India was ruled for many years by a Hindu dynasty- it is the one Dr. Tharoor serves to this day. Sadly, its crown prince is mentally retarded and so Narendra Modi- a man from a modest background- is the democratically elected leader of the country. Modi has no children and can't pass on power to his son or daughter.
Writing for Project Syndicate, Tharoor claims, with typical maladroitness, tha t
India’s Hindu “Emperor” Wants a Third Term
Tharoor doesn't understand that Emperor's don't have fixed terms of office which they gain by winning elections.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was portrayed as an avatar of economic development in the 2014 election campaign,
whereas Manmohan was an actual economist. But Rahul cut him off at the knees by tearing up his ordinance. Since Rahul was unwilling to take the top job, Congress had no candidate. It was a case of Modi or nobody.
and a national-security warrior in 2019.
Because he punished Pakistan for a terror strike. The odd thing is that the Pakistanis don't seem to have minded greatly. I suppose they had learnt that the terrorists you train to cross the border might prefer to terrorize you rather than get shot by the Indian Army.
But both of those narratives have collapsed,
No. Both narratives have been proven to be based on fact. Modi's success is not a flash in the pan.
so the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has returned to basics, focusing on Modi’s Hindu-nationalist credentials.
Whereas Congress has returned to licking the arse of a retard. On the other hand, it is true that in Rajasthan, accusations that Congress was appeasing militant Islamists did help BJP win. Still, Congress ran a good campaign in Himachal and thus hasn't been utterly wiped out in the Hindi belt.
NEW DELHI – India begins the New Year with a general election looming, and the battle lines are already clear.
Sadly, this isn't the case though Congress has signalled that it will contest only 255 seats whereas they ran in 421 seats in 2019. In other words, Congress is seeking to create an alliance by giving up its claims in 166 seats. But even this won't be enough. There is speculation that Nitish will jump ship and go back to the BJP. Akhilesh is reported to be angry about getting nothing in MP. BSP made an interesting offer- make Mayawati the PM candidate and get help bringing out the Dalit vote in North India. This does not seem to have got any traction.
A pre-poll pact in Bengal now looks impossible. Mamta offered Congress only 2 seats and won't deal with the Left Front at all. The Congress leader in Bengal is now calling for President's rule because, he says, law and order has collapsed in that State.
What about Kerala- Tharoor's home state? Congress holds 15 of the 20 Lok Sabha seats. Will the CPM accept this? What about Rahul Gandhi's constituency? Surely the Muslim League will want it for an actual Muslim- not a guy who keeps visiting temples? Let Stalin accommodate the retard if he loves him so much. As for Akhilesh, it is said that he feels miffed about being frozen out of Madhya Pradesh, but, surely, his priority must be asserting leadership over the Yadavs in Bihar as well as UP. Still, it is in his interest to be seen to drive a hard bargain. It is said that Congress will settle for 20 seats. That would be a feather in his cap. One hopeful sign is that Kejriwal seems under pressure from the ED. In the short run he may be more malleable but will he really surrender anything in Punjab or Delhi? The wider problem is Congress's alliance with regional parties. What if they decide RaGa is useless and Congress a spent force? Maybe they need to play nice with the BJP so as to receive favourable treatment in the Budget. Tharoor himself has hinted this will be his last election. It may also be Congress's last election as a National Party. It may dissolve into Regional Congress Parties without a Dynastic, or any other sort of leader.
On one side is Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
which has allies in Maharashtra and the North East but is friendless in the deep South.
On the other is a slew of opposition parties that are largely, though not wholly, clustered around the Indian National Congress party, and together form the Indian National Developmental and Inclusive Alliance (INDIA).
This alliance is based on Congress offering itself up to be cannibalized by its allies. But that corpse has begun to stink.
The BJP’s narrative has undergone significant changes during the party’s decade in power. During the 2014 campaign, the BJP’s slogan was achhe din aane waale hain (“good times are coming”), and Modi, who had been chief minister of the prosperous state of Gujarat since 2001, was portrayed as an avatar of economic development.
a model, not an avatar. Avatar means 'incarnation'.
