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On why Congress needs to slap down Narendra Modi's pretensions Empty On why Congress needs to slap down Narendra Modi's pretensions

Post by Guest Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:16 am

Atal Behari Vajpayee’s prime ministership had much to commend it. But times change. So do political personnel. Given the natural bent of many Indians, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s return might mean regression. Even the Congress under an Italian-born Roman Catholic and a secular Sikh offers only a frail barrier against the motley crowd of so-called “babas” (Asaram, Nirmal, Ramdev and many others), the glamorous Radhe Ma, the murderous Dara Singh, and thugs masquerading under the labels of Hindu Jagarana Vedike, Bajrang Dal and Sri Ram Sene poised to overwhelm India’s public space.

How much worse for reason and logic if the next prime minister is beholden to someone who imagines there is no rape in whatever he calls “Bharat”? Just as a young woman slapped Mohan Bhagwat, Congress needs to slap down Modi’s pretensions, not to save Rahul Gandhi’s career but to save the secular democratic polity that alone can hold India together in a harmonious union worth living in.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130119/jsp/opinion/story_16456877.jsp#.USy0J4e9KSN

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