What makes modi unacceptable

Only two other leaders have managed to do so in independent India - Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the other hand, was active in central politics for the longest time but managed to dominate the narrative for a much shorter period. Even as Gujarat chief minister, he enjoyed more coverage in the national media than then prime minister Manmohan Singh. His transition from chief minister to prime minister was most effortless and natural as if he had prepared all his life for the responsibility. What makes Modi unique is that he has a brilliantly layered mind- a mind that can negotiate the challenges of the present while simultaneously looking out for opportunities of the future; a mind that can relentlessly pursue processes, without being bothered about end results; a mind that is conditioned to being stoic by nature.

In his own words, Prime Minister Modi explained his approach in his recent interview. Why should we divide policies into one or the other of these buckets? According to me, policymaking should be pro-people. By creating these artificial categories, you are missing out on interdependence in society.

Business and people are not working with opposing objectives. If you actually analyse the policies of the Modi government, the broader agenda is very clear: redistribution of wealth to bridge the gap between the rich and poor. Its think-tank resources are confined to myopic retired bureaucrats with rigid partisan loyalties.

There is nobody to protect the image of Prime Minister Modi even. Will any internationally reputed companies dare opening their shops in a country with 12 hours working days and abject labour exploitation provisions?

Covid is construed to be an aftermath of rampant biodiversity loss, especially the wild life component, as being admitted by researchers from China itself. The proposed new coal blocks and minerals happen to be in ecologically sensitive areas with lots of tribal populations.

A successful PM can always engage a good array of well meaning advisors, and emulate a luminary, and the contributions will be remembered for long. The much proclaimed 5 trillion economy is far far away, and we can take refuge in Covid — Human suffering, partly depicted in pictures of trekking migrant labourers to reach their homes will remain a long lasting blemish on the efficacy of Indian democracy and its antipathy towards the downtrodden cutting across cast, creed and religion. Despite whatever little economic, scientific and technological might they possess, they are limited to and can not venture beyond the borders set by astrology and faith based on Hindu teachings, I would be damned for not mentioning that.

Specifically, the destruction of natural habitat through real estate expansion and deforestation. Perhaps, animals carrying millions of unknown strains of virus are forced to come closer to humans and cross-infect the human species. Politics is very dangerous.

The way the Citizens of this country are used for their benefits and left to survive on their own indicates that we are moving towards IAS and IPS based governance completely.

The electoral machine should enable the following options. Option Rejection means they are sanctioned from contesting electing for the next 10 years. Ignore means the candidature is ignore for this life time. Reject all means all of them are rejected for 10 years. Ignore all means all of them are ignored for this life time.

Actually, this is one of the most useful analyses of the propaganda strategy of the Modi govt that I have seen. I really hope the opposition read it and take the excellent advice to heart. Although you do seem to have a talent for abuse. Your one point agenda is to hate Modi and BJP government. Simply criticizing is meaningless and if you have guts come with concrete solutions ,otherwise shut your mouth.

Ashok Kambi: Your one point agenda is to defend Modi and the BJP government, regardless of the harm, violence and economic disasters it creates. India was facing one of its worst economic crises long before the COVID 19 crisis struck and much of it was self-made, or let us say, Modi made.

Criticism of foolish and harmful government policies is a necessary condition for democracy to function. I suggest you go tell that you gauarkshak buddies in your shaka. What solutions can one provide Mr Ashok, when the all-mighty, all-knowing and soon to be omni-present Gods are everywhere, right?

When you have the audacity to enforce a nation-wide lockdown without access to real numbers and without any testing, how can one help?

I am not saying lockdown was not necessary, it was. But, hey, how about some notice? And planning? Any planning for them? Dont care? Mr Anurag Sahay: To buttress your pithy but powerful arguments even further, it is the authoritarian streak of PM Modi that made the plight of migrants much worse than it need have been.

India is a federation and states should have been taken on board such that a co-ordinated plan to run trains, buses, planes etc. In any case, immediately after the lockdown, as migrants started to leave the metropolises, social distancing went for a toss as people fought to clamber onboard buses or other vehicles. And then what one witnesses is a Partition style exodus of poor people walking back home with no food, carrying their children and their weak.

All that could have been averted by simply talking to states and getting the states to pitch in as well. But then, consultations with smarter people is not the modis operandi of the great leader.

This lockdown was a replay of an equally ill-times and ill-judged move viz. Sadly, even the poor as well as the middle classes buy that flawed argument and re-elect the man and indeed want him to be more authoritarian than before.