As prime minister, the narrative went, he would transform the Indian economy, bringing prosperity – including 20 million new jobs per year – to all.
Congress promised to destroy the economy- right?
Far from delivering broad-based prosperity, during his first term Modi oversaw a disastrous demonetization process that nullified 86% of India’s currency in one fell swoop, causing widespread hardship and mass unemployment.
The voters rewarded him for this. That's what sticks in Tharoor's craw.
So, for the 2019 election, a new narrative was needed.
No. The narrative was 'Rahul is a fucking cretin'. Then there was a Pak terror strike which Modi retaliated against. Suddenly people remembered why they had lost patience with Maun Mohan Singh and his master the retarded Clown Prince.
The BJP found it when, two months before the vote, Pakistan-based militants carried out a suicide attack in the Pulwama district of Kashmir, killing 40 Indian paramilitary troops. The BJP then went to work recasting the election as a national-security referendum. Modi, previously portrayed as the former CEO of Gujarat, Inc., was positioned as a warrior with a 56-inch chest who would keep India safe from Pakistani depredations. A much-hyped Indian air strike targeting an alleged militant base inside Pakistan sealed Modi’s new image and tilted the electorate in his favor, especially in the northern Indian states.
Tharoor is against attacking Pakistan. India should welcome terrorists from all countries with open arms- unless obviously, they prefer for India to bend down and uncover its buttocks.
But, during his second term, Modi again failed to live up to the narrative that got him elected. His assiduously cultivated tough-guy image might have played well against his domestic opponents, but it did not impress China, whose military has steadily encroached on its disputed Himalayan frontier with India.
Why is Modi fighting the Chinese? He should scream and run away- like Pandit Nehru.
It was on Modi’s watch that 20 Indian soldiers were killed in the first deadly clash with China in the area in at least 45 years. China has also managed to cut off India’s access to 26 of 65 points that used to be patrolled by both sides. Modi has failed to secure a withdrawal of Chinese troops and restore the status quo ante.
Tharoor is stroking himself off as he gloats over victories achieved against India by China and Pakistan.
So, the national-security narrative of 2019 has also lost credibility, compelling the BJP to devise yet another for the coming election As 2024 begins, they are seeking to portray Modi as a Hindu Hriday Samrat – an “emperor of Hindu hearts.”
Previously, they portrayed Modi as a Christian lady who was the Countess of Muslim cocks.
In a sense, the BJP is going back to basics with this approach. It has long been known as the party of Hindu nationalism,
which is totes bizarre in an overwhelmingly Hindu nation- right?
and Modi himself is associated with a notorious anti-Muslim pogrom that left nearly 2,000 people dead in Gujarat in 2002 (when he was chief minister).
Muslims killed Hindus in Godhra. Strangely, this resulted in the minority taking disproportionate casualties. Painting Modi as the avenger of innocent Hindu blood certainly helped Modi to rise and rise. Ahmed Patel warned against this.
It was partly to shake off this association
why shake it off? India is a Hindu country. Hindus like those who slaughter Muslims in revenge for their attacks on Hindus. Incidentally, the biggest killer of Muslims in this century is NATO. Tharoor resigned from the UN when he discovered what America was doing in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm kidding. Tharoor quit after he failed to get voted in as Secretary General. Ludicrously, he later tried to get voted in as Congress President. Working for the UN rots your brain.
that Modi was reinvented as an economic hero in the 2014 campaign, though even then, the BJP proclaimed Modi’s religious nationalism on billboards.
How strange! They should have proclaimed Modi's atheistic attachment to sodomy.
During his decade in office, Modi has increasingly asserted the dominance of Hindu Indians, who comprise some 80% of the country’s population.
