Narendra Modi vs the Dynasty: Contrasting Ideas of India

[archan]

Robert Vadra will go to jail if BJP comes to power, says Uma
Intent has been clarified. No holds barred.

[RamaY]

Robert Vadra will go to jail if BJP comes to power, says Uma
Intent has been clarified. No holds barred.

Poor guy. He may be the only person in family with no foreign passport.

[Hari Seldon]

the hectic campaign schedule coupled with his fasting for the navratris - the strain on NM is showing, I feel... watching moditva spin its magic in the rajat sharma show...

[Muppalla]

NaMo interview at this juncture mid-way elections will just push is more. The country stands still to listen to him. He is never boring even after a thousand rallies.

[Muppalla]

a new term a.k.a presstitute. Modi Uvacha - "NewsTrader"

[archan]

the hectic campaign schedule coupled with his fasting for the navratris - the strain on NM is showing, I feel... watching moditva spin its magic in the rajat sharma show...

He seems to have a sore throat. All that talking and travelling. I'd be sick and down by the end of week one. I think the much younger Kejri also cannot handle it... coughing and all.

[Mahendra]

Robert Vadra will go to jail if BJP comes to power, says Uma
Intent has been clarified. No holds barred.

Poor guy. He may be the only person in family with no foreign passport.

How do you know sir, Bianca ka pati bhi italian na? upar se Raabert bhi hain, humanitarian grounds pe asylum mil jayega

Fayda hai ke abhi kat le sab

[RamaY]

Mehdi-ul-chainkya

Okey okey.. T-Visa then!

Who will get cavity-search under family quota? mMs?

[KLNMurthy]

Sonia Gandhi's father Stefano Maino was an actual fascist, in the sense of having been a proud follower of Hitler and Mussolini. This is not widely known at all; there is only one link in MSM that refers to this fact.

This fact is relevant to the elections because Indian people have a right to know to what extent Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have been influenced by the thoughts of their paterfamilias.

Meeting Mr. Maino

Apart from the portrait, the other prominent feature of the dimly-lit front room of Maino's house was the collection of leather-bound speeches and writings of Benito Mussolini. I looked pointedly at them. Without batting an eyelid, Maino declared his unwavering loyalty to Mussolini and Italy's 'admirable' fascist past. The words streamed forth. The current Italian government was composed of a bunch of traitors who had betrayed Mussolini and the Fatherland. All the modern Italian political parties were hopeless, except the neo-fascist front. What Italians needed was compulsory sterilisation. Indira Gandhi smiled benignly out of the silver-frame. Nadia, Sonia's petite and pretty younger sister, sitting beside her father, looked decidedly embarrassed.

Can BRF Twitter warriors do the needful and get some buzz going?

[Hari Seldon]

>>RAJAN PTT 300+ ‏@Rajan_ptt 22m
"@chandan05ash: Kuch logo ko to darne ki Zarurat hai :Namo #ModiKiAdalat"

[anmol]

Wish for Change Animates Voters in India Election
by ELLEN BARRY, nytimes.com
April 8th 2014

NEW DELHI — Over the last several years, as the yearning for a strong leader began to deepen and swell in the Indian electorate, one politician was systematically preparing himself to be the answer to that demand.

Narendra Modi, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has spent this campaign season standing above oceans of people — a stern, commanding figure who brags of his “56-inch chest.” He has offered himself as a C.E.O. for the nation, poised to slice through India’s bureaucracy with the sure hand of an experienced manager.

This message has won him the confidence of India’s working and middle classes, who are pinched by food inflation, disillusioned with the Gandhi dynasty and wearied of the corruption scandals that have accumulated around the governing Congress party.

The election, which began on Monday as the first of India’s 814 million registered voters cast ballots in the country’s remote northeast, is less about policies than a desire for change.

“The sentiment is that we have a slightly embarrassing leadership,” said Siddharth Khanna, 27, a Delhi advertising executive. “We are seen to be lagging. We feel if we have strong leadership, we will be insulated from the effects of the global slowdown. We don’t trust anyone, to be honest. But it might as well be someone who is aggressive in whatever stance he takes.”