Hey Killi, I respect your hardwork despite not ascribing to your views. You are virtually replying to every comment. I guess it is lockdown effect. Very simple. If the opposition were not such a terrible band of criminals like the Congress they could have done something. Who in the opposition will anyone listen to today? Priyanka Vadra? You are blind to the depth of present corruption, destruction, and wasting…it is like comparing damage of a couple simple goats versus a large herd of mad elephants.

This report is enough for others to decide on financing your corrupted stories. Never expected such a crap from self proclaimed learned and fare journalism. Shame on you for such illogical theory. The only thing more dangerous than corruption is false journalism such as this. Shivam vij grow up. Mr Keshav Dhyani: The article is chock-full of facts. And the Modi bhakth in you dooes not produce even a shred of evidence to bolster your puerile, knee-jerk claim that Mr Shivam Vij is lying.

Take for instance the greatest economic self-goal scored by the Modi government and indeed a move that brought so much trouble and turmoil to most Indians who do not hold black money. Demonetisation crippled the informal sector, dealt a knock-out blow to the farming sector wiped off savings held in cash by many a thrifty housewife and caused incomes losses to people who had to stand for days in bank queues.

All the alleged black money was thoroughly laundered and returned to the RBI and none of the expected benefits of that harebrained policy came to fruition. Yet, middle-class Indians who did not have to stand in queues or suffer like most of the poor did lauded the Gujarati genius. Worse still, at a time when China was facing a downturn and oil prices were low, India did not seize the opportunity to spurring growth and capturing markets lost by China.

He even let them break the law and shoot him on the street if they were not happy with the exercise which he knew was never gonna happen. I mean, how can you dare think that the reform was a cheat? He is your Prophet! Ok, I concede that Tax filing was made less cumbersome and perhaps some loopholes were eliminated, but that is it. No wonder, he made his way into the modern textbooks, albeit for other reasons. The privileged middle class, especially the NRIs, had nothing to do with the suffering, and to this day, refuse to acknowledge it was a blunder, and a murder of democracy.

Politics aside, they even endorse fake pieces of medical advice, like the ones that claimed to be reliable and apparatus-free home tests to detect the Covid Ok, even half of that would do. It can buy us a new electric car. List out and tell the government to do things that people want.

He does provide solutions. Are you just seeing the headline and heading straight for the comment box, realizing that it is an article targeting your Uncle Modi dadhiwala? Sadly, these braying bhakths are not few in number — a testament to the fact that propaganda works well. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious..

Majority of Indians r genius who vote in the name of the religion,cast ,creed bla bla except the merit of the canditate. How genius we r that we hve been enslaved by British for more than years and how genius we r to elect a incompetent and compulsive liar as leader twice.

Andher nagri chaupat raja. Typical lies by typical leftist paid propaganda outlet. Lying is the base foundation of these leftists, writing against a working government as their days of preferential treatment, free air travel, free booze, wheeling dealing income, free parties etc have all come to an end.

The parasites are angry, very angry. I fear these will be the responsible for the doom of India. God save this country. Or the middle class is going to be the new poor of this country. Amit wardhan sir…i totally agree with your comments and also thankful for this article.

Modi bhakts worried now? People like Shailesh, Bharatia, Sanjay and the rest are so frustrated, it shows in their desperate writing and bold words. Funny is the fact that the far right and brainwashed Hindus who are fuelling the Modi rollercoaster for 6 years now, are Actually from the elite middle class.

So sorry that this is what their parents sent them to school for. They have glorified ignorance and stupidity. Common sense and logic are long extinct. For instance, it is impossible to reason with the middle-class bhakth that no economist of reputable standing would have endorsed demonetisation in cash centric, poorly banked India with poor financial literacy.

Thus the carnage wrought be demonetisation gets pooh-poohed and Modi lives to fool them another day with another botched scheme called GST! He is the unrefined, if I may use that word, version of Modi. All these guys are goons. Indeed this is the age of blind faith and stupidity. People like Shailesh, Bharatia, Sanjay and the rest in this thread are so frustrated, it shows in their desperate writing and bold words.

The Bharatiya Jaundiced party loyal approves legalised loot in the name of resurrection in , and is somehow convinced he is indeed compensated for that. He forwards every bit of scum reaching his phone, terrorises the audience with all that scum, and feels accomplished. He screams victim and allows the victim mentality to invade his psyche and expects every Hindu to feel like a victim of Muslim atrocities of the long gone era.

Had Hindus made the same conquests, the same Modidiots would have justified it saying we were brave Kings. He claps tirelessly , burns candles, and even confers the title of Prophet to Modi. He brings alive all superstitions that were slowly being forgotten.

