<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Hamara Congress &#187; Advani</title>
	<atom:link href="http://hamaracongress.com/tag/advani/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://hamaracongress.com</link>
	<description>Because every Indian matters. Because you matter.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:29:07 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='hamaracongress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/6f6abe0b81c94c3349ea36f597273b74?s=96&#038;d=http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Hamara Congress &#187; Advani</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://hamaracongress.com/osd.xml" title="Hamara Congress" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://hamaracongress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>Nikamma Number One</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/09/13/nikamma-number-one/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/09/13/nikamma-number-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJP untruths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohan Bhagwat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RSS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Khushwant Singh, in his inimitable style, provides a damning assessment of LK Advani in the Hindustan Times . He should have left the political scene in a blaze of glory, but now not many tears will be shed for him. And for good reasons. Did he ever regret the role he played in the demolition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=804&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/09/13/nikamma-number-one/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>What&#8217;s the world coming to?</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/08/30/whats-the-world-coming-to/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/08/30/whats-the-world-coming-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the BJP&#8217;s main flagbearers in the media, Swapan Dasgupta, suggests that &#8220;LK Advani Should Have Done a Sonia.&#8221; Read here and ignore his unnecessary last line. Posted in BJP Crisis Tagged: Advani, BJP<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=720&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/08/30/whats-the-world-coming-to/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>BJP Acknowledges Its Image Problem &#8230; It&#8217;s Really A Substance Problem</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/08/22/bjp-acknowledges-its-image-problem-its-really-a-substance-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/08/22/bjp-acknowledges-its-image-problem-its-really-a-substance-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP election failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindutva]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, it seems that there has been some chintan at the BJP&#8217;s recent baithak. And the saffronites are looking into the mirror and identifying their flaws. Read more here Well, we believe that a flourishing democracy requires multiple healthy and viable parties. So we welcome the BJP&#8217;s efforts to arrest the decline in its fortunes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=677&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/08/22/bjp-acknowledges-its-image-problem-its-really-a-substance-problem/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>When the BJP Sangh the Blues</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/20/when-the-bjp-sangh-the-blues/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/20/when-the-bjp-sangh-the-blues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP election failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election outcome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sangh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re on the cusp of leadership change within the BJP, says Pankaj Vohra in the Hindustan Times. It&#8217;s not all because of their poll debacle either. There&#8217;s a lot of simmering tension between the BJP and the Sangh as well, and not a little resentment that the BJP misrepresented its poll prospects to the motherfathership. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=526&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/20/when-the-bjp-sangh-the-blues/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Advani takes oath</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/09/advani-takes-oath/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/09/advani-takes-oath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On the Record]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[as online PM, says this site that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at Indian news media. A humour break from the incessant budget punditry! Up here: http://www.noiseofindia.com/ Posted in On the Record Tagged: Advani, humour<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=498&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/09/advani-takes-oath/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Finally, the Liberhan Commission report</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/05/rip-ram-janmabhoomi/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/05/rip-ram-janmabhoomi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP untruths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hatepolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindutva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muddled history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim community]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we may have known it all along but it&#8217;s finally official: the Liberhan Commission appointed to investigate the destruction of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 is out with its report which is believed to hold senior BJP leaders responsible. Despite some of the usual shenanigans (this time involving firebrand leader Uma Bharti&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=484&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/05/rip-ram-janmabhoomi/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The middle class leaves BJP behind</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/30/the-middle-class-leaves-bjp-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/30/the-middle-class-leaves-bjp-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP untruths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hatepolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narendra Modi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindutva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BJP had seemed as though it was the party for the new middle classes: rejecting Nehruvian socialism for conspicuous consumption and clasping the &#8216;BJP to its collective bosom&#8217;, says Vir Sanghvi. But now the BJP is being torn apart by an existential crisis and the middle class seems relieved by the Congress Party&#8217;s victory: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=473&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/30/the-middle-class-leaves-bjp-behind/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Iron Man&#8217;s Meltdown</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/14/the-iron-mans-meltdown/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/14/the-iron-mans-meltdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP election failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindutva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sangh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudheendra Kulkarni]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He agrees with the much-in-the-news Sudheendra Kulkarni that the BJP-led NDA was MIA* from 143 seats in Eastern and south India. He agrees that the BJP fell off the radar of Muslims and Christians who, even though they might constitute a smaller percentage of the voting population, tend to vote enthusiastically and in large numbers. