Narendra Modi: 'Hero of the Masses' or 'Villain', as liberal English media have portrayed him for 17 years?

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Death toll increased to 27 and there were accusations of police didn't do much. It looks BJP leaders and pro-CAA protesters who gathered made inflammatory speeches with loud speakers. In these type of events, Gangs gets involved and take advantage of the situation. Here the impressions of ThePrint journalists who covered the ground. It looks most of the Pro-CAA protesters are outside the state.

 

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Death toll increased to 27 and there were accusations of police didn't do much. It looks BJP leaders and pro-CAA protesters who gathered made inflammatory speeches with loud speakers. In these type of events, Gangs gets involved and take advantage of the situation. Here the impressions of ThePrint journalists who covered the ground. It looks most of the Pro-CAA protesters are outside the state.

That was an interesting show, seek10. Thanks for sharing it.

Interesting what each young journalist said (a couple I could not understand due to language), as it was for most their very first violent encounter, and it was traumatic enough for them.

So, was able to get a sense of what was going on between groups - being displaced across the river from Delhi earlier in time; more or less becoming ghettoized, while before they were more communal. Then the agitators spoke (and later disappeared as they usual do) and the gangs came in. The neighbors, either Hindu or Muslim, are then caught up in it all. The police did nothing. Very sad.

 

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Mean while, death toll increased to 38, even though there is no major incident in last 2 days, number increase mostly due to more dead bodies were found. Police arrested AAP party (Ruling Delhi assembly) leader Tahir hussain for murdering IB (intelligence) official and dumping in the canal during these riots. They sealed his house and found hundreds of bags of rocks, petrol bombs, sling shots etc. AAP party suspended his party membership, until he his innocent.

I was looking for more information, to make sense of what happened, finding more information.

Interviews with locals and violent scenes: Muslim and Hindu shops, religious places burnt (depending on the location), mainly on the main roads. Side lines were spared because people living in those lines blocked them from entering. Most of rioters are outside, local politicians brought them. T

Tahir Hussain's house : According to reports, around 300 people used Tahir Hussian's high raised house (relatively) to throw stones, petrol bombs etc. down, while he supervised with a stick(as per neibhors). Of course, he denies it. neighbors says, they used this house for 3 days during the riots, some days from 7AM to 9PM. ahir hussain factory and house centre point of the stones, petrol bomhs and most of the visuals.

Another area of violence : This is from Mujaffarbad where shaheen bagh located, where another AAP leader organized the riots. Onlooker say 15,000 people marched with new blue helmets , sticks in hand, burning every thing that is not marked as "No NRC" in the mile stretch of very busy area with Muslim shops or the legislature's shopping untouched. Interestingly, liberal media showed a school that is burned saying "they didn't leave the schools", but ignoring the neighboring school untouched, found the removed CCTV camera's and petrol bombs.

Interesting coincidences when US leaders comes to India ( english subtitles): Whenever US president comes, there are more protests. Day before Trump arrived there are 3 more places were blocked. Jafrabad station is one that new blockage area popped up with muslim woman in the front. Every thing is blamed on BJP leader Kapil mishra who gave 3 days ultimatum to the police to clear the road. liberal media focuses on the slogans like "Jai shriram" as a sign of instigation, keep changing their focus point to hide their misreporting, while ignoring what other side started.

There are many bizarre video's came out of the Shaheen Bagh protesters who were locked the road for more than 70 days. This shaheen Bagh crowd some days they shout "Independence from Hindu's/Modi", "No other God except Allah", "Separate India" and when exposed, flip it waving Indian flags when exposed. Liberal media including ThePrint( founder Sekhar gupta, who calls him a proud liberal, tend to be little better than hard core liberals like NDTV in confessing his mistakes).

But, Most people stayed out of it, leaving the noisy lefties make themselves exposed( as it showed in Modi 1.0 days). With Shaheen Bagh master mind's arrest ( kept anti-CAA gang went into defensive and even they became Hanuman Bhakt over night) and New Delhi election results ( BJP tried to capitalize on it, but didn't work out), it is clear that there is no political advantage of it. Thing should have gone away. Delhi elections softened hard line West bengal CM who talked about civil war and UN intervention over CAA. After 2019 elections, all opposition realized that, the more they attack Modi, he becomes more popular.

A saffron victory lurks within BJP's defeat in Delhi Assembly election 2020: Here's how

Even as early results show AAP will win in Delhi but with a lower seat and vote share than in 2015, the politics that the BJP represents just won another silent battle

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The man who had once called Modi "a coward and a psychopath" did not utter a single harsh word against the prime minister throughout the campaign.

But, the protests in Shaheen Bagh became a sour point. With BJP crowd challenging them, more seems have popped up and this violence started.

It does looks like, some body organizing to keep the fire alive over. That's why some started speculating that some body wants to turn it to "India's Maidan".

