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Last week’s eviction of the <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword>’s trimurti – <keyword id="47100" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Atal-Bihari-Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</keyword>, <keyword id="58476" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Murli-Manohar-Joshi">Murli Manohar Joshi</keyword> and <keyword id="50272" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lal-Krishna-Advani">Lal Krishna Advani</keyword> – from the party’s parliamentary board marked the final nail in the coffin of their political career. Their exit means an end of an era, which should have been more graceful and dignified. Instead of sacking them from the membership of the parliamentary board, they should have been allowed to fade away or kept as ‘honorary members.’ 
 Leaders from the opposition have started taking a dig at this decision. Recently, Congress leader and former Cabinet minister Manish Tewari said that this recent development clearly indicates that the “process of complete centralisation of power in one hand.” Another Congress leader Rashid Alvi said, “The <keyword id="2490292" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Margdarshak-Mandal">Margdarshak Mandal</keyword> is a ‘mookdarshak mandal.’ It is like an old-age home from where Advani and Joshi will witness the functioning of the BJP like mutes.” 
 
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and MM Joshi were the pivots around which the party was built. Their role in building the BJP is unquestionable. They helped propel the party, from an insignificant political player with just two Lok Sabha MPs in the 1984 elections, to the single-largest party in 1996. 
 
Vajpayee, often referred to as the Bheeshm Pitamah of Indian politics, was the founder president of the party, and Advani and Joshi were general secretaries. Vajpayee was the party’s chief orator, statesman, and the most acceptable and respectable face of the party. 
 
Advani was the organiser and charioteer, who organised movements to propagate BJP’s core ideology of Hindutva. His Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya was crucial in building the Ram Temple movement and helped BJP form a government in the country’s largest state of Uttar Pradesh, thereby bringing the party into the mainstream politics. Advani was also a talent-spotter. He nurtured a pool of second-rung leaders, which ironically included Modi, besides Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar and others. 
 Joshi, a PhD in Spectroscopy from <keyword id="6364092" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Allahabad-University">Allahabad University</keyword>, was the intellectual face of the party. He was the key man behind the process of manifesto preparation and policy formulation of the party. 
 Alongside the rise in the stature of Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>, there has been a steady and parallel decline in the fortunes of party stalwarts MM Joshi and LK Advani. Unlike Vajpayee, who is ailing, both the leaders are still fit and active politicians whose vast political experience and acumen could have been used by the party. However, their eviction from the parliamentary board – the party’s highest decision-making body – can only be attributed to Modi’s attempt at complete centralisation of power and further strengthen his stranglehold on the party by undermining the leaders taller than him. 
 On the contrary, other political parties are giving their seniors due respect. For instance, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) continued with veteran leader <keyword id="2502752" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Harkishan-Singh-Surjit">Harkishan Singh Surjit</keyword> as the party’s general secretary till 2005 and the party came up with its best ever performance so far by winning 43 seats. He was also a member of the party's Politburo till 2008, when he died at the age of 92. Even in the Congress, where many leaders complain of being sidelined to give way to Rahul Gandhi, <keyword id="219946" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Motilal-Vora">Motilal Vora</keyword> (86) is still the party’s treasurer and also a member of the Congress Working Committee. 
 
It is sad to see that the BJP, which talks about Hindutva, seems to have forgotten that giving due respect to elders is the essence of the Hindu culture and the Hindu society reposes great faith in the wisdom of elders.

BJP’s Founding Forefathers Reduced To ‘Mookdarshak’

