Sunday, November 09, 2008

Mayawati vs Sonia - Obama vs Hillary?

Since Obama's election, we can see the usual wailers among the Indian left clamouring for "an Obama for India". I personally think that such an agent of change would be Narendra Modi, who after all is the prime politician practicing new and forward-thinking policies to take the country forward after decades of economic stagnation. 

The self-centred left however, is insisting that Mayawati is their new goddess of revolution. As if we haven't seen her type of gutter politics before with VP Singh, Lalu, Mulayam, commies, naxalites, and all the other predatory pretenders.

We can even see little hints of similar intent from the Atlanticists among the international media, in singing Mayawati's praises as the champion of the downtrodden. Perhaps they feel disillusioned or frustrated by Ms Sonia Maino's moves to bring India closer to the US, which has occurred at Europe's expense. I can confidently predict that the Atlanticists would strongly back Mayawati over Sonia in any BSP attempt to capture power at the Centre. This is no different from how the Atlanticists quickly switched their support away from Hillary and towards Obama, to push him as their preferred candidate for the Whitehouse.

Mayawati's BSP is indeed capable of sucking away votes from Congress, although her obnoxious temperament and her ethnic myopia hardly seem capable of forming or managing a wider coalition govt necessary to rule from New Delhi. I'm hoping the impending Sonia-Mayawati catfight will then give national forces the opening they need to regain power at the Centre.

Meanwhile, back in the US, I admit I'm liking this guy Rahm Emanuel's resume, especially his zionist roots. I'm hoping he'll moderate any ideological radicalism or maverick schemes displayed by Obama during his campaign, to instead allow the administration to engage the world pragmatically rather than confrontationally. The upcoming selection of SecState will be critical in judging what policy the new whitehouse will adopt towards us, however when it comes to Indian lobbying activity, targeting the Chief of Staff might yield better prospects.

4 comments:

nizhal yoddha said...

now that obama has won, we have to deal with the blighter.

is there anything that we can learn from his campaign that would be useful to narendra modi's campaign? somehow obama has been able to energize the young and get a lot going through the web 2.0 route. i am not quite sure how or what triggered this off, but i wonder if this can be replicated among india's youth.

of course, obama had the media eating out of his hand, which helped him a lot, and modi will not have that at all. but what else can be done?

as for obama's cabinet, i wonder if he'll pull in krugman to be something or the other: treasury secretary or fed chair or something. then he can stop pontificating and actually do something :-) i actually like krugman, but i dont like his rabid democrat leanings.

san said...

I think Twitter could have more reach in India than Web2.0, since Twitter works through cellphone texting, and cellphones are far more ubiquitous in India than web access.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Really, we ought to consider going this route. Because you know that even if our side doesn't, the cocky Left will be sure to.

truti said...

Mayavati has had her chance and has proven to be little more than a vicious autocrat. I would welcome the day a member of the Scheduled Castes becomes PM. But I would rather have someone who embodies the wisdom of an Ambedkar and the compassion of a Sree Narayana Guru and the selflessness of a Kakkan (the late great Tamizh Nadu MLA) than the utter criminality of a Mayavati.

NM is definitely on the high arc and headed for bigger things. But right now he does not have any second line of leadership - himself being a part of the 2nd line created by LKA.

Itsdifferent said...

I think in the absence of a Gen X or Y leadership in India, I would think we should support NM to gain the PM position, and encourage him to develop the next gen leaders. Mahajan was promising to be one, but its unfortunate we lost him. I think NM also have anyone more than 70 years just as consultant, and younger folks in his cabinet. And really motivate them to make India regain its more than 15 centuries pride and position in globe back.