Did the Prime Minister’s heart miss a beat when he watched the people of Benares pour into the streets to welcome Sonia Gandhi last week? Mine certainly did because the last thing India needs is another spell of feudalism in socialist guise. Feudalism so debilitating that it reduced India’s oldest political party into being the servitor of a dynasty that has long shown that it is bereft of new ideas, except those that keep it in power.
Your columnist is routinely derided by leftists and secularists for supporting Narendra Modi, and routinely trolled on Twitter for being a ‘Modi bhakt’. Let me explain the reasons for my continued support. I first saw Modi in a sympathetic light when I realised that he was being unfairly demonised by revered media pundits. These venerable pundits had never demonised other political leaders on whose watch equally horrible communal violence had occurred. Unjust or not? Then they refused to accept that ordinary people across India had forgiven him by 2014 and were ready to make him prime minister. Many remained in denial till the results came out. If I have continued to see Modi as our only hope, it is because the alternatives are terrifying.
There is the Dynasty. And then there is worse and worser. There is Nitish Kumar whose only new idea is prohibition. He has become so obsessed with this idea that he is trying to pass a law that allows whole families to be jailed if one member is caught drinking. Has nobody told the Chief Minister of Bihar that prohibition always fails to stop people from drinking but always succeeds in creating criminal mafias? From reliable sources in Bihar I hear that relatives of powerful politicians are already making fortunes from illicit liquor.
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Your columnist is routinely derided by leftists and secularists for supporting Narendra Modi, and routinely trolled on Twitter for being a ‘Modi bhakt’. Let me explain the reasons for my continued support. I first saw Modi in a sympathetic light when I realised that he was being unfairly demonised by revered media pundits. These venerable pundits had never demonised other political leaders on whose watch equally horrible communal violence had occurred. Unjust or not? Then they refused to accept that ordinary people across India had forgiven him by 2014 and were ready to make him prime minister. Many remained in denial till the results came out. If I have continued to see Modi as our only hope, it is because the alternatives are terrifying.
There is the Dynasty. And then there is worse and worser. There is Nitish Kumar whose only new idea is prohibition. He has become so obsessed with this idea that he is trying to pass a law that allows whole families to be jailed if one member is caught drinking. Has nobody told the Chief Minister of Bihar that prohibition always fails to stop people from drinking but always succeeds in creating criminal mafias? From reliable sources in Bihar I hear that relatives of powerful politicians are already making fortunes from illicit liquor.
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Viewmore;-Punjab Mobile Number Database