Modi — still going strong!

[gslv]

Rahul is quite educated, getting his post-graduation degree at Trinity

For that we have to ask subramanyam Swami. He will disagree.

 

[Nair saab]

Raje and Swaraj Dont Need to quit ... They have done nothing wrong as per Indian Criminal Law... what ever they did is using their personal capacity not as a government functionary or during running a government...

But yeah morally they where wrong

[HASHTAG]#Lalitgate[/HASHTAG] has brought Times now Viewer Ship plunged with in weeks... all the predictions of Arnab ...Raje and Swaraj resigning in one week , 2 week , before Yoga , after Yoga Day has failed ...

Media sadly has realized they have so say over the government and pressure tactics is no more working on its functioning...

and Arun Jately should stop been a Media Pimp ... and start working on Economic front... or Modiji should add an another person in FM...

 

[Mukunda Murthi Rao]

It has just been over a year for modi govt. The reforms will not come that easily.
The industry is pegging for the land acquisition bill and the GST bill which are and will be stuck in rajya sabha where BJP does not have a majority yet.
Taxation is a huge problem in india and i believe once GST is aproved, things will drastically change.

 

[itachiii]

Modi — still going strong
By Aakar Patel
Published: July 5, 2015

When he won the general elections last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lifted his party to a 32 per cent vote. This means he added about 10 per cent over the average the party achieved in the Vajpayee years and immediately after that.

I have always thought of his support as coming from two different, and disparate, groups. The dominant one is the traditional Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) voter, who is attracted to the party because of its principles. By this I mean Hindutva, and the dislike of Muslims expressed through the three primary issues — Ram Janmabhoomi (Muslims should give up their mosque), Uniform Civil Code (Muslims should give up their family law) and Article 370 (Muslims should give up their autonomy in Kashmir).

But I also mean those who admired the BJP as a meritocratic party whose ideological wellspring is located in social work through the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. This makes it different from the aristocratic and dynastic Gandhi-family led Congress.

The second group of BJP voters came to the party mainly through theattractiveness of Modi. A brilliant speaker (I used to rate him in the same category as Bal Thackeray and Lalu Yadav in being able to connect with the audience, but now I think he’s quite simply the best we have produced in decades), who is able to compress complex issues into simple slogans, Modi comes across as credible. He is a great representative of Indian nationalism and an attractive figure because of his charisma. His promise of a new India and new beginning under him was bought comprehensively by this second group.

This is the background in which we have begun to receive news that India is not really very different either in reality or in the way that the government functions.

The economy hasn’t taken off and the credit rating firm Moody’s has reported a disappointment at the rate of reforms. A staggering report on poverty this week shows that 92 per cent of rural Indian families survive on less than Rs10,000 a month.

Television shows are running back-to-back scams and going after ministers of both the centre and the BJP state governments. Things seem like they are getting back to the same level as they were in the final years of Manmohan Singh’s government.

But in one very significant way they are not. The BJP has won by-elections in the last few weeks in a way that shows that Modi’s personal support is not diminishing.

This can be showed in the unusual election result of states like Tripura and Kerala. In the former, the BJP candidate finished ahead of the Congress, which is remarkable.

In Kerala the BJP candidate, an old and popular leader of the party, got a fourth of the vote. This was many times more than what the party had received in the previous election. Some said it showed that the BJP lotus was blooming in Kerala. Even if it is not, it shows without question that the prime minister’s shine is not fading at a time when the news in the media about his government is mainly negative. And the perception of the outside world, which thought Modi was so promising only a year ago, has also begun to ebb.

What explains this?

How is Modi able to hold on to his constituency despite getting hammered on both perception (through the media) and the reality of execution, as witnessed by daily stories on the state of India?

I think he continues to sail through because he has successfully been able to retain that second group of people whom he attracted to the BJP. I mean those who admire him and believe he will bring change in time. Through all the bad news, he has not let them feel that he has lost his way.

He does this through direct communication. He is independent of the media in that sense, and though he does not communicate on the issues that anchors and reporters want him to (Sushma Swaraj, Vasundhara Raje and their Lalit Modi connections, for instance), he continues to keep his line open with his admirers through Twitter and through his public speaking.

The expanding nature of the IPL scandal, involving people of almost every party, should otherwise have laid Modi low. But the aspect of his attractiveness that is independent of his party (i.e., the second group) keeps him insulated from the mess.

Its result is that he is given a longer leash by his fans than they have given to any other leader of our time.

Will he be able to continue putting himself above the fray if other scandals continue to emerge in his term? No, the erosion will inevitably come, given the awful state of this country. But for now, he has managed to shine through a period that would have tarnished any other leader but him.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 5th, 2015.

