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ravishingravi Grand Master

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Man...that speech was really emotional..even ravi sankar prasad couldnt hold his tears:((
It was an awe inspiring speech. Left me very emotional and inspired. Would do want to do something important before I leave this place. Wasting too much time in inconsequential and unreal world such as this.
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Here's modi crying for cows, saying central govt encourages pink revolution/ meat industry which leads to massacre of cows and animals. In other videos he cries about india being number one in beef production. He says pink revolution is destroying the village economy and relates it to milk production. bWOCI1dkCaA But slaughter of cattle is a state issue in India and in Gujarat buffalo slaughter is allowed. Indian beef export in mainly buffalo meat and cow slaughter is banned in most states. It seems, BJP in its 2004 election manifesto had promised to raise meat export from Rs 250 crore to Rs 1000 crore and during the NDA regime in 2003-04, nearly 3.5 million tones of buffalo meat was exported from India. Meat production doubled in Gujarat in 10 years

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi may have overlooked Gujarat’s contribution to the increase in India’s meat production during his tirade against the Congress at election rallies in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Data compiled by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry from Gujarat’s Pollution Control Board reveals that meat production in the State, under Mr. Modi, more than doubled in 10 years. Gujarat produced 22,000 tonnes of meat in 2010-11 against 10,600 tonnes of meat in 2001-02. During the same period, India’s meat production grew from 18,59,430 tonnes to 48,69,000 tonnes, or by 163%. With 39 abattoirs, which slaughters over 1,000 animals a day, Gujarat is amongst the top 10 States in India in terms of the number of slaughterhouses. Dairy sector surges ahead More significantly, dairy products, mainly skimmed milk powder, grew much faster than meat exports — at 388%, a clear indication of an expanding sector. A shrinking livestock sector is unlikely to yield such a steep export growth rate. Amongst dairy products, skimmed milk powder became the largest item of export last year accounting for nearly 77% of the net milk and milk products exports during 2012-13. Bangladesh, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Algeria were the major importers of India’s dairy products, the data revealed. The main market for Indian buffalo meat and other animal products are Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE. India exported buffalo meat for Rs. 17,413 crore during 2012-13. Whereas revenue from export of dairy products exports was Rs. 1,412 crore. Exports of other animal products which have grown are poultry products (7%) and natural honey (11%). However, export of processed meat has shrunk by 28%. The countries to which these products were exported are the U.S., Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Germany, Netherlands and Denmark among others.
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What Pink Revolution?
Rather than protecting the cow, the Sangh Parivar is only hastening the process of ‘buffaloisation’ It is unfortunate that the cow has once again taken centre-stage in political discourse, with insinuations that a Centre-promoted ‘pink revolution’ is endangering India’s cattle population. In recent poll campaign speeches, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi claimed that those owning slaughterhouses and exporting cow meat are being given subsidies and tax breaks. The country, according to him, wants a Green and White Revolution, but the government in Delhi is only interested in a Pink Revolution: “When animals are slaughtered, the colour of their flesh is pinkâ€. A different meat I don’t know whether cow meat is being exported illicitly from India. What is going out officially at least is only buffalo meat, with 11.08 lakh tonnes of shipments in 2012-13 fetching $ 3.2 billion. The latter figure would have touched $ 4.5 billion in the fiscal just ended, making India the world’s No. 1 beef exporter. All this is, however, meat from buffaloes, not cattle. If cow meat isn’t being officially exported, can those doing it clandestinely be benefiting from fiscal incentives? Quite unlikely. The wrong target Modi and the Sangh Parivar may be right about depleting cattle numbers. The country’s total cattle population did fall from 204.58 million to 199.08 million between the 1992 and 2007 Livestock Censuses. Where they are completely off the mark, though, is in blaming this on evil slaughterhouse owners and meat export with a conniving Centre. The real ‘culprit’, instead, is the Indian farmer. Sounds preposterous? Well, a dispassionate analysis would reveal it is the farmer’s rational choices that are leading to increased ‘buffaloisation’, reducing the cow in the process to little more than a venerated gomata. Farmers traditionally reared cattle for three main purposes. The first was for draught – the cow being the mother of bullocks that ploughed the farmer’s fields and pulled his cart. The second was for dung used both as manure for fertiliser application and as fuel. The third was for milk. With the advent of tractors, diesel engines and electric motors, the estimated share of draught animals