Atanu Dey has been writing an excellent blog over the years; I owe much of the influence of ideas to him.
He writes about Narendra Modi being hated by the Nehru Gandhi clan because he is a "true nationalist" which for obvious reasons, the clan isn't.
However, I beg to differ. Not that he doesn't have his heart for the nation, but there could be two things:
1) He understands the need for the corporations and industries to have easy access to material. In any case, in the event of Modi training his guns on the national scene, would have a ready access to huge swathes of money.
Brilliant stroke. This also means that he can command a huge amount of influence in BJP as far as "raising funds" is concerned and absolutely, over RSS because he is unlikely to overtly depend on them for their continued "support".
2) His Sadbhavana mission recently was a huge show of success; not for his purported fast but his olive branch to the muslims and their photo ops. He is acutely aware of the divided and cynical middle class India and would rather depend on the ready made vote bank.
Ultimately, economic progress would slowly filter down to the marginalized groups in Gujarat and elsewhere. It is only the quantum of the benefits that alienates the vote banks and their perception of public loot. Unaccounted money flows during elections because influence can only be bought in this day and age.
I really admire Modi but not condone all of his methods. Although he mentions about "Hindu self determination", he has not spoken about Ayodhya temple on a national scale while sounding the poll bugle in the past.
He writes about Narendra Modi being hated by the Nehru Gandhi clan because he is a "true nationalist" which for obvious reasons, the clan isn't.
However, I beg to differ. Not that he doesn't have his heart for the nation, but there could be two things:
1) He understands the need for the corporations and industries to have easy access to material. In any case, in the event of Modi training his guns on the national scene, would have a ready access to huge swathes of money.
Brilliant stroke. This also means that he can command a huge amount of influence in BJP as far as "raising funds" is concerned and absolutely, over RSS because he is unlikely to overtly depend on them for their continued "support".
2) His Sadbhavana mission recently was a huge show of success; not for his purported fast but his olive branch to the muslims and their photo ops. He is acutely aware of the divided and cynical middle class India and would rather depend on the ready made vote bank.
Ultimately, economic progress would slowly filter down to the marginalized groups in Gujarat and elsewhere. It is only the quantum of the benefits that alienates the vote banks and their perception of public loot. Unaccounted money flows during elections because influence can only be bought in this day and age.
I really admire Modi but not condone all of his methods. Although he mentions about "Hindu self determination", he has not spoken about Ayodhya temple on a national scale while sounding the poll bugle in the past.
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