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FC Barcelona and the Indian National Congress: The uncanny resemblance

The following is a piece by Anunay Chowdhury. Anunay is a second-year student of Law at King’s College London.

Perhaps this is the strangest analogy that you would read today. FC Barcelona and Indian National Congress do not have any substantial similarity but, atypically, two of the most prominent organizations in their respective fields have much more in common than one would expect. The exit of a brilliant Brazilian player, Neymar in 2015 made Barcelona vulnerable and has been witnessing some of the most embarrassing moments in the club’s modern history. On the other side, the Indian National Congress is barely keeping up in the wake of Bhartiya Janta Party’s dominance in the national scene. A closer look at two organizations, who operate in two very distinct professions may reveal a similar flaw.

The recent headlines have put the Grand Old Party on a very fragile tactical ground. After the episodes in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, Indian National Congress is trying to salvage whatever remains of its minuscule repute in the state of Rajasthan. Sachin Pilot, a next-gen leader of the Indian National Congress and has been rumoured to be in direct conflict with local state leadership. He had single-handedly helped INC win the Rajasthan state elections in 2018. In 2015, INC only won on 21 seats out 200 in Rajasthan. The number increased to 100 seats in the 2018 election. Post his absence from the state Indian National Congress meeting; he has been dishonourably relieved from his duty as the INC Rajasthan President. As a mitigating response, the party leadership has called all the MLAs to gather in a fancy resort to contain the horse-trading from the other side – somehow the epistemology of this idea always escapes me. There were widespread rumours that Sachin Pilot was denied CMship in 2018 after the so-called resurgence of the Indian National Congress in the national scene after the near-lethal drubbing of INC after the 2014 national and state election.

The story of FC Barcelona of 2019, however coincidently, mirrors the near demise of Indian National Congress in the Indian political landscape. The FC Barcelona is the 2nd biggest club in the world by revenue - 2nd only to the national rival Real Madrid. Despite having, inarguably, the best player in the history of football, FC Barcelona has only been consistent in their dreary and insipid football. Under their former manager Pep Guardiola, FC Barcelona played one of the best football and embraced much of the identity for which they were known till date. The oozing display of possession and creativity has now decayed into relentless horizontal passing with no intent to threaten the opposing side. Almost all of their offensive movement goes through Lionel Messi, who in his day can still manage to outperform all the of the rest of the players on the field. Managers still fail to draw tactics to contain a single player in a game of 22. Lionel Messi has been, for the past two years, in a Super-Saiyan mode and has been dragging Barcelona alone. But the miracle-man still plays a team game, despite creating havoc on the field, the rules of the game remain the same – one who scores more will win. The ageing squad of FC Barcelona and dystopian management is at the core of the problem. Messi is himself 32, and he has to respect the biological limit of his body. Eight of the 20-player squad is above the age of 30. On average, 5 of the ten outfield players in a match are above the age of 30. The team does not have a classical wing player and depends on newly promoted 18-year-old Ansu Fati for occasional help. The team often seems confused and static and depend only on Lionel Messi to produce an opening for an attack. The management has spent more than 800 million pounds after the exit of the star player Neymar. Amidst the race to replace Neymar, FC Barcelona nearly killed the career of Phillipe Coutinho who joined Barcelona on the premise of winning big trophies. He has, since then, seen his former club, Liverpool FC, win everything that he was meant to win at FC Barcelona.

The ageing squad has run out of ideas, strength and passion for competing at a higher level. The manager seems reluctant to preclude ageing players due to their enormity of stature in the team. Management is disinclined to allow youth players into the first team. There seems to be a kind of hegemony of older players which undermines the managerial authority in the team selection process. Imbecilic man-management lead to expenditure on players that do not fit the requirement of the team. Barcelona is often seen succumbing to the pressure by other teams if they press high or lay deep back in defence. It only exposes off the field leadership in the hierarchy of players.

In short, Barcelona does not inspire confidence among fans, like me, that they can compete with the likes of Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Liverpool and Real Madrid. As long as they are dependent on just one man supplemented with their boring and dull tactics, lack of speed on the wings, midfielders not having freedom and creativity to anchor attacks, Barcelona is doing just everything to fall into oblivion like AC Milan and Manchester United. Fans have nothing but to sporadically orgasm on historical achievements of the club.

That surely rings a bell. The story of the Indian National Congress is the same. The recent ousting of Sachin Pilot from the Rajasthan state wing of the Indian National Congress has been linked to the weakened relations with the current Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot. Some political analyst speculates that the souring relationship is due to the growing prominence of Sachin Pilot in the Rajasthan cadre of the Indian National Congress. Ashok Gehlot felt threatened due to diminishing prospect of his son growing in the ranks of the Indian National Congress in Rajasthan. Previously, Ashok Gehlot’s push to favour his son for the post of Rajasthan Cricket Association had created a concern for the local leaders of the party[1]. This is not the first time we have seen that despotic top tier party members exercise influence over the party decisions resulting in neglecting deserving candidates.

In recent times, the progression of the local leaders to the higher posts in the party has become a big concern. Much of the consternation is due to the power-hungry party veteran that does not let grassroot-workers to climb up the ladder. Former spokesperson of the party Sanjay Jha had penned the same concern in recent columns in Times of India. Instead of introspection, party discharged Sanjay Jha of his duties. He grew very critical of the lack of transparency in the internal party matters[2]. As for the matter of corroboration, he further wrote that his colleagues in the party expressed appreciation that he raised a very pertinent issue but simultaneously was left aghast by the lack of public support[3].

