The Narendra Modi thread

[Yoda-esque]

Sunday. PTI New Delhi: It was full house at the rally of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Sunday in stark contrast to the one addressed by Rahul Gandhi held over a fortnight ago at the same venue. While the Congress Vice President's rally held at Dakshinpuri area in South Delhi on November 17 witnessed a poor turnout, thousands of people gathered to hear Modi address his last rally in Delhi before the Assembly elections. Modi's 35-minute address was interspersed with people chanting "Modi, Modi". The excitement of people was so palpable that they got restless when former BJP President and Delhi in-charge Nitin Gadkari took a little long to end his address, the crowd forced him to cut short his speech as they started shouting Modi's name until he came to address the gathering. The capacity of the venue is around 12,000, but only a little over 6,000 people had attended Rahul's rally. The venue today was not only full to its capacity, but also hundreds of people had gathered outside the venue. Senior BJP leaders apologised to the crowd saying they could not allow more people inside which was in contrast to Rahul's rally when Delhi Chief Minster Sheila Dikshit had to request the people to sit down and listen to Gandhi's speech.

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When asked what the main issues were in the state elections , people in small towns and rural areas mentioned inflation , corruption, unemployment, neglect of roads and water, and other local issues. They did not list Modi as a major issue. But when asked whether Modi's emergence as the BJP spearhead had made a difference, almost everyone replied "yes."

What do they expect Modi can achieve as prime minister? Most say "Woh logon ko seedha kar dega" (he will straighten people out).

asked voters whether Modi as PM would really be able to straighten out all the rascals. Most grouses of people (like roads in disrepair and clogged drains) relate to areas controlled by chief ministers. Do voters really think that Modi as PM will be able to order chief ministers to fix all roads and drains, something they have never done before? At this voters laugh: they know it is folly to expect too much. But they still hope that Modi can make a difference.

src E Swaminomics

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Gujarat's fiscal deficit in in 2011-12 was 1.8%' date= in 2012-13 was 2.61% and is expected to be 2.57% for 2013-14. Link: http://www.business-standard.com/article/budget/gujarat-presents-surplus-budget-but-fiscal-deficit-widens-113022000797_1.html . I will let you post the UPA govts fiscal deficit for 2012-13. Hint: it is near 5%. You really are adamant in making a fool of yourself, a glutton for humiliation.

99% of Gujarat's FD was because of the investments of previous years. It could have slightly varied for 2012-13, I am not sure but in 2011-12 it was at 99%. So that deficit is not a big worry at all. Question is how state managed its finances, what did it do with those funds. No price for guessing who spends more money on infrastructure improvement. 2013-14 was again surplus revenue budget for Gujarat so I guess they doing good along with Maharastra and Tamil Nadu in terms of FD. If FD is talked about then we should worry about WB, Punjab, Hariyana and Kerala. They have shown huge Revenue Deficit in last few years.

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The Congress and the Left miss no opportunity to run down Narendra Modi‘s “Gujarat model of development†and his “fake†statistics but when they want to study civic affairs, they don’t mind looking at his work. In 10 days, a team of MLAs, ministers and civic administrators from Kerala will visit Surat on a field trip to learn about the performance of the Gujarat government.

The delegation will include the senior-most minister of the Kerala cabinet, KM Mani, and CPM MLAs. Besides Mani, who handles the state’s finance portfolio, three more ministers—two of them from the Indian Union Muslim League—will travel to Surat. One of the aims of the team will be to study the solid waste management in Surat. For a couple of years, Kerala has been reeling under a garbage crisis wherein civic authorities are unable dispose waste because of public protest and lack of appropriate technology. None of the models the state has tried seemed to have worked.

http://www.firstpost.com/india/gyan-on-gujarat-model-kerala-lawmakers-make-beeline-to-surat-1264269.html Mallu spies in Gujju land :secret:

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Accusing BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of indulging in 'behind the curtains' polarisation, Sachin Pilot, Minister of Corporate Affairs on Tuesday said, "Behind all the talk of governance, investment, economic growth and opportunity that Mr Modi mentions in his speeches, the underlying agenda still remains Ayodhya, Hindutva." "He may not talk about these things, he may not say it on camera, but his team and people are working to make sure that that polarisation ..

