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BIG BATTLES BEFORE BIG WAR Administering Free Primary Health Care to Rural India RNI No. DELENG/2014/55799, November 2018 I Rs 50 Delhi Postal Regd. No. DL(ND)-11/6168/2018-19-20 www.powercorridors.in India's first conservative magazine BIG BATTLES BEFORE BIG WAR Administering free primary health care to rural India 1 Van = 25,000 patients per year 1 Van ~ 20 villages per week 1 Van = 31 lakh per year Cost per patient = 124 (within NRHM economy rate of 150 per patient for a rural Mobile Medical Van) As on 31st July 2018, Wockhardt Foundation operates 148 Mobile 1000 vans in 19 states of India Contact: Mr. Denis Varghese Director M: +91-9167374716 W: www.mobile1000.org E: [email protected] POWER Contents CORRIDORS www.powercorridors.in Chairman & Editor-in-Chief: Nandan Jha Editor: Ravi Shanker Kapoor Executive Editor: Naresh Soni Consulting Editor: Satish Mishra Editorial Advisor: Manoj Rastogi Bureau Chief (Delhi): M.P. Sharma Bureau Chief (Maharashtra): Nirmal Mishra Bureau Chief (Jharkhand): Shahnawaz Hassan Copy Editor: Payel Sannigrahi Social Media Manager: Vivek Bansal Art Department Art Director : Prabha Singh Chief Illustrator & Designer : Kanhaiya Patron: Dr. Ved Pratap Vaidik Marketing Manager: Ritika Jain Research Team: Kamal Kishor, Gautam Rishi, Lovely Jain Chartered Accountant: Santosh Kr Prasad Publishers: IFIE (Interactive Forum on Indian Economy) Head Office: K1/12, Level 1, Chitranajan Park, New Delhi-110019 IFIE is the publisher and owner of the monthly news magazine Power Corridors Corporate Office : F-42, Ground Floor Sector-6, NOIDA-201031 Phone : +91 120-4135442/ 4114354 Mumbai Office : 1915, Sumeet Apartments, Royal Palm, Goregaon (E), Mumbai Mobile : +91 9769420651 Kolkata Office : 24, Sir Hariram Goenka Street, Kolkata 7 Contact - 9830889999 BIG BATTLES Nagpur Office : 80, Shreenagar 14 Empress Mill Society, Bandra COVER STORY Ring Road, BEFORE BIG WAR Nagpur 440015, Contact - 8446707707 Ranchi Office : Kishore Yadav Chowk, Near New Market, Ratu Road Ranchi 834005 Overseas Branch Offices Ukraine Street Mikhail Maksimovycha 8 10 Kiev, Ukraine - 03022 +38-0631282989 VED PRATAP VAIDIK +91-0631282989 Russia Grizaduboboi, house 2 A PRACTICAL office 128 Moscow, Russia +79671667777 +91-8527918427 SOLUTION Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland & Finland TO AYODHYA Furukroken -1 1481, Hagan, Norway +4791888819 DISPUTE For avertisements contact: [email protected] All rights reserved. No part of this AMRITSAR TRAIN TRAGEDY publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission RAILWAYS COVERS ITS TRACKS from publishers. BY BLAMING EVERYBODY ELSE Printed at by Srinand Jha MP Printers 30 a unit of D. B. Corp. Ltd. B-220, Industrial Area, Phase-2, Noida (UP) Impressions are our Advertorial features. They have been paid by the Advertisers. NOVEMBER 2018 3 POWER CORRIDORS Contents 34 ECONOMY WHITE ELEPHANT 36 PRIVACY PAYTM DATA 40 THEFT FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE MURDER MOST FOUL 48 SABARIMALA AND NUN’S RAPE AN UNEQUAL 43 JUSTICE SPORTS 44 DDCA #METOO TURMOIL ABUSE MAY RATTLE CHARGES BCCI HAUNT BOLLYWOOD POWER CORRIDORS 4 NOVEMBER 2018 EDITORIAL Chairman’s Message n this issue, we have focused on the five Assembly elections. They are important because they would give some indication about the mood of the electorate for the general election in 2019. These are big battles that are being fought with an eye on the war next year. There is anti-incumbency in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states, especially in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, where the saffron party has been in Ipower for 15 years. Governance in the states under the BJP cannot be called the paragon of excellence, thus providing the Congress a good opportunity to oust it from these states. NANDAN JHA Will it? Our cover story focuses on this issue at length and from various perspectives. It facebook.com/jhnandan not only describes and examines the two national parties’ strengths and weaknesses, their strategies, and their prospects but also surveys the history of the grand old party. @Nandan_jha4 Other stories also go beyond what is being reported routinely by the mainstream media. Effort has been made to put important events like Amritsar tragedy on Dusshera, data theft at the Paytm chief’s office, Sabarimala, the nun rape case, and journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in perspective. We hope you’ll like the package. Editor’s Note ou might noticed our new tagline—‘India’s first conservative magazine.’ Conservative? Many eyebrows would be raised. In a country where Left- liberals still set the agenda, being a conservative can bring ridicule; publishing a conservative magazine can be disastrous. But we insist, because we are conservative. YWe first define what being conservative is not. Left-liberals would like to convince everybody that as a political philosophy, conservatism is everything despicable—illiberal, orthodox, unchanging, unprogressive, fogy, unimaginative, etc. Typically, a conservative in the Indian context would be regarded as somebody who does not allow his wife to come out of the purdah, doesn’t send his daughter to school, believes in the caste system, is not comfortable with modern ways of life, and is generally a nasty person. Nothing could be farther from the truth. RAVI SHANKER KAPOOR Encyclopedia Britannica has simply but beautifully described conservatism as a “political doctrine that emphasizes the value of traditional institutions and practices.” Conservatism, facebook.com/ravishanker.kapoor which was the earliest Rightwing ideology, “has traditionally rested on an organic conception of society—that is, on the belief that society is not merely a loose collection of individuals but @libertypartisan a living organism comprising closely connected, interdependent members. Conservatives thus favor institutions and practices that have evolved gradually and are manifestations of continuity and stability. Government’s responsibility is to be the servant, not the master, of existing ways of life, and politicians must therefore resist the temptation to transform society and politics.” In the Indian milieu, conservatism must include three strands: tradition, open society, free economy, and limited government. It may be argued that conservatism is a quintessentially Western phenomenon. While it is true that conservatism first took a concrete shape in the works of thinkers like Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke—and has grown as a leading political philosophy primarily in the Anglo-Saxon world—our contention is that conservatism is possible in India. Of course, Indian conservatism has to be homegrown, arising from and in tune with the conventions and traditions of the country. It is possible because India is an ancient civilization; it can boast of a society that is sufficiently vibrant and resilient, readily absorbing Western values without losing its cultural moorings, as evident from the experience of the last two centuries. Hence India’s first conservative magazine. NOVEMBER 2018 5 POWER CORRIDORS QUOTES Amanatullah Khan, under the instructions of Arvind Kejriwal, manhandled and physically assaulted me with the intentions of killing me. —Manoj Tiwari, Delhi BJP President How come one crore cases have been registered under the BSKY scheme within 60 days when the total number of people who visit government hospitals in a year is much less than one crore? — Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, on Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s claim of extending benefits to one crore people We Should learn We have decided from history. As to forget the long as there was a Hindu ruler past to save the in Jammu and country Kashmir, both -Rahul Gandhi on alliance Hindus and Sikhs with Chandrababu Naidu were living safely. Ram temple is a matter of However, soon national pride and glory. after the kingdom Just like Sardar Patel got ended, the Hindu Somnath temple rebuilt, Women should be ripped community the government should apart; one half should witnessed a acquire the land and hand be sent to Delhi and downfall over it for Ram temple another to the Kerala construction. Government Chief Minister. —Yogi Adityanath, should make law for that. — Khollam Thulasi, BJP leader UP Chief Minister on the women trying to enter — Manmohan Vaidya, Sabrimala temple RSS Sah Sarkaryavah POWER CORRIDORS 6 NOVEMBER 2018 NEWS IN BRIEF STATUE OF UNITY UNVEILED Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the 182-metre tall Statue of Unity, the world’s tallest, in honor of freedom fighter and India’s first KHALEDA ZIA home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on FOUND GUILTY October 31. Twice the height of the Statue of Bangladesh opposition leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, Liberty in America, the a long-time rival of Prime Minister Statue of Unity stands on Sheikh Hasina, has been sentenced the Sadhu island on the to another seven years in prison. She Narmada in Gujarat. has been found guilty on the charges Inaugurating the statue, of abuse of power and misuse of 31.5 the Prime Minister said, million taka which was for a charitable “Statue of Unity is an fund. Zia faces several other charges answer to all those who related to violence and corruption question the existence of but her lawyers maintain that they are India. The height of the baseless. statue is to remind the youth that the future of the country will be as huge TURMOIL IN as this. It is also symbolic SRI LANKA of our engineering and technology affordability.” The ruckus began when Sri Lanka Padma Bhushan-winning President Mathripala Sirisena sacked sculptor Ram V. Sutar Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. designed the statue, while Then he went on to appoint the Larsen & Toubro built it. Opposition leader and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Its height of 182 metres is new Prime Minister. It made no sense matched with the number to the public or the political groups of Assembly seats in all over the world. A democracy that Gujarat. finally has been taking shape and one Larsen & Toubro deployed that had voted for change in 2015 just 250 engineers and more got more complicated than one could than 3,000 workers for the comprehend.
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