Funny, how liberandu ( i came across this word for the first time today) went with "Violence doesn't have identity or religion" narration. It is this biased narration continue to give increased popularity to "Sickularism". We know they can't stop because their fear is so high of losing the power once they enjoyed. Muslims, secularism is only a cover. Just like in US with Trump and conservatives.

Interesting what each young journalist said (a couple I could not understand due to language), as it was for most their very first violent encounter, and it was traumatic enough for them.

What I find it strange vising after 12 years is the overwhelming young generation that is every where ( airports, roads, work force etc.). I even found it bizarre, but it makes sense if we see the history. In 1940/950, couples tend to have lot of children as the infant death rates are high, by 80/90's couples limited themselves to 2 children. So Suddenly the older generation disappeared leaving large young generation ( 800 million below 35 years) at the helm of nation. In that way these young generation haven't seen the violence of the communal violence much, except Modi being accused of mastermind of 2002 riots . Any way, walking riot torn area's is traumatic enough.

While China went with 2 child policy in 70's, India went with soft approach of "family Planning" encouraging the 2 children. Whether families followed or not question of big religious controversy, confusing interpretation of numbers and focus of the writers. While Hard Hindu factions argue that Hindu's followed small family( which is true) and muslims went with large families, thus increasing their numbers. Muslim factions argue that "Our rate of growth is low " between so and so period, so Hindu factions are Islamophobic. If one spends time, even muslims are slowly reducing their family size recent decades.

So, was able to get a sense of what was going on between groups - being displaced across the river from Delhi earlier in time; more or less becoming ghettoized, while before they were more communal. Then the agitators spoke (and later disappeared as they usual do) and the gangs came in. The neighbors, either Hindu or Muslim, are then caught up in it all. The police did nothing. Very sad.

The whole CAA protests are silly in my opinion. The information, Govt. is asking is more or less similar to what they are providing to Bank account opening or drivers license. But, this information tend to be very stale ( or short term stay information) and patchy, so every country asks the little more information to give citizenship. Most of the $US 200 billion Modi Govt. spent in his 1.0 was not given just like that- strict accountability( which didn't exist before) was established through out the hierarchy, with proper documentation. This is the biggest contributor of his popularity in a country where people for generations gave up HOPE of any change mainly due to politics and money.

Govt. finally agreed to talk to the Shaheen Bagh protesters , nothing came out of it. Supreme court created mediation committee, but nothing came out of it. There are statements saying, if they leave Shaheen Bagh, they won't be able to build momentum later. So, this is about momentum behind the protest rather than whether protest is justified or not and liberal media loves to peddle "feel insecure" narration. If "feel insecure" is the justification, what should hindu's who feel insecure in muslim areas do.

White washing 1984 Sikh pograms: There is another angle is liberals don't mention ( or try to whitewash) is 1984 pogram of Sikhs ( as much as 30,000 killed, Sikhs were hanged on the streets of Delhi and decade of daily terrorism violence in Punjab) after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Indian used to daily dose of news of violence in Punjab in 80's and Kashmir since 90's.

This 1984 pograms created lot of migration of Punjab to west, who call for Khalistan( separate Punjab Nation). Some of the prominent folks with these sympathies are in Canadian Govt. and its political system and in Washington. They tend to make news once in a while. Unfortunately, they don't have support on the ground in agriculturally rich Punjab. After 1984, Indian Govt.did some thing unique in India at that time . They suspended all political process in Punjab and gave a police officer called KPS Gill, full control to bring it to normalcy. He was credited with winning the hearts of the Punjabi's with elimination of terrorists who have sympathies across punjab (due to the pogram ) and bringing back the normalcy. So, to the disappointment of Pakistan and Khalistan supporters, Punjabi's are not in mood for any more violence.

If liberals mention 1984 riots, their narration of Modi as the monster of India will fall apart.

That's why Indians doesn't give too much credit to "democracy" as Westerners version of "Solution to all Problems". In fact, Indians don't dislike Chinese communist party's control over its people. In the name of "democracy", Indians only fought with themselves, while Chinese are doing what is needed for their country. This doesn't mean they don't like to freedom to talk, but abuse of it became so in-cohesive internal bickering that they like Modi's no nonsense tough talk and delivery. In fact, Modi made it clear that he will implement CAA. some how his talk became Nazism.

 

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More dead bodies were found in a canal, death toll increased to 40. Mean while, there were some viral video's came out showing how the arrested AAP party counsellor's involvement in accumulating stones, protestors using his house to burn it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1232670834851864576

Here is another video which shows Tahir Hussain, who claimed innocence organizing things before the riots. Another viral video which is claimed that protesting woman at shaheen bagh getting paid.

Normally, this happens all the time during elections. Unfortunately this time, it led to riots and 40 people killed and more than 200 injured.

