Harish Palaniappan's

Bold Move: CPI eats what it cooked.

The congress party which rules india now, made a bold move in deciding to go on with the much debated 1-2-3 nuke deal with the US, even if it is going against their biggest coalition partner the Communist party of India.

The members of Communist party of india cooked too much politics so far, with their acts and talk against the 1-2-3 nuke deal which, almost all industrialists, and nuclear energy analysts in the country favor as the best offer that India could have.

Right from threatening that they will pull down the government by withdrawing their support to the government, to saying that the honeymoon with the congress party was over, to saying that India's sovereignty is at risk, and all that .. the CPI has had undiplomatic, sceptic views of the deal, of the congress party, and of the country itself, without ever, even once clearly stating which part of the deal they are not ok with, and what they would like to be corrected. All they said .. "stop going ahead with operating the deal for 6 months.. then we will tell you what to do"... as if they dictate the terms in this country.

Though late, the congress party has made a bold move now to stop CPI from trying to run this country and dictating terms to the congress party. Of course, it runs the risk of pushing the country into another election, but I think that is better than doing everything coalition parties say knowing it is stupid. This definitely should push lessons into another coalition partner other than the CPI, that's the DMK, a party from south india which also occasionally thinks it can get away with doing any kind of politics because they have considerable numbers to hold or pull the government at the center.

Recent remarks by sonia gandhi .. "those who are against the nuke deal are people against the development of this country... are enemies of this country".. is further a flat smack on the CPI's face.

The members of CPI, obviously, have now ducked their heads.

The CPI can now eat their own political cooking, and taste all the embarrasement.

Their options: If they pull down the government, they can expect to lose badly in the election that comes afterwards..
or,
They can stick to the government by actually supporting the nuke deal, and try to pull out some kind of intelligent diplomatic statement to avoid embarrassment any further. ..actually I am eager to see what intelligent diplomacy they are able to pull off given such a scenario.. great it will be for learning of such an interesting diplomatic english sentence.. let's see.

update: 15 oct 07
Looks like indian politicians like no strings left when it comes to being corrupt, anti-national, and money-or-power friendly. What I misunderstood as a bold attempt by congress party(the drama troupe) and its heroine sonia gandhi.. came out all upside down, showing that they are politicians for the welfare of their self rather than the people. News is that all alliance partners have successfully convinced congress party and its president that the nuke deal can go but not the government.

Openly nude stupidity... will people learn intentions of these politicians atleast now:
Open enough, chiefs of the alliance parties like DMK, CPI, CPI(M) are openly telling media that they want to keep power and keep the government to its entire term, rather than do some reform like nuke deal and get into a fight of losing power.

The chiefs openly say that, in one of their meetings, where sonia gandhi and manmohan singh(the educated-but-still-dumb prime minister of india) were convinced, they asked 'Why do you want to break your government on a stupid nuclear deal with america. we remaining in power is important than getting energy reforms for the country at the current moment". This can't get any more stupid, and I am 101% sure 80% of indians don't understand all this and will only reelect such stupid people to power.

BJP forces Karantaka into elections:

Looks like this is the government pulling season in India.

While India itself is showing chances of a mid-term central government election, the government in the state of karnataka has been pulled down already, and the state seems to be heading for assembly elections.

Chances are that India and karnataka(and rumours are that even gujarat govt might fall) are heading to start the year 2008 afresh with elections.

Have you heard this anywhere else.. the idea of two political parties forming an alliance to rule on a condition that they take turns.. meaning first half you rule, second half-term I rule. ya, like some doubles carom board game.

Successfully tested first in Jammu & Kashmir by the congress and PDP of kashmir, the BJP and JD(s) wanted to be the next advanced state in india by testing it here. Unfortunately, JS(s) seemed to have had other ideas even from then, that they now refused to transfer power to the BJP after their half-term is now complete. They reasons they started with was.. "1. We haven't been able to do much for the state within our period..(bravo) and, 2. BJP is not a secular party..so handing over power to them will risk the lives of the -people- of karnataka"... suddenly they have tried to do something for people. good.

Here, the interesting part is...the state Congress party is also getting involved. How?
Rumours are that the JD(s) is now trying to work up a deal with the congress party of the state for making the numbers..to remain in power for the next half term. Should this get anymore clearer now to people that JD(s) would do anything for power? even be it swapping friends with enemies.. i mean swapping opposition party to an alliance party.
It would be interesting if it happens that congress decides to help JD(s) remain in power.. because that would put old friends(BJP) in the opposition... and new friends(Congress) in the ruling seats... he he.

now.. anything can happen in Indian politics when you go for a cup of coffee..

yea.. a different way of understanding the Cafe coffee day tag line "anything can happen over a cup of coffee".

Keep watching.