NEW DELHI: The results of the first poll on the performance of the <keyword id="6387077" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi-government">Narendra Modi government</keyword> are out. The <keyword id="6360789" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Modi-Government">Modi government</keyword> has met the expectations of half the people surveyed, while 30 per cent think that the performance has been below expectations. 
 The remaining 20 per cent seem to believe that the government has exceeded expectations, keeping the 'slide' in the past 10 years of <keyword id="26374" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="UPA-government">UPA government</keyword>. The poll was conducted among the 1,30,000 members of online community of 'Transform India with Modi' to gauge the public mood after 60 days of Modi government. 
 Thirty thousand members of the citizen-government engagement initiative responded to the poll. Launched by public policy expert Rajendra Pratap Gupta, a <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> member, the Local Circles community has members from various backgrounds like industry, employed professionals, investors, farmers, social activists, students, home makers, academicians, bureaucrats and senior citizens. 
 The communication cell of BJP is also associated with the community. Gupta was also incharge of penning down BJP's election manifesto on behalf of the manifesto committee led by <keyword id="58476" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Murli-Manohar-Joshi">Murli Manohar Joshi</keyword>. 
 
"Outstanding is the perfect word to describe the performance of the BJP led NDA government. If the elections are held today for four states (going to polls later this year), BJP on its own will win over 80 per cent of the seats" Gupta told ET. 
 
In a bid to keep the government on its toes, the poll is likely to become a regular feature, borrowing from USA's system of President's approval rating.

Most Feel Satisfied With New Modi Government's Performance: Survey

NEW DELHI: <keyword id="71" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Prime-Minister">Prime Minister</keyword> <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> killed at least two birds with one stone with his retire-at-75 policy: He managed to keep about 10 septua-and-octogenarian BJP leaders such as Murli <keyword id="6602480" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Manohar-Joshi">Manohar Joshi</keyword>, CP Thakur, Bhola Singh and Karia Munda out of the ministry, which in turn helped create space for several Young Turks, whom he made ministers of state with independent charge (MoS-IC) of portfolios that are far meatier than some of the Cabinet posts he's doled out to more senior party colleagues. 
 Many of these MoS-IC positions have in the past been part of the Cabinet. Piyush Goyal, for instance, gets independent charge of power, coal and new &amp; renewable energy – that's actually three Cabinet positions. Same with Nirmala Sitharaman, who has independent charge of commerce and industry. Dharmendra Pradhan, a <keyword id="127192" type="POSITION" weightage="40" keywordseo="BJP-general-secretary">BJP general secretary</keyword>, has got petroleum and natural gas, a heavyweight Cabinet responsibility in the past. Prakash Javadekar's I&amp;B and environment portfolios have often been in the Cabinet. 
 
Minute planning went into the ministry-making process. Nripendra Mishra, who was on Tuesday tipped as principal secretary to PM, played a key role and helped the BJP core team come up with the relatively small council of ministers. It would have been even smaller – around 35 members – if there had been agreement on a full-scale restructuring of ministries. For instance, a proposal to merge three industry ministries – heavy industry, DIPP and micro, small and medium enterprises – couldn't be implemented because it would meant sacrificing two Cabinet posts and one of MoS. 
 
 
 
 
There was another, possibly secondary, reason: The key portfolios related to manufacturing and job creation would have had to be assigned to a senior leader who may not have been as aligned to Modi's crucial reforms agenda as the Young Turks. In the Vajpayee government, the reforms process was blocked by three senior ministers – Ram Naik, Murli Manohar Joshi and Shiv Sena's Manohar Joshi. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Significantly, Nirmala Sitharaman also has additional portfolios of MoS for finance and corporate affairs under <keyword id="42575" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Arun-Jaitley">Arun Jaitley</keyword> – which, in a sense, makes him 'super-minister' of finance, industry and commerce. With Sitharaman also MoS finance, other turf battles involving exporters or SEZs can be resolved more easily. 
 Also, in a bid to avoid differences between the finance ministry and the department of industrial policy and promotion related to <keyword id="44528" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="FDI">FDI</keyword> policy and investment agreements, there could be a move to transfer DIPP to finance. 
 
 
 
With economic reforms high on Modi's checklist, there is talk of a search for a few competent officers to drive the agenda from the PMO. A secretary-rank officer handling infrastructure ministries is said to be on the cards. This will be a throwback to the Vajpayee PMO where initially N K Singh, and later S Narayan, coordinated the economic agenda of the NDA. 
 