 

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Opinion | Friendship is one of the things about India that 2014 changed

Old bonds are snapping as India gets polarized but it’s ‘liberals’ who seem to be pulling them apart

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Old bonds are snapping as India gets polarized but it’s ‘liberals’ who seem to be pulling them apart

All of us know that something changed in India in 2014 when Narendra Modi became Prime Minister. The sheer volume of books and opinion pieces trying to explain that change is overwhelming—though very often a felicity with language cloaks pure bile, and the analysis is hardly ever neutral. And this is unlikely to end anytime soon. Nowadays, writers begin their diatribes with “When we look back 20 years from now…" or “When we tell the next generation…"

Yes, India is more polarized than ever in living memory, but I don’t wish to harp on the obvious. My concerns have to do with a trait that has helped us survive and thrive physically and emotionally since the dawn of mankind—friendship.

Nearly two-and-a-half millennia ago, Aristotle defined three types of friendship. In utility friendships, people come together for instrumental benefits, like business partnerships or strategic alliances. Pleasure friendships are based on mutual enjoyment of a hobby or sport, like members of a cine club where one doesn’t care to know about others’ personal lives, or men who meet every Friday night to play bridge. Aristotle termed them “incomplete" friendships, being characterized by self-interest. Once those interests are served, the incentive for keeping up the relationship vanishes.

The third type, what the Greek philosopher called “friendship of the good", is rare and precious. It’s based upon mutual goodwill, and an unselfish desire to help the other person be her best possible self. You’re comfortable being honest and open with her and can criticize her without causing offence. She knows you’re always looking out for her best interests and will not be judged. This is “true" friendship.
In post-2014 India, many friendships that had appeared “true" are breaking up. And strangely enough, it is the so-called “liberals", the ones supposed to be more open to diverse viewpoints and less closed-minded than the “right wing", who are more likely to end these relationships. People tell me how their “liberal" friends started forgetting to return calls, kept declining dinner invitations on flimsy excuses, then stopped calling them over. Of course, it took some time for the poor sods to realize what was happening. That they were now “bhakts", “sanghis", “fascists".

The branding is quick and easy. A friend, let’s call him Siddharth, whose “sanghi-ness" and Hindu fundamentalism extends only to a deep study of the Upanishads and the Mahabharata, recounts how a decades-old friend was nonplussed when Siddharth walked in, uninvited, at his mother’s funeral. He had quietly unfriended Siddharth, and thought that the feeling was mutual—surely Siddharth too now hated him because he was “liberal"? A cousin, a long-time Bharatiya Janata Party supporter, tells me how some “liberal" friends have cut him out. “They think I’ve changed, but it’s actually them," he said. “What I’ve felt for them for years remains the same, but suddenly I’m judged on the basis of my vote." He says with a laugh, “I’m low-class now."

This is not an India-specific phenomenon. A Pew Research Center study carried out in the US in 2017, six months after Donald Trump took over as president, found nearly half of liberal Democrats—47%—saying that if a friend supported Trump, it would put a strain on their friendship. Only 13% of Republicans said a friend’s support of Hillary Clinton would similarly affect their relationship. In fact, 68% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters said they found it “stressful and frustrating" to talk to people who have a different opinion of Trump. About 50% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters said the same. So who exactly are liberal and tolerant?

While the 2016 presidential campaign was on, another Pew study showed that 47% of people who planned to vote for Clinton didn’t have any close friends who were Trump supporters. The corresponding figure for Trump voters was 31%. Is there a bubble here, a seeking of homogeneity that the “right wing" is routinely accused of?
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Sandipan Deb is a former editor of ‘Financial Express’, and founder-editor of ‘Open’ and ‘Swarajya’ magazines

 

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There are reports that shaheen bagh (ground 0 of the protests) lost its steam. Most of major national english media or google, who splash shaheen bagh news on the front page, doesn't have the news about this news. There are reports that it is the same in other cities they organized, found to be few people or none in the tents for protestors. Speculation range from "ran out of money" , " What the arrested AAP legislator told police". He organized the riots from his factory/house and arrested for killing of intelligence official who lives on the same street. They imposed section 144 ( making it illegal to 4 people gather at the location).

Shaheen Bagh turns empty as media stops covering it

The protesters at Shaheen Bagh seem to have deserted the protest site on Thursday | OpIndia News

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Indian agencies point to Pak link in anti-CAA protests

HT learns that Indian intelligence agencies have picked up cross-country electronic chatter where people believed to be Pakistani operatives are berating their sources for not organizing enough crowds for anti-CAA protests on March 3-4 despite the funding at their disposal.

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HT learns that Indian intelligence agencies have picked up cross-country electronic chatter where people believed to be Pakistani operatives are berating their sources for not organizing enough crowds for anti-CAA protests on March 3-4 despite the funding at their disposal. In one such call, heard by HT, the handler curses his contact and adds that he has to explain the lack of crowds to his higher ups. While the context of the call is clear, HT cannot establish when it was made, or the identity of the two speakers,

There are change in the stance of few state governments that opposed CAA/NPR during the peak of protests.

Why Jagan Mohan Reddy wants NPR data in 2010 format now?