Like Opinion & Editorial on Facebook, follow @ETOpEd on Twitter to receive all updates on all our daily pieces.
Modi — still going strong - The Express Tribune

Good job Indians. You are so fortunate to have a national leader that is loved by billions of people unlike our pathetic Nawaz Sharif who is even resented by his own ministers!

@13 komaun @[Bregs] @agamdilawari @airuah @Ajit Kumar @Ammyy @anant_s @Arav_Rana @ASB @Avik274 @Bagha @bhangi bava @bloo @blood @Blue_Eyes @Bombaywalla @Brahmos_2 @cerberus @Chanakya's_Chant @chhota bheem @danish_vij @desert warrior @DRAY @Echo_419 @eowyn @Etilla @farhan_9909 @Force-India @gau8av @genmirajborgza786 @Georgeclark @gslv mk3 @halupridol @haviZsultan @he-man @illusion8 @Ind4Ever @indiatester @IndoUS @Indrani @itachiii @ito @jaiind @JanjaWeed @kadamba-warrior @karan.1970 @khujliwal @Krate M @kurup @levina @lightoftruth @magudi @Major Shaitan Singh @Manindra @Marxist @me_itsme @Mike_Brando @MilSpec @Mukunda Murthi Rao @Nair saab @naveen mishra @noksss @Not Sure @Omega007 @OrionHunter @PARIKRAMA @pumkinduke @pursuit of happiness @r1_vns @rahi2357 @Rain Man @ranjeet @ravi Nair @RayOfLight @Razia Sultana @ROCKING @Rohit Patel @rubyjackass @Ryuzaki @sajan @SamantK @SAMEET @Samudra Manthan @SarthakGanguly @Sidak @Skull and Bones @Sneaker @SpArK @Spectre @sreekumar @Srinivas @SrNair @Star Wars @surya kiran @SwAggeR @Syama Ayas @Tea addict @thesolar65 @utraash @VeeraBahadur @vostok @WAR-rior @Water Car Engineer @wolfpack @wolfschanzze @Yogijaat

Aakar patel- enough said..

 

[Echo_419]

The author's full name is - Aakar Ahmed Patel he's a known Modi baiter currently heads Amnesty. Before elections last year he used to predict doomsday if Modi were to be elected.

There are no scams or none at least of the magnitude we used to see under previous government in centre in fact even now we keep unearthing the scams of erstwhile regime every now and then so much so that last week alone a 19000 cr discrepancy came up via CAG.

Most of the so called "scams" like Vyapam, Raje etc involves state governments which are run by BJP and dates back to days before Modi was elected PM

Just a few months back Moody has changed outlook from 'stable' to 'positive'. Again the disappointment over 'pace' of the reforms is not because Modi doesn't want reforms - some of his neo liberal policies are stuck in perception battle of being pro poor or pro rich, for others he doesn't have requisite numbers in upper house of the parliament to get reforms through, while some others are constitutional amendments which requires 2/3rd majority in both houses and consent of the states making things very hard to push through - typical of a parliamentary democracy with ample checks and balances.

Even the most die hard critics of Modi have credited him with creating a good investment climate, outward looking foreign policy, quick decision making, no policy paralysis - sharp decline in number of stalled projects, infra picking up etc

It's too much to expect one man to come with a magic wand and change everything but at least now we have someone who is trying

I agree with you
We elected a highly efficient man not a magician

Coincidentally, there was a post about Aakar A Patel (AAP) on reddit this morning. I got some interesting links from there:

Our system of dynasty is not problematic - Livemint

So is our dynastic culture all bad? I would say our problem is the opposite. We do not have enough dynasty in India. Indians are unusually good at picking quality dynasties, whether it is the Kapoors or the Nehru-Gandhis. The Congress president has always presented herself as being very moral and upright. So is our dynastic culture all bad? I would say our problem is the opposite. We do not have enough dynasty in India. Indians are unusually good at picking quality dynasties, whether it is the Kapoors or the Nehru-Gandhis. The Congress president has always presented herself as being very moral and upright.

The catholicity of Sonia - Livemint

Sonia is slim and fit. At the dining table, she is probably disciplined. She brings the European’s refinement to our otherwise crude politics. *She has brought up her children superbly. Both act correctly and modestly. Rahul is quite educated, getting his post-graduation degree at Trinity. From what I have read of him, Rahul is observant and intelligent. He has learned the limits of what the state can do to make India more liveable. He has discovered an essential truth about India. He is doing what Jawaharlal Nehru was doing with Gandhi before 1930, the discovery of India. When Rahul speaks, he usually presents an Indian reality which has come from an uncommon understanding. Though he is good looking, he doesn’t deploy his charisma. By this I mean he doesn’t pose and make heroic statements like Narendra Modi does. He chooses not to. *When one is as famous and as good looking as Rahul Gandhi, charisma is a function of deployment. We got a half-literate Catholic woman, but even she has been so good at trying to undo the damage we inflict on ourselves.


