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Why I support Narendra

Modi
And no, Im not a right-wing Hindu fanatic
Amrit Hallan in News Report: News, Current Events, Politics, etc
I have long believed that the greatest problem India faces is that its
people dont have a strong sense of pride. There is so much division
among people on the lines of class, caste and religion that we neither
have an affinity towards our fellow citizens nor for our towns, cities
and states, for that matter, not even for our elevators and stairwells
where people litter, spit and even pee, with total disregard. Poverty
doesn't disturb us. Oppression doesn't bother us. General lawlessness
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doesn't alarm us. It doesn't enrage us that we have been an
independent country for more than 60 years and still we are a third
world country. There are more starvation deaths in India than the
sub-Saharan region. You can be killed in your own country just
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because youre from another part of your own country. We feel

privileged if we get electricity everyday and water twice a day for two
hours. We dont even like to smile at each other on the roads.
Whereas nationalism lacks glaringly, we are full of jingoism. We talk
big but act small. We are crazy about a stupid game like cricket. We
like to imitate rather than innovate or create. Whats the problem?
Why do we have outsourcing companies but no big software
development companies (just to give a small example). Why do most
Indians excel abroad but not here in India? Why dont heads roll when
an entire cryogenic project is sabotaged and the career of a brilliant
scientist is ruined? Why do we eagerly kill or die for a temple, a
mosque, a church or a gurdwara but not for a hospital, a school or a
playground? Legend has it that once in a town when there was a
power cut during the telecast of the Ramayana serial the people of the
town burned down the electricity board office. The same people never
even raised a whimper when there were routine power cuts during the
board exams and all the students had to study in darkness.
Everything boils down to were not proud of ourselves.
This is the void that Modi seems to fill. He exhorts people to work
hard, excel in their respective fields and work for the collective
betterment of the country. He doesn't want to create ladders of
communalism and casteism to rise. For once there is a political leader
who wants people to work for excellence rather than depend on
government subsidies and doles. Finally the country has a political
leader who has the guts to show the middle finger to the world. I
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dont know how much he really means to do, but when I begin to
compare, he is the only leader who says things that I really want to
hear.
I dont want to hear the same old secularism versus communalism
diatribe not because I dont want our country to be secular but
because yes, without these diatribes our country is already secular (in
fact it has remained the most secular country or region throughout
millennia), and second, by continuously pandering to minority vote
our political parties have developed a mindset that you only need to
offer empty promises and raise doomsday scenarios in order to come
to power. Development doesn't work. Progress doesn't excite. Its
caste and religion. Minorities are under threat. Dalits are being
marginalized and exploited.
Im not saying minorities shouldn't be protected and the rights of the
Dalits shouldn't be protected. But the justice system should work for
everybody not just for minorities and Dalits. If our justice system
works, if our political system works, if our bureaucracy works, we
dont need affirmative action. We dont need special status for
minorities if development is inclusive and people are punished in a
timely manner in case of communal bias.
You cannot constantly blame the majority Hindu community for
historical wrongs its forefathers may or may not have committed on
certain sections. Historical wrongs were committed against Hindus
themselves so then why the Muslims aren't made to feel guilty about
them (there, I just became an Islamophobe)? Im not saying they should
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be, Im just saying if the blame game needs to be perpetuated, why

