All seven seats in Delhi have gone to the Congress. Six out of seven in Bombay have gone to the Congress-NCP alliance. The Trinamool-Congress combo has prevailed in Calcutta. And in Madras, UPA partner DMK has triumphed.
With a Congress-led UPA in power at the Centre, things will be smooth for these metropolitan cities. What of Bangalore, which has plumped for the BJP?
Saritha Rai quotes M.V. Rajeev Gowda, a professor at IIM Bangalore, in The Indian Express:
“Once again, it appears that we will have nobody to represent Bangalore’s agenda in a clear way…. Bangalore and Karnataka are losing out because of the mismatch.”
Read the full article: No one to speak for this city
Photograph: A girl sells cashew fruit at Mekhri circle in Bangalore on Wednesday (Karnataka Photo News)
As an apologist of the Congress, Prof. Gowda, that is the most shameful thing to say.
Prof. Rajeev Gowda, folks, offered to stand elections for congress in Basavanagudi Vidhana Sabha Constituency for the reasons same as nomination of Krishna Bhyre Gowda — as a decent candidate belonging to Vokkaliga Caste which has an equal representation as Brahmins. But they chose a better candidate(not a Vokkaliga) who unfortunately lost.
It is good that Krishna Bhyre Gowda lost, it saved us lots of money. Wonder if K. Chandrashekar would have garnered so many votes?
In spite of all these, Congress and its asswipes in media have the gall to speak about casteist, communal politics of BJP and other parties.
N-A-W-N,
Super comment! Yaav seeme professuru ivanu? He should be dismissed for not comprehending the essence of a democratic exercise called elections!
BJP’s “operation Kamala” happily thumbed a nose at the people’s mandate last year. Congress and JD(S) MLAs resigned from their seats claiming they wouldn’t be able to do justice to “developmental works” as opposition legislators.
Now that the BJP MPs from Bangalore are assured of five years in the opposition benches in parliament, surely the BJP can have no moral or ethical objection to a “Operation Hastha” in the name of “developmental works” for Bangalore?
As a headline here once went “sauce for the kaangis is sauce for the sanghis”?
Yeddy has promised before 2008 assembly elections that he would make Bangalore a world class city by providing good infrastructure. So far haven’t declared any mega infrastructure projects for the city. All these Metro, Hosur road flyover etc were started during previous govt. Still there is four years. Even through he wanted to, from where does he get funds come from?. I don’t think center is going to give a s**t about Bangalore’s worry now they as they have been overwhelmingly voting for BJP. Also Yeddy has to give something back to North Karnataka which has become a BJP bastion. Today Hassan is a JD(S) fortress because it has world class roads. Yeddy should also bring those backward districts to the level of Hassan.
Prashant,
In that case, Congress will have no moral right to criticise _anything_
Like the proverb — aaDu muTTada giDavilla, INC maaDde irO kantri kelsa nE illa.
All these operations have been successfully done by Congress thathana kaalas back.
Couple of lessons for the professor –
1. Voting is not equivalent to betting on horse to vote only for the winning horse.
2. If you haven’t seen enough elections in the past, learn this – Does not matter who is in the center/state, crap people = crap cities = crap state = crap country. Just wait for another 5 years (if you are young enough) and you will see that Calcutta is no better than Bangalore.
Even during the days of yore, I am talking about 1950s-1960ss when the then the congress govt in the State of Mysore, during Hanumanthaiyya, Nijalingappa, Jatti periods where there was synchrony between the Stae Govt and Central govt, the ministers did not do much for the State, and the DMK govt in Tamil Nadu in 1960s for example using threats and slogans (Hindi agitation , threatening to declare UDI etc..) milked more and more concessions from the Congress Centre from Nehru in his last days, through Shastry, Mrs Gandhi and so on… It is like the quiet and well-behaved boy in a family is taken for granted while his tantrum-throwing slibling getting all the rewards.. I am sure that Karnataka will be punished by the Sonia mafioso and If the Karnataka CM is any clever, he should stand up to them,…. This is where the Karnataka industrialists come in… While the DMK and that thug Thiru Karuna can get away with supporting LTTE terrorists ( as different from people who LTTE terrorised), I do not hold much hope for Karanataka. Those who rejoice Sonia mafioso’s vcictory should bear this in mind.