It has never been clear what kind of leader Mr. Modi would be, should his coalition win enough seats to form a government after nine waves of votes are counted on May 16. At 63, he has shown radically different faces to the world as he has risen through the political system: Before campaigning on a technocratic, good-governance platform, Mr. Modi was shaped by his years working as a propagandist for a Hindu-right organization, and he was widely blamed for bloody religious riots that broke out in the state he governed.

He is enthusiastically embraced by international corporations, but he also answers to an electoral base of small traders dead set against globalization.

His sometimes autocratic style may collide with several constraints, among them a boisterous press, activist courts and fractious allies, that have slowed his predecessors.

His method of governing may be determined by arithmetic. Opinion polls suggest that his National Democratic Alliance will emerge with the largest number parliamentary seats. Though Hindus make up 80 percent of India’s population, the country is a kaleidoscope of religious diversity, including a large Muslim population along with Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists. The Constitution enshrines a secular state, and the country has a long history of accommodating a wide range of religious and ethnic diversity.

Mr. Modi will look to the margin of victory as a measure of his popular mandate, said Ashok Malik, a prominent columnist who has supported Mr. Modi’s candidacy. A haul of 220 out of 545 seats in the lower house, he said, would signal “a mandate for revolutionary change.” For Mr. Malik, that mandate matters for economic reasons, giving Mr. Modi the independence to challenge powerful state lobbies and restructure the economy to create jobs and integrate India in global supply chains.

But Mr. Modi’s critics worry that a sweeping victory would embolden Mr. Modi to pursue a risky and divisive Hindu nationalist agenda sought by some of his most loyal supporters.

“He will look around and decide what he can do — whether he can make India into a Hindu nation or not,” said Nilanjan Mukhopadyay, the author of a biography of Mr. Modi. “If it takes too much risk, he will not do it. If he can, he will. Initially, he will focus on growth.”

If Indians disagree about Mr. Modi’s intentions, it is partly because he has reinvented himself several times. The son of a tea-stall owner in a small town, he traces his political awakening to the age of 8, when he began taking part in the evening drills of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist right-wing organization.
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The R.S.S. offered him a way to break from family obligations, and he bucked his parents’ authority by walking away from an arranged marriage in favor of years of ascetic wandering; a new biography, distributed to journalists by the B.J.P., said he was turned away from three monasteries, finally returning to full-time work for the R.S.S.

In a rare television interview broadcast last week, Mr. Modi credited the organization with shaping him. “I got the inspiration to live for the nation from the R.S.S.,” he said. “It inculcated discipline into me. I learned to live for others, and not for myself. I owe it all to the R.S.S.”

Mr. Modi did not become famous for several decades after that, until he had risen through the ranks of the B.J.P. to become chief minister of his home state, Gujarat.

By then, his ideological background had been thoroughly eclipsed by his international reputation as an effective manager. Corporate executives gushed about their experience in Gujarat, saying that Mr. Modi had increased efficiency by taking a tough approach with bureaucrats who worked under him. He asked judges to work extra hours to plow through a backlog of court cases, and put many state activities online, reducing corruption.

Rajeev Jyoti, managing director of Bombardier, a Canada-based aerospace and transportation company, recalled approaching Mr. Modi’s office in 2007, after winning a contract to produce subway cars. Eighteen months later, the factory was built and operating, Mr. Jyoti said in an interview. “It was incredible,” he said, “and it was a world record within Bombardier.”

One big event stained Mr. Modi’s reputation. Months after he took control of Gujarat, in 2002, Hindu-Muslim riots erupted in the state, killing more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. The violence was set off after a Muslim crowd attacked a train car carrying Hindu activists. The car caught fire, and 59 people burned to death inside, though a central government investigation found that the fire was an accident.