not create an equal playing field for every religion and every
community?
This is the mentality that Modi opposes, and so do his supporters.
These people get angry when they are made to feel apologetic about
their majority status, about their festivals, about their rituals, about
their gods and goddesses, about their patriotism and nationalism and
about their the nation first approach. Theyre fed up of the
pervasive mediocrity in almost every field in the name of inclusion
and tolerance. They want excellence. They want to compete with the
world and when they talk about competition, they dont mean
competition with Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh or even Taiwan.
They mean competition with the USA, with the European Union, with
Japan and with China. They want to turn India into a global brand.
Just as people respect Made in Japan and Made in Germany,
people should respect Made in India. No longer we want to depend
on our proverbial jugaad.
There is also an underdog feeling. Another thing that makes me
support him is the witch-hunt he has been subjected to for such a
long time. The greatest number of riots have happened under the
Congress rule and its various offshoots. The Gujarat 2002 (well, how
can something on Modi be complete without a reference to this particular
period?) riots were contained within 2-3 days. There is documented
evidence that Modi sought help from both Maharashtra and Madhya
Pradesh that were both Congress-ruled states at that time, and both
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the states refused. There is documented evidence many from the BJP
itself have been targeting Modi and the Gujarat riots were a part of
the scheme. There is documented evidence that even Congress
ministers were involved in the riotsthe mob that set Ehsan Jafri
eblaze also had member from the Congress party.
Modi has been maligned so much, the onslaught has been going on for
such a long time, unmitigated, that many have begun to feel, what the
heck is going on? No politician, no matter how vile or incompetent he
or she has been, has not been targeted so much, both nationally and
internationally. It cant be just divisiveness because in the name of
religion everything goes in our country. What is it? Communal riots
are unacceptable, but they have been happening in India since time
immemorial and there have been very few, very few instances of they
being contained within a few hours. Recently Yagoendra Yadav of the
Aam Aadmi Party said the Muslims will need another country if Modi
comes to power. How can he get away with such inflammatory
utterances and not Modi? Manmohan Singh said Muslims have the
first right to national resources. Sonia Gandhi cried for two terror
suspects. After the recent Muzaffar Nagar riots aid was provided
selectively to the Muslim community, if at all it was provided. Salman
Khurshid in his book wrote that both Sikhs and Hindus deserved the
blood bath that took place in the 80s. In a metro like Delhi
Kejrichandra says corruption is Indias biggest problem but in front of
Muslims he says the biggest problem the country faces is
communalism. For Rahul Gandhi, the greatest threat to India are
Hindu organizations and not Islamic terrorists, Naxalites and
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Maoists. Shinde says the RSS runs terror camps. Why arent these
people communal and divisive, and why Modi is? Why does Modi
destroy the idea of India but not people like Laloo Prasad Yadav,
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mayawati, Karunanidhi or even the infamous
Owaisi brothers? Why aren't the communists taken to task by our
intellectuals for totally destroying a progressive state like West
Bengal? Why aren't the then chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh and
Maharashtra demonized for not sending help to Gujarat during the
2002 riots? Im not even going into the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom carried
out by the Congress party. Why aren't there inquiries set up for this
dereliction of duty, this galling incompetence? Why does Modi
become the all-encompassing evil all secular forces need to come
together against? There has to be a reason.
The reason is that the beneficiaries of the status quo dont want it to
change. The nexus between politicians, religious leaders,
industrialists, scholars, artists and journalists has been working for
them for decades. They prefer this deep divide between the haves and
have-nots. Mediocrity is the name of the game. You have muscle,
money or contacts? Great! You have none. Good.
The best bet for a mediocre person is to curtail people from achieving
excellence and this excellence can be from any field. They dont want
people to get educated. They want people to toil for even basic needs
such as food, shelter, electricity, security, education, travel and
health. They want to keep different peoples of the country
perpetually divided because when you unite you can put up a united
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fight and this can jolt the status quo. One more problem when you
unite as that there is a collective dialogue without a conflict and this
is dangerous for people thriving on divisive and actually communal
philosophies. Through doctored education and propaganda we have
been divided into tiny nations, islands in ourselves.
When you need to constantly put massive effort into caring for just
basic needs, when do you get time to become socially, culturally and
politically aware? When there is nothing to compare, there is no
accountability. India is dirty, well, it is because India IS dirty. India is
poor, well, with so great a population, poverty IS inevitable.
Remember that bureaucrat that said that the Indian benchmark for
cleanliness is different from other countries (during the preparation of
the Commonwealth Games) when dog shit was found on the bed sheets.
With such a big administrative structure, corruption IS bound to
happen. For everything there is an excuse.
The current arrangement has been good for many people. You get
plum postings without ever working. You get elected simply by
pandering to a particular community. Intellectuals promote each
other and dont allow alternative voices to come forward. Remember
how Wendy Doniger was repeatedly being called authoritative by
the same usual suspects? In the name of news channels we have
reality shows. In the name of sports we have the colonial hangover of
cricket destroying other games in the process.
Modis approach is that quality of life is your right, not a privilege. He
doesn't want to give you poori roti, (a whole piece of bread) he wants
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to nourish you with healthy food. He wants you to work hard and
become self-dependent rather than expecting the government to dole
out goodies because of your caste or religion.
When he speaks he knows his facts. Of course sometimes he goes
overboard and there is too much of mitro Gujarat mei maine ye kiya
hai aur vo kiya hai but one, hes normally talking to the masses so a
little bit of rhetoric is needed, and two, he talks about Gujarat
because thats where he has worked.
The best thing I like about him is he has totally changed the narrative
of the political discourse whether people like it or not. To the socalled secularists dismay, they are the ones who are constantly found
to be talking about different castes, identities and religions whereas
he talks about Indians. He talks about inclusive growth. He doesn't
care whether you are a Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Dalit or OBC.
He has a firm grip on how resources should be used for maximum
benefit. Just look the way he has cleaned up Narmada. Gujarat is
quickly turning into the biggest producer of clean energy. Yes, there
are kinks, and there are claims that Guajarat is a state that anyways
does better compared to other states, and not being an expert I wont
be able to counter your argument.
He talks about concepts our other clueless politicians and highly
biased intellectuals can never even think of even if they are born
twice. To a person who really feels for the country, Modi seems to be
taking the country forward and the rest of the politicians seem to be
taking the country backward.
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Will he deliver? Frankly I dont know, I cannot vouch for him. Im not
a BJP propagandist and Im certainly not working for Narendra Modi.
I support him because, as I have already written above, he says things
I want to hear. He has facts on his fingertips. He talks about solutions
rather than problems. He is unapologetic about his leanings. Hes not
bothered about his international image. He couldn't care less whether
you term him secular or communal as long as he gets to do his job.
His own party works against him. Despite such a prolonged hounding,
he has risen and not disappeared into political oblivion. I mean look
at that perpetually scheming Kejrichandra. Hes a total creation of the
media as well as political machinations. Without these factors he and
his bunch of jokers are nothing. Look at Modi on the other hand. He
has borne the most vicious media onslaught. His own party men and
women are constantly scheming against him. The entire English
speaking intellectual class loathes him. Not a single media channel
has done a real documentary on what are the real conditions in
Gujarat. Why? Because they've got very little negative to show. Had
the conditions being bad, do you really think an award winning
documentary wouldn't have been commissioned and telecast in a
loop, especially on NDTV?
What about his divisiveness? Doesn't he pose danger to the
minorities, especially Muslims? You tell me which party isn't divisive
in our country? Which political party truly works for the country and
not for self-interest? The Congress party, the darling of the
secularists, have milked the cows of communalism, casteism and
poverty dry while letting Muslims die and remain backward
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invariably. DMK and the AIADMK are the epitomes of corruption.

