New Delhi, As election fever takes hold in the country, a new book takes a man through election-related stories from the past, like Kanshi Ram asking his voters for a pledge of Rs 1 while campaigning against Madhavrao Scindia's own mother and The dramatization of NT Rama Rao. Broken Hindi.
During the campaign for the 1989 Lok Sabha elections, Madhavrao fought to prevent the Guna seat from going to his mother – senior BJP leader and matriarch of the Gwalior royal family Vijayaraje Scindia.
Similarly, Vijayaraje's target was not Rajiv Gandhi or the Congress candidate standing against him, but his son Madhavrao, who was fighting for his parliamentary seat in nearby Gwalior, states author-journalist Bhaskar Roy in his political memoir "Fifty Year Road". Were defending. The Rajmata kept shouting, "Ask your Maharaja why things did not happen. Where is the development? If anyone throws bricks at us, we will respond with stones.,
"The widow of Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia – the last feudal ruler of the princely state of Gwalior – Vijayaraje was in her young days, as the old photograph shows, a beautiful princess who graced the royal palace. She had a deep antipathy towards her only son in fact Interesting," Roy writes.
"This cannot be explained only by their political differences. Many said that she was deeply hurt by her son's decision to join the Congress at the beginning of his political career. She was preparing him as a future leader of the Jana Sangh. Were staying."People with knowledge of palace affairs say the rift was caused by a tussle over the management of the royal family's vast estate," the book said. She said she was hurt by her son's attempt to defeat her in the elections."
However, Madhavrao felt that his mother was playing into the hands of the BJP who was "simply abusing her position".
Roy also writes about how NT Rama Rao, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, was a tough challenge to Rajiv Gandhi as he tried to unite all anti-Congress forces. At a public meeting in Haryana, supporters of Devi Lal – who later - who became Deputy Prime Minister of India in 1992 - had spread word about "Tau's friend from the South" campaigning for him, in reference to NTR.However, Roy says, NTR was not comfortable in Hindi or English.
The book states, "At one point, NTR addressed a gathering in Hindi that farmers could hardly understand. One or two phrases, however, stayed with him. 'Throw the Congress', he said with filmy satire. Roar." Roy then goes on to mention Kanshi Ram contesting the high-profile parliamentary by-election from Allahabad in 1988.Pitted against Congress's VP Singh and Sunil Shastri, Kanshi Ram received an impressive 72,000 votes, but managed to finish only third. Singh won that match.
“There was a flow of cash and liquor to garner votes for major political parties,” the book says. I asked every voter in Allahabad to give a one rupee note to support me. One vote one note – I gave this slogan.''As Kanshram said. In the book published by Jaco, Roy looks back at half a century of life in India since the mid-60s.
He says, "Fifty Year Road" is about a series of upheavals which were milestones in the contemporary history of India and appeared before the author like a panorama.
He talks about the Naxalbari rebellion, 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the historic railway strike of George Fernandes, the Emergency, Operation Bluestar, the assassination of Indir Gandhi, the emphasis on technology by Rajiv Gandhi, his gruesome assassination by LTTE terrorists, the rise of the Hindu right, Are. Babri Masjid demolition, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh leading UPA, Narendra Modi coming to power.Apart from Rajiv Gandhi, Madhavrao Scindia, NTR and VP Singh, other personalities featured in the book are: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Jyoti Basu Siddharth Shankar Ray, Charu Majumdar, Manmohan Singh, LK Advani, Soni Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan and Narendra Modi.
A 'critical conversation' around the book was organized at the Indie International Center here on Friday in which former BSF Director General Prakash Singh, former Diploma Navtej Sarna, Jamia Millia Islamia Professor Anuradha Ghosh and the author participated.
Singh recalled that when the Naxalbari rebellion broke out in the late 1960s, Intelligence Bureau bosses asked him to study the problem seriously. "When I first met (key Naxalite ideologue) Charu Mazumdar at Lalbazar (Kolkata Police Headquarters) in the lock-up, my first reaction was how can such a 'lanky' (skinny) man create such a large-scale political turmoil in the country," he said.
He said the book's portrayal of the Naxalite insurgency is an "authentic and accurate reflection" of the ground reality.Sarna agreed with Roy that the large-scale anti-Sikh violence that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi should not be called a 'riot' but a genocide. According to Ghosh, the book stands out because of its insight into the political world. He said that the small stories discovered by the attentive eye of the author have added a new layer of meaning to the book.