Police responded slowly, witnesses said, as unspeakable violence unfolded over several days. At one point, a Hindu mob armed with stones, iron rods and homemade bombs surrounded a walled compound where Muslim families had taken refuge. The compound’s owner, Ehsan Jafri, a former member of Parliament, spent hours making frantic calls to high-ranking officials, begging for police protection, but they arrived late, witnesses said. Sixty-nine people, including women and children, burned to death with Mr. Jafri.

For years, Mr. Modi’s critics have argued that he failed to take steps to halt the violence, and he has denied any responsibility. In a 2002 interview, he said his only regret about the episode was that he did not handle the news media better.

Late last year, an Indian court rejected a petition filed by Mr. Jafri’s widow seeking Mr. Modi’s prosecution in the riots. Mr. Modi greeted this decision as a victory, commenting via Twitter that “truth alone triumphs.”

In an interview with foreign journalists last week, Arun Jaitley, a senior B.J.P. leader, ruled out the idea that Mr. Modi would apologize, calling the persistent questioning “a fake campaign.”

“Those asking for an apology wanted the apology to be an act of confession,” Mr. Jaitley said. “If he has actually committed a mistake, why should he apologize? He should have been prosecuted and punished.”

The question of who Mr. Modi really is — the steady-handed corporate leader or the Hindu-nationalist preacher — has been woven through this election season, as he took his place before throngs of men chanting his name.

Though his campaign has focused on job creation and development, his speeches have been scrutinized for religious content, and the B.J.P.’s manifesto, released on Monday, was immediately examined for sops to the far right. Prominent analysts have concluded that he has largely chosen to depart from the tenets of Hindu nationalism, either as a matter of political pragmatism or because his ideas have changed.

Shekhar Gupta, the editor of The Indian Express, a daily newspaper, said the shift actually began many years ago, when Mr. Modi first saw “a chance for himself on the national stage.”

“I sometimes joke that I’ve never seen a human being resemble his mask more than Mr. Modi,” Mr. Gupta said. “The fact is that he will give you many new versions of that mask. The Mr. Modi you see today sounds very different — he looks the same, but he sounds very different from the way he sounded in 2007.”

Mr. Gupta said that if the B.J.P. wins, the next few years will see a “calmer, more catholic Mr. Modi.” The reasons, he said, are purely practical.

“He wants to be in power for a long time,” he said. “He is young by Indian standards, and that is not going to work with a purely polarizing agenda. What works in Gujarat doesn’t work in India.”
© 2014 The New York Times Company.

[Anantha]

All right. it is on you tube for those who could not watch it

[vivek.rao]

^^ this is old one

[Anantha]

yes, I realized, this the old one. If anyone has the new one please post

[rvishwak]

Such a communal interview, studio audience chanting "Bharat Mata ki jai"

[vipins]

It was live on India TV website , just now finished.

[vivek.rao]

Such a communal interview, studio audience chanting "Bharat Mata ki jai"

^^ Libtards are shitting in their pants at the awakening of nationalism. They are thinking "With the help of SONIA we are almost at the cusp of achieving several things: End to nationalism, Demographic changes, Minority veto,Communal Bill to destroy Hindus".

All coming to an end with this.

[Lilo]

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=kT25R9p-dHc

20 min of it.

[jamwal]

Modi is really a person who comes across as a grounded aam aadmi who has worked his way to the top and is modest about it. No false pretensions or wannabe behaviour which is typical of almost all other politicians. After decades of tolerating politicians hungry for foreign approval, it's really heartening to see someone as "rustic" (in a good way) reaching such heights. More power to him.

[kapilrdave]

He looked a bit tired. But boy, did he deliver! There is some magnetism in him.
This is more and more becoming like a presidential election.

[vivek.rao]

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/nal1rr

When Modi won Gujarat Elections in 2002, BJP karyakarta asked him

"Jeet to gaye, par media jo Anti BJP news chala rahi hain uska ka kya karenge"

Modi replied " Janta ko samachar padhna sikha denge".

