In all the discussions about the rise of Narendra Modi, we never seem
to consider the most obvious explanation. There is an iron law in
global politics: when things are going well, people don’t worry too much
about leadership. They want non-controversial politicians who stay out
of their way and let them get on with their lives without needless
conflict.
But when things go wrong, people look for the opposite. They want
visible leadership. They prefer their politicians to seem totally in
control. They like somebody who is not scared of conflict. And though
they say they want to be inspired, what they are really looking for is
reassurance. They want a leader who tells them that he or she knows the
way out of the crisis.
History is replete with examples of this phenomenon. The best one is
Winston Churchill. For most of his career, he was reviled as a dangerous
demagogue, an egomaniac, a man in search of conflict, an arrogant
leader who brooked no dissent and whose views were imperialist and
racist. (He called Mahatma Gandhi a ‘half-naked fakir’.)
But when World War II broke out, the same people who had once cast
him out called on Churchill to lead the country. All the qualities that
had once seemed so objectionable — the arrogance, the demagoguery, and
his conviction that only he understood the way ahead — now seemed
inspirational.
There are so many other examples — Charles De Gaulle, Margaret
Thatcher, etc — that the Americans have a slang term for the phenomenon.
In good times, people want to be Mummy-ed. But in bad times, they want
Daddy to show them the way.
It does not require a massive leap of imagination to see how this
phenomenon has manifested itself in India. The UPA took office in good
times, when
most Indians were not only better off than before* but also
believed that things would keep getting better.
In that era, we were happy to be Mummy-ed. And the mild-mannered
Manmohan Singh, with his technocratic skills, was the perfect prime
minister. Five years later, when things had got better, India re-elected
the UPA with a larger margin.
It is significant that
Narendra Modi was around in 2004 when the UPA
took office. He was already
chief minister of Gujarat but was regarded
as a fringe figure. When the UPA won re-election in 2009, Modi had
become the BJP’s most powerful chief minister.
But he was still a regional strongman, and was seen as a politician
whose divisive communalised politics would keep him away from power in
Delhi.
So, why is it that Modi’s fortunes have been so completely
transformed? Why is he now a putative prime minister? And why is
Manmohan Singh the most unpopular prime minister in recent memory?
It isn’t as though Modi has changed. He still hasn’t apologised for
the 2002 riots** or for the communalised campaign he ran after the
violence. He is as arrogant, as polarising and as much of a demagogue as
he has always been.
The difference is that times have changed. The economy has tanked.
Nobody believes that we will be better off in the years ahead — not as
long as this government is in office, anyway.
Law and order has spun out of control.*** The government cannot control
prices. And
corruption scandal after corruption scandal rocks the
government.****
History tells us that in times of crisis, people need visible
leadership. And yet,
this government has provided no evidence that it
knows how to lead. ***** Never in Indian history have top leaders been so
remote and so uncommunicative. Rarely has a prime minister seemed less
in control. At a time when India needs to feel that he knows the way out
of this mess, he is himself ducking for cover.
Instead, it is Modi who has seized the opportunity and filled the
gap. While the UPA’s leaders cower, he goes from rally to rally. He
talks of
solutions in the form of the so-called Gujarat model.****** He gives
interviews. He blogs. He tweets. He provides sound-bites. And in his
demagoguery lies the reassurance that many insecure Indians are looking
for.
It is not as though India has forgotten the events of 2002. Nor is it
that voters have suddenly turned
communal or anti-Muslim.
****** It is just
that at a time when a crisis-ridden India is being run by an invisible
prime minister, many Indians will take whatever visible leadership they
can find.
The UPA has spent too long ignoring the rise of Narendra Modi. It has
failed to successfully demolish his exaggerated claims on behalf of the
so-called Gujarat model. It makes the mistake of believing that Modi’s
polarising record will keep people from voting for him.
In fact, voters have not forgotten 2002. But they are now so fed up
and desperate that they are willing to take the chance that Modi will be
more responsible this time.
The only hope for the UPA is to demonstrate that there is life beyond
Manmohan Singh and his Cabinet and coterie of yesterday’s men. It must
push a younger generation forward and suggest that it can provide
strong, imaginative and visible leadership.
Its leaders can no longer afford to parachute in and out of the
issues. There must be sustained engagement in political discourse and
there must be evidence of bold decision-making.