The leadership vacuum is another major problem. It emanates explicitly from the fact that Rahul Gandhi does not understand politics – plain and simple. Recklessness aside, BJP installed LCD TVs in the remotest of the areas in West Bengal during the Covid-19 pandemic for Amit Shah’s virtual rally for the upcoming West Bengal state elections. As against, Rahul Gandhi uploaded a video on Facebook critiquing Modi’s policies only to realise that around 70% of the voters in the elections do not have access to Facebook. Some student in 2017 wrote to Guinness Book of World Record to enlist Rahul Gandhi as the man who lost most elections [4]. He assumed the responsibility of the President in 2017 from his mother, Sonia Gandhi. After the 2019 Lok Sabha election, as Salman Khan would choke on 21st-century film-making after watching likes of Inception, Rahul Gandhi could barely fathom the enormity of the loss. As a response, Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post of President and submitted the letter of resignation to his mother, who has since taken charge instead. Initially, Sonia Gandhi was reluctant to accept the resignation but accepted it eventually. Rahul Gandhi was projected as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Indian National Congress. The man has not held any administrative post in his entire life and managed to lose his constituency of Amethi, Uttar Pradesh was is nearly considered to be the family heirloom of the Gandhi’s. INC won 13 out of the 15 Lok Sabha elections that were held in Amethi before 2019 Lok Sabha election. The seat has been previously held by Rahul Gandhi’s father and mother – Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. These days, the former President of the INC has been reduced to memes and a universal symbol of political comic relief. In the times of alleged historical appropriation by Bhartiya Janta Party, Rahul Gandhi can be seen invoking his great grandfather – Jawaharlal Nehru, advocating on his behalf about the magnificence of his stature and his contribution to building modern India. Rahul Gandhi is nowhere near the acclaim of Jawaharlal Nehru. If resuscitated, Nehru would prefer going back to his grave than to witness the abysmal result of his progeny.

It is not the first time that the politicians are jumping the ships but what is surprising in the case of INC is the level of leadership and how they quit. Jyotiraditya Scindia was not any other leader in the Indian National Congress. He had a firm grip on the central Madhya Pradesh constituencies and had the support of 22 MLA’s while quitting the INC. As the media outlets reported, he grew discontented by the INC leadership or lack of it. Part of leadership is to maintain a close grip on prominent regional leaders and to make sure that their efforts are reciprocated. Despite delivering, Scindia did not feel having an essential role in the Madhya Pradesh government.

Once the beacon of freedom and liberty, the Indian National Congress is now in complete shambles and has been showing every symptom of an imminent implosion. The party has run out of ideas and lacks a democratic structure internally. All the next-gen leaders that were given an early opportunity by the INC, Like Sachin Pilot, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Milind Deora, Priya Dutt and Jitin Prasada seems to have only cemented their resolute against Sonia-Rahul hegemony over INC. The party has no one to blame but itself for its fallout with leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot. Rahul Gandhi is not a leader and can never be a leader, in the race of gladiators; he is merely a loony tune character.

Indian National Congress needs to revamp its internal structure to revive confidence among the party members and local party workers. The party needs a leader with inherent qualities to man-manage the party to march them forward. It is running out of time to be trying to groom and spoon feed a baby adult into believing that he is a leader. The party requires a more liberated federal structure. A fresh approach to reach masses at grassroot level is the need of the hour. If there is any chance for INC to salvage anything before the 2023 election, the time is of the essence. In the period from 1998 till today, INC has had only two presidents irrespective of the result as against Bhartiya Janta Party has had ten presidents in the same period. While the one is a beacon of democratic liberal values and the other one is regarded as a fascist organization. The party has to look beyond the clutches of the Rahul-Sonia leadership. An apposite effort-reward equation has to be set among the party lines, so the deserving candidates have necessary means to prove their mettle. The communication divide between the so-called “High Command” has to be bridged by delegation and more transparency.

FC Barcelona presidentship is up for elections in 2021 with the leading candidate, Victor Font promising a bright project including bringing back Xavi Hernandez, one of the leading squad member of 2011 Barcelona squad and a close apprentice of Pep Guardiola, as the head coach of the team. Xavi promises to bring back the electrifying football of FC Barcelona with particular reliance on youth and academy players. It remains to be seen what Indian National Congress would do to stop leakage of prominent next-gen leaders out of the party. How congress party will approach the 2023 general election would set the tone for the ultimate future of the party.

[1] https://theprint.in/politics/ashok-gehlot-son-rajasthan-cricket-congress/300861/

[2] https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sanjay-jha-removed-as-congress-spokesperson-days-after-he-penned-critical-article-against-party/story-cHG4SZysgjtHKqTt1vWouO.html

[3] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/congressmen-watching-silently-as-party-hurtles-towards-political-obsolescence/

[4] https://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/rahul-gandhi-might-make-it-to-guinness-book-for-losing-27-elections-117032100523_1.html

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businessesconsultant · 2 years ago

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5 Powerful Leadership Lessons From The Life Of Draupadi Murmu That Will Inspire You!

Summary: Draupadi Murmu who has been elected as the 15th President of India is also the first tribal woman to become the country's President.

The race for the Presidential seat that has many prominent personalities like Yashwant Sinha is finally over with Draupadi Murmu winning the presidential polls by an overwhelming margin.

Born on June 20, 1958 in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, Draupadi Murmu hails from a tribal community. She came into the national spotlight after being picked as the presidential

nominee in the July 2018 polls. Spanning two decades, she has had a very illustrious career graph.

