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Hoardings for Narendra Modis rally in Delhi at the weekend depicted the newly-anointed prime ministerial candidate as Indias lion, by Monday morning, an insert in some of the countrys major newspapers had reduced him to a ***** cat.
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The two-page cartoon strip of a character intended to represent Mr. Modi shows him in conversation with a Delhi resident remarking on how the capital city compares with Gujarat, where he is chief minister, in terms of infrastructure, income levels, life expectancy and infant mortality rate. Delhi comes out better in the statistical comparison, however the data quoted are unattributed. The cartoon Mr. Modi is stunned by the level of development in Delhi. Friends, such nice government hospitals and such competent doctors. I cant believe it, the cartoon Mr. Modi is shown as saying in Hindi.
At the end of the strip, Mr. Modi, whom the captions refer to as Feku, which means bragger in Hindi, runs away, according to the text.
It is unclear who sponsored the insert, which may be in breach of electoral guidelines. According to a notice issued by the chief electoral officer in Delhi, election pamphlets and posters should not be printed without the names and addresses of the publisher.
Tens of thousands of people gathered to listen to Mr. Modi Sunday at his first rally in New Delhi since the Bharatiya Janata Party, Indias main opposition, crowned him as their prime minister in waiting ahead of national elections.
Mr. Modi used the speech to attack the record of Delhis chief minister, Sheila Dikshit, and said that she did little more than cut ribbons at inaugural events for a living.
Nobody from Ms. Dikshits office was immediately reachable for a comment.
Recently, Mr. Modi and P. Chidambaram, Indias finance minister, were at loggerheads debating Indias rate of growth and development.
Junho Kim/The Wall Street Journal
Mr. Modi claimed that India grew 8.4% under BJP-led National Democratic Alliances regime between 1998 to 2004, and blamed Congress for not being able to carry it forward.
Indias gross domestic product grew just 5.0% in the year ended March 31, the slowest expansion in a decade, and has since lost even more steam, expanding just 4.4% in the three months ended June.
Mr. Chidambaram, however, said Mr. Modi was distorting facts.
He said this was the average growth rate during Congress-led United Progressive Alliances first five year tenure between from 2004 to 2009.
Mr. Modi has embarked on a country-wide tour to woo voters ahead of the Parliamentary polls in 2014 to sell his agenda of good governance and economic development.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/09/30/modi-indias-lion-reduced-to-a-*****-cat/
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The two-page cartoon strip of a character intended to represent Mr. Modi shows him in conversation with a Delhi resident remarking on how the capital city compares with Gujarat, where he is chief minister, in terms of infrastructure, income levels, life expectancy and infant mortality rate. Delhi comes out better in the statistical comparison, however the data quoted are unattributed. The cartoon Mr. Modi is stunned by the level of development in Delhi. Friends, such nice government hospitals and such competent doctors. I cant believe it, the cartoon Mr. Modi is shown as saying in Hindi.
At the end of the strip, Mr. Modi, whom the captions refer to as Feku, which means bragger in Hindi, runs away, according to the text.
It is unclear who sponsored the insert, which may be in breach of electoral guidelines. According to a notice issued by the chief electoral officer in Delhi, election pamphlets and posters should not be printed without the names and addresses of the publisher.
Tens of thousands of people gathered to listen to Mr. Modi Sunday at his first rally in New Delhi since the Bharatiya Janata Party, Indias main opposition, crowned him as their prime minister in waiting ahead of national elections.
Mr. Modi used the speech to attack the record of Delhis chief minister, Sheila Dikshit, and said that she did little more than cut ribbons at inaugural events for a living.
Nobody from Ms. Dikshits office was immediately reachable for a comment.
Recently, Mr. Modi and P. Chidambaram, Indias finance minister, were at loggerheads debating Indias rate of growth and development.
Junho Kim/The Wall Street Journal
Mr. Modi claimed that India grew 8.4% under BJP-led National Democratic Alliances regime between 1998 to 2004, and blamed Congress for not being able to carry it forward.
Indias gross domestic product grew just 5.0% in the year ended March 31, the slowest expansion in a decade, and has since lost even more steam, expanding just 4.4% in the three months ended June.
Mr. Chidambaram, however, said Mr. Modi was distorting facts.
He said this was the average growth rate during Congress-led United Progressive Alliances first five year tenure between from 2004 to 2009.
Mr. Modi has embarked on a country-wide tour to woo voters ahead of the Parliamentary polls in 2014 to sell his agenda of good governance and economic development.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/09/30/modi-indias-lion-reduced-to-a-*****-cat/
