@NetNetizen@onlineGhosh Mamata Banarjee is the president of Trinamool. She has the capability to merge her party into any other party until she is removed from her position by the rebel faction.
@NetNetizen@onlineGhosh The faction won't be able to claim the party when it officially gets merged with Cong. How will they claim two thirds majority?
@NetNetizen@onlineGhosh When TMC - Cong merger happens, there will be no official TMC in Bengal. Half of the TMC are with BJP, the other half will be with Cong. So it will be BJP vs Cong. Rahul Gandhi will have a lot to gain from this. The merger needs to happen.
@NetNetizen@onlineGhosh And you think that Congress will be able to open its chapter in Bengal in its own? It's not that easy. If drastic measures like TMC - Cong merger are not taken, the opposition will always be divided in Bengal and BJP will face no problem for next 15 - 20 years in the state.
It's really bizarre to call CJP's Jantar Mantar protest as India's first Gen Z protest. I mean are people really so ignorant that they couldn't see earlier protests like anti - CAA, of farmers and also so many student protests? Don't dismiss CJP but also don't be over-enthused.
Thousands of teenagers and young people in their early twenties were in the spontaneous and large scale demonstrations against the CAA. It was a spirited defense of the constitution, not organized by a political party. What is this inane “India’s first Gen Z protest” spin on CPJ?
An enumerator from Rajasthan told The Hindu on condition of anonymity, “In the mobile app, if we enter that a household has a tin roof, we are asked by our superiors to change it to concrete. Are we supposed to lie? Similarly, if the house does not have a toilet and occupants are defecating in the open, we are told to check if there is a toilet nearby, even that of a neighbour or a relative, which they may be using occasionally or even a public urinal. Then the entry can be changed from ‘open defecation’ to having access to a toilet.”
Siddaramaiah didn't leave the JDS on a whim. He was pushed out after years of friction with the Deve Gowda camp and growing discontent over a party increasingly centred around one family rather than internal democracy. That exit in 2005–06 mattered.
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@sarayupani In Telangana, caste census report has already been published. And in Karnataka too, the next CM will have to acknowledge the report and publish it. With Sidhharamaiah's exit, the report is not going anywhere. But 15 days should have been given to him to complete his commitments.
On Twitter we can look at ideologies but not the factors of anti - incumbencies. The only negative aspect of Sidhharamaiah's stepping down can be that the coalition of castes that he had formed (known as AHINDA) can feel some resentment against Congress. And this can benifit BJP.
Pinarayi Vijayan and MK Stalin losing power despite being ideologically commited should give us a clear understanding that ideological commitments don't make CMs win elections. No doubt Sidhharamaiah has been a leader who doesn't seem to be compromising on ideology.
And DK Shivkumar is no match to him. But most of the senior journalists from Karnataka are reporting that the past three years of Sidhharamaiah's tenure were ineffective. He implemented the five promises of the Congress manifesto. But couldn't do much more than that.