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articul8

articul8

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It's only like just under 1 in 5 of the world's working age population we're talking about :) - Looks like that bastard Modi (mates with Brent Labour MP Barry Gardiner) and admirer of Hitler, who was thought to be complicit in a murderous pogrom of Muslims, is going to win. Not good.
 
articul8 said:
It's only like just under 1 in 5 of the world's working age population we're talking about :) - Looks like that bastard Modi (mates with Brent Labour MP Barry Gardiner) and admirer of Hitler, who was thought to be complicit in a murderous pogrom of Muslims, is going to win. Not good.
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Yes much as I dislike the corrupt Congress Party and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, Modi is a fucking Nazi and directly implicated in the Gujarat pogrom.
 
Hadn't realised until recently that Modi's hardline approach extends not only to Muslims and other minorities but to his own underpants: he's a lifelong celibate (allegedly) and in India this actually wins you votes. Because in the West a person without spouse & kids is presumed to be a weirdo, a perv or gay (and hence near unelectable) - but in India it's a huge sell, at least to a devout Hindu constituency, because you tap into the guru-gandhi-sandhu thing AND you don't have a huge tribe of children to corruptly distribute money and power to.

Modi is bad bad news imho but you have to admit some of the populist stunts he pulls (like that thing about sitting down and having tea in the middle of the street to take questions) show up the leadership of the Congress party for the pampered princelings they are. Which is partly why Modi is so dangerous - and he does seem very dangerous indeed to me.
 
articul8 said:
It's only like just under 1 in 5 of the world's working age population we're talking about :) - Looks like that bastard Modi (mates with Brent Labour MP Barry Gardiner) and admirer of Hitler, who was thought to be complicit in a murderous pogrom of Muslims, is going to win. Not good.
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Modi is mates with Gardiner?
 
The scale of it is immense, more voters than the whole of Europe, some 800 million people. And they have electronic voting of some kind I heard.
 
Good interview/feature on that fascist murdering fuck on Doug henwood recently. Not been uploaded to the archive yet, but your podcast program should find it you search for henwood + behind the news.
 
Why a lot of big capital is swinging behind Modi:

Enough has been said and written about the statistical legerdemain that underlies Modi’s fanciful claims as an administrator who has transformed Gujarat. But in praising their Leader in this way, Corporate India is making an inadvertent admission: that what they admire the most about Modi is his love for the “Chinese model.” What is this model? It is one in which “clearances” for land, mines and the environment don’t matter. It is one in which awkward questions about gas pricing are never asked, let alone answered. Unlike the growing public support for strong institutional action against corruption that lies at the root of the visible disenchantment with the Congress, Corporate India is not interested in an end to “corruption” as such. Cronyism and rent-seeking have become an integral part of the way our biggest companies do business – a sort of ‘capitalism with Indian characteristics’ – and they are looking to Modi to run this system in a decisive, stable and predictable manner. What they want is a Leader who will manage contradictions and institutional obstacles as and when they emerge. The communalism of the hordes who follow the Modi cult is an added attraction for his corporate backers, provided the Leader is able to keep his flock in check. This is something Atal Bihari Vajpayee and even L.K. Advani were not always capable of doing. Narendra Modi is a more decisive and strong-willed man. He can be counted upon to keenly calibrate their deployment whenever a crisis requires a diversion.
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Modi, one time member of the RSS is a repellent little shit but this is Congresses fault
If they weren't all still in thrall to the Nehru dynasty and deeply glued to layers of corruption had the chance to do something good for India when the got rid of that last BJP govt ( actually Vajpayee wasnt a bad premier) but they sat on their arses and filled their pockets with crores of rupees in bribes
Modi should be less stupid in power than LK Advani (last leader of BJP) would have been
 
butchersapron said:
What do you mean by should? That you expect him to be better or that he must try really hard to be better?
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He is likely to be less stupid
LK started the Ram Rath Yatra culminating in him exhorting the mob to pull down the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya - which set the scene for the mass murders in Gujarat that Modi presided over
 
hipipol said:
He is likely to be less stupid
LK started the Ram Rath Yatra culminating in him exhorting the mob to pull down the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya - which set the scene for the mass murders in Gujarat that Modi presided over
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With the latter also linked to provoking, participating and then covering up other mass murders. Which is one reason that i'm asking if you are expecting him to be better or just hope he is - but, if the former, i'd be interested in why you think that.
 
AIUI the (projected) scale of this BJP victory exceeds even their expectation; they may even get an actual majority on their own...

Unofficial forecasts from India’s television news channels indicated his wider National Democratic Alliance had already won a clear majority with 315 seats, with the BJP alone winning 271 seats - one short of an absolute majority without the support of its coalition allies.
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butchersapron said:
With the latter also linked to provoking, participating and then covering up other mass murders. Which is one reason that i'm asking if you are expecting him to be better or just hope he is - but, if the former, i'd be interested in why you think that.
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Most likely a mix of the two
I think he is a more cunning and long term thinker than Advani so I am expecting him to be more circumspect and less likely to promote mass communal action as PM
However he is a true HIndutva devotee which begs other questions
I hope he wont do what he did after the Godhra train fire
He did not lead the murderous RSS/VHP mobs but at best he sat back and let it happen
I was very fearful of a bloodbath the last time the BJP got in but it didn't really happen
So I expect him to do nothing directly to promote inter-communal violence
I hope that he wont just let it happen
 
Also see:
The Polls Are Over
...and the corporations have a new puppet.

Last September, the Nielsen/Economic Times survey of 100 corporate leaders found that 74 per cent favoured Modi as prime minister, compared to just 7 per cent who favoured Rahul Gandhi.[1] But the drumbeat began much earlier. Telecom magnate Sunil Mittal declared in 2009 itself: “He [Modi] is running a state and can also run the nation."
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Mired in recession, the corporate sector in India, and foreign investors behind it, actually demand more State intervention, not less. They want land, other natural resources, and public sector assets at throwaway prices, in the face of mass resistance. They want the continuation of, and even increase in, giant subsidies to itself. They need the State to rig tariffs in its favour. They demand the encroachment of yet more vulnerable sectors to corporate capital. And they want the State’s strong arm to tackle an increasingly restive working class
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Given how dodgy the Congress party are, in terms of being neo-liberal lickspittles, how much worse will the BJP be?

Possibly less shy about violent repression of protest?

Some protests having been at least a bit effective over the last decade or so, one can imagine that the relevant ruling class elements might want to see their 'Nasty Party' take a turn at the helm.
 
India's Thatcher:
disillusionment with the Congress Party in India has led many voters to buy into the rhetoric of the charismatic Modi who is regarded by many as someone that can get things done. Like Thatcher, he is seen as a strong leader who will act when others have fudged and procrastinated
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