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=415&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/14/the-iron-mans-meltdown/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The knives are out in the BJP</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/12/the-knives-are-out-in-the-bjp/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/12/the-knives-are-out-in-the-bjp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP election failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election outcome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sangh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudheendra Kulkarni]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brain-storming sessions that come to naught and implicate everyone else but yourself: that&#8217;s where the BJP is currently at, says Kanchan Gupta in Rediff. On Wednesday, the &#8216;core group&#8217; met for a bit of everything, so those who met were quite representative of the BJP as it is today, which is like a fish that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=404&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/12/the-knives-are-out-in-the-bjp/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>&#8216;LK and his gang&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/11/lk-and-his-gang/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/11/lk-and-his-gang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP election failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election outcome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sangh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudheendra Kulkarni]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anil Chawla provides a blistering counterattack to his former IIT classmate Sudheendra Kulkarni&#8217;s explanation of what went wrong with the BJP&#8217;s campaign in the recent election. Among the many missiles that Chawla launches at Kulkarni is one that places the blame of defeat squarely on LK Advani&#8217;s shoulders. Advani depended too much on his inner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=402&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/11/lk-and-his-gang/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>What is the BJP all about today?</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/09/what-is-the-bjp-all-about-today/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/09/what-is-the-bjp-all-about-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP election failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hatepolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindutva]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the excitement over the election results settles down, the BJP&#8217;s analysis into its failure begins. Arun Jaitley suggests that the party must abandon its shrillness; Swapan Dasgupta insists it must abandon its Hindutva agenda; the third suggestion of what went wrong is that the party suffered a crisis of leadership. But Vir Sanghvi, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=389&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/09/what-is-the-bjp-all-about-today/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>BJP in a flutter</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/08/bjp-in-a-flutter/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/08/bjp-in-a-flutter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP election failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Record]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudheendra Kulkarni]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick follow-up to Sudheendra Kulkarni&#8217;s reflective article that we just posted: the BJP has now categorically distanced itself from his views. We heard Sushma Swaraj in an NDTV story just a little while ago, claiming his comments were made as an &#8220;independent journalist&#8221;. When the mic was thrust into his face, Advani said, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=386&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/08/bjp-in-a-flutter/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Hindu divided family</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/07/hindu-divided-family/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/07/hindu-divided-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP election failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJP Manifesto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election outcome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindutva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sangh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudheendra Kulkarni]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve recognised Sudheendra Kulkarni before on this blog as the lone voice of reason within the BJP, so when he kicks back and analyses what he thinks went wrong with the party&#8217;s campaign this election, it&#8217;s definitely worth listening in closely: If the BJP’s electoral success in 1998 and 1999 was due to factors beyond [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=384&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/07/hindu-divided-family/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Against the tide</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/02/against-the-tide/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/02/against-the-tide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJP election failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hatepolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindutva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Varun Gandhi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a reason that the BJP is losing its traditional middle-class support base, argues NDTV&#8217;s Barkha Dutt, and it&#8217;s because its agenda is way out of sync with theirs. When they do finally take a stand against the right-wing fringe loonies within their own party, it&#8217;s often too late, and they come across looking effete [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=369&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/02/against-the-tide/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>How BJP lost the plot</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/25/how-bjp-lost-the-plot/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/25/how-bjp-lost-the-plot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 07:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>votecongress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hatepolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manmohan Singh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The emphatic victory of the Congress-UPA alliance may not have just a single explanation, says R. Jagannathan in the DNA, citing specific instances where the BJP lost the plot. The emphatic victory of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) may not have one single explanation. There are state-level explanations for its victories in Andhra Pradesh, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=335&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/25/how-bjp-lost-the-plot/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4ead9f9104d88db9f798830bee9f2d87?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">votecongress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>