Taking cue from his Bihar counterpart, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has favoured NPR data collection in 2010 format. He has appealed to the Modi government not to push 2020 format for NPR exercise.

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Bowing to people pressure in the state Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has changed his stand on the contentious National Population Register (NPR) exercise. He has now appealed to the central government to update the NPR by collecting population data in the 2010 format.

This comes close on the heels of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's similar assertion that the Centre should collect data for NPR.

Jagan Mohan Reddy had earlier extended support to the Citizenship Amedment Act in Parliament and also to the NPR exercise. But on Tuesday, he took to his personal handle on Twitter, to say that there are apprehensions in a section of society. He cited it as the reason why he is opposed to the NPR in the new format.

However, it is not clear yet what the state would do if the central government decided to go ahead with the NPR exercise relying on the 2020 format. The basic difference between the two formats is in collecting data of parents' place and date of birth that created apprehensions particularly among Muslims.

"Some of the questions proposed in the NPR are causing insecurities in the mind of minorities of my State. After consultations within our party, we have decided to request the central government to revert the conditions to those prevailing in 2010," he tweeted.
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As many as 15 details of identity of individual members of each household were gathered during the 2010 head count. But in 2020, the Centre wants to collect additional information pertaining to mother tongue, places and date of births of both parents even if they are not living in the same house, or even alive.

 

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Mean while, death toll increased to 38, even though there is no major incident in last 2 days, number increase mostly due to more dead bodies were found. Police arrested AAP party (Ruling Delhi assembly) leader Tahir hussain for murdering IB (intelligence) official and dumping in the canal during these riots. They sealed his house and found hundreds of bags of rocks, petrol bombs, sling shots etc. AAP party suspended his party membership, until he his innocent.

While US is going through a phase, India went through 4 months back, this news item came out.

Delhi riots case: Tahir Hussain 'prepared for riots well in advance', spent Rs 1.30 crore, says chargesheet

Delhi riots: The chargesheet which runs into 1,030 pages names Tahir Hussain, his brother and 15 others as accused relying upon the testimonies of over 75 witnesses.

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Delhi riots case: Tahir Hussain 'prepared for riots well in advance', spent Rs 1.30 crore { $US170,000}, says chargesheet

Delhi riots: The chargesheet which runs into 1,030 pages names Tahir Hussain, his brother and 15 others as accused relying upon the testimonies of over 75 witnesses.
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The Delhi Police in its fresh chargesheet filed in the Karkardooma court in connection with the northeast Delhi riots case has claimed that suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain "prepared for the riots well in advance".

The chargesheet which runs into 1,030 pages names Hussain, his brother and 15 others as accused relying upon the testimonies of over 75 witnesses. The chargesheet hints that Hussain had planned the riots well in advance because all the CCTV cameras installed near his house were shut.

During the investigation, when the Crime Branch team scanned the CCTV footage, the police could not find anything. The chargesheet also states that when riots broke out in Chand Bagh on February 24 and 25 Hussain was present inside his house in Chand Bagh.

He was clearly seen on the rooftop of his Chand Bagh house on February 24 and as per the voluminous document, he was the one instigating people for the riots.

According to the chargesheet, Hussain played a major role in the violence and it is alleged that he was the "mastermind" of the riots that broke out in the Chand Bagh area.

"Investigation has revealed that there was a deep rooted conspiracy to cause riots in North East Delhi. Tahir Hussain, a politician of Aam Aadmi Party and sitting councillor in EDMC, Delhi, played a pivotal role in the incident. His younger brother, Shah Alam was also arrested," the police said in a statement.

"Recovery of crates containing glass bottles having some liquid filled in them and their necks stuffed with pieces of cloth, which were used/to be used as Molotov cocktails, large number of bricks and stone pieces and three catapults from the house of accused Tahir Hussain further point towards the conspiracy and the extent of preparation for causing riots in the area," the statement said further.

The chargesheet states that the probe revealed that Hussain had funded the violence that broke out in the area for which he spent Rs 1.30 crore.

When IANS visited Tahir's house soon after the riots, it had a number of petrol bomb bottles, acid pouches, and stones scattered on the rooftop and inside. On the second floor of the house, 10 to 15 pouches of acid were found along with same number of petrol bombs.

Even on the rooftop of the four-storey building a number of petrol bombs were found intact with a catapult that was used to launch the petrol bombs and stones on nearby houses.

The fresh chargesheet, however, states that the crime branch has not been able to ascertain the source of the said petrol bombs yet. The stones which were found were prepared in his house, the document states.

"It was interesting to find out that on 22.2.2020, Tahir got his pistol released from Police Station Khajuri Khas. This is just one day prior to the starting of riots in Delhi. He was found connected to Khalid Saifi and Umar Khalid who are part of a larger group of persons who were organising riots and protests in Delhi," the statement of the police said.

Communal violence had broken out in the parts of Delhi in February after clashes between pro- and anti-Citizenship Amendment Act agitators spiralled out of control, leaving 53 dead.

