The Narendra Modi thread

[asterix]

Looks like Modi thinks that this is the best time to ask US Visa when the HYPE m/c is working 24/7.. After elections, who knows he'll get another chance or not, in his lifetime...:winky:

[Crookbond]

How? - Thsi is what written in that letter. How denying Visa will help in rehabiliation,justice etc?

Accepting visa will not help rehabilitation, justice etc. The letter just requests the US administration to maintain its stand on Modi and cautions it against the media hype. This would not have happened IF Mr. Singh wouldn't have gone around begging. So before you criticize the reaction, please criticize the action.

May be some Sikh MP's should send a letter to US and ask to involve in giving justice to '84 riots.

There have been enough requests to the US government on that part from the Sikh community. You may also check what the US response is on that matter.

[bulbul]

Mumbai: Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi on Wednesday asked the Election Commission to bar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) poll panel chief and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from contesting elections, claiming that his posters in Mumbai proclaiming he is a "Hindu nationalist" are aimed at creating communal disharmony. In his letter, Abu Azmi cited a recent Allahabad High Court order banning caste-based rallies and posters by political parties. Azmi claims that Modi's posters proclaiming him to be a "Hindu nationalist" violate the High Court order. He also claimed that Modi's posters divide society on the basis of religion. "Displaying a big poster in Mumbai calling himself a Hindu nationalist shows his desire to divide the society. He aspires to be the Prime Minister of India. I have written to the Election Commission asking them to ban him from contesting elections," said Azmi.

:woot: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bar-narendra-modi-from-contesting-polls-samajwadi-party-leader-to-e/409103-37-64.html

[bulbul]

Accepting visa will not help rehabilitation' date=' justice etc. The letter just requests the US administration to maintain its stand on Modi and cautions it against the media hype. This would not have happened IF Mr. Singh wouldn't have gone around begging. [b']So before you criticize the reaction, please criticize the action.

Will this applicable in every situation? :winky: also Addeb claimed he sent the mail in 2012 :hmmm:. How this will help poor muslims who affected?

There have been enough requests to the US government on that part from the Sikh community. You may also check what the US response is on that matter.

It's just an example , i can give even more example if you need.

[diga]

TOI's headline for the below article ... Massive controversy breaks out over MPs' letter to Obama on Modi visa :hysterical:

A major controversy erupted on Wednesday over MPs writing to US President Barack Obama seeking denial of visa to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi with some MPs denying having signed it. Latching on to denials by CPM leader Sitaram Yechury, DMK MP KP Ramalingam and CPI MP MP Achutan, a BJP lawmaker wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar urging for a probe into alleged forgery of signatures. The party also accused the Congress's "dirty tricks department" of being behind it and demanded a probe. Sudarshan Bhagat, BJP MP from Lohardaga, Jharkhand, on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Speaker, saying that some MPs have said they have not signed the letter to Obama. "These are serious charges and amount to forgery. I have demanded that the Speaker should order an impartial inquiry and action should be taken against those responsible," he said. Yechury, whose purported signature was appended to the letter by 25 Rajya Sabha members, on Wednesday issued a statement denying having signed any letter to Obama. "I don't remember having signed any such letter ... It suggests some cut and paste job," he said. "I deny having signed any such letter. It is neither in my character nor in the principles of my party — the CPM — to petition any sovereign country on matters that fall strictly within the sovereign domain of that country," he said in a statement here. "It is this very principle that leads us to strongly oppose and denounce any external interference into India's internal affairs undermining its sovereignty," Yechury said. Ramalingam, DMK MP, denied having signed any such letter. He said he always signed in Tamil. But he had no reply when it was told to him that his purported signature was in Tamil. Achutan, a Rajya Sabha member from Kerala, also denied writing to Obama. "To be frank, I don't remember writing to Obama," he said. However, Mohammad Adeeb, independent MP, who took the initiative for the campaign, denied Yechury's allegation. "Sitaram Yechury personally signed the letter in Rajya Sabha in front of me with his pen. I am ready to face any inquiry and any investigation into the matter," he said.

