The Narendra Modi thread

[someone]

A much needed article. And surprising or unsurprising written by a Muslim.

There are number of reasons for the Muslims of Gujarat to move beyond the 2002 riots, primarily because in the 9 major cases of rioting and arson, the perpetrators of the crime were convicted, justice prevailed and the rule of law was established. Recently, India's most well-known film script-writer Salim Khan (actor Salmaan Khan's father) has said to a senior journalist in an interview: "Does anyone remember who the chief minister of Maharashtra was during the Mumbai riots which were no less deadly than the Gujarat riots of 2002? Does anyone recall the name of the chief minister of UP during Malliana and Meerut riots or that of the Bihar CM when the Bhagalpur or Jamshedpur riots under Congress regimes took place? Do we hear names of earlier chief ministers of Gujarat under whose charge, hundreds of riots took place in post-Independence India? Does anyone remember who was in-charge of Delhi's security when the 1984 massacre of Sikhs took place in the capital of India?How come Narendra Modi has been singled out as the Devil Incarnate as if he personally carried out all the killings during the riots of 2002?"No speck of doubt about what Salim Khan has said. Modi, in fact, has given a new formula of inclusive development to our secular country by removing the labels of religion, castes and creed. He approaches the people as one and designs schemes intended to benefit all Gujaratis, thus eliminating the evil divide and rule formula of vote-bank politics from which the country is suffering from. No help or aid or scheme has been launched in Gujarat in the last 11 years in the name of religion or caste. This could be the quintessence of inclusive growth with communal harmony. No wonder we see the highly respected and eminent Muslim scholar Maulana Vastanvi, a Gujarati Muslim himself, saying that, "Gujarati muslims had benefited from the inclusive development policies of Modi's government." Unfortunately he was forced to resign from his post as Vice-Chancellor of Deoband for saying so. Another prominent Islamic scholar, Maulana Mehmood Madni of Jamiatul Ulema-e-Hind, had agreed that Muslims in Gujarat were better off in many disciplines as compared to other states. Yet another prominent non-resident Gujarati Lord Adam Patel of the UK, during his visit to India, met Modi at Gandhinagar and appreciated his peace initiatives and the inclusive prosperity among the Muslims of Gujarat. Not only the Muslims of Gujarat, in a recent interview given to 'Milli Gazette', former IG of Police, Maharashtra, SM Mushrif said: "The most safe place for Muslims today is Gujarat." He further says that the state of Maharashtra has done the greatest damage to the Muslim community which is ruled by so-called secular parties like the NCP and the Congress for the last 10 years. So many cannot be wrong at the same time; there remains no doubt about why Muslims are gravitating towards Modi. Why Gujarati Muslims are with Modi

[Macj]

Yes it's interesting that no one seems to gaf about Hindu victims of pogroms for a millennia. The Moplah rebellion isnt that old, no one talks about it,in Godhra Hindu pilgrims were burnt to death , everyone analyses the aftermath till Kingdom come but not the cause. Pseudo seculars are the vile 5th column that just need to fade.

[yoda]

Tens of thousands of riot effected Muslims are still living in refugee camps' date=' many segregated Muslim localities, some of them walled have come up over the last 10 years, [b']Muslims in Gujarat are in a particularly poor condition compared with Hindus unlike say in UP and Bihar where they are in a bad shape, but so is the general population, the leader of the party in Gujarat makes communal statements against them. If this is not discrimination, I don't know what is.

Are you saying the govt and/or the majority Hindus of Gujarat are systemically blocking Muslims from prospering by having their own businesses or getting good marks and getting into colleges and getting good jobs?

