With the development mask falling just in time to reveal a coldblooded killer’s mindset, the legal knives should soon be sharpening for Narendra Damodardas Modi. But, in a very fine piece in The Hindu today, Harish Khare writes that the coming elections represent an opportunity for various “stakeholders” of Gujarat—the people, the parties, the corporates—to break free of the psychological blackmail of the chief minister many love to hate and most hate to love.
# “Since 2002, he has managed to graft on the Gujarat citizens impulses and attitudes that are very much at odds with India’s liberal political culture—as also against Gujarat’s own history and Gandhian legacy. Five more years with Modi at the helm will set Gujarat apart from the rest of India.”
# “Though a rather tiny slice of the (Gujarati Hindu) community actually participated in the riots, most were made to feel a complicit part of the mob. Modi contrived to make most of the Gujarat Hindus co-conspirators.”
# “BJP takes considerable organisational pride in not giving in to the personality cult. Modi has redefined and challenged this ethos (and) become the Sanjay Gandhi of the BJP, relying on a clever mix of intimidation, coercion and individualism to manufacture a constituency for himself. The 2002 verdict has been used to justify arrogance and stubbornness. He has acquired an autonomy that cannot be curbed by the normal disciplinary tools available to the party leadership.”
# “Gujarat’s industrial and business classes have… bestowed the maximum respectability on the Chief Minister (because) unlike other CMs, Modi has not made unreasonable demands on them, has been kind and receptive to the entrepreneur’s needs for incentive; in return, they have not seen anything amiss or amoral in extending support to him…. Nonetheless, the business leaders have also had a taste of high-handedness of a capricious Chief Minister, answerable to none, accountable only to himself. All industrial tycoons who pretend in private to have been humiliated now have an opportunity to rectify the state of affairs.
# “The economy remains 99 per cent outside the reach of the Muslim consumer. Modi can thrive only on a state of permanent hostility between Hindus and Muslims, and this would not be in the long term interests of social peace and harmony. Five more years of Modi can only perpetuate this state of instigated civil war.”
# ‘The Muslims have the most painful opportunity. They desperately need reassurance that the Indian constitutional arrangement retains its fairness, its inclusive representativeness, and that they have not been disfranchised. The BJP has chosen not to field a single Muslim candidate.”
# “The last, and perhaps the most important, stake-holder is every decent, law-abiding Indian citizen who hopes Gujarat will firmly turn its back on an appeal that threatens the very fabric of modern India.”
Read the full article here: Stake-holders and their opportunities
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To Quote The hindu news paper and Harish Khare,it seems Churumuri is also becoming a commie blog.The Hindu has lost its neutrality long back as soon as the “COMMIE” N.RAM has taken over the editorial of this once revered newspaper.It seems even in chennai its bastion,Deccan Chronicle is slowly capturing the market.
Henceforth i request you to give a neutral reporting rather than a biased one for which ‘THE CHINDU’ is famous for.
The Hindu is CPI(M)’s unofficial newspaper. That 4 mutilated bodies found near nandigram was not taken the first page-or any prominent place.
Hindu is nothing but a “bunch of brahmins” speaking of democracy with so much intellect that is of no use to anyone..
very fine piece? by Harish Khare, the Sonia slipper licker? in The Hindu, the Chinese cum commies’ national newspaper? you are joking Churumuri! aint you?
then look at this –
http://cbcnn.blogspot.com/2007/12/modi-is-doing-good-so-throw-him-out.html
saar.
stop engineering.
history of gujarat does not begin and end with gandhi. it starts with harappan cities and includes the frequent flyer miles accumulated to somanath.
The economy remains 99 per cent outside the reach of the Muslim consumer. “They desperately need reassurance that the Indian constitutional arrangement retains its fairness, its inclusive representativeness, and that they have not been disfranchised.” Agree. what is the way to go about it?
dont go quant just for the effect.
i bet the solution is more “secularism”. you will never ask how many of kids go to schools? you will never condemn those who are spoiling the chances of these kids by forcing on them regressive education and social ideas. you will blame everybody else. but not the things that are actually responsible for the problem.
“threatens the very fabric of modern India”
i think, more than india, you are concerned that your theories might lie exposed. last year 3000 odd indians died due to terrorism. only iraq had more deaths than us. we beat even afghanistan. and that country is in war. and this guy is talking about fabric. what fabric are you concerned about?
TS,
“you will never ask how many of kids go to schools?”
I was thinking about the same thing yesterday.
Here’s a question for you. Lets say somehow the government manages to come up with the will to enforce education for all. And take away salaries of a lot of bureaucrats and route it to teachers salary. So that the standard of teaching is decent everywhere (yeah I know how far-fetched this sounds – but this is a hypothetical question, assume these practicalities have been taken care of ‘somehow’).
What would be your choice of subjects, i.e. the syllabus? Assuming it is the base minimum beyond which private schools are free to add whatever they want.
TS
“99% of one community is outside the mainstream economy…” Cong(I) ruled for 50 years before BJP took over! So the damning stats (if true) shows failure of cong (I) which ruled for 50 years than BJP, isn’t it?