Otherwise, in urban India at least, Modi is fast becoming the man of
the future; not because India has forgotten
all the terrible things that
he has done******* but because the UPA has forgotten how to govern and how to
lead. And nature abhors a vacuum.
The views expressed by the author are personal
MY COMMENTS (BAFS)
Vir Sanghvi
My French friend ALAIN SORAL says that mainstream journalists are whores and the good ones are jobless! I hold the same view. What this whore wrote is just hogwash otherwise would have have found at least 7 points to write negative comments?
* most Indians were not only better off than before...
Only a fool can see that most Indians were better off than before. Let the readers do their own research. Aborting 50 million babies because they are girls, rampant crime, drugs, suicides, poverty ... continually on the increase
**
the 2002 riots
These were not riots, but planned extermination bordering genocide, supported by the racist and Zionist Hindu government.
*** Law and order has spun out of control.
What Law? Anglo-British imperialist and colonialist dictatorial Law? Admiralty Law always make sheep of the masses, but sooner or later some of the sheep do grow up teeth and they are harder to control!
**** corruption scandal after corruption scandal rocks the
government.
Governments never rule any Third World country as most of them are neo-colonies of the military super powers, and when they try to they are systematically destroyed: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Kashmir, Palestine, etc. All countries that work for those super powers, including Arabia, are totally corrupt, which is perfectly normal. Were they not corrupt, the Globalists would never let them stay in power.
***** this government has provided no evidence that it
knows how to lead.
India obeys orders from her Western masters and the Hindu government does not lead the nation but the UNO Dictatorship, the usurious World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Lethal World Heath Organisation, and the terrorist entity known as Israel do!
****** solutions in the form of the so-called Gujarat model
Why does Vir Sanghvi not called a spade a spade. The Gujerat model was the extermination of an entire Muslim population bordering genocide.
******* communal or anti-Muslim
The Hindu government (Anglo-India or Bharat) is racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Islamic. This can easily be proven by watching the racist "Bollywood" films led often by Hinduised Muslims and Muslim hypocrites where they are seen worshipping Hindu and Christian idols or promoting Sikism and Sikh culture.
Adalberto Erazo
Friday 25th of October 2013 at 6:37 PM
Circumstances have forced me to write this article due to very
disturbing geopolitical events that are developing in other parts of
the world. I am not the type of person who likes to rain in on anyone's
parade but something is troubling me. This article is not going to be
very popular amongst many people because everyone wants to celebrate the
"détente" that has developed between Iran and the United
States which is simply just a smokescreen. What we are merely seeing is
just a 'good cop-bad cop' scenario being used in order to undermine Iran
from within as we have recently seen with the assassination of the
Iranian Cyber Commander Mojtaba Ahmadi
http://rt.com/news/iran-assassination-report-cyber-662/.
As they say, "actions speak louder than words" and the zionist west
along with israHell will accept nothing
less than the complete submission of the
Islamic Republic of Iran into slavery. Yet it is not the Middle East
that will be the topic of the hour but a person who will rise to
prominence very soon in another country that is going to create wider
repercussions to this area as well as to the rest of the world at large
should he end up becoming the next prime minister in 2014. The big
problem is people don't want to listen as they want to continue to
celebrate and ignore the looming danger on the horizon that I see.
Perhaps they honestly don't know or they do know but they live in denial
and prefer to have their heads in the sand. There is an old saying,
"What you don't know can't hurt you." but I'm afraid this is not the
case because the demon I see riding upon the clouds approaching ever
closer has only one thing on his mind and that is war. After having
faced devastation at the hands of such
demons as George Bush(1 and 2),Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama,
and other assorted demons from the west; I'm afraid the Islamic World is
going to face more devastation this time coming from the East. No, I
don't mean Hulagu Khan coming back from the dead to sack Baghdad like he
did in 1258 but he and the present day demon of the east are very
similar to each other. Both of them have a very deep hatred of Islam and
want to see it completely destroyed but while Hulagu Khan is burning in
Hell(Jahanam) for killing millions of people, the other demon has still
yet to rack up a body count in the millions but is working on it and he
is none other than Narendra Modi(aka The Butcher Of Gujarat).
