunged into a political crisis last month when
Soren
voted against the BJP's cut motion in the Lok Sabha.

The BJP threatened to withdraw from the coalition but refrained
from
doing so when he offered the CM's job to the party. Since
then Shibu
has been saying yes and no to going with the BJP,
putting the saffron
party in a quandary.

Soren will have to step down in a month's time if he fails to get

elected from any assembly seat since the six- month period.

But the chief minister has also not ruled out contesting a bypoll
to
enter the house by June 30 by when the six-month period to
get elected
from the day he assumed charge of the post, gets
over. He will have to
step down if he doesn't get elected within
this period.

Soren's son Hemant, the JMM legislature party leader, who made an

offer to the BJP to head the government in the state after it
had
announced its decision to withdraw support on April 28,
said, "The
party has to abide by whatever decision the president
(Soren) has
taken or will take."

Soren today presided over a meeting of the JMM legislators in
Bokaro.
JMM and BJP have 18 MLAs each in the 82-member assembly.

Munda, who has been entrusted by the party leadership to deal
with the
crisis, refused to speak to the media.

BJP now seems to have set a final deadline for May 25.

"BJP will hold a Parliamentary Board meeting on May 25 at 3 pm to

discuss the Jharkhand issue," a party leader said.

Sources said the meeting has been scheduled as a back-up plan in
case
the JMM doesn't stick to the agreement.

If JMM goes back on its word, BJP is likely to withdraw support
to the
Shibu Soren government by evening, sources said.

Munda and Soren had on May 18 announced the agreement to share
power
on a rotational basis with the BJP to take over for the
first 28
months.

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Jharkhand - uncertain politically

By: TAHariharan | Friday , 21 May '10 20:16:01 PM

In view of the political uncertainty President's rule is the only

option available for good administration. Earlier the better. I
hope
after the President's rule, people will be wise enough to
elect their
representatives in Jharkhand.

Jharkhand Joke
By: R Varadarajan | Friday , 21 May '10
19:40:04 PM

It is unfortunate that the national party BJP in its over
enthusiasm
to acquire power in Jharkhand agreed to everything
demanded by JMM -
Now SS is taking its pound of flesh. This
drama will continue for some
more time and the state would be
thrown into chaos and confusion.
There will be some instant
solution the moment President Rule is
proposed by the Governor -
because none of the parties have guts to
face the public again!!

Atleast now !
By: chanakya | Friday , 21 May '10
19:31:34 PM

The party which boasts of intellectuals and tongue-in-cheek
orators,
must now demonstrate that it has some bones . If BJP
really means
business, it must pull down the governemnt with out
any delay. If it
stikes any understanding with other parties it
is good or else let
President rule be imposed till Naxal problem
is resolved. Mr.Shibu
must be restricted to his house and should
not be allowed to play this
dubious role of politician cum
trader. But does BJP have guts to do
that ?

Shibu Soren
By: Kalpathy Venkataraman | Friday , 21 May '10
19:20:53 PM

In Indian politics, there is basically no difference between the
UPA
and the BJP. Both parties are power hungry and are willing
to go to
any length to achieve that objective. Look at UPA's
coalition
partners; Karunanidhi, Lalu, Pawar, Muulayam et.al who
are masters in
corruption management. If they wer in China, they
would have been
hanged long time ago for their crimes. BJP is no
different. How can
have any association with a murderer like
Shibu Soren? Although he was
acquitted by the court system,
everyone knows that he was a killer.
How can you blame the
Naxalites when you have killers of democracy in
your midst?

PATHETIC
By: Krishnan | Friday , 21 May '10 19:09:26 PM

Please ask Mr.Soren to have a shave so that what he speaks will
be
heard loud and clear. SIMPLY PATHETIC

J.M.M. SUPREMO C.M. SHIBU SOREN CHALLENGE TO B.J.P A CONSPIRACY

By: RAJAT KUMAR MOHINDRU .JALANDHAR CITY .PUNJAB | Friday , 21
May '10
18:37:07 PM

The J.M.M. supremo is clearly Quoting that he will successfully
run
his Government for Five Years . As no party had secured full
mandate
to form Government of its own in Jharkhand . As it is
pertinent to
note that Which Party has now decided to give its
support to Soren to
rule for Five Years as B.J.P. is in dilemma
over the statements of Mr
Shibu Soren . If J.M.M. would have
been sincere to B.J.P. there M.P.'s
would have never switched
off there Loyalty towards N.D.A. during Cut
Motion in the
Parliament . As no doubt who ever rules the State the
mandate by
Public will be an eye opener for the B.J.P. whether in the

present circumstances Will the B.J.P. -J.M.M. alliance will go
on in
future or there will be another starting period of
misunderstandings
between both the Political Parties or
Jharkhand will be once again
heading towards Mid Term assembly
Polls .

