For those on a high about the US Congress resolution:
US Congress report praises Gujarat CM Narendra Modi
Identifying Gujarat as perhaps the best example of effective governance and impressive development in India, a Congressional report showered praise on the chief minister Narendra Modi and said that the state under him has become a key driver of national economic growth. Gujarat, is followed by Bihar and its chief minister Nitish Kumar, for his governance and administrative skills, the latest report of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) on India said.
"Perhaps India's best example of effective governance and impressive development is found in Gujarat, where controversial chief minister Narendra Modi has streamlined economic processes, removing red tape and curtailing corruption in ways that have made the state a key driver of national economic growth," said the CRS report.
An independent and bipartisan wing of the US Congress, the CRS prepares periodic reports on issues of interest to the US lawmakers.
The 94-page report was released by the CRS for US lawmakers on September 1, a copy of which made public by the Federation of American Scientists.
"Seeking to overcome the taint of his alleged complicity in 2002 riots, Modi has overseen heavy investment in modern roads and power infrastructure, and annual growth of more than 11 per cent in recent years," the CRS said.
Gujarat, the CRS said, has attracted major international investors such as General Motors and Mitsubishi and with only five per cent of the country's population, the state now accounts for more than one-fifth of India's exports, it said.
The CRS mentions Bihar after Gujarat in good governance.
"Another positive example in 2011 has been Bihar, one of India's poorest states, where chief minister Nitish Kumar has won national attention through his considerable success in emphasising good governance over caste-based politics.
"He is credited with restoring law and order across much of the state, as well as overseeing infrastructure and educational improvements of direct benefit to common citizens projects," the report said.
"Kumar's Janata Dal (United) party, in alliance with the main national opposition BJP, won an overwhelming reelection majority in November 2010 state elections," the report said.
The examples set in by chief ministers Modi and Kumar may have inspired the popular leader of India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh.
"Chief Minister Mayawati, who is widely believed to maintain national political ambitions and was at the forefront of a nascent "Third Front" in 2009, has shifted her own focus much more toward infrastructure projects such as road-building and improving the state's poor energy grid," the report said.
The CRS also refers to the ongoing Telangana movement in Andhra Pradesh, and the new Trinamool-Congress rule in West Bengal.
As West Bengal's new chief minister, Mamata Banerjee is faced with repairing one of India's poorest states.
US Congress report praises Gujarat CM Narendra Modi - Hindustan Times
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Your logic is convoluted. Modi does not lead an independent country, Gujarat is a part of India. What business does the US have to interfere in internal affairs of India. Should we bring a resolution in our Parliament that the white Americans are dispossessing the Inuits and Tlingits of Alaska of their ancestral land and are destroying their culture? Does that make sense? Modi, whether good or bad, is the product of the Indian socio/political system. Any corrective measures or alterations to the policy of the Gujarat government have to be managed within the ambit of Indian political system and can't be remote controlled from the US. In other words, Gujaratis/Indians have to decide whether or not Modi's policies are good for Gujarat/India and not the Americans.
This is asking for trouble. If the US government continues to act like this, relations with India will never improve beyond a certain point. They bring resolutions condemning Turkey for the Armenian genocide, they do it for Baluchistan and now for Gujarat. What is with the Americans anyway?
Sir, this is not the doing of the US govt.
Let this not be a deciding factor in Ind--US relations.
US Congress resolutions are not the work of the US govt.