Who is Narendra Modi? This is the question that needs to be asked
because this monster is going to
have his finger on the nuclear trigger when he becomes the next prime
minister of India. Every time someone wants to call this man out as a
mass murderer who planned the Gujarat Genocide they are going to end
up running into his supporters especially those of the Hindutvadi
variety who always shoot back with the Godhra train fire so they can
justify the vile crimes committed against the victims of Gujarat which
is simply a microcosm of the wide scale persecution Muslims(and other
minorities such as Christians) face across India.The official story goes
that Hindus returning from Ayodhya were attacked by a mob of Muslims
who threw petrol on the coach resulting in the deaths of pilgrims for no
good reason and this led to the Gujarat Genocide. Yet this cause and
effect answer is utterly ridiculous due to the fact that numerous so
called "Islamic terrorist" attacks throughout
history are actually false
flags such as the King David Hotel
bombing all the way to the
present. I don't need to go into all the details but in the case of
India, 26/11 is the most infamous case with Jonathan Azaziah covering
this in detail
http://www.maskofzion.com/2011/01/2611-mossad-terrorizes-mumbai.html. The
Godhra train fire is no different. One damning piece of evidence during
the investigation into this tragedy was that the fire started from the
inside of S-6 coach and one the glaring things most people would prefer
to sweep under the rug was that "The intensity of the fire was such that
even the iron rods, the seats, the fans were all burnt to such an
extent that we found them twisted and molten out of shape."
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2684.html
Yet the question that needs to be asked is this: What type of flammable
liquid can do this which melts iron and steel into a formless mass?
Diesel and kerosene certainly can't even do this as this would violate
the laws of physics and while Narendra Modi uses every opportunity to
blame Muslims for Godhra on his campaign trail, poor Muslims living in
the slums would certainly not have had access to something this
advanced. The prime suspects of course would be the Karsevaks in
which investigations show that, “According to the sequence of events as
found by the police, all was not well in coach S-6 of the
Ahmedabad-bound Sabarmati Express on that day. A group of unruly
Ram sevaks had boarded the train at Lucknow without reser-vations and
had put to discomfort the 66 genuine passengers of the coach. Some of
the
ticket-paying passengers had to sleep on the floor; so overcrowded had
the compartment become that the ticket collector who came aboard the
train at Ratlam (two stations before Godhra) was not allowed to enter
the coach."
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2684.html. Of
course unruly Karsevaks would immediately raise suspicion if they ever
brought in containers of petrol but they would certainly not raise
any suspicions if they brought in an incendiary which was in a powdered
form and in one of areas of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, many of the iron gates
window grills, and railings were completely melted through
http://www.islamawareness.net/Persecution/Gujarat/seven.html.
Even more damning
evidence shows that Narendra Modi was in israHell a few months before
the Gujarat Genocide propelled him into the spotlight and the most
damning of all is the fact that the chemical packets used to burn homes
and families in this frenzy of mass murder had printed on them 'Made in
Israel'
http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/01082002/01082002080.htm.
Not only did the bloody hand of zion show itself on that fateful day on
February 27, 2002 by supplying the weapon for a real holocaust but I'll
even go far as to say that israHell was heavily involved in planning
this genocide with Modi. In this living Hell over 2,500 Muslims were
burned alive with another 250,000 forced to flee their homes and are
still to this day living in refugee
camps*. What is most
frustrating to the victims of this tragedy is the fact that the
murderers and rapist continue to walk the streets with impunity knowing
fully well they got away with their crimes because the police, state,
and national government fully took part in this pre-planned military
operation of zionist backed terrorism. What makes it even more painful
for the victims was the fact that it was their own neighbors who did
this to them! Where is the justice damn it?! Gujarat was more than just a
massacre, it was a test israHell gave to Modi and he passed with flying
bloody colors. The next phase of the plan is getting their Golem into
place so he can become the next prime minister.