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Hindus face reservation threat: BJP
Agencies

Tags : Pon Radhakrishnan, BJP

Posted: Fri May 21 2010, 17:03 hrs

Madurai:

BJP will launch a major 'awakening Campaign' in July to highlight
the
'threat' facing Hindu students due to reservation for
minorities (read
Muslims) and monthly Education (Financial)
assistance (EFA), party's
Tamil Nadu president Pon Radhakrishnan
said here today.

During the campaign from July 4-31, the party will press for
similar
EFA for Hindu BCs, SCs, STs and MBCs, he told reporters
here after the
party's State Executive Committee meeting.

Government was giving Rs.350 as EFA for minority school
students(doing
5th-10th std),and Rs.500 for vocational course
students. Besides other
concessions on tuition fee were being
given to the minority students.
On an average each student was
being given Rs.35,000 a year, he
claimed.

He alleged that Government was encouraging conversions by such
moves.

The DMK, which started a big agitation on a ''non-issue like
"Anti-
Hindi" agitation, which ultimately affected Tamil
students, should now
help the Backward,SC and ST people and get
them the EFA, he said.

"There are economically and socially backward people in majority
Hindu
community also, who were not able to pursue education like
minorities,
who should be helped", he said.

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Reservations
By: R Varadarajan | 21-May-2010

Reservation is the biggest curse on this country which would

eventually divide the population instead of the thought " India
and
Indians ". These cheap pubilicity and vote bank politics (
this is
applicable to all parties ) which has given rise to more
than 1000
political in this country whose main aim is to gain
some votes from
their respective community instead of the
population as whole. The
only reservation should be on the basis
of financial backward ness
which no party wants to talk about.
These reservations have only
helped the affluent in these
communities to a large extent and the
poor have not been
benefited by these !!
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Soren indicates to continue, UPA backs
May 23rd, 2010 Anand
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Tags: BJP, chief minister, Congress, Jharkhand, JMM, leader,
party,
Shibu Soren

May 23: The possibilities of the JMM breaking its ties with ally
BJP
and continuing to head the Jharkhand government with support
from the
UPA rose on Sunday as the beleaguered Chief Minister
and JMM supremo,
Mr Shibu Soren, indicated that he was unlikely
to resign on May 25,
the deadline agreed between the JMM and the
BJP for a change of
guard.

Even as an unruffled Mr Soren sprang another surprise on Sunday
by
claiming that he already had received an offer to become a
Union
minister in return for the UPA’s support to the JMM-led
government in
Jharkhand, the state’s Congress leaders spoke more
candidly about
possibilities of a UPA-backed government coming
up to end the
stalemate between the JMM and the BJP lingering
for nearly a month.

With the JMM having decided to start its efforts on government

formation entirely afresh, all the party’s MLAs were asked to
reach
Ranchi from their various locations like New Delhi,
Kolkata and Bokaro
to assemble for a meeting at Soren’s Ranchi
home on Monday.

Mr Soren himself returned to Ranchi from Bokaro on Sunday. But he
told
reporters in Bokaro, "I am in no hurry to resign by any
date. I
already have a proposal to become a minister at the
Centre. It is now
for me to decide what I choose". Both he and
his son Mr Hemant Soren,
the leader of the JMM Legislature
Party, had said in Bokaro on
Saturday that the JMM was in touch
with both the BJP and the Congress.
The JMM sources and Mr
Soren’s aides said the JMM chief was "most
unlikely" to resign
on May 25.

The senior Congress leader, Mr Rameshwar Oraon, described the JMM
as a
"natural ally because the JMM has continuously maintained a
distance
from the communal forces in the past". The Jharkhand
Congress
spokesman, Mr Radhakrishna Kishore, said, "The Congress
wants neither
another election after such a short span of the
last one nor the
imposition of President’s Rule once again. We
will take our steps
after the JMM breaks up with the BJP."

Mr Kishore also refuted speculations that the Congress might have
to
distance itself from its ally JVM, led by the former chief
minister,
Mr Babulal Marandi. The JVM is known to be opposed to
any tie-up with
the JMM.