[Crookbond]

Raghuram Rajan has called Modi’s ‘Gujarat model of growth’ a bluff

So whether the likes of Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya and hundreds of their parrots like it or not, the Raghuram Rajan committee has called the Narendra Modi bluff. Kerala model is no Gujarat model at all. Kerala model is simply the Kerala model and the best Gujarat model under Modi’s two terms can do is only lag way behind. In fact, at position number 12. In fact the Rajan committee didn’t surprise anybody – Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Goa have been working at it for year. For instance, while Kerala had reached Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality rates and the number of pre-natal hospital visits comparable to that of Western Europe and Japan years ago. Tamil Nadu has been assiduously working at improving its indicators, which remained stagnant for some time. It requires enormous hard work, smart policies and programmes. Today, Tamil Nadu and Kerala together show that they are ahead of everybody else because of sheer hard work by the state. Did they ever make a song and dance about it? Or went on a million-dollar publicity blitzkrieg? Did anybody know that Jayalalithaa government restaurants in Chennai feed about five lakh people a day for a price that won’t even get you a cup of tea in Gujarat? That people don’t talk APL and BPL in Tamil Nadu? Or did Oomen Chandy ask the Congress high command that he be made the Prime Ministerial candidate because during the recent hyperventilation of the rupee, his state brought in an additional 30 percent in foreign exchange over and above the Rs 55,000 – 60,000 crore that it attracts every year. This money is not speed money, or simple “remittances” as some economists believe, but mostly the returns on the state’s investment on its human and social capital over several years. Let’s leave the need for a holistic debate on development aside for a moment (human development, human agency, income poverty, rights, inclusiveness, equality and so on), but put a full-stop to the campaign of lies. Gujarat does have industries and development, it has boutique projects that are tailor-made for marketeers and a great campaigner who can dress up mediocrity as excellence, but it’s no model. As Harish Damodaran noted in his article in Hindu Business Line “Gujarat had Amul, Ambani, Adani, Nirma, Torrent, Zydus Cadila, IPCL, GSFC or GNFC — not to speak of Rajkot’s machine tool and diesel engine industry or the diamond processing hubs of Surat and Bhavnagar — well before Modi became Chief Minister. Nor was Bt cotton’s success specific to Gujarat.” “The ones, if at all, having better claims to bringing more than incremental development to their states are Modi’s fellow-BJP counterparts in Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Chhattisgarh. Under Shivraj Singh Chauhan, MP’s contribution to national wheat procurement has gone up from hardly 500,000 tonnes to 8.5 million tonnes, with farmers being paid an extra Rs 100/quintal over the Centre’s minimum support price. Raman Singh has achieved no less with paddy in Chhattisgarh, besides creating a functioning universal public distribution system in a state where ration shops barely existed. And these, unlike Gujarat, happen to be backward Bimaru states — a point Advani forcefully made as an obvious counter to Modi’s tall claims.” Can we stop the bluff here?

http://www.firstpost.com/economy/raghuram-rajan-has-called-modis-gujarat-model-of-growth-a-bluff-1135537.html

[Yoda-esque]

What à bluffmaster this man is! Thank you for opening my êyes

[Mariyam]

I just left the speech conference in Trichy. Plenty were leaving midway through Modi speech

Did he speak in Gujarati or Tamil or Hindi or English?

[coffee_rules]

Any links to the Raghuram Rajan's original report?

[Macj]

Apparently he spoke in tamil About the report, we see a post about an article allegedly calling a bluff . Where is Rajan actually calling it a bluff? Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2

[randomGuy]

Apparently he spoke in tamil About the report, we see a post about an article allegedly calling a bluff . Where is Rajan actually calling it a bluff? Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2

No where. The ranking are the same as hdi rankings of 2011 except in HDI rankings Karnataka was just Behind guj n JnK was ahead of it, while in MDI rankings it is the opposite.

[BeautifulGame]

Apparently he spoke in tamil About the report, we see a post about an article allegedly calling a bluff . Where is Rajan actually calling it a bluff? Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2

No.Just a couple of sentences in tamil that every north indian leader does when they come here.

[BeautifulGame]

Did he speak in Gujarati or Tamil or Hindi or English?