 

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Indian Income tax department raided BBC offices in the country for 3 days. It was not clear what they found from the raid yet. It is was obvious that it is in response to BBC's documentaries on Modi's alleged complacency in stopping Godhra riots. India banned, got it removed from social media. Indian opposition party made big noise for few days and disappeared. Ruling party branded it as "colonial mind set" and branded opposition parties are also have the same mindset. That's good enough for silencing the opposition.

There are pro-Modi protests in London and other places. UK prime minister Rishi Sunak distanced himself from BBC and some "Lord"'s criticized BBC and others supported. It looks Pakistan-origin staff are behind the documentary.

Growing India Clout Prompts US, Europe to Ignore Modi Crackdown

(Bloomberg) -- Just hours after Indian tax authorities searched the BBC’s offices on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held phone calls with Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron touting record orders of 470 planes by Air India Ltd.

The juxtaposition, intentional or not, marked a vivid demonstration of Modi’s success at leveraging India’s geopolitical position and economic promise to maintain good relations with the US and its allies even as his government becomes bolder in cracking down on dissent at home.

The BBC probe, which continued on Wednesday, came weeks after the British broadcaster aired a documentary examining Modi’s role in deadly 2002 riots in his home state of Gujarat. Although the government sought to frame the move as unrelated to the documentary, his Bharatiya Janata Party held a news conference the same day in which a representative called the BBC “the most corrupt corporation in the world.”

“India is a country which gives an opportunity to every organization and individual as long as you are willing to abide by the constitution of the country and you don’t have a hidden agenda,” BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia told reporters. “As long as you don’t spew venom.”

The pressure on the BBC represents an escalation of Modi’s efforts over the past decade to snuff out dissent. In 2021, the Washington-based group Freedom House downgraded India to “partly free” from “free” due to discriminatory policies against Muslims and increased harassment of journalists, civil-society groups and other government critics — a characterization that Modi’s government has rebutted.

Even so, Modi has faced few consequences from foreign investors or governments like the US that regularly criticize China over human rights. He’s been touting India as the “mother of democracy” while preparing to host world leaders at the Group of 20 leaders summit later this year.

One major reason is that India’s geopolitical importance to the US and its allies has only increased as American policy makers seek to thwart Beijing’s rise, with an increased focus on the Quad grouping that also includes Japan and Australia. India also remains one of the fastest expanding economies at a time of sluggish growth around the globe.

“The world certainly isn’t about to turn on Modi or India,” said Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Washington-based Wilson Center. “On the contrary, most of the international community continues to view India as a strategic player and key trade and investment partner.”

I watched the documentary just out of curiosity. Here is the Link . BBC surely cherry picked data points to project it as Muslims are in danger, a theme is too sweet for western sentiments even after for all these years.

The crux of 50 min documentary is - Modi didn't allow the Police to intervene for 3 days and allowed angry mob to do what will inevitably happen as a reaction to 59 Hindu pilgrims burned live in a train. There are some people who vouch for this direction from Modi , few were either got killed , one police official was jailed.

They have some silly reasons why Modi continue to get elected - He assures security to the Majority from Minority extremism. Ridiculous argument to hide his developmental track record.
For me, the highlight of the documentary is as a new chief minister(of one small state) reply to BBC journalist - "British has no right to talk about Human rights". Making that type of statement needs some serious guts. But he is full of it.

There many accusations that has no basis that was thrown as a universal reality based on few person's views. These are nothing new and it is the part of daily noise during his 1st term as PM, but went into silence after his 2nd term election. ALL the political parties shouted this for 5 years about Hindus killing Muslims, changed their dress and mannerism started visiting temples after the election.

Given that it is banned, there will be more curiosity and people will watch one way or other. I don't think it will much difference given that Modi had been in this storm for 2 decades, each crisis made him man he is today. He had grown from literal No body to 2 time prime minister with EXTRAORIDNARY influence on the nation. Though his party has 2 term limit for PM post, he is going to run another term, People will be too glad to have him for another 2 terms. Rallies in support of him is just an indication.

His contributions in rejuvenating the nation is too many for average Indian who has seen the same crap that came with different party wrappers for more than 6 decades. His popularity ratings are very high consistently (EXTREMELY RARE feet in a diverse country like India) and India even surpassed Britain in GDP in 2022 after almost 200 years(75 years after Independence) despite the COVID.

This noise is a same worn out recoding, Modi will show development, Others will cry "Muslims are get massacred" and Modi's BJP will say "Sicularism" (aka Minority appeasement) and at the end people will choose what is good for their pockets.

Why did BBC released this documentary? May be they want to lay some seeds of doubts before 2024 election? May be they want some stirring and Pakistani-origin staff are too gleeful to supply? May be more.

 

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Why did BBC released this documentary? May be they want to lay some seeds of doubts before 2024 election? May be they want some stirring and Pakistani-origin staff are too gleeful to supply? May be more.