[Crookbond]

Ignoble deed: The lynching of Amartya Sen http://www.firstpost.com/economy/ignoble-deed-the-lynching-of-amartya-sen-981385.html

Dr Sen is clearly lacking in sensibility. Amartya Sen dared to venture, on television, an opinion about Narendra Modi as a prime ministerial candidate and a negative one at that. In an interview with CNN-IBN, Dr Sen said “As an Indian citizen, I don’t want Modi as my PM. ..He has not done enough to make minorities feel safe.” Pressed further, he said “He could have first of all been more secular.” The BJP has been quick to react. “Professor Sen had better focus on research into problems of poverty amidst plenty in the world rather than worry too much about a politician’s qualification to be prime minister,” retorted party spokesman Dharmendra Pradhan. Mind you, Dr Sen was responding to a question in an interview. It’s not like the Nobel laureate had written an op-ed on the subject or was issuing his own white paper on the Amartya Sen checklist for Prime Minister of India for the Indian voter to follow. While the BJP has pulled its punches somewhat, Mr Modi’s always obstreperous online brigade has been going after Amartya Sen with ferocious gusto. And it’s not just the aam aadmi. Janata Party head Subramanian Swamy, who routinely calls Sonia Gandhi vishkanya and her son the Buddhu, has dug his claws into Dr Sen now. “Amartya Sen is not Indian,” he told the Business Standard. “He had lost his Indian-ness after he left his Bengai ex-wife and married two foreign females.” Even for Dr Subramanian Swamy that’s a new low and hardly the kind of logic one would expect from a son of Harvard. Dr Sen’s three marriages are now all over the comment boards as if ones right to have an opinion on anything is inversely proportional to ones marital record. Three strikes and you are out? He’s been called every name in the book from “corrupt Marxist” to “senile” to “closet Naxalite”. But none of that means the man does not have a right to have an opinion and share it when asked. And those who oppose him have every right to ignore that opinion and shrug and say the dogs bark but the caravan moves on. Instead this caravan feels obliged to bark back. Dr. Chandan Mitra has tweeted that the “Next NDA Govt must strip him of his Bharat Ratna.” It was the NDA that actually gave Dr. Sen that award in 1999. Last time I checked there was nothing that said a Bharat Ratna could not have a personal opinion. Nor is Modi synonymous with India (the way, say an Indira Gandhi’s devotees routinely made her out to be) so that a negative opinion on Modi is tantamount to dissing Bharat. Let’s be clear – this is not about Dr Sen’s economic policies or whether as Niranjan Rajadhyaksha writes in the Mint, (Jagdish) Bhagwati versus Sen is really a proxy fight between Modi versus Sonia Gandhi. That is in the realm of a battle of ideas. This is just about name calling at its most vicious. And such is the paucity of our political imagination that a critique of Modi becomes the same thing as lavishing praise on Rahul Gandhi. Calling the party’s prince-in-waiting a “likeable young man” would be regarded as damning by faint praise anywhere else in the world. In India, that makes Sen according to the BJP’s Pradhan “an apologist for the Congress party.” It bears reminding ourselves that this is really old wine in an old bottle. Dr Sen was merely repeating himself. In an interview with Outlook in 2009, he had clearly said “I don’t think Modi is fit to be prime minister of India.” At that time he was giving his personal reaction to reports that Ratan Tata had gone to Gujarat and showered praise on Modi and said he was fit to be PM. If, by the BJP’s logic, an economist has no business playing political analyst, then should an industrial tycoon? But that Outlook interview didn’t send Mr Modi’s supporters into such paroxysms of rage. So why now? Is it closer to the electoral cycle? Or is there something to be gained in trying to portray Mr Modi as the victim of the intellectual elite? Or is it about quashing any conversation about secularism by going into full frontal attack on the character of the questioner. As long as media can feast on juicy details about a septuagenarian’s love life, there’s little space left to discuss such dry and weighty ideas as secularism and models of development. And it is not even, as some are lamenting, about the right to dissent and its ever shrinking space. Dr Sen was not dissenting. He was not burning a flag. Or refusing a national honour. This was merely about the right to have an opinion, which the last time I checked was a right enjoyed, and vigorously exercised, by every Indian, even thrice-married ones. If an opinion cannot be tolerated, what hope is there for dissent? This is ignoble indeed.