However, her journey was not completely a bed of roses. Life has tested her patience and grit at every step. Despite the challenges, she stood tall and kept on moving forward.

From living in a hut with her family to Rashtrapati Bhawan which has 340 rooms, she is a living inspiration for all of us.

Today, Murmu has become an ideal not only for India but for billions of people around the world. Here are 5 leadership lessons from her life that we all can learn when it comes to following our dreams:

1. Don`t Let Difficult Circumstances Stop You

Born on 20th June 1958, Murmu hails from Mayurbhanj in Odisha. Coming from a tribal family, her childhood was spent in extreme poverty in the country's most remote and underdeveloped district. Many basic amenities that we relish so commonly were not even available in her village.

Despite the atrocities that life threw at her, she went ahead and finished her schooling between 1969 to 1973. She went to pursue her bachelor's from Rama Devi Women's College in Bhubaneshwar. Murmu became the first woman from her village to go to Bhubaneswar to complete graduation and received her Bachelor's degree in Arts.

2. Don't Let Obstacles Change Your Goals

Coming from a very humble background, Draupadi Murmu got married to Late Shyam Charan Murmu. The financial situation was more or less the same. In 1984, Murmu lost her firstborn daughter when she was just 3 years old. Between 2010 to 2014, she lost her two young sons and her husband. The loss was too much to bear and she also slipped into depression for some time. Despite this heart-wrenching loss, Murmu gathered herself and did not let her grief stop her from chasing her dreams and the rest is history.

3. Set New Benchmarks

Draupadi Murmu started her career as a teacher in Aurobindo Integral Education Center, Rairangpur, Odisha, and later joined politics. She took up this role so that she could teach her daughters as well.

Her political career started as the vice-chairman of the Rairangpur NAC. Draupadi Murmu was honored by the Odisha Legislative Assembly with its Best MLA of the Year 2007 award. She was the first Odia woman and tribal leader to be named governor of an Indian state. She served the full term of her office.

4. No Dream is Too Small

Elected at 64 years and 46 days, Murmu is the youngest President of India. While taking an oath as the 15th President of India, she said, “My election is proof that the poor in India can dream and make them come true."

Draupadi Murmu also served as a junior assistant in the irrigation and power department in the Odisha government. She has handled various ministries such as commerce, transport, animal husbandry, and fisheries in the Odisha government.

Murmu also served as the President of BJP`s Scheduled Tribe Morcha in Odisha between 2006 to 2009. In 1997 she was elected as Councilor in the Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat, and later on, became Vice-Chairperson.

5. Never Lose Hope

Draupadi Murmu who was sworn in as the 15th President of India had to experience many challenges that life threw at her. Often in life, we encounter situations that have the

power to break us down. But the real courage lies in getting back again and overcoming those challenges to follow our dreams.

From living in a place where even the basic amenities were not available to residing in 340-room Rashtrapati Bhavan which is laced with amenities, Draupadi Murmu`s journey has been a roller coaster. She has faced many challenges and learned to overcome them with her sheer courage, persistence, and determination toward her goals.

Draupadi Murmu is a true example of a powerful leader who with her determination, true courage, and perseverance chose to stand tall instead of lying down and giving up. Her journey has been an inspiration to millions of us to never stop trying, no matter what!

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xtruss · 4 years ago

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Why India’s ‘Godi Media’ Spreads Hatred and Fake News

How the leading players in the Indian media, loyal to the governing BJP-RSS combine, have been openly peddling fake news, hate and bigotry targeting religious minorities, especially India’s marginalised and dispossessed Muslims and why they have been getting away with murder all these years

— April 24, 2020 | S K Husain | Clarion India

GODI (Lapdog), Bikau (Venal), Dalal (Agent) and Bharkau (Inflammatory). These are some of the labels with which a major section of India’s mainstream electronic media is identified by a majority of Indians, especially Muslims and low-caste Hindus, as well as the remaining section of the national media.

This chunk of the media, which consists of nearly a dozen 24-hour national and regional TV news channels, is infamous for biased reporting and fanning communal hatred in society. Their journalists and anchors routinely engage in spreading fake news and causing hatred towards the country’s 200 million Muslim community and Islam. They, in fact, nourish Islamophobia. As someone rightly remarked, “the Indian media is not doing journalism but waging a jihad (holy war) against Muslims. It acts like hyenas”.

On one hand, these channels demonstrate a clear bias against the country’s low-caste Hindus, the poor, and less privileged and weaker sections of society. On the other, they promote the agenda of the Hindutva forces including the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), its ruling political wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners in the government, as well as their leaders. They also favour the rich and powerful and promote their interests.

Prominent among these Pro-BJP/RSS news outlets are English television channels Republic TV, Times Now, India Today and CNN-News18, and Hindi TV channels Zee News, ABP News, Aaj Tak, India TV, Sudershan News, News Nation and News24 (India). All the above-mentioned titles fit these channels for one reason or the other.

The term “Godi media” was coined for these channels by Ramon Magsaysay award winner journalist Ravish Kumar of NDTV. He inherently spoke of the lap of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and its lapdogs.

Besides these channels, there are many more news and at least 18 Hindu religious channels in regional languages across India that promote the agenda of the Hindutva forces to establish a Hindu Rashtra (nation) and impose Hindi as the national language all over the plural, multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-lingual country of 1.37 billion people.