While Modi's choice of ministers is said to have been driven primarily by considerations such as like-mindedness and efficiency, some 'social balancing' was unavoidable. Kalraj Mishra, a veteran Brahmin leader from UP, who has got the micro, small and medium enterprises portfolio, appears to have been a beneficiary of Murli Manohar Joshi's enforced absence from Cabinet.

Here's Why Narendra Modi Entrusted Young Turks With Key Jobs

NEW DELHI: Amid fierce lobbying for ministerial berths by BJP aspirants, RSS on Sunday claimed that it will not interfere with government formation, in a clear signal that <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> has a free hand in picking his team and that anxious seniors need to settle their claims with the PM-elect rather than bank on the Sangh to intercede on their behalf. 
 Articulating the RSS position, Sangh leader Ram Madhav said, "Sangh has not given any guidelines to BJP after its historic victory in <keyword id="6355187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha">Lok Sabha</keyword> polls, nor to Modiji... RSS never keeps any remote control to perform any role in politics and government." 
 
However, Madhav said the Sangh may give suggestions, and expects the government to be sensitive to the Parivar’s ideological orientation. "People's representatives who won in Lok Sabha polls are aware of the Sangh's ideology and they know how to do work and take forward its ideology. There is no way that RSS would interfere in government's functioning and politics. However, if required, Sangh may give suggestions," he said. 
 
The Sangh’s "clarification" came amid BJP leaders including Ananth Kumar, Rajiv Pratp Rudy and Harsh Vardhan being seen at RSS’s Delhi headquarters and hectic lobbying for ministerial berths ahead of Modi being sworn in as PM. 
 Acknowledging speculation that RSS will have a big role in BJP affairs, particularly as it threw its might behind the Modi campaign, Madhav told the media in Jaipur, "This is common cause of concern for people, specially <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> who want to know what would RSS do next." 
 
He added, "The same question was posed to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to which the former PM replied saying he himself was a direct remote control." 
 The stand and its articulation in public is seen as significant in view of the estimate, as reported by TOI last week, that finding slots for the veteran duo of L K Advani and Murli <keyword id="6602480" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Manohar-Joshi">Manohar Joshi</keyword> may be problematic in view of their stature and might require intervention by the RSS. The presence of senior RSS leaders, except its chief Mohanrao Bhagwat, in Delhi, has led many to believe that the parent saffron outfit may be willing to umpire differences over the choice of portfolios, especially the seniors. 
 
Madhav’s statement was meant to dispel the perception and to drive home the fact that Modi’s call on portfolios will be final. 
 
In the light of the RSS stance, seniors like Advani and Joshi may have to go along with the consensus within the party’s top ranks. The party does not seem inclined to consider Advani for the Lok Sabha Speaker’s post. 
 
The view that Modi will be free to choose his Cabinet and decide on the claims of leaders to portfolios was echoed by senior BJP sources who said all decisions will have to be taken on party forums. 
 
The scale of BJP’s mandate of 282 seats in Lok Sabha and NDA’s tally of 336 MPs seems to have effectively sealed any possibility of Modi’s authority being challenged and limited jockeying within the party. 
 
Sources said the RSS position that it will be available "only for consultation" suits the temperament of Bhagwat, claiming that contrary to the allegations, he does not believe in micro-managing BJP. 
 
In fact, after being in Delhi on Thursday, Bhagwat left on pre-scheduled tour of south India and is due to be in Delhi only towards the end of June. 
 The <keyword id="42701" type="POSITION" weightage="40" keywordseo="RSS-chief">RSS chief</keyword> is understood to be keen that Sangh turn its attention back to its organizational activities after having been part of a campaign aimed at boosting the turnout of voters, a strategy it felt would help Modi. 
 
It remains to be seen if Joshi does make it to the Cabinet. Sources said while seniority and contribution will be a factor in the selection of candidates, individual leaders will not be able to leverage their "stature" to claim a particular ministry. 
 "If some leaders feel they have a claim to ministries represented in the Cabinet Committee on Security, they could be mistaken," said a <keyword id="6356617" type="POSITION" weightage="40" keywordseo="bjp-leader">BJP leader</keyword>. 
 