No doubt. Just look at the opposite views with arming Ukraine. Pakistan just did (US armed), India has abstained (Russian armed). The UK, via their BBC mouth piece, is historical at dividing and propagating the empire of the willing's message.

Here is a statement on India:

Meanwhile, the foreign minister of a war-ravaged but unconquered Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, laments that it is “morally inappropriate” of India to argue that Europeans are also buying Russian energy. India is buying cheap Russian oil because of “our suffering”.

As if India does not know what suffering is and the hands behind it.

 

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With 2024 Indian parliament elections are "around the corner", all sorts hype comes into highlight. Normally, it is internal thing, Western media doesn't bother much except few presentations here and there. But this time, It looks it will be different.

This can be expected given that George Soros openly came out against Modi in the wake of his ally Businessman Gautham Adani controversy ( A billionaire who rose ridiculously high using very questionable methods, exposed by Hindenberg Research that saw him losing $120 billions in few weeks). As usual, There were opposition ruckus in Parliament. Surprisingly, George Soros decided to come out against Modi.

Modi had been shutting down Soros (and others) NGO's in large numbers (more than 20,000 in total) during the last 9 years for lack of proper tax filings. It was surprising Soros decided to come out now. Probably something happened behind the scenes. India is hosting this years G20 summit, there is some serious differences of opinion regarding what should be agenda and common statements mainly related to Ukraine conflict.

Latest in this list is an incident in which an Mafia Gangster turned Muslim Politician Atiq Ahmed is killed by some amateur Gangster aspirants in front of the camera for fame. It is rumored that dead mafia Politician is master mind behind at least 100 killings related to elections and other things.

Indian gangster and former politician Atiq Ahmed was shot dead during a live broadcast on Saturday night while he and his brother were being escorted by police and talking to reporters. The murder took place in the city of Prayagraj, also known as Allahabad, in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

Atiq Ahmed, who was serving a life sentence for kidnapping, and his brother Ashraf were being escorted to a hospital for a medical check-up.

Handcuffed and flanked by officers, Ahmed was talking to several journalists when he was shot at point-blank range. His brother was also killed. A police officer and a reporter were injured.

How did CNN covered the story?

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Given that he is a former politician, one can say he is a Lawmaker, though he was convicted and serving life sentence for enforcing his own Mafia laws. The usual spin will be Muslims are getting massacred because the killed person is a muslim.

 

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Given that he is a former politician, one can say he is a Lawmaker, though he was convicted and serving life sentence for enforcing his own Mafia laws. The usual spin will be Muslims are getting massacred because the killed person is a muslim.

More on the "Lawmaker" who suddenly became "Robin Hood"

 

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With election season around the corner, common man will come across different data points. Here is one on how Modi transformed India in the last 10 years.

Morgan Stanley: 'This India is different from what it was in 2013' | India Business News - Times of India

India Business News: NEW DELHI: Morgan Stanley, the US-based global investment bank, has come out with a report detailing India's transformation under the Narendra Modi go.

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NEW DELHI: Morgan Stanley, the US-based global investment bank, has come out with a report detailingIndia's transformation under the government. In a big endorsement for the Modi government, the report highlights how India has undergone significantchanges because of the government's policy choices, especially since 2014.

"This India is different from what it was in 2013. In a short span of 10 years, India has gained positions in the worldorder with significant positive consequences for the macroand market outlook," the report said.

The report, India Equity Strategy and Economics: How India Has Transformed in Less than a Decade, highlights the 10 big changes, mostly because of India's policy choices, and their implications for its economy and market.

Morgan Stanley's Research had taken these 10 big changes: Supply-side policy reforms, formalisation of the economy, Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, digitalizing social transfers, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, flexible inflation targeting, focus on FDI, India's 401(k) moment, government support for corporate profits and MNC sentiment at multiyear high, while filing the report.

Listing the 10 big changes that have happened since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014, the brokerage said bringing corporate tax at par with peers and infrastructure investment picking pace are one of the biggest supply-side policy reforms.
Also, the rising collection of GST -- the uniform tax that replaced more than a dozen different central and state taxes-- and the rising share of digital transactions as a percentage of GDP indicate the formalisation of the economy.

Also, the rising collection of GST -- the uniform tax that replaced more than a dozen different central and state taxes -- and the rising share of digital transactions as a percentage of GDP indicate the formalisation of the economy.





Transfer of subsidies to accounts of beneficiaries, insolvency and bankruptcy code, flexible inflation targeting, focus on FDI, government support for corporate profits, a new law for real estate sector and MNC sentiment at multi-year high were other significant changes, it said.


Also, there has been a major shift in the consumption basket following lower volatility in inflation and shallower interest rate cycles. All these have led to a profit boom for corporate and stock market investors and a breakdown in correlation with global oil prices. "Indian stocks have become more defensive," it said.

The steady increase in manufacturing and capex as a percentage of GDP is likely to result in "a new cycle in manufacturing and capex, as we estimate the share of both to rise in GDP by approximately 5ppt by 2031," it said, adding India's export market share will rise to 4.5 per cent by 2031,nearly 2x from 2021 levels, with broad-based gains across goods and services exports.