It doesn't take a
rocket scientist to figure out that Butcher of Gujarat met with all the
top officials of the zionist entity from the now dead and burning in
Hell Ariel Sharon(aka The Butcher of Sabra
Shatila) all the way to Benjamin Netanyahu himself. I have no doubt in
my mind that Netanyahu is looking with keen interest on Modi's election
campaign especially considering the fact that you have a company called
APCO worldwide which is an israHelli PR firm that's helped in the past
to promote the "image" of war criminals George W. Bush and Tony Blair
and is now helping this Frankenstein on his "image"
http://greatgameindia.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/mechanics-of-narendra-modis-pr-agency-apco-worldwide-orchestrating-our-future/. This
PR firm is up to it's neck with the numerous jewish lobbies in
Washington D.C. and is heavily involved in promoting Islamophobia and
selling the War on Islam in order to further
bring about World War Three all for the quest of creating Greater
israHell. And wait, there's more! Associated with this company of devils
advocates is none other The Butcher of Southeast Asia and jewish
supremacist Henry Kissinger who's obsessed with reducing the worlds
population or to put it more bluntly,planetary genocide(Ibid). I have no
idea how the hell you can improve the "image" of a mass murderer but
then again the jews have been selling their "image" as the eternal
"victims" to the whole world that now they hold 6 Billion people hostage
with over 300 to 400 nuclear bombs in that implanted cancerous tumor in
the heart of the Islamic World. Anything associated with israHell reeks
of death and even though Narendra Modi was denied a visa to visit
western countries such as the United States in 2005, it wasn't because
these western countries were concerned about human rights. After all
this was an act of hypocrisy
considering the fact that they were in the process of butchering
millions in Afghanistan and Iraq along with approving the torture of
Muslims as policy. Perhaps the mass murderers in the west were concerned
about their "image" or they were probably disappointed that he didn't
kill millions of Muslims like they were doing but now he looks like he's
acceptable to them now in 2013 considering the British made the first
move to bring him out of the cold
http://rehmat1.com/2013/08/16/british-friends-of-india-invite-mass-murderer-modi/.
As the
stench of
death continues to fill the air with every passing year, in the
first week of September another pre-planned massacre of Muslims took
place in the town of Muzzaffarnagar in the State of Uttar Pradesh
leaving a total of 60 people dead and 45,000 displaced with the vast
majority of those being Muslims. The whole world completely ignored it
like nothing ever happened and this recent manifestation of
violence started when Narendra Modi's BJP conducted incendiary speeches
riling up local Hindus, who then uploaded fake videos claiming Hindus
were being hanged in India by Muslims when in reality the video showing
the lynching took place in the Pakistani city of Sialkot
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Muzaffarnagar-riots-On-social-media-rumours-and-anger/articleshow/22446959.cms http://ibnlive.in.com/news/muzaffarnagar-riots-bjp-mla-booked-for-uploading-fake-video/420774-3-242.html http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/muzaffarnagar-riots-a-meeting-after-friday-prayers-exploited-by-politicians-416915 http://www.firstpost.com/india/muzaffarnagar-riots-up-govt-releases-compensation-for-victims-1170257.html.
Uttar Pradesh should be familiar to anyone who has studied history or
has lived long enough to understand that this was also where the Babri
Masjid demolition happened in 1992 which was India's way of announcing
to the world her open alliance with israHell that had previously been
hidden.When Modi talks about implementing the 'Gujarat Model' across
India this is what he means.This man is essentially
a Hindu zionist par excellence and is totally fixated on creating
his Akhand Bharat stretching from Afghanistan to Indonesia and he will
stop at nothing to get it whether by hook or by crook. They feel it is
now the right time due to the very critical situation going on in
Pakistan right now with the Islamic World is fighting on multiple
fronts. Some battlefronts are so critical that losing a single battle on
that front can cause you to lose the whole
war. While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is winning against the
zionist backed fourth generation proxy war being imposed upon
him, things are turning sour on the South Asian Front. During the UN
General Assembly on September 28 the vile and disgusting house Sikh and
disgrace to his own people Mammohan Singh had the nerve to call Pakistan
the "epicenter of terrorism" which is totally and absolutely false
http://tribune.com.pk/story/610815/with-one-eye-on-peace-manmohan-terms-pakistan-an-epicentre-of-terrorism/.
Pakistan has been the biggest victim of terrorism and this disgusting
speech done by Mammohan Singh needs to be seen for what it really is-a
declaration of war. Perhaps the prime minister ought to be reminded of
the fact that one of their spies named Surjeet Singh was involved in
terrorism and totally confessed to being a spy for India after being
released from a Pakistani prison which is something you would never hear
about in the jewish controlled media in the west
http://paktribune.com/articles/Daring-Confession-of-Indian-Spy-Surjeet-Singh-242933.html. The
unholy trinity of the United States, IsraHell, and India are fully
intent on breaking up Pakistan through the use of Fourth Generation
Warfare which would then lead the way for a ground invasion in order
to destroy the Islamic World's only nuclear weapons state so israHell
can have a freehand in the Middle East. The eminent security analyst for
'Brasstacks', Zaid Hamid has even admitted that Pakistan is now
losing the battle in fourth generation warfare and if he is saying this
then things are really serious
http://takbeeremusalsal.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-debate-with-zaid-hamid-10th-program.html.
