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India Inc. votes for fascist
Modi
WSN Bureau
 In
times when America is showing the world that there is a path that
can beat the old foggies, the old rivaliries, the old animosities
and that can take us to new roads leading to an equilitarian world,
India's big guns of business, industray and trade cam together to
hail a man widely seen as communal, perceived as guilty for killings
of innocent Muslims in riots and denied even a visa by the United
States because of those reasons.
But India Inc.
said that man should lead
India.
Narendra Modi of
the right wing Hindu nationalist party that roughshods over all
diversities and want all to call themselves Hindu first if they
really want to be considered good Indians, was hailed as the dream
Prime Minister to lead India.
Modi managed a
show of support from captains of industry that could have been the
envy of any chief minister or even a Prime Minister but would
clearly have been a major shame for anyone cheering for President
Barack Obama who would rather pursue the line that "All are equal,
all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure
of happiness."
The right
thinking people anywhere would have been perturbed at such a
development, reminiscent of the fascist
Germany before
WWII when industry had hailed Hitler as the man suited to business
interests and their idea of development. Nothing much has changed in
the fascist domain in all these years, it seems.
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Who said what
Anil Ambani : “Narendrabhai has done good…a person like him
should be the next leader of the country.”
Sunil Bharti Mittal: “Chief Minister Modi is known as a CEO, but
he is …running a state and can also run the nation...If one
Narendrabhai can be so much for Gujarat, imagine what is the
possibility of India having Narendrabhai as the next leader."
Ratan Tata:
"I think Modi should be the man to lead
India." |
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But what was
amusing in the BJP was that a rank communal leader like L K Advani
got pitched against a rank communal and killer leader Narendra Modi.
And they had credentials enough to clash with each other. One had
led a movement to communalise the entire country by leading a
movement and overseeing the destruction of Babri Masjid, a sacred
mosque of the Muslims, to raise a temple for the glory of Lord Rama.
The other had matched such pious plans with allowing and abetting
days of riots against the Muslims and whipping up partisan backlash
in
Gujarat
that had communalise the state boasting of
India's Mahatma
Gandhi.
Global investors
summit, called the Vibrant Gujarat summit organized at Ahmedabad,
ensured that the BJP's top rung gets into a disquiet mode. The BJP
leadership is uneasy.
The BJP,
embarrassed that the industry has chosen another communalist overits
own choice of a communalist for the Prime Ministerial chair, tried
to wriggle out by claiming that the praise was meant for the entire
party. But who could have been fooled?
Plans are now
afoot to promote Advani among the nation’s 100 million first-time
voters. A crore stickers would be distributed in a month and his
website popularised. Advani was named BJP’s candidate for Prime
Minister and the NDA, too backed his candidature during the
Gujarat polls in
December 2007 when leaders realised Modi would return to power. But
the announcement forced Modi to declare that he nursed no ambition
and preferred to be in Gujarat.
But what the
industry and business have done with their remarks was to expose as
to whose leader Modi was. Most politicians will be wary of receiving
encomiums from industrialists, but now it is clear that Modi is a
leader dear to a certain class.
21 January 2009
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