muraliravi wrote:...And now modi is this all great secular guy for you, and India is a land of assimilation.
Is it not? If A. Kalam is Bharat Ratna and could become the most popular president in this generation irrespective of his religion and just by the dint of his hardwork, isn't India truly a land of assimilation? Which other nation on earth has that?
Maybe tomorrow, modi will say uniform civil code is also not needed, maybe he will say bangladeshis also should be assimilated and maybe even a train with namaz from kolkata to dhaka.
Regarding UCC, now thinking about it, actually he should do that. He should say there is no need for uniform civil code. But there is need for women's right bill where a man cannot marry more than one at a time, should provide alimony and child support, should have a registered marriage with appropriate witnesses wherever and whatever means that marriage takes place, should have appropriate separation and divorce procedures. Isn't it that UCC? Let the mullahs fight against the women's right bill? Aren't women also citizens of India? Do not they vote as well?
And a train from kolkota to dhaka is your fear. Why not? Why not assimilate BD into India's orbit? Why not the mullahs in BD be painted into a corner?
To me he has changed or he is trying to change for worse.
You wanted to hear X and he said Y and you cannot get behind the nuance of Y so you are frustrated. I cannot stop that, but a study came out on how people who dig into an opinion miss the message if the message is not "tuned". And how changing the message itself may change the opinion. For eg. if you go and say to a republican that coal burning plants contribute to global warming because of CO2 emissions and CO2 scrubbers need to be installed and government will subside it., still the republican will throw you out of the door. Now if you go and say to the same republican that the government needs calcium carbonate to rebuild the great cities of US and that Co2 from their coal plants is a great resource all they need to do is capture the CO2 and supply it, they will install the scrubbers with great enthusiasm. In other words, there is a nuanced way to even do "chuna lagao".
It is just sad that you do not get it and paint yourself in a corner.
So if modi becomes pm, he will not pass uniform civil code, he will not expel bangladeshis (becos you want the modi who subscribes to india assimilating everyone), he did not even have the balls when that guy asked what is root of the kashmir problem to say "the root lies in article 370, we should remove it and get pok back.
First step is for India to be corruption free, capture the knowledge economy, improve governance, become the weapon supplier to the world, do skill-speed-scale, do 2G2P etc. The rest will automatically come. Corruption in armed forces should go. He did say that diplomacy with neighbours should be kept with interests of India in mind. That is again India first diplomacy. If it requires that SH govt. in BD requires some free electricity to keep the mullahs in check - so be it.
So he does not have time for victimization believers, what will he do to stop victimization, did he say anything about pandits, when the question of kashmir was raised, but oh sure he has time to rant about koran in railways.
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to me is he is now just like any other WKK. And mind you this is all now at a conclave, maybe after becoming pm, bukari handshake is next.
Sir, at this stage you are painting yourself into a corner with pet peeves. Nothing stopped the pandits from Kashmir to get together, identify resources in their own and help themselves. Pandits in India are treated as "internal refugees" and they are entitled to avail of benefits that come from that status. They can use it, raise themselves to position of power and weild it. If they help themselves, others will.
You want NaMo to cover all of that in a single sentence, that is not going to happen. And if you want to remain unconvinced, there is no point in convincing you.
There is a saying, "a partial blind maternal uncle is better than no maternal uncle". The point is you have a stark contrast - do you want Maun Maino Sigh to be at the cabal for next 5 years or do you want a doer like NaMo in the place. You can always bring up the next issue on the list if it is priority enough for the nation.
For now, the nation is siezed with a sinking economy and a dearth of opportunities. For them development means a way to better their lives. Isn't that a priority in itself?
