I classify RGV's movies as "Heavy Industries" and various award functions (Zee, Star, Screen, Filmfare etc) as "Public Enterprises". Does this clue help, AF, to figure out why Dishumm-kh controls the ministry?

About de-regulation of petroleum products: The voter has opted out of the Karrat dangling in the erstwhile UPA ministry, so contextually MMS can stick to his gunns, until crude oil behaves...

Don;t forget our genial sardar had a quadruple heart surgery and can only put his foot hard to the extent that his heart is not broken by the southern bullies..

:D:D:D @ LP & dishumm-kh :D:D:D.. good one.

A brilliant play O mighty CJ but just not there yet.. to b a hit. :P

@LP,

Hmmmmm , thanks for the explanation about Mr dishumm-kh :p 

@BB and LP,

Btw, I guess some real play was enacted after the Mumbai Terror attacks. Pakistan took a few people under house arrests and it appeared to the voters that India was handing out an effective response to Pakistan. 

Now that the election results are out, 2 incidents have occurred in the last couple of days that shows how hollow was our response and how mucvh does the International community really care for India. 

1) Britain and China ensured blocked a move by India in the UN against Masood Azhar. 

2) Pakistan has released Hafeez Saeed, the head of Jammat Udd Dawa , who had been put under house arrest under Indian pressure for his involvement in the Mumbai attacks. 

So much for our effective response to the Mumbai attacks. How did the  Indian pressure that was working against Pakistan as tomtomed by the  UPA in the run-up to the elections , suddenly all all its teeth with the election results?

@BB,
I hope the new govt. doesn't provide enough 'scenes' to ensure that this  play becomes a hit, because if it does, the results would not be good for our nation. 

AF

the above scenes arent fit to b classified as scenes worth a debate against the current govt.  That said, u hv to remember that Britain is US's poodle and Pak has the US and China as allies.. so we are alone in the fight against terror against us.  Yesterday thre was an interesting article on rediff on a comment by the Libyan leader on the US and Israel and their interests in keeping this situation going.  Made sense.

@BB,

So what was the response to the Mumbai terror attacks? You sacked a CM and then rewarded him with a cabinet birth ? You showed the nation that you have mobilized the international opinion against Pakistan in the run-up to the elections while actually no such was happening? As a Mumbaikar, I thought you would have been more concerned about the response to the Mumbai attacks than me!

And if in the end, US is the ally of Pakistan then what was the need the government to go that extra mile to get the Nuclear Deal with the US?

The Nuke deal was our need not US's. Apart from the cheaper and abundant power, it lifted the sanctions against us. You couldnt buy a safety pin from these countries if they felt it could be used to build a nuclear weapon.. called dual use technology. such was the sanctions against us... as explained to me by a PUMP manufacturer of all things :D

Had Deskmukh committed a crime ?  If he did, then he paid for it with the loss in CM post.  But if the people elected him back then, we can safely assume that people have forgiven him his crime of trivialising the terror attacks.

@BB,

I hope you understand the difference between NSG waiver and the Indo-US nuclear deal. The NSG waiver was our need, not the Indo US nuclear deal. And just to let you know, and I know you must be already knowing it, India has also signed a similar deal with Russia and probably France too. There was no need for the Indo-US Nuclear Deal, most of the reactors that India has today were setup under US sanctions. After the NSG waiver, India and Russia could have gone ahead and set up as many reactors as India needed, without funneling a penny to the Pakistani coffers via the US.

@BB,

"But if the people elected him back then, we can safely assume that people have forgiven him his crime of trivialising the terror attacks."

Where the hell does this line about people forgiving go when the so-called seculars bark about Modi? 

@BB,

Btw from which constituency did Vilasrao Deshmukh win that the question of people forgiving him arise??? 

AF

Are you comparing Modi to Deshkumh ?  Modi has blood on his hands.. as does LKA.  I guess it ws divine justice that he failed in realising his ultimate dream, having come so far.  Deshmukh, in compairion, has NOT committed any crime.  Wherever he won from in Maharashtra, u can b sure that they knew why he was removed from the CM's post, and yet re-elected him. Maybe they felt his crime wasnt worth such a big punishment.  Mumbai too showered the cong with victory.. all 6 seats were pocketed by Cong.. and none of the saffron combine got any seats here.

the NSG waiver came through bcos of the nuke deal and GWB arm twisting the other members.. the current reactors we have are Russian and were not set up under the US sanctions, but prior to them. The US have better technology.

@BB,

First of all you should be knowing things before making assertions. Mr Deshmukh has not been elected from anywhere. He is going to be compensated with a Rajya Sabha seat and the Union Cabinet minister position for making him the sacrificial lamb. So your talk of people forgiving him is utter nonsense. 

The Nuke Deal came through after the NSG waver and not the other way around. WHen you claim that US has better technology, can you prove it ? Also can you tell when did the US last setup a nuclear reactor in the US itself?

Whether the NSG was signed after or before, it happened bcos of the nuke deal with the US.  Will get you the material on the russian reactors.. had read in in ET or ToI. The US Industry doesnt suffer from power shortages if I am not mistaken. We signed the deal bcos of our needs and not on the basis of who has what, n when etc. 

well even if Deshmukh wasnt elected in the recent lok sabha elections, he had not committed any crime.. of the kind LKA or Modi had.  Both these wre the wud be PM candidates for the NDA :D

@BB,

Btw, the 26/11 probe has unearthed a scam by Maharashtra State Govt. in the bullet procurement of the so-called bullet proof vest for the Mumbai police. Every single bullet pierced the jackets during the test at State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) in the run-up to the procurement and yet these jackets were procured. And you say he doesn't have blood on his hands? 

Anyways, nothing else can be expected from a  govt. that announces pension  for the families of terrorists killed by the armed forces.