Among the key reasons why these channels and their anchors so aggressively support the BJP, RSS and Modi, as well as the rich and powerful, are:

1) Absolute majority of the BJP-led NDA in Parliament and its government at the centre and in many states, and growing irrelevance and inconsequentiality of a largely obliterated opposition;

2) Hindu viewership by the BJP’s 100-million-plus primary members and their massive support for the party and government, and the cult-like following of a “monolithic” Modi;

3) A high TRP achieved because of the majority Hindu viewership. (TRP, or target rating point, is a metric used in marketing and advertising to indicate the percentage of the target audience reached by a campaign or advertisement through a communication medium);

4) Funding by big business houses, which might be chummy with a particular party which supports their growth and in return they support that party;

5) Ownership or stakes of certain BJP and RSS leaders, MPs and supporters in some of these TV channels;

6) Owners’ political connections or affiliations with the BJP and RSS;

7) A huge revenue earned from government advertisements which these channels receive in return for their pro-BJP/RSS/government policies;

8) Commercial interests of these channels as business entities rather than as social service non-governmental organisations;

9) Government advisories/directives and restrictions on news presentation;

10) Fear of being targeted by the government for failure to toe the line.

Let’s take a close look at what these Hindutva TV channels are, who owns or runs them and what are their policies.

HIS MASTER’S VOICE…Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami interviews Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Credit: narendramodi.in

English Networks

Republic TV — This news channel was co-founded and is majority-owned by a 47-year-old Assamese, Arnab Ranjan Goswami. He is also the channel’s editor and news anchor. Earlier, he was the editor-in-chief and a news anchor of Times Now and ET Now.

The channel is infamous for its brazen support for the BJP and RSS. Arnab is noted for his opinionated reporting in favour of the BJP and RSS and their Hindutva push across a wide spectrum of situations, including uncritically reproducing government narratives, avoiding criticism of BJP/RSS figures, and presenting their political opponents in a negative light. He very clearly, cleverly and shamelessly shows his bias. No one can beat him in spreading hatred and fake news.

Arnab is the son of Manoranjan Goswami, an army man who later joined the BJP, and a maternal nephew of Siddhartha Bhattacharya, who is a BJP MLA and minister in Assam’s state government.

Launched in 2017, Republic TV was partly funded by, among others, Asianet News (ARG Outlier Asianet News Private Limited), which was primarily funded by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, then an independent member of Rajya Sabha with intricate links with the BJP and vice-chairman of the NDA in Kerala.

Son of an air force officer, Chandrasekhar, however, resigned from the Asianet board after he officially joined the BJP in April 2018 and was elected as a BJP MP.

Republic TV has been accused of propagating fake news and running several news items based on the defamatory tweets posted by certain BJP leaders. It has also been convicted of breaching telecommunication regulatory and news broadcasting rules, leading to censures and subject to a high-profile defamation case by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.

The channel is described by experts as a “noisy, chaotic place where coherent debate without shouting, screaming and name-calling is impossible”. Its shows have been dubbed a “battle of babble”, judgmental, brash and hawkish.

It has even been compared to North Korean media for its extreme pro-government affinity and muzzling of dissent, and America’s Fox News which practises biased reporting in favour of the Republican Party.

Prominent among these pro-BJP/RSS news outlets are English television channels Republic TV, Times Now, India Today and CNN-News18, and Hindi TV channels Zee News, ABP News, Aaj Tak, India TV, Sudershan News, News Nation and News24 (India). The term “godi media” was coined for these channels by journalist Ravish Kumar of NDTV. He inherently spoke of the lap of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and its lapdogs

Times Now – Owned and operated by The Times Group (Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited), this channel always wants to go with the winning horse. Previously generally neutral, it has turned pro-BJP since the election of the Modi government. Anchor and managing editor Navika Kumar froths and fumes each time someone is critical of the BJP, but loses her interrogating prowess whenever given the rare chance to interview Modi or Home Minister Amit Shah.

With Arnab, the channel was ultra-BJP and ultra-nationalist; after he left it, it has become a lot more ultra-nationalist and outright BJP supporter. One wonders if this change of stance is because its chairperson, Indu Jain, was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Modi government in 2016.

India Today — Owned by Living India Media Group (India Today Group), the channel was launched in 2003 as a sister channel of the Hindi news channel AajTak. It is one of the four news channels from the TV Today Network stable, the other two being Tez and Delhi AajTak. Aroon Purie is the group’s chairman.

Top journalists associated with India Today TV channel are Rajdeep Sardesai and Rahul Kanwal. While Rajdeep is anti-BJP, Rahul has tried to lean a lot to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Although India Today is a “fence-sitting” channel, in the last one or two years it has clearly tilted towards the BJP.

Rahul and his India Today team had severely lobbied against the BJP and its students wing Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP ) over the Shaheen Bagh and Jamia Millia Islamia shooting incidents. He was also quick to point fingers at BJP leader Anurag Thakur and claim that Delhi was sitting on a powder keg.

Narendra Modi with Mukesh Ambani at the convocation of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in 2013 when the former was chief minister of Gujarat (Photo – Website of Narendra Modi)

CNN News 18 is owned by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, considered close to PM Modi. The channel was originally owned by Network18 Group, which was taken over by Reliance Industries in 2014. The group owns as many as 65 channels

In an apparent punishment for his “biased” reporting in favour of AAP, Rahul was sent on a “sabbatical”. Since his return, he seems to have dropped his determination to follow in the footsteps of Rajdeep and joined the bandwagon of the godi media anchors.

CNN-News18 — This channel is owned by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, hence no words are required to explain its bias against Muslims and the less privileged Hindus. This channel was originally owned by Network18 Group, which was founded by businessman and investor Raghav Bahl in 2011 but was taken over by Reliance Industries in 2014.

