Bijay's Blog

Let Me Think, I am bit puzzled...  There is nothing sexier than SENSEX, when over pouring FDI, overwhelms the indices. Political correctness, coerces the leaders to selectively welcome the overseas money while rejecting the same for multi-brand retails, as that would persuade erosion of crucial retailer vote bank. In fact, we already have multinationals making huge inroads into multi-brand retail segment. The Reliance Industries, and the Future Group's operation is not restricted to Indian subcontinent only, and they are big enough to wipe out the entire retailer community here. So whats the fuss all about, its more political than real. The local retailers concern reminds me of early 2K when Bajaj group Chairman, Rahul Bajaj connived with, the then Bajpai Government to stall the possible entry of Chinese automobiles into Indian market. At the hindsight, that was one of the perfect decision ever made by any government. The Chinese products are not only poor in quality but also ...

Charismatic Leader In late nineties, they already decided to move on sans those core but contentious issues. National Democratic Alliance (NDA) drafted its common minimum program that put those matters in back burner in the interest of good governance. The decimated Congress without firm leadership never enthused electorates enough to rally behind it, so nobody made any fuss about the said shift in BJP's election strategy. Also BJP's political formation at national level seem to be the only available and a formidable option. As usual Congress was more concerned about its conventional pockets to put forward a good fight. The rhetoric of secularism and allegations of communal agenda against the nationalist party never gained any ground. The reason was quite obvious, leading the pack was an unblemished character, AB Bajpai. He was able to march the whole bunch of ideological fence sitters behind him. The noteworthy exceptions here were already marginalized, let that be the e...

My Image My Mask... The BJD was formed in late 90s carved out of erstwhile Janata Dal, while the state was ruled by unpopular Congress party. However a handful of leaders chalked out a plan to engineer an alliance with BJP against the wish of few senior leaders. In the national politics BJP was then a rising sun so the new party's alliance with BJP proved to be a all out success sweeping the LS altogether in its favor. Then BJD virtually replaced its parent party Janata Dal with most of its leaders and cadres jumping into the brand new party. Eventually the alliance won the state election held in the same year. In the meanwhile, otherwise new Naveen Patnaik with his close associate Pyari Mohan Mohapatra strengthen their cadre base and eliminated strong leaders like Bijay Mohapatra, and Dillip Ray (also the founder members) as they were threat to the former. BJD successfully sold Naveen's clean image while defaming rivals both within and outside the party, while the pa...

Anything for Vote Most of the experts still wondered about the Delhities being gullible but to their complete surprise the same Delhi people did outsmart AAP by voting for the unrealistic promises. In fact, its there way to say, well fulfill those promises now. Kejriwal was initially confused with the so called mandate but as they digested the election results little bit, the clueless-ness about the purpose of the mandate was clearly evident from their behavior. Media houses were actually embroiled in deep quandary, i.e not in a position to continue supporting Congress against popular public sentiments neither interested in promoting the rising sentiments in favor of BJP. Sooner than later AAP became the blue eyed boy of the entire print & electronics media with 24/7 coverage of all the developments including the nonsense ones. The Great India Nautanki Show hosted by Kejriwal, catered cheap entertainment to public across India. For a moment the impression was BJP's all rou...