Modi is not expected to be unmindful of the party and Sangh’s estimate of aspirants, and will consult senior leaders despite the near-universal interpretation of the mandate as an endorsement of his leadership. However, his views on the suitability of leaders for posts and ministries can be expected to carry weight even as he takes care of working through the Sangh’s networks.

Modi To Have Free Hand In Both Govt And Party

AHMEDABAD/BHOPAL/NEW DELHI: With less than 48 hours to go for the declaration of results, an assertive <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> leadership indicated that the veterans may have to settle for roles assigned to them by the party. 
 Although party <keyword id="2540" type="POSITION" weightage="40" keywordseo="President">president</keyword> <keyword id="6355121" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Rajnath-Singh">Rajnath Singh</keyword> said the stalwarts will be consulted, he suggested that the leadership will take the final decision on what assignments they should get. 
 
“As far as the roles of veteran leaders are concerned, I will call a party meeting to which they will be invited. After thorough discussions with all big leaders, we will decide what role will be played by which person,” Singh told reporters in Ahmedabad when asked what role L K Advani would be given if NDA is voted to power. 
 Singh was on his way to Gandhinagar to hold discussions with the party’s PM candidate Narendra Modi as part of the government-formation exercise, although he sought to play down the significance of the meeting saying that it was meant just to exchange notes of the campaign and take stock. Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha <keyword id="42575" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Arun-Jaitley">Arun Jaitley</keyword> and former party president <keyword id="26680" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Nitin-gadkari">Nitin Gadkari</keyword> were part of the deliberations. 
 
Sources said the four leaders decided to call a meeting of the BJP parliamentary board when Modi reaches Delhi on Saturday to set the date when newly-elected BJP MPs will elect him as the leader of the parliamentary party. A meeting of the MPs belonging to NDA partners will also be called around the same time to elect Modi as leader of the NDA parliamentary party. 
 
The BJP has also made plans to organize a grand reception for Modi when he reaches the Capital on Saturday. 
 With exit polls fortifying their own estimate that the BJP is set to regain power at the Centre after 10 years, the ministry-making exercise shifted into higher gear, with Singh grappling with the knotty task of finding appropriate slots for the veteran duo of Advani and Murli <keyword id="6602480" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Manohar-Joshi">Manohar Joshi</keyword> as well as leader of opposition Sushma Swaraj. 
 
Gadkari, who had met Advani and Joshi on Tuesday to ascertain their preferences of the responsibilities they would like to discharge in a Modi regime, met Swaraj with Singh as part of the same sounding exercise. The meeting happened amid indications that those sympathetic to Swaraj strongly feel that she, having been leader of opposition, should have a role commensurate with her standing. 
 
Political circles were also abuzz with speculation that Swaraj, who along with Advani and Joshi resisted the decision to project Modi as PM candidate, was upset over not having been invited for deliberations the Gujarat CM hosted in Gandhinagar. 
 
However, Swaraj denied being angry. “Nothing should be read into my meetings with party president Rajnath Singh or Nitin Gadkari. These were courtesy visits,” she said during a brief interaction with media after touching down at Bhopal airport. 
 
“I am not angry with anyone. We just wanted to meet ahead of poll results. When Rajnath and Gadkari came to know that I was flying to Bhopal, they came to meet me. It was a routine meeting,” she said and walked off. 
 As they get down to indentifying the possible ministerial appointments, the leadership, besides having to manage egos and seniority claims, faces a talent crunch: a problem made acute by RSS’s insistence that an honest effort should be made to move those past 75 to mentor roles. Jaitley is considered to be a hot favourite for finance or home, particularly if he makes it to <keyword id="6355187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha">Lok Sabha</keyword> from Amritsar. But with both Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh out of the equation, there are no obvious choices for either defence or external affairs. 
 
The weak bench strength may see Modi seeking to persuade Rajnath Singh to switch to the government to handle defence, though this will still leave him with the task of finding a person of adequate standing for the ministry of external affairs. 
 
