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Raghav_12 Newbie

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Chaos at Modi's rally at Gaya' date= Bihar - police lathi charge people Anarchy, Naxalite, Anti-nationals! gD6kcKv.jpg
Did it cause more loss than damaging a defunct and decrepit metal detector at a railway station?
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Congressi muslims mullahs are some of the biggest **** to come out of the SC, can't believe these mullahs encourage muslims to vote and take part in general elections.

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The Gujarat miracle: No denying the economic advances the state has made under Narendra Modi

I recently wrote about why the accomplishments of chief minister Nitish Kumar - that at last bring hope to Bihar - could not be underestimated. Today, I turn to Gujarat, which has been generally more prosperous in the post-Independence era and has performed impressively under chief minister Narendra Modi. Critics who insist on viewing everything related to Modi through the 2002 lens and, thus, fail to separate their economics from politics have fallen short of 20/20 vision. Begin with growth. The relevant comparison here is with larger, richer states. Based on per-capita Net State Domestic Product (NSDP) in 2009-10, Gujarat ranks third, behind Maharashtra and Haryana but ahead of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Punjab and Karnataka in that order. Modi came to office in October 2001. In the following eight years spanning 2002-03 to 2009-10 (2002-10), NSDP grew at 10.5% annual rate in Gujarat and at 10.1% in the nearest competitor, Maharashtra. The rate during the preceding eight years, 1994-02, was 5.9%, behind only Haryana's 6.3%. Modi inherited a vibrant economy and has taken it to new heights. Gujarat had ranked sixth in terms of per-capita NSDP in 2002-03. Outperforming Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Punjab, it moved up to the third spot in 2005-06 and has remained there. While the performance in agriculture has received the greatest attention, perhaps the most exceptional feature of Gujarat's success has been the performance of manufacturing. Compared with the national average of 15%, manufacturing in Gujarat accounted for 27.4% of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) in 2009-10. Critics might say that this proportion has risen only one percentage point since 2002-03. But given the uphill battle manufacturing faces in India, even maintaining the share at this high level is a challenge. In all comparator states, this share has been below 20%. Moreover, with the exception of Punjab, none has been able to raise it by more than a percentage point during 2002-10. With a high and rapidly rising per-capita income, it should come as no surprise that Gujarat has a significantly lower poverty ratio than India as a whole and it is fast declining. Based on the Tendulkar poverty lines and methodology, overall poverty in Gujarat fell by only six percentage points during 11 years between 1993-94 an and 2004-05. But during just five years between 2004-05 and 2009-10, it fell an impressive nine percentage points. In 2009-10, the poverty ratio in Gujarat at 23% was almost seven percentage points below the national average. The decline in poverty has been observed across all major social groups. My ongoing rese-arch with Megha Mukim finds the poverty ratio for the scheduled castes tumbling from 40.1% in 2004-05 to 21.8% in 2009-10. The decline has been less sharp for the mor .. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/16502147.cms?intenttarget=no&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst The writer is professor of economics at Columbia University.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/the-gujarat-miracle-no-denying-the-economic-advances-the-state-has-made-under-narendra-modi/articleshow/16502147.cms?intenttarget=no
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I found one answer given by a guy really interesting at Quora.com for the question: "What is the key reason you will vote for Narendra Modi in the upcoming elections"