They say Karunanidhis sons are as bad as Saddam Husseins sons, or
even worse. Communists have done what they are best atdestroyed
multiple states. Laloo and Mulayam run their own fiefdoms and all
Nitish Kumar wants to do is become the PM of the country even if we
has to explode bombs.
An average Modi supporter is not as fanatical as he or she is made out
to be. If that were the case, the Togadias and Singhals would have
been mainstream politicians rather than fringe elements. Considering
all these, I dont think Modi poses a threat to Muslims. Besides, I
believe that he has bigger goals and he knows that playing communal
politics doesn't pay in the long run. He is intelligent. Most of our
politicians are corrupt and nearsighted. They cannot see beyond the
next elections. Modi on the other hand is farsighted. This, Im sure,
will keep the Muslims of the country safe, even if you think he is a
hard-core Hindu nationalist.
Still buy the Modi is a polarizing figure crap? This tweet from
@madhukishwar pretty much sums up my own response:
Madhu Kishwar
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@madhukishwar
Modi indeed polarized India- all rogues, communal,

corrupt politicians against Modi- all those wanting
peaceful prosperous India with Modi
10:06 PM - 20 Mar 2014
532 RETWEETS 212 FAVORITES
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https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/446686810606141440
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Why I support Narendra

because youre from another part of your own country. We feel

be, Im just saying if the blame game needs to be perpetuated, why

invariably. DMK and the AIADMK are the epitomes of corruption.

Modi indeed polarized India- all rogues, communal,

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