I would advise that you don't take anything that he writes seriously at all, even if it sounded favorable to your own views.

BC he is a real a$$ licker

If Lalit Modi was a Fugitive who's passport was revoked by the courts, how did he land in the UK ?

WTF was the congress govt. doing allowing the "fugitive" to escape "law" ? ........ how did he board the flight ?

I was not aware that helping students get a law seat in Univ. of sussex was a crime ............ is handing over a tissue to Sushma's swaraj's niece a crime too ? or is taking an tissue to clean u'r @ss a crime as well ? I fail to see the "crime".

So far No court has sentenced Lalit Modi for ANY CRIME. No crime has been proven, so how is he a "fugitive" ? :

How is helping LM getting a Residency in UK a crime ? ...... how is having "financial dealing" with Lalit Modi a crime ? ........ Lalit Modi has an ICICI Bank account, so is ICICI also guilty of CRIME since they have "financial dealing" with him ?


I thought you will provide some sort of Logical or Reasonable reply. BTW .... I have heard that there is an allegation of RAPE against you. You should be ashamed of being a rapist and posting on pdf

Bhai aaram se apna admi hi hai @ito

 

[saurav]

Hehehe.. All the BJP leaders getting bad press are detractors for Modi in party. He is getting stronger by these incidents. People like Aakar patel write their wishes as facts in their articles.

 

[SrNair]

@Norwegian
We Indians knows about our media very well.We knew their exaggeration about Congress Scams.
Like some Indians ,our media is only like to exaggerate stupid things.

We hate Congress because of their petty vote bank politics and family rule.
If PM Singh was good in implement his own decision , things would have been very different.


And a lot of Indians like those pointed out by article as second group have seen the media hollowness against Modi in the name of Gujarat riot.

Of Course One Modi cant change these nation of diversified 125 crore people overnight.
But he ias successful in informing the people about his terrific effort.

 

[Nair saab]

what media has done in Terms of Swaraj and Raje is actually Good...


These leaders weather in BJP or in Congress should understand that they need to act Moral, even when they are not in power... Indian Public want leaders who are a Idol for the Masses to follow...

We want more nationalistic Leaders Like Modiji ... who will never personally indulge in Scams and never allow other to do the same... Sadly only RSS is the organization which produces these kind of selfless Leaders...

I have elected my leader as Modiji I know he will perform well... But he need to prepare an Back up leader after his retirement in a decade ...

The projects like Digital India will take time to see results ... Starting a project is just the beginning, we need 2 years to plan everything and attract investors ... then another 2 years to start implementing it... by the end of his current tenure we will start seeing results of his vision ...

People stop jumping on horses before u judge ur leaders ... Xi of China and Nawaz Sharif of pak was elected even before Modiji came to power... what significance these Leader brought to there Economy and what visionary project did they start in their country ...

when compare these people with MODIji's performance he just outclassed all the world leaders in his 1 year performance in governance ...

 

[uparyupari]

For you it may not be a crime. I consider this to be a serious crime and misuse of position in return for financial and non financial gains.

When I term fugitive....it means he has serious charges against him. And that he didn't returned from UK to India since last 5 years and trying to get UK passport says he has done wrong.

What do you mean "for me" ? ..... Crime is a Crime. The courts in India decide that. not you or me. Certainly not the news media.

How is it established that there was ANY misuse of any power ? She did her duty as a citizen of Indian and as an elected representative by providing assistance to a fellow citizen. How is that a crime ? Where is it established that there was quid pro quo ? The financial gains could very well be independent of this favour. It could be for ANY other reason.

"serious charges" mean NOTHING. Salman Khan had "serious charge " of Murder and "Sanjay Dutt" had serious charge of Terrorism.

Why the hell should he come to India when there is a witch hunt going on against him ? ........... only a world class moron would do that. Why did MF Hussain become a "Fugitive" from India and run to Oman ?

Funny how such simple logic evades you. Maybe you have different standard for "secular" and "non secular" leaders and businessmen.

 

[deepak.chauhan2312]

For you it may not be a crime. I consider this to be a serious crime and misuse of position in return for financial and non financial gains.