Tharoor himself wrote a book titled 'Why I am a Hindu'. It turned out, Tharoor was a Hindu because he hates Hindutva- i.e. Hindu ecumenicism. He didn't get that you can be a Muslim and hate Hindutva. Indeed, it also helps to be Pakistani. As I said, working for the UN rots your brain.
A series of government actions advanced the BJP’s goal of unraveling the cosmopolitan secularism that characterized Indian politics for more than six decades after independence.
They didn't let an Italian lady run or ruin the country. How sad!
Now, the BJP is doubling down on its portrayal of Modi as a true Hindu, and thus a more authentic representative of “the people” than the left-leaning secularists he replaced.
He replaced a Sikh who answered to a Roman Catholic advised by a Muslim.
This effort will reach a crescendo on January 22, when Modi inaugurates the Ram Mandir temple in Ayodhya.
Tharoor refuses to attend. He is too busy going to Churches. There are a lot of Christians in his constituency.
The BJP long promised to build a grand Hindu temple at the site of the Babri Masjid,
so did Sonia Gandhi in 2002
a disused mosque that was demolished in 1992 by Hindu extremists who believed, along with many ordinary Hindus, that it had been built on the site of the birthplace of the Hindu god Shri Ram. The Ram Mandir temple represents the fulfillment of this promise, and its inauguration will be accompanied by considerable fanfare across India, particularly in the northern states. All this is expected to bolster support for the ruling party’s Hindutva doctrine.
Which Tharoor rejects because he is one stupid Hindu.
Soon after, on February 14, Modi will head to Abu Dhabi, where he will triumphantly inaugurate the first Hindu temple in the United Arab Emirates, the BAPS Hindu Mandir. Modi already touts his independent foreign policy and boasts that he has enhanced India’s global stature. The inauguration of the BAPS Hindu Mandir will be an opportunity for the BJP to augment this narrative with the claim that Modi has increased respect for Hinduism abroad.
Despite Tharoor's best efforts. Still, at least he tried.
The election is likely to be announced soon after that event. This will send a clear message: the BJP is seeking a third mandate for a Hindu hero. A vote for Modi, the party will suggest, amounts to an affirmation of pride in one’s Hindu identity.
Why is this cretin doing propaganda for Modi? Does he not understand that eighty percent of the voting population shares that Hindu identity? Moreover, Chief Minister Stalin's son and Congress President Kharge's son have stated their aim is to crush and destroy Sanatan Dharm Hinduism. INDIA is clearly an anti-Hindu bloc.
The INDIA bloc should not seek to fight Modi on his turf.
Like Congress it should run away.
With the BJP having laid claim to most of the weapons in the Hindu-chauvinist arsenal, the opposition cannot win on that battleground.
It can't win because it is shit.
Instead, INDIA should take a lesson from the 1992 presidential election in the United States, reminding voters (and itself) that “it’s the economy, stupid.”
Sonia played a blinder when she appointed an economist as PM. But Rahul cut the fellow off at the knees. It couldn't be the economy because Manmohan was powerless. So it was a choice between Rahul's stupidity and Modi's competence. That remains the state of play.
What happened to achhe din?
What happened to your wife, Dr. Tharoor? Did you drive her to kill herself?
What happened to 20 million jobs per year? What happened to broad-based economic growth? What happened to putting disposable income into the pockets and bank accounts of every Indian? In an election that will pit Hindutva against Indians’ material well-being, INDIA’s task is to put these questions at the center of the campaign. Stay tuned.
INDIA's task is to hammer out a seat sharing arrangement. It will fail. Don't bother to stay tuned. Tharoor is saying Congress is dead. Rahul wasted his time visiting temples. Tharoor wasted his time pretending to be a Hindu. The Opposition could make the economy an issue if they had a PM candidate with a strong reputation in that department. The problem is that RaGa fancies himself as a Sen-tentious type Development economist. For him, economic policy means screaming about Adani and then shitting yourself copiously. In politics, there is little point raising questions if the other side has better answers than you do.
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