This was told to me by a friend who was present that day at Khanpur HQ of BJP.

[KLP Dubey]

^

Seriously? Shobha Dee? Pulp fiction writer? Woman who sees the world through a pelvis?

Trashy old crone. Not even a street beggar would marry her.

[Sonugn]

^

Seriously? Shobha Dee? Pulp fiction writer? Woman who sees the world through a pelvis?

Trashy old crone. Not even a street beggar would marry her.

Sir, Please do not insult street beggars.

[KJo]

All right. it is on you tube for those who could not watch it

Wah wah I love this man!
Watch his mooh tod jawaab from 22:18 about Pak.
If Modi does not become PM, we don't deserve a nation called Bharat.

You can see that even Rajat Sharma is an admirer.

[Prasad]

The comedic audience chanting aside, there really is nothing that modi-haters can point to in that interview. He did deftly step aside from a couple of questions - advani and mmj's sidelining for ex. But other than that, nothing else. I still don't agree with his answer to that skull cap question, but it is a personal preference to not wear the skull cap and hence I guess we can agree to disagree. He has and does wear other headgear. So libtards are now moaning and crying that the interview was fixed and the audience was picked and that indiatv is a channel funded by rss and that rajat sharma has always been sympathetic to the rss/bjp since hes from abvp. All said and done, people will take note of his comments regarding roads, electricity and safety of women in gujarat, without which nobody would've re-elected him. And frankly, that's all that matters for our country right now. Nobody is going to let a hindu govt run roughshod over minorities like the woman asked him if churches would be burnt down if he came to power (what an asinine question!).

[harbans]

Modi did this interview at 2300 hours 2 days ago, after he had done 5 rallies across the country! The man inspires all.

[vivek.rao]

His Master's Mind

He looks unaffected by such diversions— he has survived bigger ones, including a Congress plot to get the CBI to arrest him in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. He is undeterred by calls from opposition parties for a ban on his campaigning in the state.

Several BJP leaders Open spoke to say the BJP is back in the reckoning in UP thanks to Shah’s mind and methods. “He is very passionate and leaves nothing to chance. He is someone who doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. He has always been a doer and therefore we are not surprised by what he did in UP,” says Shankarbhai Chaudhary, BJP’s Gujarat general secretary and MLA from Radhanpura. The BJP won only 10 seats last time in the country’s most populous state, which accounts for more Lok Sabha seats than any other, but the party is upbeat about its poll prospects this time around, forecasting 40-50 of the state’s 80 seats. Shah is the one who backed the idea of pitching Modi from the temple-city of Varanasi as part of a strategy to make major gains across the state, especially in the eastern belt of Poorvanchal, where the party has been weak. “Amitbhai’s mind works like a machine gun,” says a BJP functionary in UP.

BJP leaders contend that it is Modi who deserves the credit for tapping his abilities—something the party’s prime ministerial candidate has done for long, says Gujarat’s law minister Pradeep Singh Jadeja.“I met Modi when I was 17 years old. It is a 33-year-long association,” Shah says proudly. As Modi’s minister, he has handled 12 crucial portfolios, including home, parliamentary affairs, home guards, excise, law and justice, and transport.

The first task was to challenge the Congress hold over rural Gujarat. They worked on a simple calculation—that for every elected village pradhan, there was an equally powerful and resourceful leader who failed to make the grade. The defeated headman was not ready to play second fiddle, nor ready to wait five years. Shah and a few of his handpicked assistants approached defeated pradhans and “set them up” as “a rival pull of attraction”. In no time, there was a network of 8,000 pradhan challengers working for the BJP, Shah recounts.

The next task was to demolish the Congress hold over sports bodies, especially in cricket and chess. Shah was in charge of an operation that resembled aggressive raids in the corporate world, and, after sustained effort, the BJP managed to dislodge the Congress from all sports bodies. This denied the rival party an important source of patronage.

The takeover would not be complete so long as Gujarat’s powerful cooperatives, whose role in the state’s economy was paramount, remained in Congress hands. The same strategy was employed here as well, notes Shah.