Modi will have trouble finding a suitable person for home ministry should Jaitley get finance. Being a very sensitive ministry with an oversight over Intelligence Bureau, the home minister is expected to be a person who enjoys the PM’s absolute trust. With not many around who can fulfill the bare minimum of eligibility criterion, one school of thought favours the bifurcation of the ministry with its internal security function being hived off into a separate department which can be put under a minister of state reporting directly to the PM. 
 
For the health ministry, however, Delhi BJP leader Harsh Vardhan seems to have emerged as a likely choice with the leadership reckoning that the important position at the Centre will elevate his stature ahead of Delhi assembly polls where he may be projected as the CM candidate. 
 
Another problem confronting the leadership is how to strike a balance between members of Lok Sabha and their counterparts in Rajya Sabha in the appointments to crucial ministries. The party is expecting a huge contingent of 240-odd members in Lok Sabha, many of whom will be relatively inexperienced so far as handling responsibilities at the Centre is concerned. The party’s RS squad has more experienced but the leadership is concerned that those directly elected cannot be ignored.

Veteran Leaders Will Be Consulted But Party Will Decide Their Future Roles: Rajnath

Shiv Sena may have shared power with ideologically-opposite Congress for the first time, but the saffron party is known to have cosied up with it before and posters with old pictures of bonhomie between their leaders Bal Thackeray and Indira Gandhi taken in the seventies were put up in different parts of the city. Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray took oath Thursday evening at the historic Shivaji Park supported by the Congress and the NCP. Besides late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and former prime minister Indira Gandhi, NCP President Sharad Pawar also figured in the posters. Those aware of its past, the Shiv Sena, known for its firebrand Hindutva politics, seeking support of the Congress and the NCP does not come as a surprise. From backing Congress candidates in presidential polls to not fielding any contender against Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule to even tying up with ideologically opposite Muslim League, the Shiv Sena has had a history of flirting with 'frenemies'. In the assembly polls held last month, the BJP won 105 seats, the Shiv Sena bagged 56, followed by the NCP (54) and the Congress (48) in the 288-member House. The Shiv Sena, founded by Bal Thackeray in 1966, in its more than five decades long journey has allied with the Congress, formally and informally. In its initial days, it was often supported directly or indirectly by many Congress leaders and its different factions. Noted political analyst Suhas Palshikar in an article in the Economic and Political Weekly writes that senior state Congress leader Ramrao Adik was present at the first ever Shiv Sena rally. Dhaval Kulkarni, the author of "The Cousins Thackeray-Uddhav and Raj and in the shadow of their Sena", said that in the 1960s and 70s, the party was mostly used by the Congress to counter influence of the Left on the labour unions in the city. The party in 1971 allied with Congress (O) and unsuccessfully fielded three candidates for Lok Sabha in Mumbai and the Konkan region. Thackeray backed the Emergency in 1977 and did not field any candidate for the Lok Sabha polls held in that year. "In 1977, it also backed Congress' Murli Deora in the mayoral polls," said Kulkarni. So much so that the party was also mocked as 'Vasantsena', the army of the then Vasantrao Naik who was the state chief minister from 1963 to 1974. Palshikar writes that in 1978, when attempts to ally with the Janata Party failed, the Shiv Sena allied with the Congress (I), the faction led by Indira Gandhi. It fielded 33 candidates for the assembly polls. All 33 lost in the anti-Indira wave. In one of the most unlikely alliances, the Sena also allied with the Muslim League. Veteran journalist Prakash Akolkar, in his book on Shiv Sena titled 'Jai Maharashtra', writes that for winning the Mumbai mayoral polls in the 1970s, Shiv Sena also allied with the Muslim League. For this, the Sena supremo also shared stage with Muslim League leader G M Banatwala at Mastan Talao in Nagpada in South Mumbai, Sena's first chief minister Manohar Joshi writes in his book 'Shiv Sena-Kal-Aaj-Udya' (Shiv Sena-Past-Present and Future). If it was used by the Congress to end the Left dominance on trade unions in Mumbai, the Sena allied with Madhu Dandavate's Praja Socialist Party in 1968. The bonhomie between the Congress and the Sena ended in the 80s after the death of Indira Gandhi and the ties between the two were not the same. The relations only deteriorated during the terms of Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and later Rahul Gandhi. Incidentally, Uddhav's son and Sena's Youth Wing chief Aditya Thackeray met Sonia on Wednesday to extend invitation to oath-taking ceremony. The mid-80's was also the time when the Sena tilted towards Hindutva and gravitated towards the BJP. The late 80s and 90s changed the character of the party which moved towards hardline Hindutuva. In the later years, the Shiv Sena, however, broke ranks from the BJP-led NDA and voted for Congress backed Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee in presidential polls. The equation between the Thackerays and the Pawars goes back to more than five decades both were fierce rivals separated by conflicting ideologies but thick friends in private life. Pawar often termed Thackeray as a large-hearted opponent. In his attacks, he would often call him 'maidyaacha pota' (sack of flour). Sharad Pawar in his autobiography 'On My Terms' writes that despite being fierce rivals, how he and his wife Pratibha would visit Matoshree for "gupshup" and dinner. He also recalls that when he was suffering from cancer in 2004, Bal Thackeray gave him a list of "several commandments" related to diet. In private, Pawar says, Thackeray addressed him as 'Sharadbabu'. In 2006, when Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule contested the Rajya Sabha polls, Thackeray did not field any candidate. "Sharadbabu, I have seen her (Sule) since she was a knee-high girl. This is a big step in her career. My party will make sure that she goes to Rajya Sabha unopposed," Pawar said quoting Thackeray's telephonic conversation with him. When Pawar asked about the BJP's opposition, the NCP President says the senior Thackeray told him, "Oh, you don't worry about Kamlabai (the BJP)". Incidentally, the NCP fielded a lightweight against Thackeray's grandson Aditya, who was the first in his family to enter electoral politics. He won by a margin of over 67,000 votes in the recent Assembly election.