Yet, he is not convinced that wrong side is an offence, and a dangerous one that can cost lives. Because uncle Modi did not say so. For hipocracy, this columnist takes the cake. The techniques of doublespeak, fire hosing etc were pioneered by the Bolsheviks at the time of Russian Revolution and was refined to a fine art and practised by Communists and their fellow travelers all over the world and prevented others from expressing their views.

Now this columnist has no moral right to gripe when others have started paying back in the same coin.

Why should the government do anything? They should stop doling out these economic packages of 20 lakh cr. Whats the point? People migrants already own mobiles of 12kk bucks, right? They dont need any more economic benifits. Instead, the government can build a statue of you and spend a few thousand cr bucks on that.

Mr Ravindra Naik: So do you want them to die of starvation and without a roof over their heads in the cities of India where they have toiled? And how the hell do you know that all migrants own expensive smartphones?

And even if they did own these smartphones, that was at a time when they had incomes to maintain the phones. Indeed, most migrants spend very little on themselves and instead remit money to their families in far away villages. As things stand, landlords have evicted them from their apartments, factories have stopped their salaries and these people are starving.

And we have a callous, Modi inspired middle class bhakth called Ravindra Naik who wants to kick a man who is already down. And that too beneath the belt. Your contempt for your fellow Indians makes one want to retch. Wonder if your ilk are the real termites of India. Mr Vij would like you to presume that people are fools, they can think on their own. This premise itself is false.

They are talking about garib and muslims for 70 years and there is no change in their condition. Doling out money and make people come to them for succour is their feudal mindset of governance. They have lost credibility, they have destroyed India. People care a dam for what you write and say. They are dangerous weapons against Indian State. Rahul Gandhi falsely linked PM for being a Modi.

How is Lalit Modi in the good books of Congress suddenly. No moral ground to blame the govt on lies. It is unfortunate that despite being a year old, INC has lost its credibility and fighting hard to gain confidence of people for mandate. No credible energetic leader either. The current govt is trying different ways to retain people confidence.

Despite afew setbacks largely they are successful. Congress has to find a means to build credibility. The Modi and BJP lying machine works simply because lies are repeated all the time, there is virtually no freedom of the press in India and Modi knows how to stoke the Hindu middle-class victimisation grievances. The middle-class, already having outsourced its thinking to the Delhi University graduate, laps up all this unquestioningly. Including, if that happens to be the truth.

One more thing — the utter, callous disdain for the very people who keep the engines of the Indian economy running smoothly viz. But what makes the situation in India dire and indeed sustains an authoritarian man like Modi in his drive to bulldoze democracy and leave behind a Hindu Pakistan or rather a Hindutva Pakistan is the fact that the urban, Hindu middle-classes have been lulled into becoming members of the Modi cult. And regard any questioning of the Gujarati Genius and his coterie of saffron advisers such as Baba Ramdev, Mohan Bhagwat, Amit Shah as tantamount to heresy.

Thus, there has been an exodus of talented advisers and technocrats like Dr Raghuram Rajan, Urjit Patel and even a Modi economist like Dr Jagdish Bhagwati from key government roles and their replacement by saffronistas from Nagpur.

A cursory survey of the comments to this article will reveal that nobody questions the facts of the article. Instead, they question the temerity of The Print, author Shivam Vij or the few discerning commenters like Ms Anamika to question the fibs and economic destruction wrought by the Great Gujarati Genius.

But they are far more dangerous than the average itchy groined gaurakshak of Adityanathisthan. Whilst the vile gaurakshak — tacitly supported by the BJP and the state apparatus — wields lathis, chain, swords and other manifestations of Hindutva brawn power, the middle-class bhakth castrates himself intellectually, demotes his brain power and surrenders himself to the Great Gujarathi as if in supplication. This middle-class deification of a highly flawed, polarising politician with a pogrom under his belt, violence in his wake and gross economic mismanagement as a trademark is a far greater threat to democracy than the thuggish antics of the scrotum scratching Adityanath clones who become gaurakshaks.

Educated, middle-class bhakths are more dangerous simply because they allow themselves to be co-opted in carrying out the carnage of the Constitution. The people. The people of India awoke to the mess the left liberal press and the thieving of Congress to say enough is enough. Mr Ranen Bhattacharya: Has the thieving actually ended Sir? The fundamental equations that drive Indian politics remain unaltered Mr Bhattacharya — you join politics to make a quick buck. To that end, you invest large sums of money to get elected and once elected, you do your utmost to get back that investment manyfold.

