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Abhijit Mulye

21 August 2024 at 4:59:11 pm

MLC polls expose cracks in Mahayuti, MVA

AI Generated Image Mumbai: The upcoming Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) elections for the graduate and teacher constituencies have laid bare the deep-seated fissures within both the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliances. In a significant development that could have far-reaching political implications, multiple rebel candidates, including prominent figures with strong party affiliations, have defied alliance dictates to file their nominations as...

MLC polls expose cracks in Mahayuti, MVA

AI Generated Image Mumbai: The upcoming Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) elections for the graduate and teacher constituencies have laid bare the deep-seated fissures within both the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliances. In a significant development that could have far-reaching political implications, multiple rebel candidates, including prominent figures with strong party affiliations, have defied alliance dictates to file their nominations as independents, setting the stage for high-stakes, multi-cornered contests. Mahayuti Turmoil The Mahayuti alliance, comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), is grappling with rebellion on multiple fronts. In the critical Nagpur Graduates constituency, a traditional BJP stronghold, former BJP MLC and Nagpur Mayor Anil Sole has thrown a spanner in the works by filing his nomination as an independent candidate. This move directly challenges the official BJP candidate, Sudhakar Kohale. While the BJP leadership, including state president Ravindra Chavan, has attempted to downplay the situation, asserting that Sole has been "pacified," the former MLC's actions tell a different story. Sole's decision to contest independently is particularly significant given his long-standing association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and his previous stint as a BJP MLC from the very same constituency. The situation is equally complicated in the Amravati Teachers constituency. The Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) has officially fielded Kiran Sarnaik. However, adding to the confusion, Sangita Shinde, sister of BJP MP Anil Bonde, has also entered the fray, potentially splitting the Mahayuti vote. The opposition MVA is also facing its share of internal discord here. While the Congress has nominated Aditi Pohre, daughter of former minister Harshvardhan Deshmukh, the Shiv Sena (UBT) has fielded Dattatray Lahane. The presence of numerous candidates representing various teachers' organizations further complicates the electoral arithmetic in this constituency. Opposition Rebellion The Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar Graduates constituency has witnessed another surprise development. While the NCP's sitting MLC, Satish Chavan, was widely considered the frontrunner, the BJP's M.K. Deshmukh has unexpectedly filed his nomination as a rebel candidate, catching the Mahayuti leadership completely off guard. The MVA, too, is facing rebellion in this constituency. Although the seat was officially allocated to the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction), Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Dilip Ghuge has also filed his nomination, causing significant heartburn within the opposition alliance. The Pune constituencies present a microcosm of the larger alliance troubles. In the Pune Graduates constituency, the BJP has fielded Dr. Smita Jadhav, the daughter-in-law of Pratap Singh Jadhav, owner of the 'Pudhari' news group and niece of Congress leader Satej Patil. Adding intrigue to this contest is the fact that she is contesting against Harshada Deshmukh-Jadhav, the official candidate of the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction). However, the real drama is unfolding in the Pune Teachers constituency. The BJP's official candidate, Koustubh Gawde, is facing a formidable challenge from Mangesh Chiwate, a close confidant of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Chiwate, a former journalist who handled the CM's medical aid cell while Shinde was the CM, has claimed that his party leadership has provided him with the crucial 'AB' form, signaling official backing. Commenting on the chaotic situation, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis acknowledged that seat-sharing talks remained inconclusive in some areas but expressed hope that the alliance partners would eventually reach an agreement. The true picture of the electoral battlefield will only emerge after Friday, October 9th, the last date for the withdrawal of nominations. Until then, both alliances will be working overtime to contain the rebellions and present a united front, but the deep cracks exposed by these developments suggest that the upcoming MLC elections will be fiercely contested and highly unpredictable.

Understanding Tool Kits that Pose Threat to Security

Aug 31
3 min read

Whatever is happening in India ever since Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014, was actually in the works much before February 2002, it is a Toolkit that is a combination of Conspiracies, Strategies, Toolkit's, Cookbooks, Reports, Mind Control Games, and Weaponising nonviolence and Regime Degradation operations.


What is happening now in India is a deadly combination of all these.


The first tool kit of regime change is derived from the 1823 US President James Monore's annual address to the Congress, which now is called the Monroe Doctrine.


Ever since then the US has been engineering regime change and forging regional alliances that suit its global hegemonistic attitudes.


In its ongoing war with Iran, it has shown its European allies that it can do away with regional alliances like NATO.


It has already made the UN defunct, through its unilateral invasions like those in Venezuela or staking claim to Greenland.


The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere, Colonization & Puppet regimes. The doctrine is derived from a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823. The doctrine warned European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.


What the US has done since then is the exact opposite of the Monroe doctrine.


The second toolkit strategy is the 1966 Richard Cloward & Francis Fox Piven's - Cloward-Piven strategy.


It is a strategy to undermine elected governments.


The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. The strategy aims to utilize "militant anti-poverty groups" to facilitate a "political crisis" by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and "redistributing income through the federal government."


Freebies promising free cash doles, free power, free ration, free travel etc are prime examples of how to make people lazy, unproductive and dependent on free government doles.


It’s meant to make people addicted to freebies, ensure more unproductive revenue outflow than revenue income, forcing governments to tax more and fall in a debt trap of its own making, thanks to its freebie culture.


The third tool kit of unleashing Anarchy in any country that is to be subverted is the 1971 The Anarchist Cookbook written by William Powell.


The Anarchist Cookbook, first published in 1971, is a book containing instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, and related weapons, as well as instructions for the home manufacture of illicit drugs, including LSD


The fourth tool kit is to regime degradation or discrediting a democratically elected government and its institutions of governance.


This tool kit that is being played out now through the CJP protest is heavily drawn from Gene Sharp's 1973 book of 198 methods of nonviolent actions.


The attempts to normalise foul, filthy language aimed at PM Modi and indecent behaviour during the recent protest by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), rejecting Supreme Court orders on registering FIRs on habitual offenders, questioning the need for seeking prior permission for staging a protest or making fun of the Prime Ministers mannerisms and language are all aimed at discrediting and undermining the democratic institutions and those in positions of power.


What critics and supporters of this new attempt to normalize the foul, filthy language and indecent behaviour, fail to understand is that one day they themselves might well be paid in the same coin by the very same Gen Z whose actions they tried to defend.


Second act of boycott in Gene Sharp's non-cooperation theory is to boycott the elections.


The constant harping and raising doubts over the election machinery and the process is aimed at creating doubts in the minds of people, ultimately making them believe in a lie and provoking them to extreme measures of boycotting the elections itself.


The fifth tool kit still in use is based on the 1974 Henry Kissinger's Report on Population & National Security. Also euphemistically called as Kissinger's Genocide Plan.


Kissinger advocated Depopulation means like wars, genocide, pandemics and subverting agriculture through genetically modified crops through his 1974 report.


(The writer is a senior journalist based in Mumbai.)

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