#IndVsAus #RanchiTest musings…

Pujara: Maine double century maara!
Sehwag: Bhai sahab, 521 balls main to main do do triple century maarta!

Rohit Sharma in ODIs: 264(173).
Cheteshwar Pujara in Tests: 202(525).

Cheteshwar Pujara makes India’s slowest double century in the history of international cricket (521 balls).

Maximum balls faced in an innings…
Wall I Gavaskar: 472.
Wall II Manjrekar: 422.
Wall III Dravid: 495.
Wall IV Pujara: 525.

Cheteshwar Pujara becomes India’s first Quintuple Centurion (in terms of balls faced—500) in the history of international cricket.

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The power of Sidhu…

When he was with BJP, NDA was in power in Punjab.
Met Kejri and talk of AAP winning.
Joined Congress. And Congress won.

Cricketer.
Commentator.
Comedian.
Celebrity Judge.
Road Rage accused.
Film actor.
Lok Sabha MP.
Rajya Sabha MP.
Punjab Minister.
Sidhuisms.
God in TV serial.
#Sidhu

From being a small fish in a big pond (MP—Lutyens’ Delhi) to being a big fish in a small pond (Minister—Punjab), Sidhu is finally a winner.

(Also read: Like pitches, you never know which way Sidhu will turn)

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General political musings of the day

CONGRESS
Care
Of
Nehru
Gandhi
Rajiv-Rahul
Emergency-Indira
Sanjay
Sonia

First you win, then they fight you, then they laugh at you, then they ignore you.
*They=People of India.
You=Pappu.
Win=2009 Lok Sabha win.

When they go low, we go high.
—Michelle Obama.
I’m always high no matter how low we go.
—Pappu.

When they go low, we go high.
—Michelle Obama.
When he goes high, we go low.
—Opposition on Modi.

Bihar-WB ruin continues;
Behenji is playing super victimhood;
Kejri is spouting utter nonsense;
Sonia’s abroad—
All’s normal with politics!

Prashant Kishore is like Manmohan Singh.
PK was good under Modi, but bad under Pappu-Akhilesh.
MMS was good under Rao, but bad under Sonia.

Opposition attacking Modi hysterically 24X7, ignoring voters and clueless about real strategy.
And you ask why Modi keeps winning.

It may be possible to beat Modi in 2019.
But not if the entire opposition runs around like headless chickens all the time.

Bad news for BJP.
Diggy Raja may be removed from Karnataka.
Shows Congress is serious.
Now if Pappu doesn’t campaign, then Congress has a fighting chance.

The current ABC of misgovernance…
Arvind
Banerjee
Congress.

AAP chose the broom to think that they would sweep all States.
Fate chose to sweep AAP out of all States, Delhi bhi jaayega.

Kejri will probably say to his workers…
We did not lose Punjab-Goa, but in fact we won.
That’s because we saw a 30% growth in total MLAs!

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Hell with the percentages, just govern well…

parliament-2028311_640In the 1984 Indian Lok Sabha elections, the Congress got an amazing 75% Lok Sabha seats.

But their popular vote share was at a much lower 49.1%.

But the turnout was just 63.5%, so that means only 31% registered voters voted for Congress.

Bringing that down even further, only 11.5 crore out of a population of 76.5 crore voted for Congress.

Put that way, a mere 15% of the citizens of India decided the destiny of even the remaining 85% of the population.

As you can see bashing statistics non-stop is meaningless.

You can take any mandate and show it’s not a mandate.

But still three points stand out…

1. This is still better than military civil religious dictatorships and Communist States where 0.0001% of the population subjugates the remaining 99.9999%.
2. Whoever won, won fair and square depending on the laws of the land and the Constitution. If you don’t like the rules, change the rules in a democratic manner.
3. We may live in imperfect democracies, but still this is the best way of selecting someone to run the show. It is more important that after we elect someone, that person is held accountable and follows the path of good governance and development.

The fall and fall of Sri Sri Kejri Baba…

You can fool all the people some of the time (2011 August Kranti agitation), and some of the people all the time (Delhi 2013 and 2015 elections), but you cannot fool all the people all the time (2014 Lok Sabha elections, 2017 Punjab-Goa elections).
#Kejri

AAP’s internal survey has found that Kejri is already the Prime Minister of India and hence they can stop contesting elections henceforth.

Media created Kejri in 2011, launched him in 2013, boosted him in 2015.
Media created Akhilesh in 2012, boosted him till 2016.
Both busted in 2017.

Sees himself: Virtual Prime Minister.
Media/Modi Haters see him: Future Prime Minister.
Is: Glorified Delhi Mayor with Sisodia doing all his minuscule workload.

Some people live in Reality.
Others in Virtual Reality.
Kejri lives in Media Reality, the world of TV channels, advertisements and Twitter.

Delhi will be like London—Kejri.
Matlab kya?
Thames airlift karke laoge?
Big Ben-Buckingham Palace banaoge?
Shakespearean nautanki laoge?

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The Modi tsunami continues with #2017Elections…

wave-1913559_640When Modi took over as campaign chief in 2013, Congress had more LS MPs, RS MPs, MLAs along with a Congress President and Vice President.
This year it will be all BJP.

Top 4 States by area—Rajasthan, MP, Maharashtra, UP.
All 4 BJP.
If BJP wins Karnataka in 2018—9/10 biggest States will be NDA.
Exception—Odisha.

1989-2009: Most polls were hung.
2012-2017: Most polls are very decisive.
How does the entire electorate of India change its mind at once?

Huge winner: BJP.
Runner-up: Congress.
Huge losers: BSP, SP, AAP

After the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Pappu will be inducted into the BJP, revealing that he was a secret agent all along, merely carrying out Mahatma Gandhi’s 1947 request of disbanding the Congress which was not needed as we had achieved freedom.

Narendra Modi has been #Remonetized.
Get ready for the next #SurgicalStrike.

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