The group owns as many as 65 channels: one national English news channel, one national Hindi news channel and 14 regional language news channels; three national and one regional business news channels, three Hindi entertainment channels, two Hindi movie channels, two youth channels, four English and Hindi music channels, four kids English and Hindi entertainment channels, four factual entertainment channels, two shopping channels, 14 regional entertainment channels, and 10 upcoming regional news and other channels.

Hindi Channels

Among the most biased and anti-Muslim and po-BJP/RSS Hindi TV news channels and their anchors are:

Zee News — This is one of the several Hindi, English and vernacular news channels owned by the Essel Group. The channel’s owner, Subhash Chandra, became a Rajya Sabha member with the BJP’s support. Hence, he definitely needs to give something back to the party by promoting its Hindutva agenda and launching an anti-Muslim tirade.

Sudhir Chaudhary is the channel’s editor-in-chief and the anchor of its prime time. He is the Hindi version of Republic TV’s Arnab as he openly supports the BJP, RSS and Modi. A few years ago, Sudhir was arrested for allegedly trying to extort one billion Indian rupees (approximately US$23 million) from the Jindal Group. Since then, some people call him Sudhir “Tihari” because he was lodged in Delhi’s maximum-security Tihar Jail in the extortion case.

Zee News has been involved in broadcasting fabricated news stories on multiple occasions. Most recently, it aired an unverified and false report on the coronavirus and linked it to Tablighi Jamaat, and later expressed regrets for running the false report.

India TV – This channel was launched by Rajat Sharma and his wife Ritu Dhawan in 2004 from a studio in FilmCity in Noida, near Delhi. Sharma is the chairman and editor-in-chief of India TV, a subsidiary of Independent News Service which was co-founded by the couple in 1997. During his college days, Sharma was a member of ABVP. He and the late finance minister Arun Jaitley were very close friends.

India TV is biased, too. It conceals plenty of news that would make headlines. It doesn’t show fake news but is selective in its presentation of news according to its political impact. When Sharma was asked a question about his channel’s integrity in the United States in view of his friendship with Jaitley, he got infuriated. An otherwise calm person, he was all irritated and critical of the person who asked it.

According to tech analyst Amol Raj Pandey, when Sharma “was ousted from his FilmCity office by Century Comm, his new office was completely funded by the BJP. India TV kept on working as BJP propaganda unit after that.” He further says the most important point to show this is — he was awarded Padma Bhushan for literature, although he never wrote a single literary piece. However, he wrote fiction for the BJP during its election campaign.

In 2015, Sharma was awarded Padma Bhushan by the BJP government for his contribution in the field of journalism. Last month, he was conferred with an honorary doctorate in of literature by the Nainital-based Kumaun University. All this explains his unstinted support for the BJP and RSS.

AajTak — Owned by Arun Purie’s India Today Group, AajTak has some of the most poisonous anchors — Anjana Om Kashyap, Rohit Sardana and Sweta Singh — known for their vitriolic attacks against Muslims and spreading communal hatred. The trio routinely indulge in Muslim-bashing, while showcasing a deferential surrender to anything the BJP does.

A former Zee News and News24 journalist, Anjana has been engaged in aggressively propagating Hindutva-centred ideologies and biased reporting in favour of the BJP across a variety of situations. She has spread fake news via her news shows on multiple occasions. A favourite of Modi, she was one of the few reporters who were allowed an interview by Modi in the run-up to the 2019 general election. Rohit Sardana tops the list of the worst journalists sponsored by the right wing.

ABP News — Owned by Bengali journalist Aveek Sarkar of the pro-BJP ABP Group, this channel is the reincarnation of Star News. Earlier, ABP News used to be neutral, but it turned pro-BJP a couple of years ago. This came after the Modi government objected to criticism of the BJP by some ABP News journalists including Punya Prasoon Vajpyee and Abhisar Sharma in their Master Stroke show. After the channel took action against these journalists, Rubika Liyaquat became the commander-in-chief of its news anchors. A former Zee New anchor, Rubika joined ABP News in 2018. A Muslim, she is disliked by many for her angry rhetoric against Muslim leaders called by the channel for debates on TV.

Sudarshan News — This channel disseminates anti-Muslim content and manufactures fake news with communal overtones, earning it tiltles such as “bigot” and “dangerous”.

Its chairman, Suresh Chavhanke, was a long-term RSS volunteer and associated with ABVP. He asserts practicing ideology-driven journalism and prefers that the news programmes over his channel be viewed as opinionated campaigns.

In April 2017, he was arrested for inciting communal hatred through multiple episodes of a flagship programme. Recently, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren ordered state police to take action against Chavhanke for his communal hate speeches.

News Nation — Owned by News Nation Network Pvt Ltd, this channel’s consulting editor Deepak Chaurasia has an inclination towards the BJP and is known as a puppet of Modi. Portuguese politician and political scientist Bruno Macaes compared Chaurasia’s journalism to Fox News, which has often been criticised for being extremely vocal in its support of the Republicans and President Donald Trump.

India 24 (India) — Owned by B.A.G. Films and Media Limited, this channel is promoted by Anuradha Prasad, sister of BJP minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, along with her husband, Congress politician Rajeev Shukla. Its anchor Amish Devgan has modelled himself on Republic TV’s Arnab and routinely indulges in Muslim-bashing.

