The Narendra Modi thread

[someone]

What is the deoband chief has said is laughable. Him talking about secularism and equality is the biggest joke. It's an oxymoron. And sure, he mentions being disastrous but it will be to these sickulars. As they will no longer get their free lunches and freedom to misuse our resources and laws.

[scorpio90]

^^ Well most of the muslims do take cue from these guys.

[someone]

Is stopping Modi the West's new priority?

The West has always preferred to have a timid, half intelligent and a dependent India rather than a decisively independent and self-reliant one. On the eve of India's polls, it looks like the West has accepted the widespread Indian mood for change, but still wishes it has to deal with someone else but Narendra Modi. No matter whether the Congress was in power or the BJP. The Western preferences have been very clear: A pliable Indian leadership suits them best. Instead of bowing before the people's mandate and looking at an emerging, stronger democratic India as a guarantee for regional peace and power balance, the Western media and some hardcore Christian lobby groups in the United States have started their last ditch effort to stop Modi. Modi belongs to an entirely different world they do not know how to connect with. Having developed a habit of reporting India with the help of so-called liberal, Left of Centre, Anglophile scholars, commentators and gossip providers in an English club ambience, the Western media and their highly accented Indian correspondents find it difficult to comprehend the new phenomenon. They have never read anything first hand source material on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh except the extreme Left's hate literature; their understanding of the Modi factor is limited to briefings by frequent fliers to Cambridge and the pre-opinionated India International Centre crowd. Modi is a son of the soil. He speaks English with an Indian accent, and not an Oxbridge one, which had been so familiar to the Western media, crowding and appreciating the Westernised neo-Nehru clan. The fear is the colonial continuity of the supremacy of the Anglophile may end with the rise of Modi. When India gained nuclear power under Vajpayee's Pokaran-II test, the West was first to frown upon us, isolate us from the mainstream and impose harsh sanctions against India. They want an India with American priorities but Indians are making an India of their dreams. That is their priority? It hasn't to be an American choice, but an Indian destiny. And it will be. India's rise is an unstoppable fact that the West also accepts it. It will be a tragedy if the largest democracy, so deeply appreciative and in harmony with Western democratic values, feels compelled to look the other way.

Only some key points I selected out. The entire article itself is excellent. Must read imo. And really irrespective of one's opinion about Modi, we should all agree with this article .We need to take our own decisions, and certainly the west doesn't really have the best interests for our nation. For long, we have followed them and agreed with their idea of weak and inferior India. That was only changed under Vajpayee Pokaran test while our current UPA government is still only taking and following instructions from West.

[scorpio90]

New York Times World ‏@nytimesworld 27m .@EllenBarryNYT's take on @narendramodi, a front-runner for prime minister of India. What kind of leader would he be? http://nyti.ms/1lNJNdW ---------------------------- India’s Narendra Modi should build on his successes, not his prejudicial rhetoric http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/indias-narendra-modi-should-build-on-his-successes/2014/04/07/b95899e0-be7a-11e3-b195-dd0c1174052c_story.html ------------------------------ Modi personality cult dominates India election http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/96b8ca94-bed0-11e3-a1bf-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2yJrtcx77 ---------------------------------- Indian election alarm as BJP raises prospect of nuclear weapons rethink (Concern to whom I wonder. Maybe they believe that their ***** will no longer have the free pass in this area) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/07/indian-election-bjp-manifesto-nuclear-weapons

this could well cause stress in Pakistan's security establishment which is really not something anyone [in Washington] desires," said Michael Kugelman, of the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

Plus plenty of other western papers like The Telegraph, CNN and others have similar articles. Guardian has like about 10 article within a timespan of two days.

[ravishingravi]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uhw_GGG5UY Barkha ki bolti bandh

[someone]

Minhaz Merchant's blog: The West and Modi http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com The attitude of the West towards Narendra Modi reflects a deep political dilemma. Used to dealing with pliable dictators in the Middle-East and weak, corrupt governments in the Indian subcontinent, the West for the first time faces the prospect of a democratically elected leader – Modi – who is neither pliable nor corrupt. Western media often hews slavishly (but with dexterous sophistry) to official Western foreign policy. That policy is often self-interested, disruptive and intrusive. It has propped up brutal Arab dictators, bankrolled a terrorist state like Pakistan and destablised countries ranging from Syria to Ukraine. The US and its allies in Europe were delighted to work for ten years with a government like the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). A prime minister without real power like Manmohan Singh and a de facto leader like Sonia Gandhi with limited accountability but absolute power created a fertile geopolitical arena for Washington. The liberal power elite in Delhi was similarly co-opted. The Americans know how easily journalists, academics, think-tankers and NGOs fall for sponsored foreign seminars, gifts, donations and other rewards. In return the Indian liberal, intellectual elite – much of it neither really liberal nor really intellectual – was compromised. Modi provokes a hostile reaction in both these constituencies – Western governments and media on the one hand and their co-opted Indian quasi-elite on the other. The vitriolic, at times vicious, attacks on Modi in the Western media are a product of the real fear that a Modi government will upend the fraudulent elite power structure in Delhi with geopolitical consequences well beyond India’s borders. Modi will be tough on Pakistan, pragmatic with China and cooperative with Japan. He will deal with the West on India’s – not the West’s – terms.