This is convoluted thinking. The other metros mentioned also voted parties that did not eventually form the government in several past elections. Can it be said that the people in those metros lost out? Bangalore should not lose out just because of that.
Unfortunately, Bangalore may have to suffer. It is the policy of the Family to indulge in favor to those sections of India who voted for it and to screw those who dared to not vote for it. Look at what they did to Bihar. Since the government there is not supporting Congress at the center, they are screwing the people of Bihar to the extent of asking them to return the money given for Kosi flood relief!
Such a “colorful” picture!!!
Old_Mysorean,
I was visiting Hassan in Oct 2008 and I did not see or experience the ‘world-class’ roads you mention! Only I noticed the ‘rotten borough’ of JD (S) Holenarsipur and Hassan city having some decent roads. World-Class? Hardly!
PK, what do you think happened to congress in ka? why did even stalwarts like moily, alva etc get wiped? why couldn’t they capitalize on pink chaddis, ‘church burning’ and temple visiting ways of the bjp? how does a green back like kateel win mangalore despite all the obscurantism and bishops issuing fatwa on how to vote? what is going on?
“Bangalore and Karnataka are losing out because of the mismatch.”
Is Gowdru accepting that central govt will show step-mother attitude? And Gowdre why don’t join hands with BJP MP’s and work for development of bang?:P
The professor is way off the mark. Political preferences have nothing to do at all with the fate of any city. The city’s fate (any city) is decided by its own people, that is, the “local people”. How many locals are there in Bangalore? 10%? 20%, 30%?….. Even those small percentage of locals are not united. Koramangala is alien to other parts of the city. KR Puram is a separate district for Bangalore. When trees are chopped off in Lalbag/RV Road, only people in and around Jayanagar and Basavanagudi protest. For the people in rest of the city, it is none of their business. Not even people in Wilson Garden, which is few furlongs from Lalbagh are bothered. Most of the people cannot even pronounce the names of many ‘Hallis and Sandras’ properly. It is not so in other cities. Very few people know the full form of R.T. Nagar or NGEF colony. So……, BANGlore, BUNGAloar is left to its own fate.
Old_Mysorean, I am seeing tarred roads in Bangalore atleast now after 4 years, you cannot write off Yeddi’s efforts just because Yeddi doesn’t have a rappo with the English press in Bangalore (unlike SMK), we know how the so called English press (esp TOI) in Banglore behaves, they give first page coverage for non issues (Charlie Chaplin, Booz Party etc.,) and how the positive things takes back seat…..
Rajeev Gowda and folks (the so called highly educated class) can only crib as they’ve to sit in the opposition… even we had similar governments in Karnataka and Center there was no development…. so the same is going to happen now… Congis need not have to show off…
“Doddi Buddi ” Holenarsipur- Mysore road is the best road i have travelled in India. I have driven in the US and travelled in Europe and Australia and this road is as picturesque as any and they made that road in a jiffy(took one year or so).
Doddi, C.R.Patna to Holenarsipur road is very good but i hardly see any traffic there. Hassan-Bangalore road doubling work was started during previous govt but the work is moving at a snails pace after BJP came to power. Remember that completing it in a quick time not only helps Hassan people but also BJP die hard fans in Mangalore.
Mr Rajeev gowda you are fine example of colonial conciousnessa and an ace psychophant of the Sonia family. So if we had the krupe of madame Sonia and her gang our city will become a land of milk and honey. Professor Rajeev Gowda please give us a break. There are enough establishments, lobbies, businesses and vested intrests in Bangalore and Karnataka who are apolitical and can get things done for themselves.