The so called western withdrawal from Afghanistan is merely just dust
in the eyes which is the same for this "détente" which is merely being
used to lull people to sleep in order to
get all the chess pieces into place with Modi being
the most important one. Once everything is in place we will then see a
series of wars which will culminate in the big war or the Malhama.
Since 1947 there have been over 300 massacres of Muslims in India http://rehmat1.com/2008/12/03/india-an-artificial-state/.
All these Hindutva groups never accepted the existence of Pakistan or
Islam in their midst but it is the present actions you see today which
is the reason why Mohammed Ali Jinnah had to found a new country so they
would be safe from these persecutions.The same goes with the Indian
Congress Party under Rahul and Sonia Gandhi. What makes them different
from the Hindutvadis is that they let the media and Bollywood do the
anti-Islam bashing but they both have the same goal in mind. We need to
understand the history because just before partition when Muslims were
migrating to Pakistan, over 5 million Muslims were slaughtered by
numerous Hindutva groups with the connivance of Jawaharlal Nehru and
Lord Mountbatten and this too was pre-planned and not a spontaneous
reaction as some would put it. Fact of the matter is the highest caste
in India the Brahmins, along with the political leaders suffer from an
inferiority complex. You see they carry a baggage in their mind and
haven't forgotten the thousand years of Muslim rule on the
subcontinent. How was it that a small number of Muslims coming from the
west were able to rule a united Hindustan for such a large period of
time? They are at a loss to explain this. You need to understand that
both India and Pakistan are in a constant state of perpetual war with
Kashmir being a flashpoint since 1947. In 1971 India was able to
dismember the eastern wing of Pakistan which is today Bangladesh and
israHell played a hidden role in this prototype of fourth generation
warfare which we now see happening today in Syria and Pakistan
http://rehmat1.com/2010/04/29/how-india-israel-created-bangladesh/.
In her victory speech on December 16, 1971 Indira Gandhi immediately
revealed the true nature of why they fought the war saying " we have
avenged
the defeat of one thousand years of Muslim rule and slavery and
drowned the two nation theory in the Bay of Bengal". Where Indira Gandhi
left off, Narendra Modi plans to finish the job of destroying
Pakistan because he sees Islam and all these countries around India as
an aberration. We need to prepare for the worst because it's not a
matter of if but when Narendra Modi comes to power and time is running
out with each passing day. This man is essentially Abu Jahal incarnate.
We have no idea what will happen but I do suspect that if this man gets
into power a false flag will happen in India much like what happened
happened last September with israHells false flag attack in Kenya in
which the Indian media started screaming 26/11 all over again
http://muhammad-ali-ben-marcus.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-warmongering-west-destroyed-germany.html
. This man survives on anti-Islamic sentiment and there isn't a
massacre of Muslims this man hasn't liked. No doubt if that false flag
happens he can either immediately launch a war on Pakistan or he will
launch the 'Gujarat Model' across India with the brunt being faced by
Kashmiri Muslims which in turn would force Pakistan's hand to stop the
genocide which would quickly spiral into World War 3.
Let me give you a quote by someone who interviewed Narendra Modi in the
early 1990's when he was an absolute nobody in the BJP which is very
revealing about this man:
“More
than a decade ago, when Narendra Modi was a nobody, a small-time RSS
pracharak trying to make it as a small-time BJP functionary, I had the
privilege of interviewing him. . . . Modi, it gives me no pleasure to
tell the readers, met virtually all the criteria that psychiatrists,
psycho-analysts and psychologists had set up after years of empirical
work on the authoritarian personality. He had the same mix of
puritanical rigidity, narrowing of emotional life, massive use of the
ego defence of projection, denial and fear of his own passions combined
with fantasies of violence – all set within the matrix of clear paranoid
and obsessive personality traits. I still remember the cool, measured
tone in which he elaborated a theory of cosmic
conspiracy against India that painted every Muslim as a suspected
traitor and a potential terrorist. I came out of the interview shaken
and told Yagnik that, for the first time, I had met a textbook case of a
fascist and a prospective killer, perhaps even a future mass murderer.”