Absolutely, the rules not any different. In fact, they BJP have a more potent formula that explains why Cong. Need we say more?. And you have everything to do with stupidity and ignorance! Every word of your writing screams truth and only truth! I am glad there are some sane people around. Fake news published, Mr Shivraj and print , disgusting article where there is no truth.

Uou are a Mouth piece of communist and congress. In the point above you say that the govt changed motives 3 times to justify demonetisation….. Its easier to keep track of real economic growth….. We are not in the 15th century that people need to use cash…..

It is this hope that has created such a large fan following of Modi……whther its Putin or Modi or Trump…. I dont think so…. I am no fan of any party nor remotely interested in Politics…. I am interested in Humanity, economy and the good of everyone….

They also apply the same technique of propaganda as described in this article. Keep on writing Shivam, we love your articles. So many trolls visit to spew their venom here is a testament to the amount of heartburn you cause to the fake news brigade and their bosses.

Anycase, it is true that there have been certain flip flops by this government and, arguably, sound intent not followed by matching implementation rigor.

There also has been few attempts at retrospective right-splaining. On the other hand, give the alternatives, one would rather have this govt then any other formation possible today. So, relax a bit and smoke the peace pipe with reality. Your only motto and the only source of income to run your incompetent machinery is drawing up some fake narratives against modi government and make them sound genuine.

Go get some life loosers!! I congratulate the writer that he have guts to raise these questions. Hacked media knows only Hindu, Muslim, Pakistan. I wonder if Pakistan is not on world map, then these media houses do not have any news. All the issues are rightly raised by the writer. Firstly I appreciate government for Demonetisation then with passage of time I realised how worst this decision for poor people and small businesses man.

They are finished. GSt further falsen the matter. Government failed miserably on economics front. Now on corona in planned lock down kills not only migrant class but many small business owners are finished before opening business.

A more thorough plan should be made. When cases are few then nation wide strict lock down and when cases are increasing lockdown opened. If lockdown is wisely made then economy as well as lives are saved.

Corona cases increased inspite of lockdown. People stuck in temple, Gurdwaras, masjid, students in hostels, in marriage functions, person go to nearby station to appear in interview.

Thousands cases are there of the people who stuck in lockdown. People in medical institute like PGI stuck in the journey. Only common man can experienced heat of this unplanned lockdown.

Then hacked media singing Emperors songs and doing Hindu, Muslim, Pakistan. All the news are later on proved to be faked. Migrant problem has now shaken my entire confidence in this Govt. I knew it was a huge governance debacle, a ploy, a gameplan, a publicity exercise. Our words will not be heard. This is very sad. We are all traitors and we will be hanged if we speak up. But, it is surprising that you did have some faith in the Govt until now, as you mention in the closing sentence.

Good that you are enlightened now. All the pro-govt news pieces that we see are faked, most notably those about the economy. Worthless article written by another shameless editor. The intent to clearly project PM in poor light with peddling lies is very evident!!! The more arrogant and pronounced these paid useless editors become the more definite positive vote for the BJP!!! Traitors of their own country in the garb of editors working for theprint-in… Shame on you!!

Rightly expressed. But you see still fools in the comments that do not agree with whats happening. Its Shame. But a salute to you for expressing the facts. And now its to the people to understand or go on in the ongoing direction.

Lets see where our country lands with so much hatreds. Before it was Hindus to muslims and now going on with migrants to the states. But at the end these migrants are suffers and this wont be felt as these are poors. I congratulate writer that he developed such a courage to write such a article. Otherwise electronic media is singing songs of Emperor.. Hopefully, the author of this excellent article will not be charged with sedition as is usually the case in Modistan.

Well written. While; fighting falsehood with falsehood is definitely not a solution, this must be fought nonetheless. It is a known fact that BJP and especially Modi an his team get away by lying. They have only one agenda which is to change secular India to a Hindu nation. Even during this pandemic time all announcements are pro corporations. They are blind towards the struggling migrant workers within India and outside India. Kuwait wanted to send back the indian workers in their flights without any cost.

This Government only spread hatredness. Not even one brick is placed by this Government. The Government put economy on ventilator even before corona pandemic. Good work of Dr Manmohan Singh vanished in 6 years. Small business man and middle class suffered a lot. We must not forget one thing — that the battle is not between lies and more lies — it is between lies and the truth. Truth is unique, even if interpretations may be multiple — we need to re-learn to recognise reality and truth.