Meanwhile, in Patna, the senior NDA leader and Bihar Chief
Minister,
Mr Nitish Kumar, appeared unhappy with the BJP over
Jharkhand’s
prolonged impasse. "When they (BJP) took the first
decision (to
withdraw support on April 28), we (JD-U) supported
them because it was
the only option left. But they only know
what negotiations they had
subsequently," said Mr Kumar on
Sunday.

NDA convenor and JD(U) national president, Mr Sharad Yadav,
however,
said he would speak to the BJP leaders after reaching
Delhi on Sunday
evening. "We will see what we can do. We will
try to find out a
solution," said Mr Yadav in Patna.

The JMM’s frequent U-turns and its increased interactions with
the
Congress have rendered the BJP in Jharkhand almost
speechless. Senior
BJP leaders remained incommunicado throughout
Sunday.

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Siddharth Varadarajan
May 23, 2010 A year of living
indecisively
Siddharth Varadarajan

The Hindu Congress president Sonia Gandhi with Prime Minister
Manmohan
Singh at her residence after their win in Lok Sabha
elections 2009 in
New Delhi on May 16, 2009. Photo: S.
Subramanium Related

The inability of the Prime Minister and the Congress president to
push
official policies in the direction of meaningful social
change leaves
the public confused.

As Manmohan Singh completes the first year of his second term as
Prime
Minister, it has become something of a cliché to accuse
him of
weakness. His inability to take action against Ministers
accused of
corruption or sheer inefficiency is an obvious
indicator of his lack
of power within the government. The
dissonance on various crucial
policy matters is another.
However, these symptoms are more a
reflection of structural
weaknesses in the current ruling system than
of individual
failing on Dr. Singh's part.

There are, in fact, two sources of weakness in the United
Progressive
Alliance arrangement. The first is induced by the
compulsions of
coalition government, the second by the nature of
the ruling party
itself. Though the Congress won many more seats
in 2009 than it did in
2004, it is still dependent on smaller
parties whose agendas are
mercurial and unpredictable. But this
is a derivative problem,
something of mere arithmetic
importance, because it begs the question
of whether the current
problems faced by the Prime Minister would
evaporate if the
Congress had a majority of its own. Would the
examples of
rent-seeking, influence peddling, patronage, inefficiency
and
insensitivity we see in the functioning of various Ministries and

government departments disappear if they were run by Congress

Ministers? Would the government have the ability to deliver on
its
promise of social and economic inclusiveness if it were
staffed only
by the Congress? Only the hopelessly naïve would
believe that.

Of the two structural flaws that have weakened the Prime Minister
and
his government, then, it is the second which is the more
decisive. The
nature of the Congress is a serious, foundational
weakness, a
constitutive flaw standing in the way of policy
changes that could
allow it to transcend the current political
constraints and deliver to
the people of India the kind of
governance they deserve.

Much as the Bharatiya Janata Party would like us to believe it,
the
existence of two power centres in the government is not
unique to the
UPA. It is true that as Prime Minister of the NDA
government, Atal
Bihari Vajpayee was also the undisputed leader
of the BJP. But the
dyarchy in that arrangement involved a split
between the authority of
the party and the sangh parivar, rather
than between party and
government, and Mr. Vajpayee was
certainly not the head of that
family. As Congress president, a
Member of Parliament and head of the
UPA, Sonia Gandhi has a
legal and political mandate of the kind the
RSS never had. But
the problem is that she is not being decisive in
the exercise of
her mandate. Many of the problems the NDA regime ran
into sprang
from the sangh parivar's assertiveness. In contrast, the
UPA's
problems arise from Ms Gandhi's failure to lead from the front.

Within the Congress party today, there are at least three ideo-

political trends competing for dominance and the divisions and

differences between them are apparent on a number of issues.
There is
first the social democratic paternalism of the party
machinery as
represented by Ahmed Patel but also Pranab
Mukherjee, A.K. Antony,
Veerappa Moily and others. This school
recognises the importance of
inclusiveness not as an end in
itself but as an instrument to put
political space between the
Congress and the BJP. It cannot move
beyond the paradigm of
tokenism, little alliances and reservation.
Instead of boldly
embracing the Sachar committee's comprehensive
recommendations
on ending Muslim marginalisation, for example, or
pushing for a
Communal Violence bill that has real teeth, or
encouraging the
emergence of dynamic Muslim leaders within the
Congress, this
group is more comfortable making a deal with a clerical
section
of the community. It is not a coincidence that this group is

also the one making the demand for the inclusion of caste
enumeration
in the census as a short-sighted means of beating
the OBC parties at
their own game.