The Butcher Of Gujarat
Narendra Modi
2014
Lok Sabha Elections
Netanyahu's Candidate for World War 3
[The
interview you are about to see was done by
Karan Thapar in October of 2007 five years after the Gujarat
Genocide.The interview with Narendra Modi only lasted 5 minutes. The
question that needs to be asked is this: What is Modi going to do if he
is cornered on the world stage knowing full well he has the nuclear
trigger. When Modi becomes prime minister I expect Karan Thapar to face
an unfortunate "accident" or face a "suicide"]
Transcript:
Mr
Narendra Modi lets start by talking about
you. In the six years that you have been the Chief Minister of Gujarat
Rajeev Gandhi foundation has declared Gujarat to be the best
administered state. India today on the two separate ocassions declared
that you are the most efficient Chief Minister and despite that people
still call you, to your face, a mass murderer. And they accuse you of
being prejudiced against Muslims? Do you have an image problem?
Narendra
Modi: I think it's not proper to say that people. There are two or
three persons who talk in this terminology and I always say God bless
them.
Karan
Thapar:You are saying this is the conspiracy of two or three persons only.
Narendra Modi: I have not said so.
Karan Thapar: But you are saying its only two or three people.
Narendra Modi: This is the information I have. It's the people's voice.
Karan
Thapar: Can I point out to you that in September 2003 the Supreme Court
said that they had lost faith in the Gujarat government. In April 2004
the Chief Justice of Supreme Court said that you were like a modern day
Nero who looks the other side when helpless children and innocent women
are burned. The Supreme Court seems to have a problem with you.
Narendra
Modi: Karan, I have a small request to make. Please go through the
Supreme Court judgement. If there is anything in writing, I'll be happy
to know everything.
Karan Thapar: There was nothing in writing you are right. It was an observation.
Narendra Modi: if it is in judgement then I'll be happy to give you the answer.
Karan
Thapar: But do you mean a criticism by the Chief Justice in court doesn't matter?
Narendra
Modi: It's a simple request. Please go through the court judgement.
Hand out the sentence you are quoting and let the people know it.
Karan
Thapar: Okay. It wasn't just an open comment made by the Chief Justice.
In August 2004, the Supreme Court reopened 2100 cases out of a total of
4600 -- almost 40 per cent -- and they did so because they believed
that justice hadn't happened in Gujarat.
Narendra Modi: I'll be happy. Ultimately the court of law will take the judgement.
Karan
Thapar: But isn't this the reason that despite the fact India today
called you the best Chief Minister, Rajeev Gandhi foundation said
Gujarat is the best administered state, people say Modi is prejudiced
against the Muslims. This is why I ask you do you have an image problem?
Narendra
Modi: Actually I have not spent a single minute on my image and that
can also be a reason. I
am busy with my work. I am committed to Gujarat. I am dedicated to
Gujarat. I never talk about my image. I never spent a single minute for
my image and therefore confusions may be there.
Karan Thapar: I'll
tell you what the problem is. Even five years after the Gujarat killings
of 2002 the ghost of Gujarat still haunts you. why have you not done
more to allay that ghost?
Narendra Modi: This I gave it to the media persons like Karan Thapar. Let them enjoy.
Karan Thapar: Can I suggest something to you?
Narendra Modi: I have no problem.
Karan
Thapar: Why can't you say that you regret the killings that happened.
Why can't you say may be the government should have done more to protect
them?
Narendra Modi: What I had to say I have said at that time and you can find out my statements.
Karan Thapar: Just say it again.
Narendra Modi: Not necessary. I have to talk about in 2007 everything you want to talk about.
Karan
Thapar: But by not
saying it again, by not letting people hear the message repeatedly you
are allowing an image contrary to Gujarat to continue. It's in your
hands to change it.
Narendra Modi: I'll have to rest. I need some water.
Karan Thapar: Pani.
Narendra
Modi: Dosti bani rahe, bass. I'll be happy. You came here. I am happy
and thankful to you. I can't do this interview. It's okay, your things
are. Apne ideas hain aap bolte rahiye aap karte rahiye. Three - four
questions I've already enjoyed. Nahin please.
Karan Thapar: But Modi Sahab
Narendra Modi: Nahi please, Karan.
