Electoral Bonds and the Make-Believe Idealist World
Electoral Bonds were brought in for reforming political funding. It wasn't perfect, but the judiciary brought it down for being less than perfect. What is going on?
Mulayam Singh and Mamata Bannerjee have suggested new names to replace Pranab Mukherjee. And the biggest surprise is Dr. Manmohan Singh. Why would they do so?
Interestingly, First Post has come up with interesting direction of where the things are going, based on some facts:
Sending of Dr. Singh to President’s House may be one way of pre-empting the elections as well as installing Rahul Gandhi as the main candidate.
Given that Modi is busy paving his path in BJP, as he has taken Sanjay Joshi out while LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj seem to have teamed up against Modi to uphold the old (and failed) guard – he is probably most vulnerable in this time. His goal obviously is to consolidate his place in BJP and structure the party which is best primed to win in 2014.
If however, the elections is pre-empted, he will be caught ill-prepared to handle Rahul Gandhi squarely with his best foot forward. That is the eventuality that many on the UPA side will be thinking about.
And, that is where the interests of Mamata Bannerjee, Mulayam Yadav and Sonia Gandhi converge. It is “Target Modi” again.
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