Mind reader :woot: Only if he is able to read minds of Con party govt country should have been better situation :((

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Advocating holistic approach for creating a healthy society, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said desired results cannot be achieved without a clear road map and proper mobilisation of resources. "Without proper mobilisation of resources and lack of clear road map, desired results for creating a healthy society cannot be achieved," Modi said in his inaugural address at a day-long conference on 'Healthy Gujarat: Agenda for Action' at Mahatma Mandir here

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Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has received unexpected support from Congress MP and Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar on Article 370. She said Article 370, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, needs to be rethinked because it discriminates against women.

Tharoor :phehehe:

There is definitely a need to rethink beacuse there is a lot of discrimination against women. My friends from Kashmir called me and said that we girls do not get government jobs once we marry someone who is a non-Kashmiri. The girls who get married into Kashmiri families, who are not Kashmiri girls, they get government jobs and their children have all of the rights.

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The experience with Vajpayee has given many in Pakistan hope that even if 'hardliners' like Narendra Modi come to power, their government will work towards improving ties with Pakistan. "The BJP government under Vajpayee was good for us. Our relationship with India was the best at that time. A Modi-led BJP will, in a way, be similar to the people in power here. With so many similarities, they will both understand each other," Mohammad Tehsin, a human rights activist and SAP founder, Pakistan, explains.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/narendra-modi-indo-pak-relations-atal-bihari-vajpayee-muzaffarnagar-riots/1/327836.html I never thought there are reasonable people in Pakistan :hatsoff:

[ganeshran]

LOL at comparing Modi to Vajpayee :hysterical::hysterical: Modi is a china made version of Advani..

[diga]

LOL at comparing Modi to Vajpayee :hysterical::hysterical: Modi is a china made version of Advani..

Good enough for Pakis

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^^ :agree: Still time not yet came to compare Modi with Vajpayee , who was PM. :hatsoff:

[diga]

From Telgraph editorial.. :WTF: so India has to elect a leader to please Taliban :wall:

This is precisely where uncertainties cloud the contours of development the country might experience over the next few years. The BJP carries quite a few pieces of uncomfortable baggage. The capture of power by it could be festive season for the mad-fringe Hindutva zealots, who would be quite capable of creating situations that scare considerable sections of the minority community. In any event, the coming of power by a party that propagates religious activism in the world’s largest democracy is bound to attract some international attention. The Islamic world, the Taliban in particular, would sit up. The Taliban have already established a major presence in Pakistan. The government there, despite all the economic and military sustenance it receives from the United States of America — or perhaps directly on account of such support — is in no position to prevent the growing Taliban infiltration into the portals of the country’s civil administration as well as defence establishment. The harsh reality can no longer be blinked at: the Pakistan authorities have to humour the Americans and, side by side, the Islamic militants as well. The Taliban have a long litany of grouses against New Delhi. They disapprove of this country’s submissiveness to the US. They take a dire view of the alleged persecution of Muslims in India in the name of countering terrorism, as also the gross excesses committed by the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir. Should the Taliban want to use Pakistan as base to harass India, there would be little effective resistance from within. Many observers would actually link the sudden intensification of shelling across the Line of Control from the Pakistan side to this disturbing development. Once we become the target of the Taliban, it would be the dawn of a dauntingly different experience — goodbye to tranquillity for, who knows, quite a few decades. All past co-ordinates guiding decision-making would fall by the wayside, forcing strategy planners in New Delhi to redo their arithmetic almost continuously. Such, sadly, could be the sequel of the BJP forming the new government next year. And yet, in a free democracy the BJP has every right to seek the favours of the electorate and head the government in case it wins the poll battle. The good citizens who might vote it in have the prerogative to do so. That their ballot could indirectly lead to encouraging Taliban intrusion into the country was a thought that would not at all occur to them; or they might consider it far-fetched, motivated scare-mongering. The past record of the gentleman handpicked by the BJP as its prime-minister-designate, and the party’s close association with a member of former army bosses who had played a questionable role in Jammu and Kashmir by their overbearing attitude, are, nevertheless, widely known; the Taliban, too, would be fairly well posted.

