Vox Populi Issue 268

                                                           VOX POPULI

                                                                        by

                                                                  S Kamat 

                                                                        as

                                                                Aam Admi

                                           Issue: 268                      Date: 11.01.2019

                    Visit: skamat.blogspot.com or aamadmivoices.blogspot.com

 

Contents:       

1. Mamata Banerjee: Rani Lakshmi Bai or Demoness or Tigress
2. Narendra Modi's Next Mann Ki Baat On Family Values

3. Of Deals & Offsets

                         Mamata Banerjee: Rani Lakshmi Bai or Demoness or Tigress

That Mamata Banerjee is the fearless and feisty kind and is a master in brinkmanship must have been brought home to Narendra Modi and the top BJP leadership by now. The dharna she conducted at Kolkata against the CBI's interference in Bengal in support of the Kolkata Police Commissioner cloaking it under the plea of an attack on the Constitution and on the federal structure should be enough lesson for the BJP not to mess around with her. The CPM has been aware of this when almost a decade ago they were relegated to the opposition benches and continue to remain there even today.  The street fighter in Mamata Banerjee comes to the fore when she feels politically cornered and that is when she is in her element. She was part of the triumvirate of women, the other two being the now deceased Jayalalitha and Mayawati, who made the lifelong bachelor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, dance to their tunes when they had got together in government for a brief while. Thus now Narendra Modi, an enforced bachelor will not know how to handle another bachelor or spinster in Mamata Banerjee and may meet his debacle in doing just that in Bengal.

                               Narendra Modi's Next Mann Ki Baat On Family Values

After Chandrababu Naidu's tirade against Narendra Modi for raising his family issue, it is understood that the PM has taken the feedback positively and the next Mann Ki Baat will be on his family values. One hopes it will follow the precept - Practise What You Preach. 

                                                     Of Deals & Offsets

Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications has filed for insolvency proceedings as reported in the newspapers. One wonders how the Rafael set-off partner deal will take off after this. Will Dassault regret having taken on-board the Anil Ambani group that is saddled with a corporate debt exceeding Rs. 45,000 crores? However, on second thoughts one thinks that Anil Ambani and Delhi will both sleep peacefully since an offset exceeding Rs. 30,000 crores has already been arranged to scale down this debt. 

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