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		<title>Sheepish BJP ends introspection</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/28/sheepish-bjp-ends-introspection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by RAJEEV GOWDA As we wonder what went wrong for the Congress in Karnataka, given the party’s resounding success elsewhere, here are some fascinating insights about the Karnataka BJP’s election strategy from a news report in the Deccan Herald. Anyone wants to refer this news item to the Election Commission for suo moto action? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=345&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The R Factor</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/09/the-r-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 13:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Congress success]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[- by SANJAY JHA It is four days since Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi held his press conference in New Delhi. 96 odd hours later, there is an unusual buzz, frenetic activity, and incessant dissertation of Rahul’s various pronouncements. There is an understandable sense of palpitating fluster in the BJP. Regional parties are tongue-tied at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=268&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congress&#8217;s great dynastic hope</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/08/congresss-great-dynastic-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 16:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Election analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article in the Economist at the start of this electoral season, a long-lens look at the Congress&#8217; position, its chances, the economy and of course that great big debate about dynastic rule, visited in a nutshell. Congress’s more distant hope—for a national revival under Rahul Gandhi—looks dicey. Its Gandhi cult unites a party [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=264&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30/04: Mercury Rising in Mumbai</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/04/3004-mercury-rising-in-mumbai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 09:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by SANJAY JHA At a small gathering of well-heeled sort in a South Mumbai club, Milind Deora, sitting Congress MP South Mumbai stood answering questions from the supposedly well-aware if not necessarily sufficiently-enlightened audience from his high profile constituency. At one point, Deora posed a query back, “ Do you know who is your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=251&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Body of evidence</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/30/body-of-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by SANJAY JHA The Sanjay Dud-Mayawati fracas over the &#8220;jhappi and pappi&#8221; stuff provided comic relief from the never-ending venom, vitriol , Varun and vehemence on constant display during this summer-time election. Almost everyone has had an EC warning, and the standard pretext has been the &#8221; context&#8221; in which the happening sentences have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=241&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stable government will facilitate India investment</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/29/stable-government-will-facilitate-india-investment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by guest contributor VARAD PANDE In an environment of uncertainty accompanying the General Elections, foreign investors are naturally keen to know what a new Government could hold for them, says Varad Pande, who takes a look at the possible outcomes of the election and the implications in store for global players. It is likely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=220&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kandahar Effect</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/26/the-kandahar-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by SANJAY JHA It sounds like a surprising surrender half-way ( almost literally ) in the election sweepstakes by the once-vaunted LK Advani, and more importantly, by the usually burgeoning with scathing over-confidence , BJP. First, their usually reticent and much-calibrated intellectual Arun Shourie makes a “ private” disclosure&#8212;Narendra Modi for PM ( at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=176&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will he, won&#8217;t he, will he&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/26/will-he-wont-he-will-he/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/26/will-he-wont-he-will-he/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No surprises here; just putting it on the record Rahul Gandhi has once again set at rest all speculation about his becoming Prime Minister. Speaking to reporters at Kolkata, he said he was not ready to be the PM. He listed two reasons for not accepting the PM post. &#8220;One is that I am working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=173&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Big Questions for the BJP</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/25/five-big-questions-for-the-bjp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beyond the rabble rousing and the rhetoric, there are still those big questions that every election throws up. We&#8217;ve put together five big questions for the BJP to answer here: Question 1: Will the BJP abolish the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) scheme that is providing employment to crores of poor households across the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=163&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Priyanka&#8217;s frank chat with Barkha</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/25/priyankas-frank-chat-with-barkha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was frank, she was restrained, she was dignified; mature, philosophical, warm, intelligent. It&#8217;s the kind of interview that TV producers dream about: an informal chat on the grass between NDTV&#8217;s Managing Director Barkha Dutt and Priyanka Gandhi. Discussing politics and personal life; from &#8216;forgiveness&#8217; of Rajiv&#8217;s killers, to entering politics (ho hum), to her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=171&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the campaign trail &#8211; 1. Not So Strange Bedfellows</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/24/notes-from-the-campaign-trail-1/</link>
		<comments>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/24/notes-from-the-campaign-trail-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hamaracongress.com/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[- by RAJEEV GOWDA Growing up in a family of freedom fighters and politicians, I&#8217;ve seen an election or two. So I thought I&#8217;d reflect on how campaigning has changed over time. One worthy topic is the changing relationship between politicians and the media in urban India. Let&#8217;s begin by acknowledging some trends: 1. Media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=157&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Big TV debate</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/19/the-great-big-tv-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should Manmohan Singh debate Advani on live TV? Or shouldn&#8217;t he? While commentators get themselves worked into a sweat debating the merits and pitfalls of either side, The PM&#8217;s former media advisor and now Visiting Professor, Sanjaya Baru, observes that: There is a larger point to be made as well. Populist TV in India has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=110&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Big TV Debate &#8211; 2</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/04/19/the-big-tv-debate-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor, columnist, anchor and author Vir Sanghvi differs from Sanjaya Baru to point out that the benefit of a TV debate is that the people of India will finally get a chance to whisk out the real leaders from behind the comforting fronts of Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Kapil Sibal and Arun Jaitley and find out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=114&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sting of Flint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outlook Magazine&#8217;s Smita Gupta traces the recent emergence of our usually reticent and retiring PM as a strongman, matching intellect with caustic comment directed at his blustering Opposition. And his appeal lies not only amongst the educated middle-class, she points out: Indeed, Manmohan has touched more lives than even he might have imagined. Two weeks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=106&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Varun Factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by SANJAY JHA Sanjay Jha takes a sharp look at the mud-slinging and dirt shovelling as election season hots up. He kicks off by firing a powerful salvo at Varun Gandhi: With the defiant BJP stubbornly insisting on fielding the unrepentant Varun Gandhi, the message from the BJP to the people of this country [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=51&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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