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The Left Demonizes India´s
Modi while his Popularity Soars
American Thinker, by Richard L. Benkin
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Posted By:supersid, 2/9/2013 1:35:26 PM
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| Though India´s nationwide elections are not scheduled until 2014, the campaign is already underway as the Conservative opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gets set to name Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its candidate for prime minister. (Snip) Modi´s Reaganesque message of optimism resonates with Indians discouraged with the ruling left-center Congress Party that has ruled for all but 12 years of India´s existence as a nation. Economic "malaise" has set in, confidence in the future has dropped, and people believe that the government is unable to deal effectively with either leftist or Islamist terror
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
supersid, 2/9/2013 1:38:02 PM (No. 9167582)
"Modi’s Manifesto for India" : http://www.niticentral.com/2013/02/modis-manifesto-for-india.html
Interestingly, Modi sounded quite a lot like former President Ronald Reagan of the US and Mrs Margaret Thatcher of Britain of the 1980s, both credited with the big push towards liberalisation in their respective countries. And quite a lot like Deng Zhao Ping of China, also from the 1980s, with his strong efforts to downsize Government and Government’s interference, and promote the private sector in its place.
Modi said: “The Government has no business doing business. Minimum Government, maximum governance is my principle”. Given that the Government of India has grown very unwieldy, slow, bureaucratic, and colossally expensive to maintain, this outlook is definitely most welcome.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bhkat, 2/9/2013 2:42:28 PM (No. 9167662)
India can be a superpower with someone like Modi at the helm.
He is not corrupt and takes crap from no one.
Most Indians are tired of being treated like second class citizens in their own country in order for Congress party pols to get votes from Muslims. For example, the Indian govt. which is supposed to be secular allows Muslims to legally have 4 wives. Not only that, they give money to Muslims who want to go to Mecca for their Hajj.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40, 2/9/2013 2:46:18 PM (No. 9167664)
Today, Modi is India´s Sarah Palin. The left will hound him, demonize him. The Media will suppress, distort, lie. But..it seems the people are waking up.
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