Of the 28 elections—to the state Assembly and various local bodies—that Shah has fought since 1989, he says, he has not lost a single one. It was in 1998 that he fought his first election to a primary cooperative body. The next year, he became President of Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank, the biggest cooperative bank in the country. Elections to such bodies are usually won on caste considerations. Such banks have traditionally been controlled by Patels, Gaderias and Kshatriyas, and he managed to win despite the cooperative sector being a no-go zone for Banias.

Senior BJP leaders say that it was BJP President Rajnath Singh, and not Modi, who put Shah in charge of party affairs in UP. Singh was impressed by the organisational skills that Shah displayed in wresting control of various Congress-run enterprises in Gujarat. And he wanted him to do more, elsewhere. Shah was surprised at Singh’s suggestion that he oversee the party’s affairs in UP. The BJP leader had expected to be put in charge of a small state like Himachal Pradesh.

A MAN WITH MANY FRIENDS
Uttar Pradesh had been crucial for the BJP’s successful power runs in 1996, 1998 and 1999, but a letdown in subsequent general elections. It was clear that the party could do well at the Centre only if it found a way to maximise its returns from the state. It was a challenge. For more than a decade, UP had been the graveyard of reputations of stalwarts like the late Pramod Mahajan who were unable to revive the party’s fortunes here. The state party unit was regarded as a virtual minefield, fraught with outsized egos and factional feuds, and with perceptions of the state’s status as a past pivot for saffron ascendancy adding complexity to the dynamics. The state was apportioned among squabbling ‘mahamantris’, which made the task of revival harder still for the party’s UP prabhari (in-charge); BJP sources say even Modi was worried about the odds stacked against Shah and the potential cost of failure.

For Shah, reluctance had given way to single-mindedness that has earned him the reputation of a ‘delivery boy’, a big departure for someone who says he is not interested in ministerial authority. “I am an organisational man. If there is one thing I aspired to, it was to become a general secretary of the BJP,” he says.

Over the past nine months, Shah has reached out to “all the egos and ambitions” that make up the state BJP, according to a senior party leader. Shah’s initial measures included sifting the party’s ‘have-beens’ from those with promise, opening the door to outsiders, and spotting potential among those languishing in the margins without mentorship. His natural approach was a blend of defiance and assertiveness on one hand and concessions to tactical needs on the other. Two months ago, Shah drew up a list of candidates who could hold their own against tough rivals in the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, besides a few in the Congress. Diffidence had given way to a “jor ka dhakka iss baar (big push this time)” aggression.

Those who are worried about Modi’s ‘takeover’ of the BJP grudgingly concede that the approach was breathtakingly bold, and, at the same time, cunningly pragmatic. During candidate selection, past reputations were no insurance against a ruthless application of the winnability criterion, something that went against Murli Manohar Joshi, for example, in Varanasi. It was combined with the tact of appeasing bruised self-esteem. Every single hurt soul was tended to, with blandishments offered in the form of promises of later adjustments. The aura of potential victory invested these with a ring of credibility. In all, it was not a scorched-earth policy but a worldly approach of the kind that has helped Gujarati Banias flourish on distant shores, says a BJP leader referring to the likes of Shah.

Shah is an out-and-out family man who cannot do without the company of his wife, son and close relatives. Yet, he keeps his kith and kin away from politics, a trait mostly seen among RSS cadres. Gujarat law minister Jadeja vouches for this, adding that the man was very close to his mother. Even if he came back late after party work, he would spend almost an hour with his mother, who didn’t sleep until the son came home. “He used to rest his head on her lap and talk to her about the family and enquire about her health,” says Jadeja, adding that it was tragic that Shah was arrested and jailed merely 13 days after his mother’s death.

