Modi's Dream Team

Prime Minister: Narendra Modi: Personnel, public grievances and pensions, department of atomic energy, department of space, all important policy issues and other portfolios not allocated to any minister.

Cabinet ministers:

Rajnath Singh: Home affairs

Sushma Swaraj: External affairs, overseas Indian affairs

Arun Jaitley: Finance, corporate affairs, defence

M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban development, housing and urban poverty alleviation, parliamentary affairs

Nitin Gadkari: Road transport and highways, shipping

D V Sadananda Gowda: Railways

Uma Bharati: Water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation

Najma A Heptulla: Minority affairs

Gopinathrao Munde: Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and sanitation

Ram Vilas Paswan: Consumer affairs, food and public distribution

Kalraj Mishra: Micro, small and medium enterprises

Maneka Gandhi: Women and child development

Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and fertilizers

Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and information technology, law and justice

Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil aviation

Anant Geete: Heavy industries and public enterprises

Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food processing industries

Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, steel, labour and employment

Jual Oram: Tribal affairs

Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social justice and empowerment

Smriti Irani: Human resource development

Harsh Vardhan: Health and family welfare

Minister of states:

V K Singh: Development of northeastern region (independent charge), external affairs, overseas Indian affairs

Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (independent charge), statistics and programme implementation (independent charge), defence

Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (independent charge), parliamentary affairs, water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation

Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (independent charge), tourism (independent charge)

Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and natural gas (independent charge)

Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill development, entrepreneurship, youth affairs and sports (independent charge)

Prakash Javadekar: Information and broadcasting (independent charge), environment, forest and climate change (independent charge), parliamentary affairs

Piyush Goyal: Power (independent charge), coal (independent charge), new and renewable energy (independent charge)

Jitendra Singh: Science and technology (independent charge), earth sciences (independent charge), Prime Minister office, personnel, public grievances and pensions, department of atomic energy, department of space

Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and industry (independent charge), finance, corporate affairs

G M Siddeshwara: Civil aviation

Manoj Sinha: Railways

Nihalchand: Chemicals and fertilizers

Upendra Kushwaha: Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and sanitation

P Radhakrishnan: Heavy industries and public enterprises

Kiren Rijiju: Home affairs

Krishan Pal: Road transport and highways, shipping

Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture, food processing industries

Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal affairs

Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer affairs, food and public distribution

Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, steel, labour and employment

Sudarshan Bhagat: Social justice and empowerment

Congress has Foot-in-Mouth Disease

Midas had a unique gift : everything he touched turned to gold..We all know how the story ends..

But during the election campaign of 2014, everything Congress has said till date has backfired. Recently Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde shocked the media saying that he will crush the elements (media) that are spreading false propaganda. He later clarified that he meant the social media. Don't know if he meant Facebook and Twitter, where anyone and everyone who has an opinion, is voicing it. At a time when even CPM is embracing social media, Congress seems to be against it, undermining its power and reach. 

CPM on 25th February 2014 stared a twitter page #cpimspeak and since has 1273 followers and 35 tweets. It certainly cannot be compared to #INCIndia page which has 134K followers and 1807 tweets.

What Union Home Minister failed to understand is that Social Media is just not Facebook and Twitter and #Congress would have to shut down the entire internet if it thinks people are spreading false propaganda against it. Recently Congress's Kattar Soch Nahi, Yuva Josh ad  with Hasiba B Amin backfired as allegations that she was involved in a 300 crores scam did not go well in the social media. Disgusted with what she claims to be false rumors and under family pressure, she finally tweeted "Disgusted with the campaign against me. Not a bit of it is true. Think of the girls in ur family before u falsely spoil the image of a girl!"

With Congress claiming to spend 400 crores for election campaign, we would expect a better social and print media strategy after all “All the Likes and Clicks would matter in an election that has no clear verdict for anyone”