in the total power deployed in Indian farms has dropped from around 53 per cent in 1971-72 to just above 5 per cent now. Likewise, with crop nutrient requirements increasingly being met by chemical fertilisers — and only 10.9 per cent of rural households using dung-cake as cooking fuel, going by the 2011 general Census — the second reason for maintaining cattle has also been undermined. Cow economics As a result, the utility of cattle for farmers is today largely restricted to being milk-producing machines. That explains why despite overall cattle numbers falling, the adult females within them — namely cows — have gone up from 64.36 to 72.95 million between 1992 and 2007. But even as milch animals, there is competition to cows from buffaloes, which produce milk with twice the fat content and higher price realisation. Roughly 53 per cent of India’s total bovine milk output in 2011-12 came from buffaloes. Even within the balance 47 per cent from cows, nearly 54 per cent was accounted for by cross-breds containing genetic material of ‘western’ cattle stock such as Holstein Friesian, Jersey and Brown Swiss. Indigenous desi cattle — the true Holy cows — produce just over a fifth of the country’s milk. That being the case, the choice before farmers is essentially between exotic cross-bred cattle yielding more milk and buffaloes that give milk of higher value – both not particularly holy options. Buffaloes have an added advantage of being reasonably good draught animals, especially in the current context where most tillage and field operations are anyway performed by tractor-drawn implements. To the extent animal draught application is limited to carrying load, buffaloes even score over their bovine cousins. A single male buffalo can easily lug 25 quintals over 10-15 km, whereas cattle bullock cannot do beyond 15 quintals or so. Buffalo nation No wonder, the share of cattle in India’s bovine population has declined from 78 per cent to 65 per cent since Independence. The fall is sharper in respect of milch animals (see chart). Moreover, the all-India figure doesn’t tell the whole story. While buffaloes make up 34.6 per cent of the country’s total bovines, the proportions are higher for Haryana (79.3), Punjab (74), Uttar Pradesh (55.8), Andhra Pradesh (54.2), Gujarat (52.4), Rajasthan (47.8) and Bihar (34.8). Most of these are states where the cow is specially revered. On the other hand, the buffalo percentages are just 3.2 in Kerala, 3.8 in West Bengal and 4.6 in the North-East states – which have no blanket laws prohibiting cow slaughter! The irony of more buffaloes in the Hindi heartland — the so-called Cow Belt — is best exemplified by Mathura. This district of Uttar Pradesh houses Gokul and Vrindavan, the holy sites of Lord Krishna’s early life centered around cows, milk and gopis. In the 2007 Livestock Census, there were 722,854 buffaloes in Mathura, as compared to a mere 141,326 cattle. Such outnumbering of cattle clearly has nothing to do with slaughter houses. The blame, if at all, should go to Mathura’s farmers who, through their marked preference for buffaloes, have ensured there aren’t enough cows for slaughtering in the first place. A rational solution If the gomata has to be saved, the focus ought to be on incentivising farmers to keep cattle. By using it as a political tool to target familiar enemies, the Sangh Parivar is only hastening the process of buffaloisation. The buffalo wins hands down in the farmer’s calculations because there is no religious taboo on its slaughter. Farmers typically sell their buffaloes after 5-6 calvings when milk yields start tapering. These animals — and bulk of the young male progeny — head to the slaughter house. There is no such flexibility when it comes to cows. The more stringent the laws prohibiting slaughter, the less inclined farmers are to rear cattle. Why venture into it when there is no viable mechanism for disposing animals that have stopped giving milk or happen to be male? The farmer is ultimately under no obligation to shoulder the cultural burden of saving the gomata without any compelling economic rationale. The gomata surely deserves protection, but not so much for religious reasons as the need to conserve precious germplasm from our finest indigenous cattle breeds: Sahiwal, Tharparkar, Rathi, Red Sindhi, Gir, Kankrej and Ongole. These valuable animal genetic resources are now getting lost, thanks to a combination of random breeding (most of our desi cattle are ‘nondescript’, having no recognisable pedigree or breed characteristics), unregulated slaughtering and growing buffaloisation. It would hurt to know that the best breeding tracts and organised farms for the Sahiwal and Tharparkar cattle are today found in Pakistan. We must move to a system that enables culling of unproductive and undesirable cattle, both from a farmer’s as well as organised breeding/genetic upgradation perspective. This, along with a policy of strict licencing and regulation of slaughterhouses, can allow the White and Pink revolutions to co-exist. Far from being in conflict, they are mutually beneficial. If only those shedding crocodile tears for the gomata understood this.
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^ congress can take inspiration from some supporters. Shrugged off the defeat and back to work. Btw I never could fathom the word "pink revolution". Sounds gay.
I am posting just the way you are. Are only articles doing modi's wah wah's allowed on icf?
ravishingravi Grand Master