Shah, who says he was born in Mumbai—rubbishing claims that he was born in Chicago—belongs to a wealthy family from Mehsana, where he finished his schooling before moving to Ahmedabad to study biochemistry. It was here that he was deeply influenced by the RSS and joined the organisation as a volunteer. The BJP heavyweight is reluctant to talk about the members of his business family. Shah briefly followed in father’s footsteps, starting a PVC pipe business. His grandfather, according to Jadeja, was a highly influential figure in Mehsana. Ask Shah about his family, and he replies, “Just leave it.”

Now, with perceptions gaining ground that the BJP could be within sniffing distance of power, a recent report in the media claimed that Shah could be a minister of state in the PMO. When asked about it, Shah is dismissive. “We are not so stupid to start counting chickens before they are hatched. For us, each seat remains a contest,” he says. “In any case, if I aspire to any job, it is to a role in the organisation. I am even thinking of taking a six-month break after the election.” But this is not going to stop speculation over the role he would play in a new dispensation if the BJP achieves power. Party circles are already agog with the way Shah has familiarised himself with the functioning of the ‘mayanagari’ (town of illusions) that is Delhi.

Over the years, the RSS too started to see Shah as a big bet for the BJP. Among other things, what impressed the Sangh’s senior functionaries was his effort to pass a contentious piece of legislation in the Gujarat Assembly that would turn religious conversion—an issue that agitates the RSS and its offshoots—illegal.

The draft Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act was sent to Chief Minister Modi for his approval and cabinet’s consideration in 2003. When the draft reached Modi’s table, he summoned Shah. “Won’t this face resistance inside and outside the Assembly?” he asked Shah. State BJP leaders note that it was Shah who convinced Modi that the bill would pass without much trouble.

And it did. Modi was not present the day it was tabled and okayed in the House, but its enactment was aimed at making it difficult for religious groups in Gujarat to actively proselytise and convert people from one faith to another.

The Act, which is being challenged by opponents, outlaws the use of ‘force’ or ‘fraud’ to secure anyone’s conversion to another religion. Also, it requires people seeking to convert somebody to ask for the permission of the local District Magistrate, who must also be informed by any such convert of his orher conversion in writing. ‘An offer or any temptation in the form of any gift, gratification or grant of any material benefit, either monetary or otherwise,’ the Act decreed, would be illegal. While opponents argue that this goes against the rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution and could be misused, Shah states that it is only a measure against ‘forced conversions’.

Read it all... You will know why the scambags of PAIDMEDIA,ITALIANMAFIA,LIBTARDS are all pooping all over Amit Shah.


Modi and Amit Shah can systematically destroy MAFIA congress all over the country one by one.

[Vamsi.R]

Full Video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRIQvViQw0

[SaiK]

The comedic audience chanting aside, there really is nothing that modi-haters can point to in that interview. He did deftly step aside from a couple of questions - advani and mmj's sidelining for ex. But other than that, nothing else. I still don't agree with his answer to that skull cap question, but it is a personal preference to not wear the skull cap and hence I guess we can agree to disagree. He has and does wear other headgear. So libtards are now moaning and crying that the interview was fixed and the audience was picked and that indiatv is a channel funded by rss and that rajat sharma has always been sympathetic to the rss/bjp since hes from abvp. All said and done, people will take note of his comments regarding roads, electricity and safety of women in gujarat, without which nobody would've re-elected him. And frankly, that's all that matters for our country right now. Nobody is going to let a hindu govt run roughshod over minorities like the woman asked him if churches would be burnt down if he came to power (what an asinine question!).

you can't get a better answer anywhere on the Earth than this:-

Full Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRIQvViQw0

[Manish_Sharma]

I still don't agree with his answer to that skull cap question, but it is a personal preference to not wear the skull cap and hence I guess we can agree to disagree.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/m ... 556352.ece

Why didn't you guys make headlines when Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the
Vice President of India, REFUSED to do an Arti of Shri Ram and Seeta
ji at the Ramlila Maidan, while Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi
performed the aarti!

[harbans]

Rajat: People say..You wear an Arunachali headgear, a Sikh Turban etc..why not a Skull cap?

