[nukkad] Gujarat elections and the lessons - Pamela Philipose (IE)

[Farook <>]

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Everyone is born right-handed. Only the greatest overcome it.
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"...It's not so much the Modi/BJP victory in Gujarat but the
manner in which that victory was created that
distresses. It's is not so much the Congress defeat but
the manner in which that defeat was fashioned that
depresses.

History has proved time and again that Hate and Fear
have been remarkably effective instruments in wresting
power. Remember Rajiv Gandhi's famous victory of
December 1984, also gained after the riots that claimed
some 3,000 Sikh lives, when he rode to power on lines
like 'Will the country's border finally be moved to your
doorstep?... Why should you feel uncomfortable riding in
a taxi driven by a taxi driver who belongs to another
state?'

If I lose, said Narendra Modi on his gaurav trail, there
will be celebratory fireworks in Pakistan. In other
words, voting for the Congress amounted to a traitorous act.

Yet it is vital they do so, especially because the
interests of the politician and the citizen are not
always the same. While the politician, often with the
help of local mafia, may be tempted for the cynical
purpose of winning power to drive a wedge between
communities that have lived in peace for centuries; it
is the citizen - especially the poor and powerless -
that is left with the task of coping with the terrible
consequences....".

Sai.
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Very true . 

Farook


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