The second ideological trend within the Congress is that of

technocratic populism, as represented primarily by Union Home
Minister
P. Chidambaram and Ministers like Kamal Nath and
others. This section
has a certain disdain for the ‘consensual,'
accommodative politics of
the old school but ends up being quite
anti-political in its approach.
Not surprisingly, their approach
finds the widest resonance with the
mass media and upper middle
classes. The Telangana fiasco was the
first disastrous product
to emerge from the technocrats but there have
been other bad
ideas as well. Mr. Chidambaram rightly questioned the
logistical
difficulties involved in conducting a caste census but sees
no
problem in the state's ability to collect and keep confidential the

iris scans and ten finger prints of 1.2 billion Indians. The
Maoist
insurgency is seen as something that can be ended through
an “expanded
mandate” to use military means, and healthy debate
and disagreement
are looked upon with suspicion. The
technocratic populists are also
impatient with environmental
norms and public hearings if they come in
the way of highways
and roads and factories and mines.

There is a third trend, too, but this is currently the weakest,

despite being led, in a manner of speaking, by Rahul Gandhi as
he
attempts to renovate the Congress from the bottom up. Though
there is
a strong modernising element in Mr. Gandhi's approach,
his approach is
inherently political and calls for greater
attention to be paid to the
voices and aspirations of those who
have become disconnected from the
socio-economic mainstream over
the past two decades. This trend within
the party, whose ranks
include Digvijay Singh, Salman Khurshid, Mani
Shankar Aiyar and
also Jairam Ramesh, believes that the Congress can
have a
political future only if it reflects the concerns of the

marginalised. It knows the limits of the paternalistic and

technocratic approaches and is pitching for the emergence of the

Congress as a modern political party that is democratic in its
outlook
and approach and its internal functioning — something
which it is not
today.

To be sure, the boundaries between these three groups are not
neatly
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Seeking Soren: BJP out, Congress in

NDTV Correspondent, Monday May 24, 2010, New Delhi

After dragging their feet for nearly a month, the BJP finally
withdrew
support to the Shibu Soren Government in Jharkhand as
it became clear
that the chief minister had no intention of
stepping down to allow a
BJP-led government to take over.

"The JMM has been talking in many voices all this while. We
really had
no option but to withdraw support," said BJP leader
Raghuwar Das said.

And into the breach, has come in the Congress.

"We are trying to form the government. We will try and give a
stable
government to the state," Congress MP from Jharkhand
Subodh Kant Sahai
said. But Soren is not negotiating with the
Congress.

But this is easier said than done.

Soren needs 23 MLAs more to remain in power. The Congress has 14.
And
Babu Lal Marandi - who  has 11 MLAs and runs his own
political outfit
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha - isn't playing ball.

"There is no question of going along with Soren," Marandi said.

Soren has seven days to prove his majority. But Congress managers
may
need to explain why they need to support Soren having been
embarrassed
by his criminal and corruption cases before.

Shibu Soren is now negotiating with the Congress party. But
democratic
values have limited role in what has happened or will
happen as money
bags and power brokers still have unlimited
mandate in Jharkhand.

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No deal with Mulayam, Mayawati or Lalu: PM
Indo-Asian News
Service
New Delhi, May 24, 2010

First Published: 17:24 IST(24/5/2010)
Last Updated: 17:25
IST(24/5/2010)

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday denied any deal with Bahujan

Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader
Mulayam
Singh Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Lalu Prasad
during the
opposition-sponsored cut motions last month.

"There was no deal....Whatever misconceptions you have in your
heart,
kindly get rid of them," Manmohan Singh said in reply to
a question at
a press conference held to mark the first year of
the second United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

During the cut motion moved in the Lok Sabha on budget proposals
to
hike the prices of fuels and fertilisers, the leaders of the
BSP, SP
and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) walked out and abstained
from voting,
thus ensuring the survival of the ruling coalition.

Mulayam Singh Yadav had recently said his party had offered
issue-
based support to the UPA in the event of the Trinamool
Congress'
Mamata Banerjee withdrawing support from the ruling
coalition.

Opposition parties, led by the BJP, had charged the government
with
using the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to
pressurise
Mayawati, Yadav and Lalu Prasad over a
disproportionate assets cases
to garner their support.

In response to another question, the Prime Minister, however,
refuted
the charge that the government had misused the CBI.