Good article, continuing on with the article few posts above here.

[scorpio90]

But what is interesting is that one won't find such prejudicial articles published by Western and Arab newspapers in any Russian, Japanese or Korean newspapers at all. Maybe Chinese but than they are one party autocratic system not for nothing. Their's for there citizens mainly with no primary motive to try and influence Indians.

[diga]

Ashok Malik ‏@MalikAshok 4h I may hate a politician but am not going to use the tragedy of a child marriage, forced upon two minors by their parents, to attack him

[bulbul]

Soon after, his older brother Somabhai Damodar Modi, explained in a statement that their family had married him off very young, but he walked away because he wanted to serve the country. "What happened 45-50 years ago should be seen in the context of a poor and superstitious family," he said, urging Indians to vote for his brother. Jashodaben, 62, a retired school teacher, recently told a newspaper that they were married when Mr Modi was 17 and split three years into their marriage. She said since then "we have never been in touch". Jashodaben reportedly draws a monthly government teacher's pension of Rs. 14,000 and lives with a brother in a village in western Gujarat.

http://www.ndtv.com/elections/article/election-2014/in-poll-affidavit-narendra-modi-says-he-is-married-brother-gives-clarification-506632?pfrom=home-lateststories

[urbestfriend]

n response to the Election Commission’s notice seeking disclosure of his relationship with the Ambani family, Gujarat’s Energy and Petroleum Minister Saurabh Patel has sent a reply to the poll panel. “In my letter, I have clearly informed the EC that I am married to the daughter of Dhirubhai Ambani’s elder brother. That was 25 years ago and that’s what I have said,†Mr. Patel told The Hindu on Thursday. He said the EC had sought his response following his “official complaint†against Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal’s allegations against him. During his visit to Gujarat last month, Mr. Kejriwal alleged that Mr. Patel had been allocated important portfolios of Petroleum, Petrochemicals, Energy and Industries owing to his family relations with the top business family. He accused the Narendra Modi government of giving preferential treatment to Mr. Patel, whom he termed “the son-in-law†of the Ambani family. Mr. Patel is an MLA from the Akota Assembly constituency, holding the portfolios for Energy and Petrochemicals, Mines and Minerals, Cottage Industry, Salt Industry, Printing, Stationery, Planning, Tourism, Civil Aviation and Labour and Employment. He has been holding the charge of Energy and Petrochemicals departments since 2002, when he was a Minister of State in the Modi government.

[seedhi]

^^Who one is married to is a personal matter, unless it can be shown that the person concerned is misusing his position.

[ravishingravi]

One way or another, this is pretty exciting phase for India. In coming months, you ll see mind bending dissection of Modi on global forming. Lot of fights.

[ravishingravi]

^^Who one is married to is a personal matter' date=' unless it can be shown that the person concerned is misusing his position.[/quote'] India continues to surprise me. On one hand, it is ultra conservative. But on the other hand, common man just doesn't care about these peripheral issues.

[urbestfriend]

^^Who one is married to is a personal matter' date=' unless it can be shown that the person concerned is misusing his position.[/quote'] I am not accusing him of anything. But there is a prima-facie conflict of interest here considering he was the minister of petroleum and natural gases ,and Ambani's interest in this sector. It makes sense now why GSPC demanded higher price for natural gas.

[ravishingravi]

Word of caution to Modi supporters. Whatever happens this election. Remember he is not your boyfriend. Just because you have entire campaign against, you don't have to be compelled to defend him. His feet should be held to fire.

[someone]

One way or another' date=' this is pretty exciting phase for India. In coming months, you ll see mind bending dissection of Modi on global forming. Lot of fights.[/quote'] Isn't that the thing, we may have tons of problems but it's all our internal issues. We cannot allow the West to dictate the terms and interfere with our internal issues. The West had a lot of influences in the last 10 years under the UPA government. Hopefully that changes, as we are a independent nation

[diga]

e Election Commission today pulled up Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaih for describing Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, as a "mass murderer." The Election Commission, in its order, said that the Karnataka chief minister had violated the model code of conduct by using "derogatory" language against Mr Modi in his rallies held across the state earlier this week.

[ravishingravi]

Isn't that the thing, we may have tons of problems but it's all our internal issues. We cannot allow the West to dictate the terms and interfere with our internal issues. The West had a lot of influences in the last 10 years under the UPA government. Hopefully that changes, as we are a independent nation

Yes. But if you distance yourself a little bit, you will realise it is same for west as it is for us. How is it that guy who was most polarising figure has become the absolute front runner to lead this country ? It is years and years of propaganda and it takes time to wear. It is also matter of adjustment for India and west to get used to strong willed leader.

[scorpio90]

From timesnow: Turnout bump between '71 & '77 was 5%, between '80 and '81 was 7% and between 2009 & 2014 (so far) is 12%!! The makings not of a wave but possibly, just possibly, of a tsunamoi...

[hhunaeh]

tsunamoi...

:hysterical: gems like these stop after the elections :((