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^ Spper Secular editorial :hatsoff:

[Khalpat]

Some more zahil pana this time from share market pundits: Sensex rallies 455 points as BJP leads in exit polls

The rupee rose to a five-week high against the dollar and stocks jumped more than 2 per cent to near record highs on Thursday as exit polls predicted a strong showing for the key opposition party, the BJP, in state elections held over the past month. (Read the full story here) Confirmation of a strong showing by the BJP when results are out on Sunday would be seen as bolstering its chances of victory in general elections due by May, according to analysts. The BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi are perceived by many investors in India as being more business-friendly and willing to undertake reforms to tackle an economy growing at its slowest in a decade. Recent data is signalling that the economy may be bottoming out while the current account deficit has shrunk, adding to optimism in Indian markets despite concerns about a potential tapering in the US Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus. (Track the indices) "Markets have already been performing well in India on the back of the notion that a BJP government will move forward more aggressively with investment in energy, infrastructure and overall capex," said Sacha Tihanyi, currency strategist at Scotiabank in Hong Kong, discussing a possible BJP victory in elections next year. Still, opinion and exit polls have a patchy track record in India. Most surveys forecast the wrong outcome in the 2004 general election. The rupee rose to as high as 61.52 against the dollar, its strongest level since October 31. It was last trading at 61.56/57 compared to its 62.05/06 close on Wednesday. The Sensex rose as much as 2.2 per cent to a session high of 21,165.60 points, approaching a record high of 21,321.53 points hit on November 3. The strong showing bucked the trend in Asian shares, which continued to be hit by worries of an early drawdown of U.S. stimulus. Indian markets have steadily recovered ground since a volatile summer that saw the rupee hit a record low against the dollar when fears of an early Fed tapering first surfaced. Measures taken by India's central bank and the ruling Congress Party have been seen as having helped that recovery. Economic data has also turned more favourable, with data this week showing the current account deficit narrowed to 1.2 per cent of gross domestic product, the smallest deficit since the June quarter of 2009. Nonetheless investors see a BJP victory as potentially being more beneficial to markets. "Based on our discussions with investors, markets are positively inclined towards Mr. Narendra Modi led BJP and less so towards Congress, despite some course correction in policies recently by the latter," UBS said in a 2014 outlook note to clients on Wednesday

http://profit.ndtv.com/news/market/article-sensex-rallies-455-points-as-bjp-leads-in-exit-polls-374099?pfrom=home-lateststories

[Ghost Buster]

Someone plz change the old poll question with this 'Will Narendra modi become Prime minister of India after next loksabha election in 2014' ??

[Clarke]

^Maybe a new poll altogether, but it'll still have the 75:25/80:20 for/against ratio.

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In unexpected comments, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, a known Narendra Modi baiter, on Thursday said the Gujarat CM was moving away from his "fanatic" ideology and that "even a chaiwallah can become the Prime Minister", which were promptly welcomed by BJP as praise for its PM candidate. Singh said that he "welcomes that Modi is gradually distancing from his fanatic ideology and gravitating towards the ideology of Atal Bihari Vajpayee" and "it should be welcomed if Sangh and the BJP...are coming close to the ideology of Congress and (Jawaharlal) Nehru."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Even-tea-vendor-can-be-PM-Digvijaya-Singh/articleshow/26902462.cms Sad day for Diggi brigade of ICF :((

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By writing a strong worded letter to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the proposed prevention of communal violence bill, Narendra Modi has kept his campaign momentum going. By broadly revealing the nature of his objections through a series of tweets, he not only succeeded in generating the political uproar he desired, but also put the UPA government on the defensive, forcing it to concede amendments in some key provisions. Modi also timed his letter to the Prime Minister sweetly and made its contents public a day after exit polls predicted a wipe out for the Congress in four key north Indian states