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First year of UPA-II is of reasonable achievement: PM

Agencies
Posted: May 23, 2010 at 2029 hrs IST

New Delhi Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday described the
first
year of UPA-II as one of "reasonable achievement" but said
his
government could have done more.
"I believe that the
record of our first year of UPA-II is a record of
reasonable
achievement. I am the first person to admit that we could
have
done more," Singh told a press conference here.

He said one should not be satisfied with "what we have achieved".

"There is always room for improvement and for better outcome. But
I do
believe that the record of our first year is a record of
reasonable
achievement," he said.

It is for historians to judge my legacy: PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday left it to the historians
to
judge his legacy, saying he was more concerned about the task
at
hand.

"I am not bothered about the legacy issue. I have a task to
accomplish
to the best of my ability. It is for the historians
to pronounce
judgements (on my legacy)," he said at a press
conference here to mark
one year of UPA-II.

Singh was responding to a question on what accomplishment he
would
consider as his legacy.

He described the first year UPA-II as one of "reasonable
achievement"
but said his government could have done more.

"I believe that the record of our first year of UPA-II is a
record of
reasonable achievement. I am the first person to admit
that we could
have done more," he said.

Following are the highlights of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
news
conference:

* Expects inflation to moderate to 5-6 per cent by December 2010

* Expects 8.5 per cent GDP growth in FY11

* Targets to achieve 10 per cent economic growth annually in
medium
term

* Prices showing signs of moderating trend

* Prices continue to be matter of deep concern

* Containing inflation is government's top priority

* To take more steps together with state governments to cool
prices

* India willing to discuss all outstanding issues with Pakistan

* Nuclear agreement with the United States will move forward

* Prime Minister hopes all political parties will support nuclear

liability bill

CIVIC AMENITIES , LITERACY DRIVE , AGRICULTURE SECTOR , INFLATION

NEEDS MORE ATTENTION
by RAJAT KUMAR MOHINDRU .JALANDHAR CITY
.PUNJAB on 24 May 2010
The first Year of the second term of
UPA-II under Prime Minister
S.Manmohan Singh has not fulfilled
the expectations of the masses .
Inflation could not be curbed
and the Prices of essential commodities
inflated breaking the
back bone of the common man . In regard to
Foreign Policy
towards Pakistan , Diplomats of both the countries are
heading
towards peace talks , but really Pakistan will be sincere in

curbing the Terrorism activities . The Union Ministers quote
there
statements that creates controversy between the Party
Leaders . The
main issue like MAREGA , Literacy Drive through
Education in remote
areas ,providing basic civic amenities in
rural areas , uplifting of
the poor and weaker sections of the
society, supply of Hygenic Water
in the rural areas ,providing
of Loans on less rate of Interest to
Farmers, Programmes Like
Chalo school Chalen Hum , Saksharta Abiyan ,
providing
Employment to Youths and above all Curbing terror of Naxals
and
Maoists needs more attention in future .

Where Rahul can fit in in the Ministry!
by Bolar
Ghanshyam on 24 May 2010
The most spoectacular achievent of
Sonia's Govt through her apron
holder Manmohansing is cent
percent rise in corruption and each one of
the Corrupt Minuistrs
and Government at the highest post is given a
cleanchit by this
DUO justas shemanaged to procure a clean chitnfor
herslf and ner
clan through corrupt officialsministers and judges!It
is time
Rahul with all hisexperience in corruption aa white clothes
can
no longer hide his and families black sides and spots any longer.

Gandhi family
by kms on 24 May 2010
I heard that Sonia
emulate her mthr in lw India Gandhi. the way she
walked, talked,
encouraged corruption. actually, corruption has taken
a deep
root during Indira's time and since then it is flourishing. Mam

Sonia as a true Gandhi family member just carrying forward it.

Yes Could Have Done a Lot
by Indian on 24 May 2010

Probably PM stands for Poor Man,Puppet Man but not the real
prime
minister of Great India.He is only a name sake and as he
said he could
have done better if 1. No Sonia interference 2.No
Shashi 3. No Raja
4.NO PC 5.No Congress BI 6.No corruption etc
with out all these guys
he is a zero that is what happened and
he can fool the poor Indians as
long as they go for this UNHOLY
PARTY OF ALLTIME. JAIHIND

HDD, VP,Chandrashekhar
by Azz on 24 May 2010
I
always thought the governments headed by Deve gowda, VP Singh &

Chandrashekhar were the worst in India's history, but UPA-2 has

changed my stand.Without any doubt, by a long way, UPA2 is the
worst
collection of people & the so called government has
failed on
everything.Without a doubt, MMS is also the worst pm

achievement
by amit on 24 May 2010
If price rise,
corruption and terrorism is not an issue then the
present govt
has done an excellent job so far and I bet these aren't
any
issue for electronic media and the govt and their secular agents.