Karan Thapar:But Modi Sahab
Narendra Modi: Karan dekho main dostana sambhand rakhna chahta hoon, aap usko koshish kariye.
Karan
Thapar: Mujhe ek cheez samjhayee sir. I am not talking about doing
anything wrong. I am saying why can't you correct your image?
Narendra Modi: This is not the time. Uske liye aap mujhe 2002 mein mile hote, 2003 mein mile hote. Mein sab kar
leta.
* The statistics from this number come from the documentary Gujarat: The Final Solution
** Social scientist Ashis Nandy is a gatekeeper especially since he goes along with the official
story of so called "Islamic" terrorism in India and goes with the official story of 26/11 and Godhra train fire. He also
suffers from a superiority complex and has made derogatory comments against low caste Hindus and scheduled castes.
Adalberto Erazo Jr.
Please, read also the
"Coming to terms with India’s missing Muslims"
Global Research, November 05, 2006
The reality of exclusion and discrimination can no longer be denied.
But the remedy requires political courage on the part of the Manmohan
Singh Government and wisdom on the part of those claiming to speak for
Muslims.
WHEN THE Justice Rajinder Sachar committee submits its report on the
socio-economic status of Muslims, the full extent of the community’s
exclusion will be obvious to all. Especially those who have made
political careers out of the canard that Muslims in India enjoy special
privileges and have been “appeased.”
Based on the data leaked so far, it is evident there are entry
barriers Muslims — who account for around 15 per cent of India’s
population — are unable to cross in virtually all walks of life. From
the administration and the police to the judiciary and the private
sector, the invisible hands of prejudice, economic and educational
inequality seem to have frozen the `quota’ for Muslims at three to five
per cent. Thanks to a hysterical campaign run by the Bharatiya Janata
Party and some media houses, the Sachar committee was denied data on the
presence of Muslims in the armed forces. But even there it is apparent
that the three per cent formula applies.
This gross under-presence of Muslims in virtually every sector is
presaged by substantial inequalities in education. Muslim enrolment and
retention rates at the primary and secondary levels are lower than the
national average and this further magnifies existing inequalities at the
college level as well as in the labour market. For virtually every
socio-economic marker of well being, the Muslim is well below the
national norm — not to speak of the level commensurate with her or his
share of the national population — and the evidence suggests these
inequalities are not decreasing over time.
This bleak statistical picture is rendered drearier still by new
trends visible in many cities. Muslims, for example, find it extremely
difficult to rent and buy property outside of “Muslim areas” in some
metros. Apart from several journalists, I even know of one former Muslim
Union Minister in Delhi whose Hindu colleagues had to intercede to find
him a flat. In Mumbai, the situation is perhaps worse. Many Muslim
businessmen have problems accessing credit, besides having to run the
gamut of uncooperative officials who look upon them with suspicion at
every turn. Even in politics, as Iqbal A. Ansari’s recent book,
Political Representation of Muslims in India, 1952-2004, has shown,
Muslims have consistently been under-represented in the Lok Sabha and
all State Assemblies since Independence except Kerala. Only half as many
Muslim MPs and MLAs get elected as one might expect based on their
population share. In the absence of our political parties throwing up a
large enough number of Muslim elected representatives, clerics and
obscurantists are only too willing to step into the breach.
The `war on terrorism’ has added a new layer to this already
intolerable situation as policemen across the country give free vent to
their ignorance and religious prejudice. The tendency of law enforcement
agencies to target Muslims during incidents of communal violence is
well known. The complicity of the police in the Gujarat pogrom of 2002
was reprehensible but not so different from what the country witnessed
at other times in other places. As for legal redress, neither government
nor judiciary shows any sense of urgency. Terrorist crimes such as the
Mumbai blasts are prosecuted energetically and this is a good thing. But
no one is able to explain what happened to the cases stemming from the
killing of Muslims in Mumbai in 1992 and 1993 nor why the Srikrishna
Commission recommendations against erring policemen remain
unimplemented.
The media are a corrective but only to a limited extent. If one
section has sought to highlight the plight of Indian Muslims, another
section is constantly ready to inflame prejudice by staging debates on
irrelevant issues, giving undue prominence to ridiculous statements by
unrepresentative `Muslim leaders’ or broadcasting marital disputes
within Muslim families (as one channel did last week) as proof of
`Muslim backwardness.’