Coming just a couple of months before the expected announcement of the next General Elections, it makes the move look very suspicious. It is almost a giveaway that the move to introduce the Bill is based on political considerations dictated by vote bank politics rather than genuine concern for preventing communal violence

http://www.firstpost.com/politics/how-modi-used-the-communal-violence-bill-to-his-advantage-1271213.html

[zumi]

modi magic doing wonders whilst baboons Sonia and Rahul Gandhi busy laying foundation stones for phantom projects :hehe:, what fecking century do these current congress scum live in, lol

[Khalpat]

Why Ahmedabad is the safest place for women today

A recent multi-city survey by CNN-IBN and Hindustan Times suggests that Ahmedabad may be the safest city for women, with 88 percent thinking so. There is a reason for this. Safety is partly the result of the administration developing a firm grip on law and order, including control of organised crime. And there is a story to this development in Ahmedabad. As a dry state, Gujarat was once known for its underworld dons, with bootlegging being the main reason for their rise to criminal power. Powerful criminal dons cannot really exist without a nexus between them, the politicians and the police. This was the reality in the 1980s and 1990s, and this nexus was a critical factor in the rise of communalism in the state, since rioting turned out to be a profitable activity for the people concerned and it was usually stage-managed by the powers-that-be. This nexus had vitiated the atmosphere so much that it was impossible for most people to venture out of their homes late at night. Towards the late 1990s, the law enforcers realised that things had gone too far, and soon many underworld dons from both sides of the communal divide were either put in jail or forced to wind up shop. They vanished. By 2003, boot-legging was on the decline, and the associated criminal enterprises also started folding up. In fact, when the authors of this article talked to a very senior police officer in Ahmedabad who also controls law and order, they were told that the previous hotspots of criminal activity had become safer. He said: “There has been no FIR registered in those police stations which were earlier epicentres of all criminal activities over the last eight to nine years.” The fact that Ahmedabad and most of Gujarat has been riot- and-curfew-free after 2002 suggests that the overall peace dividend has resulted in improved safety for women too. Meanwhile, the high growth trajectory of the state has improved job opportunities. Once the youth start finding a regular source of income and urban unemployment starts tapering off, the attraction of criminal activity diminishes. Ahmedabad's night life today has to be seen to be believed. In other metro cities, night life is confined to pubs, discotheques and star hotels, where excess imbibing of liquor is the mother of all vices and presumably critical to this form of relaxation. In contrast, Ahmedabad's night life is relatively free from liquor, and is lived out mostly on the streets – not in pubs or discos. Manek Chowk and Law Garden are just two examples. Young girls on their Scooties hang out here long past midnight and various other lively spots in Gujarat’s capital city. There are very few places in the country where you will find women street vendors plying their trades as late as 2 am. You will also increasingly find scores of Muslim families, including burkha-clad women, as pillion riders at various spots such as CG Road and SG Road. Once upto a time, even Muslim men would not venture out at night. Don’t get us wrong. We are not saying people don’t drink liquor in Gujarat. They do so in private parties, but they dare not venture out after getting drunk because the police not only lock them up but are publicly named and shamed, with their photographs being published. The near-absence of drunkards in public places is an important contributor to women’s safety in Ahmedabad. In fact, Muslim women travelling alone is now a common sight in the city. The safety standard of any city will be judged by the safety of its women. In most cities around the country and particularly in the metros, the easy availability of alcohol (when even water is scarcer) and non-existent policing make public places unsafe. In Ahmedabad and several other cities of Gujarat, you will find visible police persons and patrols. This inhibits criminals. The authors believe that night life ought to be about food and merriment and good behaviour, and not juiced by alcohol. This will bring families out to claim the night life rather than just criminals and mischief-mongers.

http://www.firstpost.com/india/why-ahmedabad-is-the-safest-place-for-women-today-1272593.html