During the campaign for the 1989 Lok Sabha elections, Madhavrao fought to prevent the Guna seat from going to his mother – senior BJP leader and matriarch of the Gwalior royal family Vijayaraje Scindia.
Similarly, Vijayaraje's target was not Rajiv Gandhi or the Congress candidate standing against him, but his son Madhavrao, who was fighting for his parliamentary seat in nearby Gwalior, states author-journalist Bhaskar Roy in his political memoir "Fifty Year Road". Were defending. The Rajmata kept shouting, "Ask your Maharaja why things did not happen. Where is the development? If anyone throws bricks at us, we will respond with stones.,
"The widow of Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia – the last feudal ruler of the princely state of Gwalior – Vijayaraje was in her young days, as the old photograph shows, a beautiful princess who graced the royal palace. She had a deep antipathy towards her only son in fact Interesting," Roy writes.
"This cannot be explained only by their political differences. Many said that she was deeply hurt by her son's decision to join the Congress at the beginning of his political career. She was preparing him as a future leader of the Jana Sangh. Were staying."People with knowledge of palace affairs say the rift was caused by a tussle over the management of the royal family's vast estate," the book said. She said she was hurt by her son's attempt to defeat her in the elections."
However, Madhavrao felt that his mother was playing into the hands of the BJP who was "simply abusing her position".
Roy also writes about how NT Rama Rao, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, was a tough challenge to Rajiv Gandhi as he tried to unite all anti-Congress forces. At a public meeting in Haryana, supporters of Devi Lal – who later - who became Deputy Prime Minister of India in 1992 - had spread word about "Tau's friend from the South" campaigning for him, in reference to NTR.However, Roy says, NTR was not comfortable in Hindi or English.
The book states, "At one point, NTR addressed a gathering in Hindi that farmers could hardly understand. One or two phrases, however, stayed with him. 'Throw the Congress', he said with filmy satire. Roar." Roy then goes on to mention Kanshi Ram contesting the high-profile parliamentary by-election from Allahabad in 1988.Pitted against Congress's VP Singh and Sunil Shastri, Kanshi Ram received an impressive 72,000 votes, but managed to finish only third. Singh won that match.
“There was a flow of cash and liquor to garner votes for major political parties,” the book says. I asked every voter in Allahabad to give a one rupee note to support me. One vote one note – I gave this slogan.''As Kanshram said. In the book published by Jaco, Roy looks back at half a century of life in India since the mid-60s.
He says, "Fifty Year Road" is about a series of upheavals which were milestones in the contemporary history of India and appeared before the author like a panorama.
He talks about the Naxalbari rebellion, 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the historic railway strike of George Fernandes, the Emergency, Operation Bluestar, the assassination of Indir Gandhi, the emphasis on technology by Rajiv Gandhi, his gruesome assassination by LTTE terrorists, the rise of the Hindu right, Are. Babri Masjid demolition, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh leading UPA, Narendra Modi coming to power.Apart from Rajiv Gandhi, Madhavrao Scindia, NTR and VP Singh, other personalities featured in the book are: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Jyoti Basu Siddharth Shankar Ray, Charu Majumdar, Manmohan Singh, LK Advani, Soni Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan and Narendra Modi.
A 'critical conversation' around the book was organized at the Indie International Center here on Friday in which former BSF Director General Prakash Singh, former Diploma Navtej Sarna, Jamia Millia Islamia Professor Anuradha Ghosh and the author participated.
Singh recalled that when the Naxalbari rebellion broke out in the late 1960s, Intelligence Bureau bosses asked him to study the problem seriously. "When I first met (key Naxalite ideologue) Charu Mazumdar at Lalbazar (Kolkata Police Headquarters) in the lock-up, my first reaction was how can such a 'lanky' (skinny) man create such a large-scale political turmoil in the country," he said.
He said the book's portrayal of the Naxalite insurgency is an "authentic and accurate reflection" of the ground reality.Sarna agreed with Roy that the large-scale anti-Sikh violence that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi should not be called a 'riot' but a genocide. According to Ghosh, the book stands out because of its insight into the political world. He said that the small stories discovered by the attentive eye of the author have added a new layer of meaning to the book.