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The Narendra Modi thread http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Muslims-must-have-first-claim-on-resources-PM/articleshow/754937.cms http://www.asianews.it/news-en/For-Rahul-Gandhi,-Hindu-radicals-are-India’s-greatest-threat-20282.html A demonstration on how brilliant secular liberal mind works. Technical word might be considered lying. I call it lateral thinking. MMS says Muslims have first right on India's wealth. RG says biggest threat to India is Hindu terror. Adding 1 and 2, plus my mind bending logic, congress is working for al Qaeda and grand plan for conquest beginning with India.

bulbul Newbie

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I am posting just the way you are. Are only articles doing modi's wah wah's allowed on icf?
What? even Boko Haram articles are also posted...:dontknow:
ravishingravi Grand Master

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R Jagannathan - 20 May 18:47 pm IST Modi's address after being elected leader of the parliamentary party - which positions him to become PM - marked a clear shift in tonality from electoral combativeness to a larger inclusiveness. He became PM in spirit today There comes a point when the past does not matter and only the future does; when old enemies are forgotten in the need to make new friends; when the heat of electoral battle is left behind as the daunting task of governing the nation looms large. That moment came for the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate and victor of the 2014 general elections, Narendra Modi, when he was anointed leader of the BJP's parliamentary party today afternoon (20 May). But there is always a difference between becoming a Prime Minister as the law decrees, and becoming one in spirit. That moment came for Modi when he said simply: "I will work as hard as I can, not for myself, but for the entire nation." (Read the live blog on what he said here). For a man who has spent the last six months excoriating the UPA and the Congress party for bringing untold ills on the country, Modi had a completely emollient message for his political rivals: "Neither I nor the BJP feels that the last government did nothing. Every government has contributed to India's growth. I congratulate previous leaders, we will take their good work forward." This was another point at which PM candidate Modi transitioned to Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi. He became the PM not just of his partisans who voted for him, but the PM of the whole of India. The PM of every Indian. Unsparing in his criticism on the campaign trail, Modi was equally gracious in victory and magnanimous to his erstwhile rivals. By telling the Congress that he will not debunk all of their legacy, he was signalling that political rivalry may be unavoidable, but the task of nation-building is everybody's. Today, Modi also made every effort to transcend his sectarian image as a Hindutva icon. Even though there was no overt sectarianism in most of his campaign speeches, his public image ensured that every word he spoke was parsed for its Hindutva content. But today was different. An emotional Modi broke down when Advani thanked him for his work for the party. He replied, after briefly putting his head down: he considered the nation, the party as his mother; and a mother does not have to thank her sons. If his previous avatar was that of a divisive leader, today every word he spoke spelled inclusion. "We want everyone to progress; we also want to take everyone along. We want to move forward with this slogan: "Sabka saath, sabka vikas." I promise you when we meet in 2019, I will give the nation my report card." During the campaign, he was widely criticised for his pro-business image, his alleged crony capitalism. The Modi who revealed himself today talked of the poor as his only cronies. He talked about the daridranaryan and antyodaya (serving the poorest of the poor). He said: "What is a government? A government is that which thinks about the poor, works for the poor and lives for the poor. I dedicate the new government to the poor. This new government is for the poor people, for the youth, for the mothers and women and Dalits". He has been hauled over the coals for being all about "I, me, myself". Even today, he could not entirely avoid third person references to Modi, but that was not the dominant sentiment he evoked. He was in a mood to thank all those who enabled his journey to the top. "I remember all the generations who spent their lifetimes furthering the cause of nationalism in country. We are here to thank them." He talked about the generations of Jan Sanghis and BJP workers who got nothing for their efforts as the party spent years in wilderness. He acknowledged that he stood on their shoulders. For a man who has been seeking to smoothen his rough edges by invoking the legacy of Atal Behari Vajpayee, Modi did not forget the man who wasn't there. While thanking "Advaniji and Rajnathji for giving me their blessings," he said "it would have been sone pe suhaaga had Atalji been here." Indirectly acknowledging the negativity that marked the election campaign, where every party had to rubbish the other, Modi called on everybody to move on. He called his own party to think not of the bitterness of combat, but the gravity of responsibility. "The country has already moved ahead. Now it is up to us whether we want to move (ahead) or not. I want to assure the people, let's forget negativity, whatever may have happened in the past. This is an era of responsibility. It has already begun." He underlined the point that the mandate was not just about anti-incumbency, but a mandate of hope - a positive mandate for change. And just in case his audience - now lobbying for ministerial berths and plum postings - didn't get the mess, he said: "We are not here for any positions but for a responsibility."

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Shashi Taroor

I am impressed by @narendramodi 's conciliatory&inclusive statements. We must ensure he lives up2them&works4 for the benefit of ALL Indians
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