The articles talks about the recent change in the Satyam leadership and its commitments to continue the show on despite the mishaps that the company has encountered in past few months.
Appointment of A S Murthy as CEO and Kiran Karnik as Chairman of Satyam has finally filled in the leadership vacuum for the company. The appointment of an insider as a CEO, that has familiarity with the Satyam business processes and the clients, reflects the confidence of government in the company insiders to keep the show running. Kiran Karnik is the face of Indian IT industry and could prove to be a major force in retaining client confidence on Satyam. Despite the Raju family now out of the business, the current liquidity problems, key employee attrition and client desertion would be the major problems Satyam would have to face with.
However, the developments in the past few weeks also mean that Satyam would concentrate on its core business instead of unrelated and unnecessary diversifications.
The article talks about the current ideological confusions going on in the BJP as the post-Vajpayee leadership is in a dilemma over the effectiveness of the Hindutva trump card.
In the recent pre-poll national executive meeting of BJP at Nagpur, this confusion became evident as party maneuvers to project itself as a viable party for governance. The ideological differences are being tried to covered under the carpet of issues like price rise and terrorism as emotive electoral planks while balancing between the act the prove itself as center-right party and keeping Hindutva alive. However, this rebranding exercise has often proved futile and there still is ample space in the party to keep the Hindutva flame alive. The party has still not been able to reconcile from its 2004 defeat and act constructively as an opposition party in the lower house and is soon realizing that Hindutva might not work as much as caste based politics, development and local issues.
The latest attempt by the saffron camp is to refashion the Hindutva identity to involve even the lower castes. As the top management endeavors to play on image rebuilding, at the bottom level the Sangh Parivar is working on to alter the all-caste pan-Hindu identity.
The author mocks the all-of-a-sudden u-turn of BJP chief Rajnath Singh when he claimed that the Gandhian ideology is truly followed in Sangh parivar only in the recent BJP national executive meeting at Nagpur.
The author wonders what made this change after years of detestation to the Gandhian ideology both, in words and action. Has suddenly BJP started feeling that the blood of all men, irrespective of religion, is “red”? Or is it the declining vote bank, captured by Mulayam and Mayawati, which is making BJP sleepless? There is also some information flowing that BJP might seek Bollywood for help since the elections are nearing and the political parties are cajoling Bollywood’s biggest stars to campaign for them. Sanjay Dutt is a candidate for SP from Lucknow while Shahrukh Khan has already been approached by Congress to campaign for them.
Author believes, Rajnath is trying to engineer an identity makeover a la Munnabhai which might help this Singh to become King!!!
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