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Mr. Modi’s declaration of change and a new future for India an empty rhetoric and pretence?

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Mr. Modi’s declaration of change and a new future for India an empty rhetoric and pretence? Empty Mr. Modi’s declaration of change and a new future for India an empty rhetoric and pretence?

Post by confuzzled dude Fri May 30, 2014 7:03 am

Because what it proposes as change and novelty is entirely continuous with policies that Manmohan Singh and his economic advisers have put into place. If there is any change, it is, as so often with the BJP, a more clear-eyed and unqualified pursuit of what the Congress had first generated. This had happened earlier, too — though not on the economic front — when Indira Gandhi first and then Rajiv Gandhi had introduced majoritarian and communal elements into the political arena. The BJP was then able to pursue that to its logical end without the lip service to secularism that the Congress was bound, by its more honourable past, to retain. And similarly now the neo-liberal policies of the UPA government will be extended by the BJP, unhampered by the former’s lip service to an employment scheme and food security programme that, for the most part, remained unimplemented.

For anyone without amnesia, even as a regional messiah, Mr. Modi has had antecedents who similarly promised fabulous transformations. The euphoria around the “Gujarat Model” had its premonition in Chandrababu Naidu’s “Andhra model,” whose lopsided metropolitan development at the cost of ignoring the rest of his region eventually led to his steep downfall in a subsequent election and then later to the Balkanisation of his state. A few truthful commentators have already observed just how much the “Gujarat model” pursues growth at the cost of what is called “human development.”

Finally, the proposal that the BJP will seek to change the large-scale corruption that came to be associated with the Congress is also pretence.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/change-and-continuity/article6062691.ece?homepage=true

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