All the above channels are Pro-BJP because they need government advertisments for revenue to operate. And most of their anchors and journalists are enamoured by Modi’s “superman image ” created by his online fans. As they aren’t bold enough to go against this fan club fearing trolling and reprisals, they find it easy to ride with the wind.

In this media environment, can Muslims expect to be heard and their case to be pleaded by these biased media houses? They have to either put up with this or mull over focusing on creating their own media giants. There’s no dearth of financial and other resources, technical expertise and journalistic talent in the community. All that is needed are sincerity, will and resolve to start own TV news channels.

— The writer is a senior journalist based in Singapore. He can be reached at [email protected].

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loyallogic · 4 years ago

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Explained: Anti-defection laws

This article is written by Sidharth Sharma, a student of Jammu University.

Introduction

In recent times the defection laws have been a hot topic due to the complete violation of the defection rules in the country by the leaders. The practice of defection is not a recent one but has always been a topic of debate in India since it gained its independence. Anti Defection Laws basically provide grounds under which a member legislative member or a member parliament can lose his privileges as an elected representative of a party and hence can be disqualified from the party. The reasons can be due to joining any other party or if a party member votes or abstains from voting against the direction of the party. These grounds are provided in the tenth schedule of the constitution. Several amendments have been made to develop and structure proper machinery to implement the anti-defection laws and to give proper rights to the parties for a healthy competition among them and without giving a larger party with a comparatively larger base an edge over the smaller parties.

We can take into account the crisis in Madhya Pradesh Government in March 2020 which sets a clear example of toppling up of one government by another through means which are against the fair play in a representative democracy. In this case, Jyotiraditya Scindia along with 22 of his MLAs gave resignation to the speaker of the Assembly, thus they were disqualified but this gave a huge impact to the Congress Government under the leadership of Kamal Nath as it failed the floor test and accordingly BJP which had the maximum number of seats came into power and Shivraj Singh Chauhan was elected as the Chief Minister.

Recently the Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan (Sachin Pilot) along with 18 other dissident Congress leaders has been sent disqualification notices on the ground of defection. The notice was issued to the pilot stating that he had defied the party whip by not attending 2 legislative party meetings. The matter is pending adjudication in the High Court of Rajasthan. This article primarily focuses to draw out a better understanding of the defection laws, its developments through precedents and Sanctions which are attracted if in neglect of these laws.

What is meant by defection?

According to Oxford, the dictionary has described Defection as the act of leaving your own country or political party and joining an opposite one.

Who is a defector?

The word defector was defined as a person: “is an elected member of the legislature who had been allotted the reserved symbol of any political party can be said to have defected it, if after being elected as a member of either house of Parliament or at legislature council or legislative assembly of state or union territory, he voluntarily renounces allegiance or association with such political party provided that his action is not in consequence of the decision of the party concerned.

What is the law of Anti-Defection?

The law of Anti Defection states that if a member parliament of member legislative assembly:

Voluntarily gives up the membership of the party;

Votes or abstains for voting or defies any party whip;

Joins any other party.

In these cases, the member will be disqualified from the party and he will not hold the position of a nominated or an elected individual under the party. Thus he will lose his position as an MP or an MLA.

Exceptions

Disqualification under the purview of anti-defection shall not apply in case of split/merger of 1/3rd or more of the members of a party to another party. It shall also not apply in the event of a merger i.e. 1/3rd of the members or more merge with any other party. This exception where 1/3rd members were however revised by the way of the 91st amendment in the constitution and after which the provision of the split was removed and now it requires 2/3rd members of a party can merge with another party. This amendment revised these rules as there were mass defections by legislators and this amendment brought a change in the requirements from 1/3rd members of the party to 2/3rd members and by removing the provision of a split from the party.

Historical background of Anti-defection laws

There is a very well known phrase of “Aaya Ram Gaya Ram” and it relates back to 1967 when Gaya Lal who was a congress leader fortnight went from congress to Janata Party and then back to congress and then again to Janata Party.

In the journal titled “Aya Ram Gaya Ram- The politics of defection” by the Indian Law Institute in 1979 in which it was stated that from 1967 to 1969 more than 1500 party defections and 313 independent candidate defections had taken place in the 12 states of the country. It is estimated that till 1971, more than 50% of the legislature had switched from one party to another.

A common term which is used when we read about defection is horse-trading of the legislators which in simple terms means shifting of legislators from one party to another by monetary means. The reasons can be several for eg-To break the majority of a government or by inducing the ministers to leave their party for a better position in the opposition parties.

All of these circumstances were impelling the government to create a statutory provision in the constitution which would create punitive sanctions for those who were found guilty of such conduct.

Anti-Defection provisions in the Constitution

The bill for Anti Defection was proposed by Rajiv Gandhi and it was approved unanimously by both the houses and came into effect on 18 March 1985 after receiving the assent of the president.

The Anti Defection was added into the constitution by the way of the Tenth Schedule of the constitution by the 52nd Amendment in the constitution in 1985. These provisions provide for the disqualification of Member Parliaments under article 102(2) and Member Legislative Assembly under article 191(2). Under these articles of the constitution, the legislators can be disqualified if they are disqualified under the 10th schedule.

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Bar on jurisdiction of courts under the defection laws

Under the 7th Para of the Tenth Schedule, it is clearly stated that there is a bar on the jurisdiction of the court in respect of any matter of disqualification relating to any member of the house.