I always wonder about the great Gandhi family constituencies like Amethi, Rae Bareli, Pilibhit etc. There is hardly any development and have many many poor people out there since many decades. And every election time some gandhi surnamed joker comes in charms the electorate and these fools vote for some Gandhi believing that they have been great beneficiaries.
Mr Rajeev Gowda given the dismal future you have portrayed for our city, what should we bangaloreans do now. Collectively apologize for treason against the hallowed Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Do urulu seve around the photograph of sonia gandhi till she shows mercy on hapless kannadigas.
Professor is just some feudal-type in real life with some talent in Quiz competitions…
oh, so the center gives stepmotherly treatment to those constituencies whose MPs are not from the ruling alliance?
what a nice admission from such a well-read congressman.
hasn’t he read somewhere that ananth kumar was considered one of the best MPs of the previous two lok sabhas, and has raised the maximum number of questions?
and city development should ideally be done by the corporators, councillors and mayor…. what does lok sabha have anything to do with this?
Why do u say there will not be any one to represent Karanataka state in Delhi? We have 28 MP right?
They will represent the state. If the center doesnt respond to the states requests for support then whose fault is it?
Doesnt it then become the fault of the Congress govt at the center?
U speak as though just because most of the MPs are from BJP, they will not do their job. They will. They will represent the interests of the state at the center. If the center plays dirty politics then the govt at the center will pay come next election.
sorry not moily. poojary
Sudhir,
Looks like your standards are pretty low! Have you traveled on Pune-Mumbai highway? That is a world-class road! In your eagerness to make a point you have lowered standards to the level of former charandi contractor Dirty’s civil works standards!
This young girl who looks smart should be in a school not hawking fruits
on the roadside. This is child labour poor and simple. Here lies the
priority and not spending man to the moon. Forget Sonia’s mafiosos.
Karnata CM which ever party he/she is has a lot to earn from that thug
Thiru Karuna about how to get funds from the Centre.
Doddi, I haven’t seen Mumbai-Pune highway but heard about it. You are really blind by your hatred towards Gowda. This is what makes a typical Jihadi/RSS/BJP man. Filled with hatred towards people different from them. You should appreciate good work done whether it’s done by Yeddy or Gowda. First you travel from Holenarsipur to Mysore and then speak. Through that road is a 2-lane it’s really world class. I want the whole of Karnataka to get such roads. Come out of your Kuri ‘Doddi’, see the world and get some ‘Buddi’.
Anna Sudhiru,
2 lane road , world class? You must be lucky to be alive on “world class” 2 lane roads.
Sudhir,
My hatred is towards ignorance:)
You don’t get it do you?
Sudhir,
I searched long and hard but I have now decided to rrequest the Noble Prize committee to institute a new ‘Idiocy’ prize for building short roads of less than 50 miles–keeping Mysore to Holenarispur as the model. Surely that will get Dirty and sons an Idiocy prize? May be you can collect it on their behalf?
Also I have decided to enrich my life by undertaking a quick journey only from Holenarsipur to Mysore and attain ‘world-class’ spiritual attainment? While undertaking that ‘world-class’ journey you can help me to buy a ticket at Chennamma Cinema theatre?
Sudhir,
People on forums are never happy. Don’t maintain roads and we will say one thing, build good roads and we will say another thing. While in reality, we aren’t even regular commuters on these road. Don’t argue with us, the masters of the message boards.
‘X’ Guy,
Speak for yourself! I have been on Dirty’s ‘World-Class’ road at least six times in late 2007…
I think the congress government has already given much higher than what Karnataka deserves in the central ministry…Krishna can represent Bangalore and he is getting the all important foreign ministry…Veerappa Moily is a cabinet minister and he needs to make sure South and Mysore region gets fair importance….
Then DB in your case is it ‘uppu thindha manege yeradu bageyodhu..’?
‘X’ Guy,
Yeah indeed:) I am deeply worried now. As a penance I am going to do some ‘urulu seve’ on Dirty’s ‘World-Class’ road :))