Trumpet lost its sound
Looks like the royal blue fox is losing its outer colour and coming back onto its skin shade. Some leaders within BJP have begun to speak about the bad performance of the party and failure of Amit Shah and Modi, in the elections held across five states.
Now all those who thought the fake royal blue fox was an original one and that itself was the royal leader for having spoken against the administrational failure of other parties, been stunned into silence now.
BJP is in a fix whether the party should face the election in the leadership of Modi or not. If the leadership changes, it would mean the party conceded that the performance was bad in the last term. If Modi is continued as the leader, BJP isn't too sure that it can garner votes like last time. At a time like this, union minister Nitin Gadkari has voiced out his opinion rather loudly.
So far, Amit Shah and Narendra Modi took the credit of all successes through the elections in other states. Media would go gaga over the ‘Chanakya Neeti’ adapted by Amit Shah.
It would be projected as though people voted for the best administration that Modi has been giving to the people of this country. Modi and Amit Shah had proactively campaigned in all the five states that voted recently, like they'd do with all other elections. Campaign strategy was designed keeping in mind the results of these states would have an impact on the upcoming lok sabha elections next year.
But then BJP failed miserably in all the states. Amit Shah and Modi who took credit for every victory, have maintained strategic silence this time and have conveniently escaped the responsibility of owning it up. This should have been an occasion for Modi to at least reflect on the lacunae of administrational failures to take stock for the future. Instead of that, Modi is still continuing to lamely blame Nehru for the situation India is in, today and even for his own failures. And instead of accepting demonetisation as a grand failure, he is trying to impose it as a mandatory success through his speeches. Nehru is the only answer Modi has, if one questions him about inflation, economic deficit, increased oil prices, unemployment and massive shutdown of co industries both small and big scale in rural as well as urban areas.
They still don't seem to understand the mammoth statues of Patel or Shivaji or Ram are not any answer to the real time problems people are facing. And it is during this time that Gadkari has said the party chiefs must take the responsibility of failure in performance too.
“If I were to be the party president, and my party didn't do well in the elections I'd take full responsibility of the results” he said in a meeting going over the performance of the party in five state elections, indirectly indicating Amit Shah is responsible for the dismal show. These words are major embarrassment for Amit Shah and Modi too.
This simply means Gadkari is not too happy with eh leadership of Modi and Shah. However, for the first time in recent days, BJP is trying to emerge from the mindset that Modi is inevitable for the party. Many BJP leaders are feeling stifled that they cannot raise their concerns against Modi and Shah duo. If things continue like this, they will soon join Gadkari in his stance. The workers and activists at base level aren't too happy with Shah and Modi that they are humiliating the leaders who struggled to build the party base. All these issues will definitely plague the party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Dissidence against Modi and Shah has now found space in NDA too. Many allies want another leader apart from Modi to lead the equation. The shadows of Modi's misrule is definitely going to cast its shadow on the next polls.
Since Modi's charisma is waning, the allies are now negotiating to get more seats for themselves. The misunderstanding between Shiv Sena and BJP in Maharashtra makes one wonder whether they'll still go to elections as allies. Sena has always had its dislike towards Modi and now the party is using the dismal results of states to grind the axe further on the PM.
Sena wants the change of guard within BJP. As of now, Gadkari is in consideration as an alternative candidate for Modi. Even Rajnath Singh can make for a good PM with his experience in politics and parliament. Gadkari has charges of corruption on him and this had forced him to step down from big responsibility of being national president within BJP.
Now if he has to be projected as the PM candidate, all those allegations will resurface too. Having been cornered by the failures, Modi has reached the brink of his strategy. As a result he will fall back on the old ways of arresting terror suspects by the NIA.
The agency will reveal more suspects or make-believe terror plots to show assassination attempts on Modi. When the elections come close, we may witness explosions here and there. Even this time, looks like Modi has to resort on attempts on life or terror plot etc to win elections.
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Kerala court sentences man to life imprisonment for murder of doctor at taluk hospital
Kollam (Kerala) (PTI): A teacher convicted in the sensational murder of Dr Vandana Das inside a hospital here was sentenced to life term on Saturday, and the prosecution said it will move an appeal seeking death penalty for the accused. The victim's family also batted for "maximum punishment".
Dr Das was brutally killed inside a taluk hospital in May 2023 by G Sandeep.
The Kollam Additional District and Sessions Court sentenced Sandeep to a total of 30 years for various offences under the then Indian Penal Code (IPC) and said that after he serves that period, his life imprisonment for Das' murder will commence, SPP Prathap G Padickal told reporters.
The detailed judgement is awaited.
The special public prosecutor said that he will recommend to the prosecution to file an appeal seeking enhancement of the life imprisonment to death penalty.
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He said that the prosecution had sought the maximum punishment for Sandeep, "but the court probably felt it was not a rarest-of-rare case" and that is why death penalty was not given.
The victim's father said that the verdict has come as a relief for the family, but he cannot authoritatively say whether his daughter has got justice.
He indicated his dissatisfaction with the punishment, saying that steps will be taken to seek its enhancement after discussions with the public prosecutor.
Dr Das' mother said that the family can only wish for the maximum punishment and it was up to the court to decide what sentence should be given.
She said that the family will go in appeal, but declined to comment on whether her daughter got justice.
She tearfully said that she wants the convict to suffer the same pain that her daughter underwent "as he stabbed her 27 times".
The court on March 17 had convicted Sandeep for various offences under the IPC, including murder, destruction of evidence and wrongful restraint.
It had also held him guilty under the provisions of the Kerala Healthcare Service Persons and Healthcare Service Institutions (Prevention of violence and damage to property) Act 2012.
Sandeep was brought to the taluk hospital by the police for medical treatment during the small hours of May 10, 2023 and he went on a sudden attacking spree using a pair of surgical scissors kept in the room where his leg injury was being dressed.
A school teacher by profession, he had initially attacked the police officers and a private person who had accompanied him to the hospital and then turned on the young Dr Das, who could not escape to safety.
She was stabbed several times and later succumbed to her injuries in a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram where she was rushed following the attack.
Dr Das was a native of the Kaduthuruthy area of Kottayam district and the only child of her parents.
She was a house surgeon at Azeezia Medical College Hospital and was working at the Kottarakkara taluk hospital as part of her training.
Sandeep had called the emergency number 112, claiming that his life was in danger. When local police located him, he was standing close by his home, surrounded by local residents and his relatives, and had a wound on his leg following an alleged quarrel.
He was then taken to the hospital for dressing the wound.