This was against the basic structure doctrine as envisaged by the “Kesavananda Bharati case” in which the basic features of the constitutional were established and the parliament cannot make any alterations in them thus keeping them unimpaired. Out of these features, the feature of Judicial Review was being altered under the Tenth schedule and some clarity was needed upon this by the court as it could not be constructed strictly and liberal construction was required in a way so that it would have powers of review to the Supreme Courts and the High Courts in case of disputes. Otherwise, it would have led to distrust in the legal system. The power of review is expedient and without it, the preciseness of the disqualification made by the Chairman of the speaker would have never been called into question on the account of inability.

Thus this connotation of the provision was done in “Kihoto Hollohan v Zachillhu” case of 1992.It was opined by the Supreme Court that Para 7th of the Tenth schedule was making total exclusion of remedies available from the Supreme Court under article 136 of the constitution and from the High Court under Article 226 and 227 of the constitution thus these provisions were to be rectified by attracting sub-clause 2 of article 368. It was held that the decision of the chairman and the speaker regarding disqualification of the members was to be valid but subject to judicial reviews of the court. Thus this case implicitly provided that decisions of the Speaker of the house were legal and binding but were questionable before the courts.

This case is considered as a landmark judgement in the spectrum of defection laws where the Supreme Court had construed the provisions under the Tenth Schedule and held it to be fully constitutional.

WHETHER THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSIONS OF THE PARLIAMENTARIANS AND LEGISLATORS IS VIOLATED BY THE TENTH SCHEDULE

The constitution has avowedly guaranteed the right to freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 of the constitution however it is subject to the reasonable restrictions mentioned therein.

This right is guaranteed to every citizen including the legislators and the parliamentarians thus this was made a ground to question the legitimacy of the Para 2 of the schedule (Grounds for disqualification). It was held by the supreme court in this Kihoto Hollohan case that the tenth schedule does not subvert the rights of elected members of parliament and the legislature thus it did not violate article 105 and195 of the constitution while holding this it was expressed by the Supreme Court that the provisions of the tenth schedule are salutary and were intended to strengthen the fabric of Indian parliament democracy while curbing unprincipled and unethical political defections.

Disqualification on voluntarily giving up membership

Para 2(1)(a) of the Anti Defection law explains the voluntary giving up of the membership by the members.

This was cleared in the Ravi S Naik v Union of India (1994). In this case, the Supreme Court gave a wider prospect to resignation by voluntarily giving the membership. The court observed that a person may voluntarily give up his membership of a political party even though he has not tendered his resignation from the membership of that party. Even in the absence of a formal resignation from membership inference can be drawn from the conduct of a member that he has voluntarily given up his membership of the political party to which he belongs”.

The act of giving up membership can be expressed or implied this was observed in G. Viswanathan & Ors. v. Hon’ble Speaker Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly & Ors in 1996.

It was opined that the act of voluntarily giving up the membership of the political party may be either express or implied. When a person who has been thrown out or expelled from the party which set him up as a candidate and got elected, joins another (new) party, it will certainly amount to his voluntarily giving up the membership of the political party which had set him up as a candidate for election as such a member.”

Powers of the court

The speaker is not absolutely immune from judicial review, the immunity provided to the speaker by Para 6 of the tenth schedule. This was affirmed in Rajendra Singh Rana and Ors. vs. Swami Prasad Maurya and Ors. (2007), in this case, the speaker had not made a finding into the split and had accepted the split by merely a claim by the members. The court further contended that ignoring a petition for disqualification is not merely an irregularity but a violation of constitutional duties.

Defiance of a party whip

What is a Party Whip?

A whip is an instruction issued by political parties to vote according to the party line in a legislature.

In Shri Rajeev Ranjan Singh (Lalan) v Dr PP Koya JD(U)(2009)- In this case, Dr Koya defied a party whip requiring him to vote against the motion of confidence for the government. He abstained from voting by remaining absent and the evidence of his illness was not considered sufficient for his absence at the house. Thus there has to be a sufficient reason to satisfy the speaker about the absence from the house by a member when he is bound by the whip to be there.

Burden of proof

The burden of proof that there was no willingness to leave the party will always be against the legislator against whom charges are made. This point was observed in the Ravi S Naik judgement by the Supreme Court.

Limitation on scope of inquiry of the speaker

Shrimanth Balasahib Patil v Hon’ble Speaker of Karnataka legislative assembly (Karnataka legislative assembly case): This is a recent judgement of the Supreme Court in 2019 in which 15 MLAs had resigned from the Congress and JD(S) resigned. The government collapsed after this and the speaker disqualified and ruled that they cease to be so till 2023 till the end of the expiry of the assembly till 2023.

Observations by the Supreme Court

The decision of disqualification by the speaker was upheld by the Supreme Court. However, it was not fully upheld by the Court and the parts of disqualification which prescribed the time period for disqualification were set aside. The following observations were made by the court:

“The Speaker’s scope of inquiry with respect to acceptance or rejection of a resignation tendered by a member of the legislature is limited to examine whether such resignation was tendered voluntarily or genuinely. It is constitutionally impermissible for the Speaker to take into account any extraneous factors while considering the resignation. The satisfaction of the Speaker is subject to judicial review”.

It was further held that the speaker does not have the power to describe the period for which the member is disqualified. The resignation does not take away the right of the speaker to disqualify.

Horse trading and corrupt practices associated with defection and change of loyalty for the lure of office or wrong reasons have not abated. Thereby the citizens are denied stable governments. In these circumstances, there is a need to strengthen certain aspects, so that such undemocratic practices are discouraged and checked.

Grounds for review of the decision of the speaker

In this case the Supreme Court laid down grounds for review of the decision of the speaker.

If it is in violation of constitutional mandate.

If it is made in a mala fide way.