When I term fugitive....it means he has serious charges against him. And that he didn't returned from UK to India since last 5 years and trying to get UK passport says he has done wrong.

by law he is not fugitive and by law he can get visa so by law sushma didn't do anything wrong.He was accused not sentenced.

 

[ito]

What do you mean "for me" ? ..... Crime is a Crime. The courts in India decide that. not you or me. Certainly not the news media.

How is it established that there was ANY misuse of any power ? She did her duty as a citizen of Indian and as an elected representative by providing assistance to a fellow citizen. How is that a crime ? Where is it established that there was quid pro quo ? The financial gains could very well be independent of this favour. It could be for ANY other reason.

"serious charges" mean NOTHING. Salman Khan had "serious charge " of Murder and "Sanjay Dutt" had serious charge of Terrorism.

Why the hell should he come to India when there is a witch hunt going on against him ? ........... only a world class moron would do that. Why did MF Hussain become a "Fugitive" from India and run to Oman ?

Funny how such simple logic evades you. Maybe you have different standard for "secular" and "non secular" leaders and businessmen.

My loyalties lies with India...and not to Modi. And please spare me your lectures and stop quoting me.

 

[rubyjackass]

Raje and Swaraj Dont Need to quit ... They have done nothing wrong as per Indian Criminal Law... what ever they did is using their personal capacity not as a government functionary or during running a government...

Lol Nair saab. You also write the same letter to UK authorities to give papers to LaMo. We will see whether he will get papers. Personal capacity my foot. If some random person on road recommends UK papers to LaMo or if I tell UK people that ties between India and UK won't be affected even if they shelter a fugitive, he simply wouldn't get any travel documents. It is obvious except for half wits who choose to drop their IQ points to support the ruling party.

What Sushma Swaraj committed was treason. After what she and Raje did, imagine how any country will look at any Indian request for extradition.

by law he is not fugitive and by law he can get visa so by law sushma didn't do anything wrong.He was accused not sentenced.

Looks like BJP fans created their own dictionaries too now. By their bakwaas dictionary, even Dawood Ibrahim would not be fugitive. For someone to be sentenced, first they should appear before a court of law. Even he/she doesn't and hides in a different country, that is by definition fugitive.

I don't know whether it is because LaMo shares last name with NaMo or not. Somehow the saffronists became ardents supporters of LaMo these days.

 

[magudi]

Lol Nair saab. You also write the same letter to UK authorities to give papers to LaMo. We will see whether he will get papers. Personal capacity my foot. If some random person on road recommends UK papers to LaMo or if I tell UK people that ties between India and UK won't be affected even if they shelter a fugitive, he simply wouldn't get any travel documents. It is obvious except for half wits who choose to drop their IQ points to support the ruling party.

What Sushma Swaraj committed was treason. After what she and Raje did, imagine how any country will look at any Indian request for extradition.


Looks like BJP fans created their own dictionaries too now. By their bakwaas dictionary, even Dawood Ibrahim would not be fugitive. For someone to be sentenced, first they should appear before a court of law. Even he/she doesn't and hides in a different country, that is by definition fugitive.

I don't know whether it is because LaMo shares last name with NaMo or not. Somehow the saffronists became ardents supporters of LaMo these days.

Well said, These Modi bootli*kers will support any crook to shield their GOD
The saffron blinders call themselves nationalists and are defending a fugitive

 

[deepak.chauhan2312]

Looks like BJP fans created their own dictionaries too now. By their bakwaas dictionary, even Dawood Ibrahim would not be fugitive. For someone to be sentenced, first they should appear before a court of law. Even he/she doesn't and hides in a different country, that is by definition fugitive.

I don't know whether it is because LaMo shares last name with NaMo or not. Somehow the saffronists became ardents supporters of LaMo these days.

his is not fugitive by law.check it? Modi we don't care Narendra Modi we care.If this make us saffronists we are proud of it as he is PM of India and majority of people like him so India is communal country.

 

[rubyjackass]

his is not fugitive by law.check it? Modi we don't care Narendra Modi we care.If this make us saffronists we are proud of it as he is PM of India and majority of people like him so India is communal country.

The British authorities were worried whether arresting LaMo will damage ties between UK and India. That means they know he is wanted in India. A person with passport revoked is supposed to come back to his country. That is why someone revokes passport. Read you passport, it has a request from India to other countries requesting free travel to the passport holder in their countries(same with most other countries' passports).

You are so into supporting LaMo that they forgot an even amazing blunder by the BJP. When the courts puts aside the revoking of LaMo's passport, this government wouldn't even file a counter or appeal. This is a government which claimed to bring back black money back to India.

We will see how communal India is in the elections in the coming years and decades.