• Indian Nationalist Leader Says Violence Shook Him To The Core
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[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/27/257560953/indian-nationalist-leader-says-violence-shook-him-to-the-core"]NPR Story[/URL] [quote=NPR]The chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat is often spoken of as the country's next prime minister. But his critics accuse Narendra Modi of being responsible for a wave of anti-Muslim violence in his state in 2002. The accusation has stuck despite Modi being cleared of wrongdoing in the violence and despite his record as an efficient administrator. In a long blog post Friday, Modi addressed the criticism. "I was shaken to the core," he wrote on his website. " 'Grief,' 'Sadness,' 'Misery,' 'Pain,' 'Anguish,' 'Agony' — mere words could not capture the absolute emptiness one felt on witnessing such inhumanity."[/quote]
I've heard of this guy. He's supposed to be a real snake.
India is a country in which the common man always speaks his mind, and the men holding power never do. Much like the USA or Britain in that regard. [editline]27th December 2013[/editline] Canada is a country in which nobody speaks their mind, it's pretty funny.
Modi is.....a very dangerous person for people to trust right now. Many people still believe that he did have some hand in the massacres of the Muslims in his states during the riots and had managed to weasel himself out of most charges connecting to it either by turning reliable witnesses hostile or paying off people. His state, Gujurat, has become a model for other states with regards to infrastructure development and actually improving the quality of life for the people. However, this comes at a cost, because he runs the state with an iron fist and there is virtually no opposition to what he does there, almost like a dictatorship. If he is allowed to continue with that sort of behaviour on a national level if elected as the new PM, things could get really hairy if he decides to implement programs that could potentially harm the development of some states. Of course, this is unlikely because this would mean that the arch rivals (and current incumbents), Congress, would be in the opposition, so they would oppose any move he makes purely out of spite rather than with giving it due consideration. Putting Modi in the Prime Minister's position will, in all likelihood, be his undoing and shake people's faith in him - he may be the big cheese in the local scene, but on a national level the stakes are a lot higher and the competition much more cutthroat. In the end this isn't to say he is not a capable leader - however, he's more dictator than statesman.
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