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PM Modi Lays Foundation Stones For Various Projects In Gujarat's Junagadh | Gujarat Elections 2022  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLIgQVL4vBQ 

चुनाव का बहिष्कार 'गुजरात' में लगे पोस्टर, 'धरी की धरी' रह गई सारी कुर्सियां | PM Modi | Amit Shah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbni_DQ11tE The Nation

Modi's Worst PR Stunt | "Cardboard Classrooms" Paurush Sharma 20-10-2022 Messages amplified by godi media mission school of excellence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxHZickTgho 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFIC92k0r34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4I8wPH3S3k 

PM Modi launches Mission School of Excellence in Gujarat   https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/pm-modi-launches-mission-school-of-excellence-in-gujarat20221019145244/
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https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/pm-modi-launches-mission-school-of-excellence-in-gujarat20221019145244/ showing the rush of schemes that PM is to inaugurate in Gujarat a few days after EC did not announce the election dates.  

this pix seems to be of a studio picture. Notice the grey flats and the top of the pix showing lighting and shadow

PM Modi launches Mission School of Excellence in Gujarat 
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https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/pm-modi-launches-mission-school-of-excellence-in-gujarat20221019145244/

Ask Indians about socialists, they will name Bernie Sanders. Won’t know about Lohia, JP  Yogendra Yadav 13 October, 2022 https://theprint.in/opinion/ask-indians-about-socialists-they-will-name-bernie-sanders-wont-know-about-lohia-jp/1166186/ You can’t take on BJP’s aggressive nationalism with an abstract internationalism; positive nationalism of Indian socialists can be the effective antidote.

- In the haydays of the socialist movement, the Congress represented the  establishment the former opposed. So their anti-establishment stance  took the form of anti-Congressism. today need to revise this stance, when the BJP is the face of the establishment that seeks to suppress constitutional democracy and the very foundations of India’s unity.
- today need to revise this stance, when the BJP is the face of the establishment that seeks to suppress constitutional democracy and the very foundations of India’s unity. today need to revise this stance, when the BJP is the face of the establishment that seeks to suppress constitutional democracy and the  very foundations of India’s unity.

- The Existentialist Angst of the Once Powerful Congress Party Harsh Sethi https://thewire.in/books/congress-party-zoya-hasan-review 
- Zoya Hasan’s new book explores this malaise of the party, but insufficiently. Her book Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics: Polarization and the Growing crisis of the Congress Party (2009-19) focuses on the last decade, years that the Congress has been out of power at the Centre, wracked by internal crisis if not an existential angst about its survival.

- the ‘near vanishing’ of ‘a certain conception of politics, in the midst of an ideological consolidation of the Right in India’, an experience which the author claims ‘has relevance for the experience of centrist and centre-left parties in other countries’ as well.
- The emergence of a decisive leader in Indira Gandhi and her overwhelming victory in 1971 transformed what was earlier a ‘loose coalition’ of ideologically diverse groups into a highly centralised party completely dominated by its leader, de facto converting electoral contests into a presidential one.
- There was a shift from a state regulated economy to a market based model of growth, and the emergence of new local level elites, of lower caste and class, gaining from the affirmative action policies, now seeking greater power and representation, that the party found difficult to accommodate.
- Equally important has been the role of associated non-electoral organisations across multiple social segments and regions to contest the earlier ideological and intellectual formulations favoured by the centre-left and create new legitimation for an ethnic, civilisational view promoted by the BJP.
- As the citizen-voters got reduced to beneficiaries of largesse more than active agents in the construction of their own futures, the party’s roots in society weakened.
- Once politics gets reduced to elections and electoral victory becomes paramount, contests for power acquire a sharper, even uglier edge. It is worth reflecting on why India’s complex of regulatory and oversight institutions, a feature our republic took great pride in, has so easily capitulated to ‘institutional capture’.
- we need to better understand the deeper implications of shifts in language and concepts as we move into a post-truth world. No longer is it easy to discern fact from fiction as powerful forces, political and corporate, construct their ‘favoured version of truth’ and shape popular perceptions through ‘creative’ use of new IT technologies. Terms which once enjoyed popular legitimacy – development, justice, representation, equality and so on – no longer carry a common meaning but, unlike the past, may even carry a negative connotation. Creating an alternative narrative which can appeal across sharp divides has become more difficult.

Is a New Ginger Group Emerging Out of the Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra? V. Krishna Ananth https://thewire.in/politics/congress-rahul-gandhi-bharat-jodo-yatra-ginger-group.

The task that Rahul Gandhi and his colleagues seem to have set themselves is to ensure that the party does not slide into the moribund state in parts of the country where it remains relevant.
- for a generation of political commentators who have been groomed in an atmosphere where politics happens in the drawing rooms of leaders in Lutyens Delhi, a sustained programme on the roads is indeed new.
- To affirm the Congress party’s commitment to pluralism and democracy in the social and political sense against sectarian and majoritarian ideas.
- To stress on the need for a course correction from the path the Congress party had chosen beginning in July 1991 and internalise the imperative for reversing the inequalities in the domain of the people’s daily life.
- To restore the streets as the terrain for politics as against drawing room confabulations.
- Gandhi seems to have set himself on a task to unsettle those entrenched in the party’s echelons as did the Nasik group in the 1930s and the Young Turks in the 1960s.

See also The Existentialist Angst of the Once Powerful Congress Party Harsh Sethi   http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/3029-the-existentialist-angst-of-the-once-powerful-congress-party 

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