Consider this situation. You are damn hungry and need to eat something ASAP. There are three cakes from three different bakers on your table. The first one looks very bad. The second one looks just fine, but not that great. The third one looks great. So simple right? Taste all of them and eat the one which tastes the best? NO. Come on, there has to be some catch. You can pick just one cake among the three. NOTE : Looks and the taste of the cakes are completely unrelated. Cake 1: You've been eating the cakes from the first baker from 10 years(many of your ancestors visited the same bakery too) and you know it tastes terrible. These bakers have been in town from a long time. Their forefathers used to make good cakes occasionally and they think they have inherited the same qualities. They sell cakes to poor people like you and I and make more profit by overcharging. They also mix a special ingredient in their cakes. There are many family members working in the bakery and all of them make individual profits too Cake 2:Now, Jignesh Patel, your friend who stays in the adjacent lane has been eating cakes from the second baker for quite some time. He tells you that the cakes are generally good. But one day, there was some misplaced order to their place which got him and his neighbour fighting. It was kinda big deal, both of them were badly hurt.They both are kinda cool now,you know, they hangout together and all that. He constantly tries to persuade you to eat from the second baker. But you had to avoid, because, you know, it was not possible since you had bought plenty of coupons of the first baker already. Cake 3: Man, this one looks great. But wait, it's the the new bakers in town. Uh ho, these people just have the one outlet and not many people have tasted their cakes. And the master baker refuses to work sometimes, he sits outside the bakery with a shawl over his head if doesn't get all the ingredients he wants. Basically not much is known about the quality and consistency of these bakers.These people also seem to have a special ingredient, they claim that their kitchen is open to all and everybody can inspect their baking methods. These bakers are planning to give free cakes to those who haven't paid their previous bills. Okay, now you know. No points for guessing who these bakers are. Which cake would you eat? The one that looks amazing, but might turn out to be stale? The one that your friend recommends? The one that you've been eating(suffering)all these days? Before deciding, please go back and read the note. Whatever cake you decide to eat, remember, they make you buy coupons for the next five years, so be careful!!!. PS: Jignesh Patel is fictional character. Any resemblance to anybody living, dead or a Gujarati is purely co incidental. PS: I am adding a few things because of some comments which say I haven't answered the question. I was very plump during my childhood and now I'm one of the skinniest people on earth. Thanks to timely blows from Lee and Ali, you know, those adjacent colony guys. But my health deteriorated mainly because I ate cakes from the first bakers all this time. They overcharged, made me poor and gave me tasteless stale cakes. Meanwhile Jignesh Patel looks healthier now, may be he has put on some weight after eating cakes from the second bakers. First one? NO! Third? Looks tempting, but, but, they give free cakes to people who don't pay their bills, and I pay my bills :/ Second? Well, I think I'll listen to Jignesh this time.
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Narendra Modi cult threatens to swamp even his own organisation