"As India's per capita income increases from $2,200 currently to about $5,200 by 2032, this will have major implications for change in the consumption basket, with an impetus to discretionary consumption," it said. "We expect inflation to remain benign and less volatile, which would imply shallower rate cycles. Shallower rate cycles could also imply more benign equity market cycles."




Key risks however remain a global recession, a fragmented general election outcome in 2024, a sharp rise in commodity prices due to supply outages and shortages in skilled labour supply

Most striking of all for me is the following graph (25 billion to 2200 billion Rupees direct transfer in the span of 10 years) . By using technology, the money is transferred directly to needy by cutting down the entire corruption hierarchy (politicians and bureaucracy). It is not just giving away , it includes loans that people are made to accountable to pay back.


The endemic bureaucratic corruption exist for 200 years since East India company days. There are many high profile corruption investigations on politicians and bringing back the swiss transfers (during Modi era) might not have yielded intended results due to their practicalities. But, for the common man, it is a complete change. 5 years back, when Modi govt. announced for 4 Trillion dollar economy, most laughed. But it steadily growing and standing at 3.2 Trillion despite covid mess.

 

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Surprisingly, George Soros decided to come out against Modi.

Here is a video on Soros, his connections to Indian anti- Govt. organizations and their activities including organizing events for high profile politicians like Rahul Gandhi, funding leftist activists, Muslim and Sikh terrorist organizations etc. The video is in Hindi and has English subtitles (you can enable it). First part of the video is about his history and how he ripped off countries like Britain, Indonesia and Malaysia etc.

 

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It seems Trudeau got a dressing down from Modi on a recent trip to India. He had the same reception from Xi in China recently.

 

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It seems Trudeau got a dressing down from Modi on a recent trip to India. He had the same reception from Xi in China recently.

I saw that, chuckled and wondered whether media wants to make fun of him as a bite click marketing. Modi complained about Khalistani's (sikh separatists who attacked on Indian diplomatic assets in Australia) even to Australian prime minister during his recent visit. That is not to the level of snubbing. Any way, there are few things to consider here.

• Soros came out openly against Modi recently. Obama openly made statements of balkanization in the name of wonderful "democracy". Puppets of western liberal ideology following that is no surprise. Obama’s words about Bharat’s Balkanization show that liberal-globalists are still a threat
• Khalistani movement: India with 1.4 billion people, each state is like a different country(to the size EU states), though 80% belong to one religion, but all sorts of variations exist. Before Independence, british consistently teased the idea of muslim state, hindu state, princely states ( 562 states - most of them as the size of city , few big as a State). Ultimately, it's M.K.Gandhi's (and his Congress Party) popularity prevailed, though Gandi hated the final result of 2 state split.
  • Khalistani movement is a spill over of the 80's Cold war in Afghanistan: It was a long story. 80's Cold war dynamics, Pakistani's General Zia-ul Huk's position of Pakistan as the mercenary state for the Cold war got lot of weapons and funding from West. Some of it got transferred to Sikh terrorists that led to Operation Blue star to remove the terrorists from Sikh sacred Golden temple that angered Sikh community. That led to assassination of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, that led to communal violence in New Delhi and Sikh dominated states Haryana and Punjab that some consider killed ten's of thousands of Sikhs. These states came back to normalcy in a decade and people almost forgot about it and Kashmir militancy dominated since then. There are many Sikhs who migrated to West in 80's and90's, got influencical , has harbored certain amount of resentment, that takes the form of separate country, though these states more or less forgotten about the period.
  • Sikhs in Canada has lot more political influence and current Trudeau Govt. relies on Sikh politicians for their survival. This is not that powerful in US or in UK.
• Recently Trudeau has accused India of killing of person, India deemed Terrorist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/20/hardeep-singh-nijjar-killing/

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was in a hurry to leave the temple. It was Father’s Day, and his wife and two sons were waiting for him.
On his way out of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, Nijjar’s Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia, he called his 21-year-old son. The family had made pizza, Balraj Singh Nijjar told his father, and had prepared the sweet pudding seviyan, his favorite dessert.

“Have dinner ready,” Nijjar told his son. “I’m coming home.”
But outside the gurdwara, three men were waiting. They had masks. They were armed.
Less than 10 minutes later, the phone at the Nijjar home rang again.
“Did you hear?” a family friend asked the son. “Something happened at the gurdwara. Your dad was shot.”

No arrests have been made in the brazen June 18 killing of Nijjar, the 45-year-old president of the temple. But from the outset, his family and friends in the local Sikh community were all but certain who was behind the brazen attack: The Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Nijjar was an outspoken leader of the separatist Khalistan movement, which aims to establish an independent Sikh state in the Punjab region of India. The movement is outlawed in India.
On Monday, precisely three months after Nijjar’s killing, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons that investigators were pursuing “credible allegations” linking Nijjar’s slaying to agents of the Indian government.