Shiv Sena and Congress share power for the first time -- but they have a history of being allies despite ideological differences

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<keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> leader <keyword id="68068" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sriprakash-Jaiswal">Sriprakash Jaiswal</keyword> asked the new government to explain how the rise in railway fares and freight charges will bring achhe din, as promised by the BJP during the election campaign. 
 “Will an increase in railway fare bring down inflation? Will an increase in freight charges, which will, in turn, increase prices of essential commodities, bring good days?” the former MP from <keyword id="6357478" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kanpur">Kanpur</keyword> asked. 
 
He also led a protest against the fare hike and frequent power cuts in Kanpur. 
 
“The railway fare has been increased so much in just one go. Never before has the fare been increased so much. Even the freight charges have been increased. This will directly affect the people as the prices of daily-use commodities will increase,” he said. 
 
“Did the people elect the BJP to see such ‘good days’? It is being said that the prices of gas and fuel will also increase. The people should think why they elected the BJP. They should accept what the government has given them in the name of good days. After all, they only elected the BJP,” he further added. 
 
Jaiswal had lost the election from Kanpur to the BJP’s Murli Manohar Joshi.

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<keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> was leading in 214 constituencies in the initial trends available from across the country with its prime ministerial candidate <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> leading in both Vadodara and Varanasi constituencies as the counting votes went underway today. Other NDA partners – TDP, <keyword id="6358821" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Shiv-Sena">Shiv Sena</keyword> and Akali Dal – were leading in 11, six and four seats, respectively. 
 
Congress was leading in 70 seats with its partners, NCP and RJD, leading in three and seven seats, respectively. Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party, fighting its first <keyword id="6355187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha">Lok Sabha</keyword> election, was leading in five seats. But <keyword id="260213" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Arvind-Kejriwal">Arvind Kejriwal</keyword> himself was trailing from the Varanasi constituency. 
 
The early trends show that the Modi wave was sweeping the nation and the Congress seems to be swept away in the wave. 
 