The BJP is undergoing a churn. It is shedding its old skin and trying to emerge as a completely new entity. Its spin meisters and drum beaters are trying to weave a story of it being a generational shift, where the old guard retires and makes way for young, energetic leaders, but that doesn’t quite explain it. What is emerging is an entirely new avatar which will be different from all that the party has been and stood for. Indeed, it will be the BJP only in name — the rest will undergo a complete overhaul. Leading this transition is Narendra Modi. He is not just the party’s prime ministerial candidate, its leading campaigner, its mascot to bring in new voters. He is the man who will fashion a new machine in which fealty to the leader replaces belief in the party’s core values. His followers will look to him for signals on what to say and what to do. Some of them may not even know what the BJP stands for — his words are their manifesto, his thoughts their ideology. Anyone not a fully paid member of the Modi cult has no place in the new BJP. The manner in which the old guard has been weeded out or humiliated is a good sign of things to come. LK Advani, the founder member of the BJP and the man who brought it enormous success after its abject defeat in 1984, was made to wait to find out where he could contest from. First, hints were dropped that he should retire and move to the Rajya Sabha. When that did not work, and he expressed a desire to contest from his old constituency Gandhinagar, he did not find his name in the first Gujarat list. No sooner than he let it be known that he would shift to Bhopal, where Shivraj Singh Chouhan would have enthusiastically welcomed him than the party insist on giving him Gandhinagar. At least Advani, thanks to his stature, managed to get what he had originally wanted. Murli Manohar Joshi was virtually ordered to contest from Kanpur and vacate the Varanasi seat for Modi. Varanasi, apart from being fairly safe for the BJP, is replete with Hindu symbolism, something that Modi would want. And Jaswant Singh, who unlike Advani and Joshi, has no mass support of his own, found he would be left ticketless and his place taken by, of all people, a Congress defector, Col Sonaram Choudhary, who is 71 years old. So much for the generational shift. In several other constituencies completely new faces are coming in. Kirron Kher and Paresh Rawal are relatively recent entrants into the BJP and have no record of fighting elections. But both have been valiant supporters of Modi, on television and in electoral campaigns. Both have been rewarded with seats at the cost of local leaders who have been serving the party for years. Not surprisingly Kher’s entry as a candidate in Chandigarh was greeted with loud protests by activists who were appalled at the parachuting of a rank outsider at the cost of worthier local politicians. Their sole qualification seems to be total loyalty to Modi. It is not just in candidate selection that the Modi effect is visible. The entire publicity campaign provides an insight into the creation of the larger-than-life myth. The slogan of Har Har Namo Ghar Ghar Namo — now apparently dropped by the party — is a clever way to raise him to the level of divinity. BJP leaders are bending over backwards to provide explanations about how this was a local initiative, totally unknown to the party bosses, but then which local unit would have got scores of vans with the slogans painted all over them? RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had let it be known that he was not in favour of such blatant equating of a political leader with the Gods — Har Har Mahadev is after all an ancient Hindu chant — but when the Shankaracharya objected the party had no alternative but to jettison it. How ruthless this image-building exercise is would have come home to BJP president Rajnath Singh when he tweeted on Monday afternoon, “Abki Baar, Bhajapa Sarkar” (Time for change, time for BJP.) The social media universe was quick to pounce on the slogan, analysing and dissecting it to examine if this indicated a subtle shift in the party’s line. As Singh was merely calling for the people to vote in a BJP government, but the banner in the tweet was without Modi’s image or his name. Half an hour later, a second tweet went out with Modi very much present; the message was crystal clear. Dravidian politics is full of blind hero worship of leaders. Devoted followers do not just believe in a leader but venerate him/her. The mega cutouts, the temples, the almost tribal rituals create a larger than life personality which then dwarfs everyone and everything around it. A signal from the Supreme Being can send the hordes into a tizzy. In the eyes of the disciple, the leader can do no wrong — if the circumstances conspire against him, the follower is ready to even lay down his life. Such a cult has now emerged at the national level. The publicity blitz, the hero worship of millions of fans, the constant chants of Modi, Modi and the dwarfing of the party are unprecedented. If ever Modi walked out of the BJP, they would follow him willingly. For a party that has always claimed to be cadre- and ideology-based rather than personality-driven, this cannot but be a source of worry. But neither the BJP nor its mentor, the RSS, has any choice — they created him, and now they have to keep silent and watch him grow and grow beyond their influence. The Modi cult threatens to swamp not just the opposition, but even his own organisation
http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/analysis/narendra-modi-cult-threatens-to-swamp-his-own-organisation/article1-1201228.aspx Narendra Modi, in his quest to become the PM, is destroying the BJP but nobody in the party, apart from a few senior leaders, seems to notice/say anything about this because they are all busy in showing their fealty to him and secure a future for themselves in Modi Sarkar.
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India can add 40 million jobs in the next decade if states follow flexible laws such as in Gujarat, US investment bank Goldman Sachs said on Friday while reforms can add 110 million jobs in the next 10 years.
The report said the Gujarat government amended the Industrial Disputes Act in 2004 to allow for greater flexibility in the labour market for Special Economic Zones. It allowed for firms within the SEZ to lay off workers, without seeking the permission of the government by simply giving a 1 month notice to the worker. To allow for firm exit, the law was amended such that the employer can close an undertaking by giving 2 months notice to the worker. In contrast the West Bengal made several pro workers changes. The IDA was amended to be applicable to more firms - those employing above 50 workers. "Gujarat experienced a 60% growth in manufacturing employment between 2000-12, while West Bengal has seen only a 22% increase," the report said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Goldman-thumbs-up-for-Gujarat-model/articleshow/32878950.cms
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U-turns continue as the party and Modi can't even decide who should be a member.
Good to see internal democracy unlike some other so called democratic parties
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