This article depicts the art of spreading misinformation using half the truth and conveniently hiding some important facts and mixing apple and oranges to confuse the matter further. Yeah the govt lies on many things but this article is an exaggeration beyond limits. Looks like shekhar gupta is back to licking congress boots and dynastic slavery after gaining some viewership by being neutral for little time. I was considering of making financial contribution to the print but looks this they are getting enough money from the dynasty party.

I was considering of making financial contribution to the print but looks this they are getting enough money from the dynastic party. The print is becoming just another ndtv with one and only agenda of modi bashing. I think you copy pasted the forwarded message more than once. Also there are no datapoints here insteaf of a simple rant. He thinks so less of us all, that he thinks he knows whats best for us more than us ourselves. What a snobbish rant.

I am not surprised though since this attitude is common amongst Lutyen fake intellectuals. People like me will keep voting for BJP just so that we can cock a snoot at guys like you.

Shri Vij is the only intelligent person in Bharat. He does not get hoodwinked by the Modi Govt. He is the only one who knows the truth. He is correct in believing that Modi won two conclusive and decisive victories because the people of Bharat are stupid. Will you also write on the lies of the communist party of China in the starting days of the infection? A very good article. I have also read the comments. Please question the govt servants, it is your right.

They are making policies for us, the common people, so it is very natural that one ask whether any rule or law is how good or bad.

The write up is a bold attempt to discredit the government with a series of assertions claimed to be contrary to the truth. But sad to note that not a single piece of empirical evidence has been included in support of the assertion to lend credibility to the contents.

In the age of RTI the author had all the time to get some replies from the authorities respecting the real facts. I wish the author had observed the minimum courtesy of sharing incontrovertible facts in support of his claims. This fellow never writes articles. He writes his thoughts. He produces excrement and flatulence. Loved the reference of Thank you for confirmation. Writer forgot to write one statement that he has been paid by Congress Chief and courtesy Sonia Gandhi.

Who pays you Mr Arvind Singh? Bajrang Dal? Ram Sene? Print can do only Modi-bashing for all incorrect reason… Indians know what kind of brazier lies this print Gupta can give to Indians … So just chuk this wanker. Wonderful article ,we live in a world where lie is become a part of life, everyone knows why modi was bought to power but no one accepts, everyone is damaged by unnecessarily govt acts be it demonetizing, gst, petrol diesel price,current scenario of 20lkh cr but still we are ok with it because we still believe in lie of Modi and govt.

It will be very late by the time we will realise what mess we have created for future generations. Today majority of people vote on Hindu Muslim agenda. So the issue of fact, lies does not matter to them. It is similar to the situation twk decades back when people in Hindi heartland were voting on caste agenda which gave leaders like Lalu, Mulayam, Mayawati etc.

Over a period of time they realised the voting on caste line is of no use. The same realisation will come to people over a periof of time , may be by anothe 5 to 10 years.

After that we may move to issue based politics. Till then it will continue. Why do people vote for BJP? How much did the opposition pay you to write this? Rahul Gandhi is a loser and will remain one. He does not have the courage nor the confidence to run a country.

Congress Party is the ultimate political establishment — it's the Gandhi family party and has controlled India's government for most of its history since breaking from British rule. Indians voted out the Congress Party because they were fed up with its economic mismanagement and corruption, and voted in Modi because they thought he would change things.

But the Indian government is one of the world's largest bureaucracies and it is dealing with tremendous and very basic problems at every level: things like safely distributing school lunches, or installing plumbing and electricity in rural areas, are enormous challenges for India. It's entirely possible that Modi, whatever his differences in temperament from the old Congress Party leaders, will be subsumed by India's vast bureaucracy and by the country's many little problems, and that his rule will be more status quo than either his supporters or critics suggest.

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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. The good, the bad, and the ugly of Narendra Modi, India's next leader. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. The good: Modi could be the guy to save India's economy Lots of Indians, as well as members of the international business community, think his background as Gujarat's leader make him qualified to fix India's economic woes, and he's styled himself as India's national CEO.

In and , Indian growth slowed sharply: There's a lot of demand in the Indian economy, but not enough supply, and India's poor infrastructure and weak governance have been unable to provide the needed increase in production of goods and services. The bad: Modi has a history of stirring up religious tension, of which India already has way too much Modi's rise also reflects a worrying trend of Hindu nationalism in India, and Modi himself has a record of stirring up Hindu-Muslim animosity.

The ugly: Modi may end up being more status quo than change Modi is the change candidate, for better or worse: the story here is in many ways as much about the incumbent Congress Party's failure as about his success. Next Up In The Latest. Delivered Fridays. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email.

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