Some prominent leaders in the lead were LK Advani (Gandhinagar), Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli), Uma Bharti (Jhansi), Sachin Pilot (Ajmer), Jaswant Singh (Barmer), Rabri Devi (Saran), Rahul Gandi (Amethi), Murli Manohar Joshi (Kanpur), Dimple Yadav (Kannauj), Mulayam Singh Yadav (Azamgarh), Yogi Adityanath (Gorakhpur), Maneka Gandhi (Pilibhit) and Rajnath Singh (Lucknow). 
 
All the BJP-ruled states - Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh - were headed to go the BJP way. 
Exit polls had predicted a massive victory for the NDA.

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The <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> today sought responses from senior <keyword id="6356617" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="bjp-leader">BJP leader</keyword> L K Advani and others on a plea against dropping of criminal conspiracy charge against them in the Babri mosque <keyword id="6367653" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Demolition">demolition</keyword> case. 
 A bench headed by <keyword id="42759" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Chief-Justice">Chief Justice</keyword> H L Dattu issued notices to the BJP leader and the CBI on a separate plea filed by Haji Mahboob Ahmad, one of the petitioners in the Babri mosque case. 
 
 
Ahmad, in his plea, has alleged that CBI may dilute its stand in the wake of the change in the government at the Centre. 
 Earlier, the CBI had moved the apex court against <keyword id="48834" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Allahabad-High-Court">Allahabad High Court</keyword>'s verdict on dropping conspiracy charge against Advani and 19 others in Babri mosque demolition case. 
 
 
During the brief hearing, CBI today sought time for filing a fresh affidavit on delay in filing the appeal and on the merits of the case. 
 
The court allowed the plea of the probe agency and granted four weeks time to file the response. 
 
The apex court had earlier pulled up CBI for the delay in filing an appeal against the Allahabad High Court verdict. 
 
 
CBI has challenged in the Supreme Court the May 21, 2010 order of the high court, which had upheld a special court's decision to drop the charge against the leaders. 
 In its verdict, the high court had upheld the special <keyword id="6362306" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="CBI-court">CBI court</keyword> order dropping conspiracy charge against Advani, <keyword id="6361634" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Kalyan-Singh">Kalyan Singh</keyword>, <keyword id="42642" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Uma-Bharti">Uma Bharti</keyword>, Vinay Katiyar and Murli Manohar Joshi. 
 
The others against whom the charge was dropped included Satish Pradhan, C R Bansal, Ashok Singhal, Giriraj Kishore, Sadhvi Ritambhara, V H Dalmia, Mahant Avaidhynath, R V Vedanti, Param Hans Ram Chandra Das, Jagdish Muni Maharaj, B L Sharma, Nritya Gopal Das, Dharam Das, Satish Nagar and Moreshwar Save. 
 
Bal Thackeray's name was removed from the list of accused persons after his death. 
 
While upholding the special court's order, the high court 
 
 While upholding the special court's order, the high court had allowed CBI to proceed with other charges against Advani and others in a <keyword id="2788382" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Rae-Bareily-court">Rae Bareily court</keyword>, under whose jurisdiction the case falls. 
 
The May 2010 order of the high court had said there was no merit in CBI's revision petition against the May 4, 2001 order of the special court which had directed dropping of criminal conspiracy charge against them. 
 
 
There are two sets of cases -- one against Advani and others who were on the dais at Ram Katha Kunj in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 when the Babri mosque was demolished, while the other case was against lakhs of unknown 'karsevaks' who were in and around the disputed structure. 
 
CBI had charge sheeted Advani and 20 others under sections 153A (promoting enmity between classes), 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 505 (false statements, rumours etc. circulated with the intent to cause mutiny or disturb public peace) of the IPC. 
 
It had subsequently invoked charges under section 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC which was quashed by the special court whose decision was upheld by the high court. 
While upholding the special court's order, the high court had said CBI at no point of time, either during the trial at Rae Bareily or in its revision petition, ever stated that there was offence of criminal conspiracy against the leaders.

