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एमपी इलेक्शन: सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट

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  Kamal Nath is going out of way to prove he is not anti-Hindu MP Assembly Election Update: 14 October 2023 NK SINGH कमलनाथ के प्लान के मुताबिक काँग्रेस की लिस्ट इस दफा सर्वे-नाथ ने बनाई है। प्रदेश के नेताओं में आम तौर पर सहमति थी कि लिस्ट इस बार सर्वे के आधार पर बनेगी। पर क्या यह महज संयोग है कि यह लिस्ट राहुल गांधी के गेम-प्लान के मुताबिक भी है? वे अपनी पार्टी के क्षत्रपों के कार्टेल को ध्वस्त करना चाहते हैं, जो 10-15 एमएलए के बूते पर प्रदेश की पॉलिटिक्स चलाते हैं। सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट कमोबेश जीत की संभावना के आधार पर बनी है। एनपी प्रजापति जैसे अपवादों को छोड़कर कोई सप्राइज़ नहीं। बीजेपी की लिस्ट देखते हुए, काँग्रेस इस बार फूँक-फूक कर कदम रख रही थी। भाजपा उम्मीदवारों की पांचों लिस्ट 2018 के मुकाबले काफी बेहतर थी। नाम दिल्ली ने तय किए, प्रदेश के किसी भी नेता के प्रभाव से परे। चयन का आधार गुटबाजी नहीं, जीत की संभावना रही। इसलिए, दोनों तरफ के उम्मीदवारों का लाइन-अप देखकर लगता है, मुकाबला कांटे है। टिकट न मिलने से निराश नेताओं की बगावत का दौर शुरू हो गया है। यह हर चुनाव में होता है।
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The Year Political Parties Jumped Into DU Students Union Election

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  NK SINGH Politics, says John Masters, is nothing to talk about. It is something in which we live; it is a part and parcel of the human environment. To quote Aristotle, "Man is a political being. Hence, the politicization of a student union election is nothing to be scared of. However, politics has its pros and cons, And if one follows the recent developments in the Delhi University Students Union elections closely, there appear more pros than cons. To begin with, even to a casual observer, it will appear as a study in contrast. In a university where the overwhelming majority of students consists of apolitical elements, the leadership comprises those reflecting firm and not-so-firm -- there have been cases of defection -- political commitments.  Petty group interests and individual interests help more to establish the political label of a leader than anything else. In brief, there may be political commitments, but no ideological commitment, which is a must for healthy politics. 
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Why Jana Sangh Opposes Shimla Agreement

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  NK SINGH The climax to the Jana Sangh's Gadra Road tamasha was provided by the Prime Minister's devastating indictment of the party on the floor of the Lok Sabha and not, as it had expected, by its so-called "massive" demonstration in New Delhi on the opening day of Parliament's monsoon session. In a hard-hitting speech, Smt Gandhi asked Jana Sangh not to echo the voice of "the enemies of India", and to behave as the mouthpiece of "Reaction outside and inside the country".  This was the first ever occasion when BJS was officially branded as acting on behalf of forces inimical to India. She described Jana Sangh as "a small, whining, weak minority" with a definite trace of a "deep inferiority complex". Her stinging words came in reply to what she called a "ridiculous and deplorable demonstration" earlier by the Jana Sangh members when they tried to disrupt the proceedings of the house to record their objection to t
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Paharia tribe of Jharkhand: When will they sing again?

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  Pic courtesy Rajendra Janglay NK SINGH Ironically, while the Agriculture Minister of Bihar was trying to tell the press the other day that the State will be self-sufficient in foodgrains by the end of this year, reports came in that the spectre of famine has started affecting the one-lakh Paharia community -- vanishing and extremely undeveloped section of tribes living in the forest hills of Santhal Paraganas in South Bihar.  According to anthropologists, if steps are not taken urgently for their upliftment, the entire tribe will become extinct within the next ten to fifteen years. Even a hurried tour of the affected areas is enough to bring home the sharp misery that has resulted from excessive rainfall for two successive years.  Although the entire tribe is passing through a slow-death process due to chronic malnutrition, the situation is particularly alarming in eight blocks- Littipara, Amarapara, Sundar Pahari, Boarijore, Boria, Barahat, Pothna and Taljhiri -- inhabited by 75,000
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Massacre in Bihar Prison

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NK SINGH Thank God, after a brief but hellish stage of political instability, Bihar is once again ruled by a stable government, with a Chief Minister who claims to be firmly in the saddle of affairs.  Many would find in him the shadow of Mr K. B. Sahay, the erstwhile 'strongman' of Bihar politics who would not budge an inch from his stand. However stupid it may be. Mr Kedar Pandey, who being wisely "assisted, helped and aided" by a New Delhi controlled "liaison committee" called by cynics the 'super cabinet'-made it clear to one and all that he is not one of those Chief Ministers who could be cowed down by the opposition's hue and cry. After all, he not only heads a government that rules over 60 million people but is also Mrs Gandhi's choice in Bihar.  Or more likely, Mr Pandey, in his eagerness to become another Churchill and Nehru, merely followed the advice extended by Mark Twain: "In statesmanship get the formalities right, never min
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Ghost voters in Bihar Legislative Council poll

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  Bihar Legislative Council NK SINGH Patna: In Bihar democracy has acquired a new prefix -- 'nominated'-- thanks to the powers that be in the state.  The costly game of (fake) elections is staged only to dupe the masses. To use the words of dissident Congress leader R. L. S. Yadav --"the bogus voters are nearly double the genuine voters." Recently the Election Commission had to postpone the elections to the Bihar Legislative Council from several Graduates' constituencies pending revision of the electoral roll as there was strong resentment from several opposition parties. A local daily, the Searchlight, alleged that the electoral rolls of most of the constituencies included a large number of ghost voters. The inquiry conducted by the Election Commission revealed that out of a total of 29,000 votes from the Patna Graduates' constituency, as many as 18,000 were found to be fictitious, which comes to about sixty per cent of the total electorate. The most interest
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