Tea and Telangana to Influence Indian Politics in 2014?

Here comes 2014 with a bang for the mega political battle in India, all parties have been gearing up to flex the muscles.

Indian politics too has been responding to the recent changes in the issues, and voters accepting the change and taking the issues more seriously.

The two factors – tea and Telangana could be the major to bring sea level change in Indian politics.

The first one is the now favor for the national party – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), where as the later could be a big trouble for the national party – Congress party (INC).

One of the leader criticized the Prime Minister candidate of BJP as tea seller. Now that proved a positive point for the BJP, as it recently started ‘Chai Pe Charcha’ by Narendra Modi popularly known as NaMo.

 In USA, tea party could be an event to host tea party by political parties, but India ‘tea’ level could make BJP further more popular.

The Jive at NaMo giving maximum to the party and gaining popularity day-by-day.

The recent survey done by the Times Now English news channel has project a clear majority for the NDA and BJP as the singles largest party to have maximum Lok Sabha seats in its favor in the next general election, could be held in April 2014, election commission of India yet to give notification over that.

The ‘Telangana’ issue has been haunting the Congress now, the leaders from Andhra Pradhesh demanding unite Andhra Pradesh opposing the bifurcation of another states.

The situation there is highly tense, as the formation of 29th state is not easy task for the UPA government at centre.

The Parliament has seen a new low on Thursday, as two MPs from Andhra Pradesh behaved rude in the Parliament as the UPA has tabled the ‘Telangana bill’. India witnessed the behavior of the respected MPs in the Parliament – the temple of Indian democracy.

However, the bifurcation of another state could a big drawback for the Congress party as well as for the UPA II. Indian politics one hand giving maximum advantage to BJP over the Tea campaign, on the contrary ruling party could lose maximum seats in Andhra Pradesh over the ‘Telangana issue’…

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NaMo Factor fails in Odisha

The recently concluded civic poll in Odisha has shown that the NaMo facto did not work to lure the urban voters in Odisha. In the municipal and notified area council elections, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) the ruling party still at the top and people of the state have given mandate to the ruling party again.

The Congress party is at the second position with having many councillors in the state. The party which suffered most is the BJP in the state. Comparing to the election results of 2008, most of the councillor contestants of the party have lost the election.

People have also given mandate to some independent candidates in many wards. According to media reports, the independent candidates do play a major role in king maker. The big question is why the urban voters have not shown interest in the NaMo – Narendra Modi factor, that did not work for the BJP.

The parties – BJD and Congress have high expectation for the forthcoming general election in 2014, as they got the support of the people in the recent elections.

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RJD wins Maharajganj Lok Sabha bypoll

Time for introspection for the JD(U) and Nitish Kumar after RJD winning the Maharajganj Lok Sabha bypoll. The seat was considered as question of pride for JD(U) and RJD in Bihar. Recently the RJD chief Lalu Yadav had a massive rally and that was the mega even of the party after a gap of many years of silence.

The JD(U) leader Prashant Kumar Shahi lost the battle against Prabhunath Sing of RJD. It is reported that the spat between the JD(U) and BJP over Modi could be the biggest reason for the failure of JD(U) in Bihar.

However, JD(U) leaders made it clear that BJP had supported their campaign in the election and ruled out any blame game there. On the contrary, the Narendra Modi factor seem to be working in Gujarat again, as the BJP won the two Lok Sabha and four assembly seats in Gujarat.

This development might cue the JD(U) leader to think about benefit from the Modi factor in the next mega poll in 2014. The NDA leaders may discuss about their strategies for the next elections before reaching any conclusion with losing Maharajganj Lok Sabha seat.

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Changing Political Values in India?

With the nation is gearing up for the next general elections in 2014, the values of political or politics have been changing rapidly.

The issue based politics has been the heart of Indian politics in past, but some of the issues might force to change the Indian politics completely.

The issue like women security and gang-rape are few examples from many issues in India; those could stain the India politics.

Next comes the issues of corruption and black money hoarded in Swiss bank, these are major issues that India is witnessing today.

Few more major issues in India are farmers’ suicide and development in agriculture sector. The big question is, how these issued would be raised by the political parties?

Voters would like to know how their leader reacts to these issues and what suggestion they have to represent them.

The issue based politics has been the at the core, and the major issues are sure going to decide the fate of many political leaders in forth coming election and that is for sure.

In 2012, people backed the anti-corruption movement, and now that voters are aware not to elect corrupt leaders.

Local issues have also major role in deciding the fate of political leaders in the next election in 2014.

These issues may be considered as prime in the manifesto of political parties for 2014 general elections.

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