India’s Foreign Ministry rejected the claim, which it said is an attempt to distract from the real problem: Canada harboring Indian dissidents whom New Delhi considers terrorists. Each country has since expelled a top diplomat from the other.

Nijjar, a Canadian citizen who was born in India, ran a plumbing business in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver. But it was his leadership in the Khalistan movement that attracted the attention of Indian security services.

In July 2022, India’s National Investigation Agency accused him of conspiring to murder a Hindu priest in Punjab and labeled him a “fugitive terrorist.” The NIA, India’s counterterrorism agency, published his home address in Surrey and announced a reward of 1 million rupees — or about $12,000 — for information leading to his apprehension.
Nijjar’s family and friends say he advocated for a peaceful and democratic path to a Sikh homeland. Before his death, he was organizing a referendum among the Sikh diaspora to gauge support for Khalistan. More than 100,000 people turned up at the gurdwara this month to vote, community members say.

• In a rare move, Trudeau Govt. expelled a Indian diplomat calling him RAW (India's security agency equivalent to American CIA) agent. India retaliated back with expulsion of Canadian diplomat in New Delhi. Canada and India make tit-for-tat envoy expulsions over killing of Sikh leader
• There is an another killing in Canada today in which Sikh Gangster turned Khalistani separatist who ran away from India to Canada in 2017. The killing was dubbed as inter gang violence. Sukhdool Singh | Sukha Duneke: Who was Sukhdool Singh or Sukha Duneke, gangster-turned-Khalistani terrorist killed in Canada?

Sukhdool Singh, also known as Sukha Duneke, a former gangster with alleged ties to terrorism, was reportedly shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Canada. The incident is said to have occurred on Wednesday, with the information coming to light on Thursday morning. He was a member of the Khalistan movement in Canada.

Who was Sukhdool Singh or Sukha Duneke?

Sukha Duneke, originally from Moga in Punjab, had been closely associated with the designated terrorist Arsh Dalla, a key figure in the Khalistan Tiger Force. Together, they had been attempting to reestablish the outfit following the demise of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was killed by rival factions earlier this year in June.

Duneke, a member of the Punjab-based Devinder Bambiha Gang, fled to Canada in 2017 using false passports. His name also appeared on a list of 43 gangsters provided by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday.

While Duneke had some affiliations with pro-Khalistan groups, his crimina lactivities primarily centered around extortion and contract killings, commonly known as 'supari' killings. He had been orchestrating a range of criminal activities in Punjab and neighboring states through his associatesand had earned a notorious spot on the most-wanted list of criminals in theregion.

One notable incident involving Duneke occurred on March 14 of the previous year when he was alleged to have conspired in the assassination attempt on kabaddi player Sandeep Singh Nangal during a kabaddi match in Mallian village, Jalandhar. Duneke had a long list of criminal record, with more than 20 cases registered against him, including charges of murder and other serious off enses in Punjaband nearby states.

In 2017, he obtained a passport and a police clearance certificate using forged documents, despite having seven criminal cases registered against him. Hisescape from Punjab was aided by two police off icials, who were subsequently arrested by Moga police.

Did RAW involved in these killings?

One country head accusing another country is a big deal in diplomatic terms- that is by major Western country. But there was NO evidence to show. There are few narrations in it.

• Those who believe in RAW's hand show the Cuo bono evidence. They also label the nature of killings as MOSSAD style activities, which they claim to have been learned from Israel. This narration also falls into familiar religious lines.
  • Muslims are common issue for both Jews and Hindu's who are on the both ends of Muslim Middle East. Pakistan used this division since 1950's. But Modi changed the dynamic by wooing the Muslim nations along with all other western countries.
  • Normalizing the relations with Israel was going on before Modi and surely improved during Modi's term.
• They also point out how MANY Kashmiri terrorists got killed mysteriously in the center of Karachi and other Pakistani territory, which normally go unreported. Most of these Kashmiri terrorists are labelled as terrorists decades ago, any news of them killed in Pakistan are embarrassment to Pakistan. If it becomes public news, Pakistan not only have to confess that they harbored terrorists and has to confess in their inability to protect their assets.

• Indian sympathizers consider it as the efficiency brought in by Modi's Govt.'s national security advisor Ajit Doval. They point out electoral dynamics in Canada making Trudeau doing dangerous appeasement dynamics by harboring the criminal elements that can only hurt Canada. Indian blaming Pakistani ISI, Pakistan blaming RAW is nothing new, had been there for decades. Given the level of violence Indian news covered since Independence ( often blamed on ISI), Indian sentiment to these killings is more of relief.

How far these spy games go? Trudeau by blaming India, took it to the next level. Now the lines are blurred - Lefties ( Soros, Obama, Trudeau) , Terrorists/separatists/Criminals, Electoral dynamics and spy agencies. Average Canadian will be asking - Why the heck they need to bring some body's terrorism problem to their own doorstep. They already know whom to blame for it.