[asterix]

Is there any Book launch coming up involving Mr. Sen? Usually people tend to give controversial comments or try to use a polarising figure to get increased interest and thus sales of any media release...

[The Outsider]

Is there any Book launch coming up involving Mr. Sen? Usually people tend to give controversial comments or try to use a polarising figure to get increased interest and thus sales of any media release...

By that logic all regular posters on the politics section of ICF would be Shakespeares by now.:winky:

[Crookbond]

ndtv: Narendra Modi: Govt needs to decide if elections have to happen early. They haven't taken a decision in 9 years, so what'll they do now? ndtv: Narendra Modi: Small investors are moving away from the stock markets. Price rise eating into their savings, so no money to invest. ndtv: Narendra Modi: Why are we importing electronic goods worth crores? Our manufacturing is not cost effective. ndtv: Narendra Modi: We are in a huge economic crisis. UPA has decimated the good work done by the Vajpayee government. ndtv: Modi: Mr Chidambaram has advised us not to buy gold. But why are people forced to invest in gold? Because people have no faith in stocks.

[asterix]

By that logic all regular posters on the politics section of ICF would be Shakespeares by now.:winky:

Isn't it true people give controversial statements to spice up any autobiography or book launch? I hope there's no book launch coming up involving Mr. Sen... Else people will say he's trying to garner cheap publicity...

[The Outsider]

Isn't it true people give controversial statements to spice up any autobiography or book launch? I hope there's no book launch coming up involving Mr. Sen... Else people will say he's trying to garner cheap publicity...

I get what you are saying but I doubt Amartya Sen will do something like that - Nobel prize winner hai. Aur kya publicity chahiye? Anyhow, this isn't the first time he made the statement. He said the same thing in a 2010 interview as well.

[Crookbond]

I get what you are saying but I doubt Amartya Sen will do something like that - Nobel prize winner hai. Aur kya publicity chahiye? Anyhow' date=' this isn't the first time he made the statement. He said the same thing in a 2010 interview as well.[/quote'] In 2009, he has written an extensive piece and was critical on the Congress for the very same reasons - he is pretty consistent in his views.

[Crookbond]

Bhagwati versus Sen: What's going on? http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/bhagwati-versus-sen-what-s-going-on-113072400516_1.html

duelling books; people who don’t bother to read the duelling books, but instead read headlines written by journalists who haven’t bothered to read the duelling books, or only partially understood them; and the eternal quest in the Indian media to make absolutely everything about Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi.

[seedhi]

This Amartya Sen has benefited from UPA's largesse personally as the Chairman of the board for the Nalanda International University where he got his (supremely unqualified) protege appointed as vice chancellor. His duplicity in "proving" Islamic tolerance is exposed by Ibn Warraq at the conclusion of his speech. Watch from 1:30:30. i4aY6kEO3cw

[Crookbond]

^ Kaanspiracy theory!

Bhagwati, meanwhile, has fellowships named for him at Columbia University, paid for by the Indian taxpayer – set up in 2010, at the direction of the UPA government. (It is unsual for such to be named after a member of the university’s faculty.) Both Bhagwati and his associate Arvind Panagariya – who holds the, yes, “Jagdish Bhagwati Chair in Indian Political Economy” at Columbia – have frequently talked about their long interaction and friendship with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

[The Outsider]

After creating all the hoopla about asking US to reconsider their visa decision on Modi, turns out Rajnath did not even make the request. What a clown! http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/did-not-raise-narendra-modi-visa-issue-with-us-officials-rajnath-singh/articleshow/21315178.cms

