Will Defence Minister Antony faux pas in Parliament May Cost India, a Serious Liability ?

Defence Minister Antony faux pas in the Indian Parliament can become for  India, a serious liability, like when the Pakistani high commissioner Salman Bashir on Sunday has voiced his argument that India's reaction to the August 6 killing of five Indian soldiers may have been based on an "afterthought".

Salman Bashir suggested that India's second official reaction on Thursday, in which it blamed the Pakistan army, may have been an afterthought. He was asked if he really thought that India did not initially believe that the attack was carried out by Pakistan army regulars. He said, "I would not say that this is the conclusion I am drawing but it is very evident from the way things have happened in terms of the statements, that there is what I say an afterthought that is involved,''.

The gross mistake of soft and low speaking Defence Minister Antony has emboldened Pakistan as the Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing at ten Indian posts, from across the Line of Control of Poonch, while the civil authorities at Islamabad continued with its aggressive stance and denied any wrongdoing on Sunday.While officials in Islamabad warned of a possible escalation in tensions with India if the latest initiative of PM Nawaz Sharif failed.

Defence minister AK Antony had said in Parliament on August 6 that the attack was perpetrated by men dressed in Pakistan army uniforms, apart from terrorists, before he retracted two days later and said the killings were the handiwork of Pakistan army.

Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said India wants the Pakistan government to take responsibility for the killings of five (NOW GOING UP TO SIX) of its soldiers on the LoC on August 6,as he said,"The responsibility must rest with the government. Our meeting point is the civilian-elected government of Pakistan, not the Pakistan Army or any other agency,".

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that violations of ceasefire along the LoC by Pakistan are triggered to force India to respond,as these violations are intended to either facilitate infiltration or distract attention from internal failures of Pakistan. 

Addressing a huge youth rally at Hyderabad, BJP's Narendra Modi recalled the Prime Minister's stern warning to Pakistan that it cannot be business as usual following the beheading of Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops in January, and asked, "I want to ask the Prime Minister You assured the nation that you will not tolerate such acts. But again last week's incidents at the LoC have shaken the nation and raised a question 'whom do we trust?',".

BJP Chief Rajnath Singh blamed UPA's "inaction" for Pakistan daring to attack India and also demanded that India's High Commissioner to Pakistan be recalled and diplomatic relations with that country scaled down. "You should declare today itself that there will be no talks with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Also, you should take effective steps by taking all political parties into confidence. All limits have been crossed now," .

Time will tell, how much  the diplomatic and strategic missed ground the present Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be able to cover, though by this faux pas of the Defence Minister Antony, has made Indian position suspectable in world forum, where many enemies are searching opportunity to negate India's genuine concerns ? This will be a costly mistake of missed opportunity to nail Pakistan for its continued misdeeds again sadly with a possible retrospective effect, the havoc of which, many of the learned politicians have failed to gauge.

Narendra Modi Sounds Poll Bugle At Hyderabad

Narendra Modi, the most promising BJP leader for the post of prime minister has set his eyes on the prospective allies for the NDA coalition, as he began to show seeds of a larger overboard for the 2014 election.

The chief campaign manager of the BJP's election campaign for 2014, today joined his campaign in the  Southern centre at Hyderabad, when he began to woo the prospective allies in the southern leaders like J Jayalalithaa and Chandrababu Naidu with praise and the call for a combined effort to make the country "Congress-free."

Addressing a capacity crowd at Hyderabad's LB Stadium he tear off into the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre on a host of issues including border security, foreign policy, the economy and Telangana, for which he accused the Congress of "turning brother against brother" in Andhra Pradesh. He counted the spat of protests that erupted on its announcement for a separate Telangana state that has provoked in the coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. Accusing Congress he questioned,Who is responsible for the rift between people of Telangana and Seemandhra ?

Again he praised the legacy of former Chief Minister and one of the biggest stalwart of Telugu people, NT Rama Rao. The idolised leader N T Rama Rao was remembered to a call to oust the Congress, aided by his son-in-law,Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party, a one time ally of the BJP both at the Centre and the state.

Narendra Modi was equally happy to praise Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa remembering her as she also joined the Vajpayee government and as she regards him as a "very good friend".

The gathering of nearly one lakh supporters amid the ongoing Telangala protest, and the chorus of large gathering joining the tune of Modi in responding with  Jai Telangana and Jai Seemandhra, assures his capabilities to win the hearts of Telugu people. The first step in South was a win win presentation

CAG's Controversial Agusta Westland Report Not to be Tabled in Parliament

Being  afraid of chaos and disruption in the Parliament the UPA Govt may not put the CAG's Agusta report on the controversial Rs 3,500 crore Agusta Westland VVIP chopper deal on the table of Parliament. The UPA, which had faced series of unruly Parliament over corruption in the recent past, is in a tricky situation.CBI has already questioned former IAF chief S P Tyagi and his relatives in connection with allegations of over Rs 350 crore bribery, so also the defence minister A K Antony as a possible witness in the case  has been called for by an Italian court .

Though the UPA government has ruled out Antony's appearance in Italian court as a witness, fresh revelations on wrongdoings by the government in the CAG report would raise the opposition tamper, thus jeopardising the chances of smooth functioning of Parliament's important monsoon session. The fate of a series of other reports, ready to be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament also causing  unease to the UPA, including one important  report on Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority  in which funds to the tune of more than Rs 24,000 crore has accrued but the government has failed to utilise it .in accordance to the  purpose for which it was earmarked.

Fear Looming Large of Artificial Tension to Prove a Point

The way the Samajwadi Party leadership,  supported by their UPA alliance Congress behaving dumb to the one most sensitive incident of suspending an honest IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal just because one of his party leader objected and wanted her removed, her only fault was that she made the illegal business of sand mafia's difficult and  impossible. 

With more and more reports of the local police officers and District officers bluntly denying the false perception of communal tension, or  Ramjan festival, while the political leadership terming the SDM adamant, inexperienced and not capable of understanding the situation. 

Honest India panel seriously contemplating and intelligently apprehending that the reality of situation may be artificially changed to Real Communal Tension as well as an Actual Trouble created by the paid miscreants, just to PROVE THEIR POLITICAL BOSS CORRECT. 

The political loss is huge, for such blatant action of SUSPENDING  an  honest officer doing marvellous work for the benefit of the state , and when the whole of country watching how low the muscle powered , mafia supported political leadership has gone in the state. It is a serious threat that  the bullying political leadership can artificially create anything.

Here the Congress, being the ruling party   at centre should be proactive in their action to save the state, not considering the necessity of SP'S support in Parliament next week in Mansoon session.

Is The 2014 National Election A Referendum On Narendra Modi's Gujarat ?

What a surprising scenario unfolding in national politics, where all the roads leads to only and only discussions leading to what good or bad NaMo has done in Gujarat in last one decade. This is quite absurd from any of the angel : 

a) why Congress will push NaMo to centre stage so early, without suitably naming a suitable candidate of their own, it shows they are surrendering before the real fight starts,

 b) similarly why the opposition including B.J.P. will loosen their strong grip on the basis of UPA's dismal performance, by allowing Congress to rotate discussion around communal lines including 2002 riots, thus bypassing their worst performance on many burning national problems, 

c) again why the people of the nation will be hypnotised to think that the next election will not be a referendum on UPA's  present performance on India as a whole but it will be judgement on the performance of a state namely Gujarat, thus in effect sidelining the woes of 1.2 billion Indians.