Just greeted everyone in Tamil like Hello welcome and great to be in Tamil Nadu for a couple of minutes.Then Spoke mostly in Hindi and sometimes in English in-btw at times. Surprised that his english is very broken and incoherent.Perhaps thats why he spoke in mainly Hindi

[randomGuy]

Just greeted everyone in Tamil like Hello welcome and great to be in Tamil Nadu for a couple of minutes.Then Spoke mostly in Hindi and sometimes in English in-btw at times. Surprised that his english is very broken and incoherent.Perhaps thats why he spoke in mainly Hindi

Actually I like it particularly that the speaks in Hindi or in hinglish even in English gatherings/ news channels. That's very very good. Couldn't care less that he can only speak broken English or he isn't a smooth talker in English.

[BeautifulGame]

The Narendra Modi thread

Actually I like it particularly that the speaks in Hindi or in hinglish even in English gatherings/ news channels. That's very very good. Couldn't care less that he can only speak broken English or he isn't a smooth talker in English.

Not really good in a gathering that understands only English and Tamil like in Trichy. TBF to him this is a problem most North Indian politicians face when they come to Tamil Nadu. It's just that I thought his English command is similar to Jayalalitha but nowhere near her ability.

[randomGuy]

Not really good in a gathering that understands only English and Tamil like in Trichy. TBF to him this is a problem most North Indian politicians face when they come to Tamil Nadu. It's just that I thought his English command is similar to Jayalalitha but nowhere near her ability.

Maybe. There was a Tamil translator as well who translated everything after each pause. I'd much rather prefer(but not force) Tamils to understand Hindi as a big majority of India understands it as well as your neighbors Kerala. I have no problems with English but it has increasingly become a language associated with pseudo-intellectualism, being a status-symbol, pretentiousness and lack of substance. I am all for it being learned and understood by all Indians as it is essential but spoken only when necessary. and I'd very much prefer my PM to speak in Hindi or Hinglish and as I said, couldn't care less if he cant speak fluent English. Just to share with you, unlike me, my grandparents and earlier generations didnt have Hindi as their first lang.

[someone]

About the report, we see a post about an article allegedly calling a bluff . Where is Rajan actually calling it a bluff? Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2

It's another sensationalized news. Nowhere does the title relate with the article and nor the celebration from it. An explanation found on FB

A few months back, we were told by media through "imminent personalities" that Gujarat has always been the most developed state, even before Narendra Modi became the CM. It was said therefore, that Gujarat Model is fake and therefore not bringing any results. Today, we are told that Gujarat is one of the lest developed states by none other than Raghuram Rajan, the RBI governor. And as expected, media has published that news and is telling us that "Gujarat Model" is a lie. BJP has never claimed Gujarat to be the most DEVELOPED state. The real claim is the Gujarat is one of the states with FASTEST development growth, which has been proven with facts and figures. With media telling us on one hand that Gujarat was "already developed", and on the other hand telling us that Gujarat is one of the "least developed", what is one supposed to believe when media propagates conflicting statements without verification?

[someone]

Yes it's interesting that no one seems to gaf about Hindu victims of pogroms for a millennia. The Moplah rebellion isnt that old, no one talks about it,in Godhra Hindu pilgrims were burnt to death , everyone analyses the aftermath till Kingdom come but not the cause. Pseudo seculars are the vile 5th column that just need to fade.

Also add where are the Hindu victims in the riots? It's been 11 years and yet never a word or mention about that at all. As always, certain things are non existent and irrelevant to these pseudo seculars. Really seems like victims is only associated with one community?

[Clarke]

What's this hotshot doing in Delhi while his state is suffering from severe flooding ?

[ravishingravi]

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[zumi]

It's another sensationalized news. Nowhere does the title relate with the article and nor the celebration from it. An explanation found on FB

good point, dumbass Media getting it's panties in a twist, idoits can't seem to decide how to attack Modi, every angle for them backfires. so which is the truth was Gujarat developed or never really developed pre-Modi time? either way stupid media just making it easy for Modi.

[randomGuy]

Superb speech so far. My locality's streets are totally deserted atm. All people either being part of the rally in the venue or watching it in front in their tv.