If the decision of speaker is perverse.

If it is in noncompliance with rules of natural justice and perversity.

Loopholes of the defection machinery in India

The rivalry among the members in a party can arise due to many reasons, it can be due to the inner dissent against the opinions of senior leaders or the struggle for power and because of these reasons many elected members along with other elected members leave the party to join the opposition. This can devastate the democratic spirit of our nation because a stable government is inherent for a democracy. The frequent government crisis can lead to distrust among the people and can cause a menace. The defection machinery in India has a number of lacunas within it which can be proved by the recent case of Madhya Pradesh Government crisis where Jyotiraditya scindia along with 22 MLAs left the party, this lead to the fall of Kamal Nath Government and the Kerala legislative assembly case in 2019.

The Anti Defection laws were added into the constitution of India as a set of rules for fair play among the elected members for a better parliamentary democracy. When a person gets nominated as a member by the party and contests election under the symbol of a party, he should owe his allegiance to that party but in the current scenario, many leaders leave their parties and join the opposition which in turn can lead to the collapse of the government in that particular state which leads to political instability. Thus it is necessary for the legislators to act in adherence to the whip and the beliefs of the party.

Conclusion

The Anti Defection laws should incorporate laws under which separate committees for investigations into the matters where accusations of horse trading arise against the members of parties and more stringent laws and sanctions should apply in cases where these members are held guilty. Apart from this, there should be a time period for which an MLA or an MP gets disqualified so that they do not re-contest from the other party if there is a fall in the government which happens in most of the cases.

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Explained: Anti-defection laws

This article is written by Sidharth Sharma.

Introduction

What is meant by defection?

According to Oxford, the dictionary has described Defection as the act of leaving your own country or political party and joining an opposite one.

Who is a defector?

What is the law of Anti-Defection?

The law of Anti Defection states that if a member parliament of member legislative assembly:

Voluntarily gives up the membership of the party;

Votes or abstains for voting or defies any party whip;

Joins any other party.

Exceptions

Historical background of Anti-defection laws

All of these circumstances were impelling the government to create a statutory provision in the constitution which would create punitive sanctions for those who were found guilty of such conduct.

Anti-Defection provisions in the Constitution

The bill for Anti Defection was proposed by Rajiv Gandhi and it was approved unanimously by both the houses and came into effect on 18 March 1985 after receiving the assent of the president.

Click Above

Bar on jurisdiction of courts under the defection laws

Under the 7th Para of the Tenth Schedule, it is clearly stated that there is a bar on the jurisdiction of the court in respect of any matter of disqualification relating to any member of the house.

This case is considered as a landmark judgement in the spectrum of defection laws where the Supreme Court had construed the provisions under the Tenth Schedule and held it to be fully constitutional.

WHETHER THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSIONS OF THE PARLIAMENTARIANS AND LEGISLATORS IS VIOLATED BY THE TENTH SCHEDULE

The constitution has avowedly guaranteed the right to freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 of the constitution however it is subject to the reasonable restrictions mentioned therein.

Disqualification on voluntarily giving up membership

Para 2(1)(a) of the Anti Defection law explains the voluntary giving up of the membership by the members.

The act of giving up membership can be expressed or implied this was observed in G. Viswanathan & Ors. v. Hon’ble Speaker Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly & Ors in 1996.

Powers of the court

Defiance of a party whip

What is a Party Whip?

A whip is an instruction issued by political parties to vote according to the party line in a legislature.

Burden of proof

Limitation on scope of inquiry of the speaker

Observations by the Supreme Court

It was further held that the speaker does not have the power to describe the period for which the member is disqualified. The resignation does not take away the right of the speaker to disqualify.

Grounds for review of the decision of the speaker

In this case the Supreme Court laid down grounds for review of the decision of the speaker.

If it is in violation of constitutional mandate.

If it is made in a mala fide way.

If the decision of speaker is perverse.

If it is in noncompliance with rules of natural justice and perversity.

Loopholes of the defection machinery in India

Conclusion

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The BJP strategy seems clear now.

Governor appoints a BJP Protem Speaker, ignoring ‘convention’ of senior most MLA.

Ajit Pawar communicates Whip issues by him as NCP Leader of the House.

Protem speaker announces its in order.

MLAs are sworn in enmasse.

Election of speaker takes place. All NCP MLAs have two choices:

1. Vote for BJP Speaker candidate

2. Vote against BJP Candidate - the Protem Speaker disqualifies them.

3. So NCP MLAs will split down the middle.

4. House strength falls by the number of MLAs who flouted the whip. If all 50 claiming to be with Pawar are disqualified then house strength is 288-50=238. Half way is 119+1=120.

5. BJP IS 105+1+19 Independents = 125

6. BJP GoM wins Trust vote.

7. More MLAs then join GoM

Let’s see how things pan out 😂

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YouTube is again on Amazon Fireplace TV whereas Google’s Chromecast now helps Prime Video The struggle between Amazon and Google is formally over. Having buried the hatchet earlier this spring, Amazon Fireplace TV customers can now watch YouTube, whereas Chromecast — which permits folks to stream movies from their machine onto a TV display — now helps Amazon’s Prime Video service. Amazon has confirmed that the YouTube app can be out there on the second-gen Fireplace TV Stick, Fireplace TV Stick 4K, Fireplace TV Dice and Fireplace TV Stick Primary Version. Will probably be rolled out to different gadgets within the coming months. Your information to the most recent cricket World Cup tales, evaluation, experiences, opinions, reside updates and scores on https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2019.html. 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