In the U.S., the old journalistic adage was `Jews is News’. In India,
it seems, anything that shows Muslims as ignorant or fanatical helps
propel TRP ratings, while rational comment is frowned upon as unhelpful.
A Muslim MP was asked recently to take part in a TV debate on whether
there should be reservation for Muslims. He agreed, but added that he
would argue against it. The channel’s reporter then tried convincing him
that “surely your community needs reservation.” When he didn’t agree,
the channel lost interest in putting him on air. One studio guest
recently advised Muslims to shed their `persecution complex’ and to not
forget that theirs were the “hands that built the Taj Mahal.” Though no
one would dare accuse Dalits of “doing nothing” to uplift themselves,
Muslims are blamed for their poverty and poor education. They are
gratuitously advised to study hard, as if the problem of lack of
schools, delinquent teachers, inadequate books, and poverty can be
remedied by will power alone.
The reservation trap
It is against the backdrop of this highly vitiated atmosphere that
the Manmohan Singh Government must formulate a response to the Sachar
committee’s findings. The reality of systemic inequality cannot be
wished away and the Government must find the political courage to
confront this situation head on. So serious are the implications of
Muslim marginalisation that the Congress must open a channel of
communication with other parties, including the BJP, to evolve a
consensus on the necessity for urgent corrective measures.
Among the remedial measures to be considered, the least helpful in
substantive as well as political terms will be reservation. Whatever
they do, Muslim leaders and those who claim to speak in favour of
Muslims, must avoid the trap that the demand for reservation is. Sixty
years of affirmative action have led to some improvements for Dalits and
Tribals but it is clear that the country and its rulers have used the
sop of reservation as an excuse to do nothing about the persistent,
underlying causes of caste-based inequality.
It is now universally recognised that the pursuit of “equality of
outcomes” and “equality of opportunity” must go hand in hand. Even
equality of opportunity has a formal and a substantive aspect. `Formal’
equality means ending discrimination on the basis of caste, religion or
gender. `Substantive’ equality means overcoming the barriers (or
benefits) children of equal native talent inherit from their parents so
that none is advantaged or disadvantaged by birth. The India state pays
lip service to the idea of equality of outcomes (through quotas) but
completely ignores the necessity of crafting expenditure policies that
can provide equality of opportunity. Nowhere is this more glaring than
in the field of education where the increased notional access of Dalits
and Tribals to university is undercut by high dropout rates and
underperformance at the school level.
In a 2000 paper, Julian Betts and John Roemer model the amount of
differential expenditure the United States government would have to make
to provide equality of opportunity to its citizens. In a typology where
they define four categories of males based on whether they are White or
Black and whether their parents have `High’ or `Low’ education levels,
Betts and Roemer conclude that the `equality of opportunity’ expenditure
on education must be nine times higher for members of the `Low Black’
group than the `High Whites’. They also found that the `High Black,’
`Low Black,’ and `Low White’ groups must all receive more than their per
capita share of educational resources if equality of opportunity were
to be guaranteed.
Both in the U.S. and in India today, the actual allocation of
educational resources is regressive in that those who are affluent and
socially privileged corner a greater share of social allocations for
education than their relative size in the population. In reality, then,
existing affirmative action — or reservation — is for the privileged and
the goal of public policy has to be to reverse that by using the target
of public expenditure. An important finding in Betts and Roemer’s work
is that economic targeting alone won’t alter the relative distribution
of income across cohorts. The targeting has to be aimed at the
discriminated or excluded cohort.
In India, the first task of the government must be to guarantee
formal equality of opportunity by dealing firmly with discrimination in
the labour, housing and credit markets as well as educational system.
Without instituting a system of reservation — which would generate more
political heat than tangible benefit for Muslims — the Government must
send out a clear and unambiguous message that the social cohesiveness
and future growth prospects of the country require government
departments and private firms to encourage the recruitment of Muslims.
But in order to generate substantive equality of opportunity and uproot
inequality and exclusion from their roots, the government has to
guarantee better access to education at every level for Muslims, Dalits,
Tribals, and OBCs.
All of this is only a first approximation and much more will need to
be done. What is important, however, is that we recognise both the
reality of Muslim exclusion and the urgent need to do something about
it.
Siddharth Varadarajan is Associate Editor of The Hindu
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