WASHINGTON: Days after asserting that he will appeal to the US government to lift its ban on giving visa to Narendra Modi, BJP President Rajnath Singh today said he has not raised the issue with the Obama Administration since it is upto Washington to take a call on it. "The Modi visa issue is that of the US Administration. This is not an issue for us," Singh said in an interaction with Indian journalists. However, he said there "is a paradox" given that the Congressional Research Service appreciates the performance of Modi, and at the same time the US government does not issue visa to Modi. Singh said that he personally did not raise this issue with anyone during his meetings with US lawmakers, think tanks and experts while in Washington, but this was brought to his notice by some of the people who he met. He refrained from naming them. "This is not our issue. This is an issue for the US Administration," Singh repeatedly said in response to several questions from the media on the issue. His remarks came amidst a raging controversy back home with BJP and Congress accusing each other of seeking US intervention and lowering India's prestige. BJP slammed the Congress over the purported letter to President Barack Obama by 65 MPs, asking the US administration not to grant visa to Modi. On its part Congress hit back at the BJP accusing it of "begging" for Modi's US visa. Responding to a flurry of questions on Modi, Singh said the Gujarat Chief Minister has never spoken with him on the visa issue. Asked who would be BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, Singh, who had described Modi as the party's "most popular and tallest" leader, refused to name the contenders for the top post. Singh said a decision has not been taken, nor there is a problem on this issue within the BJP. "But no decision has been taken on it yet," he added. Reflecting on the series of meetings he has had with top American lawmakers in the US so far, Singh said there is a desire on the part of the US to strengthen both the economic and strategic relationship with India. During his meetings, Singh said he raised the provisions with regard to the issue of H-1B and L1 visas, in the comprehensive immigration bill, which he said would adversely impact Indian companies. Singh said he conveyed India's concerns with them.

Tou pehle nahin pata tha, that it's not our issue but a US issue? :dontknow:

[bulbul]

Rajnath didnt made request,but he is still clown. No response to forgery claims :hmmm: Typical

[1983-2011]

After creating all the hoopla about asking US to reconsider their visa decision on Modi, turns out Rajnath did not even make the request. What a clown! http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/did-not-raise-narendra-modi-visa-issue-with-us-officials-rajnath-singh/articleshow/21315178.cms Tou pehle nahin pata tha, that it's not our issue but a US issue? :dontknow:

Modi should pay a visit here

[gattaca]

congress is definitely scared of modi. There is not even a single leader who can take on modi directly.

[1983-2011]

Enrol 1000 youth, meet Narendra Modi Kanpur: Enroll 1,000 or more youth in BJP and get a chance to win Narendra Modi! This offer has been made to party workers in Kanpur with an eye on increasing membership of the BJP ahead of the 2014 general elections. “The workers who are successful in enrolling 1,000 youths in the party will be given a chance to meet and interact with Modi,” BJP’s Kanpur zone in-charge Bal Chandra Mishra. If a party worker is able to enrol 500 new youths in the party, he will be given a chance to meet and interact with Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha President and BJP MP Anurag Thakur, he said. He claimed that Modi’s popularity was on a roll across the country and expressed hope that the enrollments would cross lakhs due to him. A token amount of Rs 5 will be charged from the new members after they officially become a part of the party, he said. “The campaign to enrol new members in the party has been initiated in all eight districts of Kanpur zone. The first phase has already started on Tuesday and the campaign will go on till 15 September. “The workers are directed to enrol new members in the party between the age group of 18 to 35,” Mishra said. The venue for the meet will be decided on 15 September when the first phase comes to an end. http://www.firstpost.com/politics/bjps-amway-scheme-enrol-1000-youth-meet-narendra-modi-982727.html?utm_source=top_menu enroll 1000 youths to meet modi and each new member will be charged Rs.5. Can you not just pay Rs.5000 to meet Modi directly instead of all this hassle