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Manish Tewari
Outspoken
and upfront, a lawyer-politician, Mr Manish Tewari is a practicing Lawyer in
the Supreme Court of India and a senior leader, and a very recognisable
face, of the Congress party. He was elected to Parliament in 2009 from the
Ludhiana constituency in Punjab, and served as Minister for Information &
Broadcasting in the UPA government. An illness prevented him from contesting
a second term in 2014.
Known for expressing his well-articulated, honest, and deft opinions in
spoken and written word, Mr Tewari can be relentless in his questions. A
prolific writer, his columns and articles demonstrate defiance and reason
and also his political and historical scholarship.
Born in Chandigarh in 1965, Tewari earned his BA
and LLB degrees from Punjab and Delhi University respectively.
A keen sportsperson, he is also an avid
reader of History, Literature, Military History, and International Affairs.
What
did the 2014 elections represent? Did you anticipate the election results of
the Congress party? The 2014 elections were the Rockefeller moment of
Indian politics. They represent the second power shift that has taken place,
the first being the economic power shift in 1991. The economic czars of
India are now grabbing the levers of political power by not only putting
their time, energy and money on a party but one person, and unfortunately
succeeding. Therefore, to a very, very large extent what happened in 2014
was essentially not only a political or a democratic exercise in that sense
of the word. If one was to look deeper, it represents something which is
extremely ominous and is going to haunt the Indian polity in the years to
come. Coming to your specific question as to whether we anticipated these
results – No. But the fact is this election was actually lost not in the May
of 2014 – it was lost in the November of 2010 when the government failed to
articulate a cogent response to the very audacious numbers thrown by the CAG
(Comptroller and Auditor General) in public space.
What
was the main reason for the Congress debacle?
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