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It is not necessary that all cabinet ministers have to gel with PM Narendra Modi. There are few ministers who had to work towards getting their equation right with the PM. 
 Economic Times reported how <keyword id="6391015" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Finance-Minister-Arun-Jaitley">Finance Minister Arun Jaitley</keyword>, Home Minister Rajanth Singh and Foreign Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj adjusted to work out their private equation with Modi. 
 
The most important minister in Modi’s cabinet is Jaitley. Arguably, Jaitley is Modi's go-to man. People close to Jaitley told ET that he was one of the trongest backers of Modi as BJP’s PM candidate at a time when several heavyweights were against the idea. 
 
The Finance Minister had also handled legal issues of both Modi and BJP President Amit Shah. A party leader told the financial daily that when Shah was banned from entering Gujarat by the Supreme Court, he went to Jaitley's house. 
 
The leader added that Shah relies heavily on Jaitley. "Those working closely with Shah now in the party are all Arun Jaitley's people. Shah's assessment of people is based on Arun's assessment and Modi too goes along," a party leader told ET. 
 
The leader also said that people close to Jaitley were given key ministries and the names were endorsed by Shah as well. 
 
A BJP leader told the financial daily that the close relationship between Modi, Jaitley and Shah was a source of much jealousy. 
 
"Of the trio, Jaitley is the easiest to attack since Modi can't be attacked and attacks on Shah will only start post Bihar if the party does badly," said the leader. 
 
The leader added that Jaitley was Modi's chief troubleshooter. 
 
One of the leaders also told ET that if performance of Modi Sarkar was to be judged largely on economy, Modi's most important minister was also the one who will be judged most ultimately. 
 Meanwhile, <keyword id="2286211" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Home-Minister-Rajnath-Singh">Home Minister Rajnath Singh</keyword> learnt to like Modi. 
 Singh is officially the number two in the <keyword id="581221" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Modi-Cabinet">Modi Cabinet</keyword> and as per an official notification, he gets to chair Cabinet meetings when the PM is away. 
 
Singh is a political heavyweight and Modi and Shah are quite careful not to mess with him. When the Home Minister publically expressed displeasure at rumours being spread about his son, allegedly by a Cabinet colleague, Modi and Shah rushed to assuage him. 
 
After Singh’s response, those rumours stopped. 
 
"The message was clear - Rajnath was not going to stay quiet," a BJP functionary told ET. In his first stint as BJP president, Singh shared an uneasy relationship with Modi and Jaitley. 
 
Singh had dropped Modi from the party's central parliamentary board and Jaitley from the post of chief spokesman. However, during his second stint, Singh’s relationship with Modi improved. 
 
Singh batted for Modi against party veterans LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Sushma Swaraj. 
 
Economic Times reported that a senior Congress leader had also gone to Singh's house when he was the president to dissuade him from declaring Modi as the party's PM candidate. But to no avail. 
 
"He also got dissidents to stop critiquing Modi in public during the run-up to the election," a BJP leader told ET, adding “At one point Singh got Yashwant Sinha to speak to Shatrughan Sinha to tone down the latter's remarks against Modi.” 
 
Party leaders told ET that as smooth as Singh-Modi relations may be now, the uneasy relationship between the finance and home ministers could still become a problem for the prime minister. 
 
"The downfall of UPA-2 started with the shadow war between Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram. Round-2 of Singh vs Jaitley, if it happens, can get troublesome for the PM," a party veteran told the financial daily. 
 
Coming to Foreign Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, she was a Modi critic was adjusted. 
 
“Sushma-ji's is a case of a remarkable transformation,” a BJP leader told ET. Before Modi climbed to top of the party, Swaraj was a Modi critic. 
 
A BJP veteran said Swaraj is good with her job even if no one talks about it. Officials say Modi is even more personally involved than most recent PMs. This could have been a source of angst for Swaraj, but she has simply got on with it. 
 
"She's shown great dignity," a BJP leader told ET. As per officials, Modi has asked the foreign minister to keep special focus on the Middle East and SAARC. 
 
"Sushma Swaraj really knows the dos and don'ts of ministerial functioning," a senior official told ET. 
 
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