Modi: (basically said) Because it's my culture.

And he is right. Wearing a Dhoti, a lungi, an Arunchal headgear, a Manipuri headgear, a Sikh Turban, A marwari Turban, a Jat Chaudhry turban, or a Rajput one are all part of our culture. A Skull cap is not. It is MIddle Eastern: Jews, Catholics, Muslims wear it. It is an alien import to India. It is not Indian origin. I think this should be clear.

[harbans]

Must look into the aspect of actually enforcing a ban even if a token one for 6 months on the Congress for undermining the sanctity of the PMO after the Baru revelations. Will do well as it will lift the stigma on the RSS too.

[Mort Walker]

Watching the interview on India TV, and please correct me if I'm wrong, Modiji stated that 20,000 MW of power production, primarily coal production, is idle and and in disarray. He said he would reactivate this idle production? Even if he could put half of it, 10,000 MW, back in production would have a huge impact on the country in the matter of months. Think of it gentle-persons as to what impact it would have by cheap power to manufacturing.

[Suraj]

Yes the thermal power sector is hurting from poor management of coal production. However, in general electricity output is the one positive aspect of industrial output in recent years. While manufacturing and mining have been stagnant or contracting, electricity output has continued to grow, with installed capacity now touching 240-250GW, a near doubling from 2007. However this has come at the cost of more expensive imported fossil fuels.

Modi's focus should be on reviving and accelerating industrial and manufacturing output while generating significant employment, something he's shown excellent ability at in Gujarat. 5-10 years of strong growth and he'll politically decimate the 3rd/4th front base as well as the INC NR/NMC/ND (not rich, not middle class, not destitute) aspirational poor base because they'll both shrink from strong employment growth.

[Mort Walker]

^^^Yes, but if power outages go away within 12-18 months for the general public it will lead to further electoral victory along with helping industry. I can see the reason why he's putting an emphasis on it.

[Nitesh]

He also talked about how we are exporting ore and importing steel, with power sector on track we can encourage investment in other sectors too

[member_28108]

What is wrong with dynasty politics nothing except
My father nor mother was
PM or CM
Minister nor Babu
MP or MLA

All they did was give me useless education which does not give power over others

The worst part of dynasty
Neither can I do what my parents failed to do, to my kids
Hence I hate dynasty
Why should I be nice when they are nasty?

If you cannot post in simple English with properly formed statements, stop posting on these forums, or else you will be debarred. Final warning.

When I read it I thought it was an attempt at poetry !

[gandharva]

Exclusive! Listen to MD Nalapat speak about mysterious women in Rahul Gandhi’s life

Nalapat - "when i wrote critical article against Sonia in Organiser, top bjp leaders rang the editor and complained"
Also, based on what he says, Raul appears to be bisexual.

http://t.co/dT4COtyOEu

[SaiK]

Rajat: People say..You wear an Arunachali headgear, a Sikh Turban etc..why not a Skull cap?

Modi: (basically said) Because it's my culture.

And he is right. Wearing a Dhoti, a lungi, an Arunchal headgear, a Manipuri headgear, a Sikh Turban, A marwari Turban, a Jat Chaudhry turban, or a Rajput one are all part of our culture. A Skull cap is not. It is MIddle Eastern: Jews, Catholics, Muslims wear it. It is an alien import to India. It is not Indian origin. I think this should be clear.

I interpreted his answer like this:

We to have to accept all cultures, but that would also mean to accept his or one's own culture. He can participate only in accepting other cultures than jumping from one culture to another just to please them. His vision is quran on one hand, and computer on the other, while people maintain their paramparas/cultures.

Why should one bow to Allah to accept his followers? what is wrong with this answer, and why this answer not enough for anyone? those who feel not satisfied, can go jump or throw their cap outta their skulls.

[Anantha]

Kal Raat
Raste mein bike thee na car
Sub logon ne suni Modi ke vichar
Nahi chalega rubber stamp Sardar
Ab ki baar Modi sarkaar


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