Puppet PM
by hsk on 24 May 2010
The big
achievements of UPA-II are: Inlation, currption like
supporting
of currept ministers of allies , killing of innocent
persons and
para-military forces by naxalites and bending under the
pressure
of US etc.

Congress
by Bharath on 24 May 2010
Whom is the
present PM trying to Fool?If the Government wants to take
a hard
decision, why is it burdening the POOR and giving relief to 60%

of Tax payers %u2013 to the extent of Rs. 26,000 Crores.Why
relief to
TOY BALLOON manufacturers? Who is it going to
benefit?(Last year PC
gave relief to DOGGY FOOD because he loves
pets I don%u2019t know whom
else he will give tax relief to, in
the future.Also IPL.Fortunately he
is no more an FM)Let us be
clear, The Congress Party wants to recover
all the money it
spent in bribing the poor electorate and %u201COTHER

EXPENSES%u201D, to win this election of 2009.Lakhs of Crores
must have
been spent and they are in a hurry to recover it
before they loose
Power at the Center. This is Congress
Arrogance at its height.

UPA-II
by S.L.Singh on 24 May 2010
First thing what was
the need for press conference? As far First
year's Govt of
UPA-II achievement is concerned even PM accepted that
govt.
could not do as expected. In the opinion of the public of India,

govt has failed in all the disciplines such as: Price Rise of
food
items rather covt contribute to rise the prices(refer food

&Agriculture Minister), Terror and Naxals ,curruption,Prices
of
Petrolium products,Power,Water for drinking and irrigation
(left to
nature)Employment,Mismanagement of railways &
Airlines under control
of Govt.and......... end less list. What
is theit contribution is high
inflation and miseries to the
people, indiscipline in party as well as
their constituent of
UPA -II

Resonably well
by JNS on 24 May 2010
I just dont
know how to describe this man who heads the Government of
India.
Internal Security, External Security, Economy, Food Prices,
Ever
Increasing Poverty, MIND BLOWING CORRUPTION everything has

suffered under this mans watch. And today, he says this. May god

punish these people severely.

The success/failure of present government should be judged by
progress
and development
by Devji kumar on 24 May 2010

The success/failure of present government should be judged by
progress
and development in lives of majority of indian
citizens,effective use
of hard earned public tax money in terms
of supply of
water,electricity, housing, jobs, infrastructure,
educuation, health,
social welfare. GDP figures are misleading
because most of time it
accounts for ruling/elite classes who
benefit directly from profits of
public spending, but very
little of that profit is put back into the
society which helps
generate the same. State CMs are using funds from
central
government for personal benefit first and for retaining power
by
payment.Congress bureau of investigation(CBI) is being used to

silence opposition.Bills before house passed and bank votes by

payment,appeasement policy to muslim minority votes,CBI
political
clean chit,ruling classes/elite are more concerned
about retaining
power and wealth that progress of whole nation.
Dynastic designer name
Gandhi is no relation to Mr Mohandas
Gandhi.

Reasonable Job????
by JNS on 24 May 2010
May be
this man is hallucinating in broad day light, does he call his

blunder at Sharm el sheik good? Does he call his inaction on
Pakistani
Terrorism as good? What is the matter with this man?
Does he think
that he can openly insult Indians by treating them
as bottomless
stupid and get away with it? Dr. Singh you are
sick man.

Congress slaves
by ina katkar on 24 May 2010

Everybody knows MM Singh is PM due to Gandhi's,he was not
elected in
open elction, he has no followers in congress party
and most important
he is in the position till Rahul finish his
training period. All the
ministers are busy making money to
recover money spent in last
election and prepare for next
election's higher expenditure .
Everybody knows UPA model is
better because no party is powerful and
everybody can get bite
of flesh. MM Singh is doing it right and
helping all members of
UPA to get piece of pie. Each ministry public
sector sell off,
power,agricultue,telecom,petrloleum have made
billions.And of
cours IPL. So it is a gang of 'Phulandevi'

Yes, the balance achievement will make atleast 50% of Indians

committing suicide
by Umesh on 24 May 2010
The
price rise alone, is the key issue ...

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