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1 Low blow: ‘Didi-oh-Didi’, drawled and punctuated in the tone used by Modi, will remain embedded in Bengal’s memory for a long time. PTI
Julio Ribeiro
The defining feature of the 2021 Assembly elections in West Bengal is the image of a lone intrepid woman with a broken leg in a wheelchair. She is dressed simply in her trademark white sari. She has taken on the country’s most popular politician and his retinue consisting of the Union Home Minister, the BJP president, UP Chief Minister and a stream of bigwigs single-handedly, in a David v/s Goliath battle.
How did she break her leg? She was boarding her car after an election rally, when the crowd that had come dangerously close to her put pressure on the car’s door when only one leg was safely inside. In numerous rallies supervised by me in my halcyon days, I have witnessed this mad rush of admirers, or may be just onlookers, towards the presiding star.
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1 Jallianwala Bagh: A Groundbreaking History of the 1919 Massacre by VN Datta. Penguin Random House. Pages 248. Rs 399
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Owing to its association with the “frightfulness” of Dyer mercilessly mowing down 700 blameless Indians without cause, Baisakhi in April brings to mind the opening lines of TS Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’:
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of dead land, mixing
Memory with desire…
In 1969, on the 50th anniversary of the ghastly event, historian Vishwa Nath Datta, born and brought up in the vicinity of the Bagh and, therefore, personally acquainted with many of the survivors and loved ones of those brutally shot down, brought out this monograph of under 150 pages to tell the historical truth of what happened; why it happened; how participants and observers, British and Indian, reacted to the gory bloodletting of innocent hundreds; and what were its far-reaching consequences for Indo-British relations and the End
He pitched a role of a mentor for party president Sonia Gandhi and asserted that the Congress has to move from being an inclusive party to setting up an inclusive alliance .
Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar takes a jibe at Sonia Gandhi, Rahul, says only mother or son can become next prez
Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar takes a jibe at Sonia Gandhi, Rahul, says only mother or son can become next prez
âTo Contest Election People Are Required, If There s No One And There s Only One Candidate, How Will You Conduct The Election In The First Place? He Questioned.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Vikas Mehta | Updated on: 09 Oct 2017, 08:24:50 AM
New Delhi:
Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Sunday took a jibe at Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi saying that how could be an election possible at first place in the party. He said either the mother (Sonia Gandhi ) or son (Rahul Gandhi )could become the next president of the grand old party.