1. Jethmalani has always been controversial. Does congress high command allows crticism of party and its policies in open public forums?.
2. How many seats congress won in 2009 parliament elections by itself and they still claimed it to be a popular madate
3. The states enumerated for election during last 2 years are from South and North east and east. BJP never had a base in these states. Very clever of Kapil Sibal to prove his point with a devil,s advocate! He owes his present position after he acted as a Govt. lawyer in impeachment proceedings of a superior judge.
4. These are all part of the strategy to counter general percention of people about congress faring badly in 2014.
Regds
JKGaur
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 03:36:15 +0530
From: sroy.mb@gmail.com
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: [IAC#RG] Jethmalani expelled from BJP for 6 years
Jethmalani expelled from BJP for 6 years
The expulsion of 89-year-old Jethmalani, who is a member of Rajya Sabha, by the BJP Parliamentary Board comes weeks after he had barged into a Parliamentary Party meeting
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expelled Ram Jethmalani, Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, for six years from the party's primary membership, on charges of breach of discipline. On November 25, 2012, the senior lawyer was issued a showcause notice for criticising the party leadership and demanding the resignation of former party president Nitin Gadkari.
Jethmalani had faced the wrath of the BJP leadership after he questioned the decision of Sushma Swaraj, leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, and Arun Jaitley, leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, to oppose the appointment of Ranjit Sinha as director of the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The BJP leadership said Jethmalani had failed to respond to charges of embarrassing statements against the party and of levelling allegations against Swaraj and Jaitley without "sufficient cause".
"The central parliamentary board, after considering all your replies, responses and letters, was of the unanimous opinion that you have indulged in breach of discipline. The board decided to expel you for a period of six years from the primary membership of the party. You have failed to show any sufficient cause for challenging the authority and legitimacy of the party by stating the BJP leadership has no guts to take action against you," senior party leader Ananth Kumar wrote to Jethmalani.
"You had defied the whip of the party by not voting for the election of the members of the committee on public undertakings on May 6. The above action is without prejudice," Kumar wrote.Cong gained 191, BJP lost 144 assembly seats post 2009
Kapil Sibal recently in 'Devil's Advocate' rejected popular perception that Congress did not enjoy popular mandate
After a spate of scams, corruption charges that scalped several Union ministers and washed out Parliament sessions – the general perception is that Congress as a political party has been losing ground.
Surprisingly, statistics reveal otherwise. In the 21 states that went to assembly polls post May 2009 general elections; a bird's eye-view of the performance of the two national parties the Congress and the BJP shows that the Congress gained 191 seats and lost 86 seats while the BJP in the same period gained only 51 seats and lost more than double that number 144 seats.
It was Union minister Kapil Sibal in the CNN-IBN programme "Devil's Advocate" recently, who rejected the popular perception that the Congress did not enjoy popular mandate and cited the performance of the Congress vis a vis the BJP in the past two years where 11 states had gone to polls and asserted that the Congress has been gaining ground while the BJP which has been gradually losing seats over the past four years.
It is striking that in several states – Puducherry, Kerala , Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura – the BJP has not managed to bag a single seat over the past two assembly polls ie in a decade.
Post: "indiaresists@lists.riseup.net" Exit: "indiaresists-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net" Quit: "https://lists.riseup.net/www/signoff/indiaresists" Help: https://help.riseup.net/en/list-user WWW : http://indiaagainstcorruption.net.in
Post: "indiaresists@lists.riseup.net"
Exit: "indiaresists-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net"
Quit: "https://lists.riseup.net/www/signoff/indiaresists"
Help: https://help.riseup.net/en/list-user
WWW : http://indiaagainstcorruption.net.in
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Re: [IAC#RG] Jethmalani expelled from BJP for 6 years
1. Seniority and a bold cum a highly insightful cum legal approach to deal with people and "renegades" of sorts has indeed been the bold image of Ram Jethmalani sahib--right through his life. He should not and cannot be dealt with "off the cuff" approach, which appears to be how the BJP front office is handling it.
(Especially, where it will be impactfull in urban India.).
2. Kapil Sibal has continually presented a well ratioanlised, legally viable and a highly loyal approach to the leadership and party he belongs to.
He is not rhetorical and accepts where there may have been slippages or a weak approach from and within his party/leadership. Thereby, giving the image of a reasonable politician amidst the urban electorate.
3. BJP gets a very negative image on account of being a) unrelenting where parliamentary debates are concerned, b) allowing or justifying an "un-productive approach where some key bills/laws are concerned, c) getting a very negative image where their Hindutva defined extremist role cum image gets highlighted, and finally, the divisive elements they have thrown up in UP, East, North East and in the South -- and that is HALF of India & Bharat!
dev chopra
On 29 May 2013 12:52, Gaur J K <gaurjk@hotmail.com> wrote:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.