After 1933 when Hitler won the German elections he wanted to remain leader forever as well, and we all know what happened to the world as a result.
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^But how is he going to accomplish that?....
Re: Modi wins Indian Gujraat Election - vows "shall be CM forever"
^But how is he going to accomplish that?....
Modi assumed office as CM of Gujrat in October 2001. A few months later he instigated a pogrom against the Muslims of Gujarat.
Modi was re-elected to office in December 2002 - despite the killings of thousands of Muslims.
He's just been re-elected again, for a term that lasts till 2012.
In the intervening years the BJP may return to power at the centre in India again, and he will be more secure than ever. Some say he may even eventually go for the slot of PM of India.
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Congrats to modi!
Re: Modi wins Indian Gujraat Election - vows "shall be CM forever"
Jo Jeeta Woh Sikander,Haara so Bandar.
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Atleast modi got elected by the people, unlike Pervez Musharraf who also wants to be a leader forever, without getting a mandate.
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Gujarat rewarded Modi for good governance, and even if many disagree, its people do not want to be seen forever through the prism of the 2002 religious riots.
Re: Modi wins Indian Gujraat Election - vows "shall be CM forever"
Modi assumed office as CM of Gujrat in October 2001. A few months later he instigated a pogrom against the Muslims of Gujarat.
Modi was re-elected to office in December 2002 - despite the killings of thousands of Muslims.
He's just been re-elected again, for a term that lasts till 2012.
In the intervening years the BJP may return to power at the centre in India again, and he will be more secure than ever. Some say he may even eventually go for the slot of PM of India.
You have, as have many others, bought and drank the koolaid that somehow Modi made the riots happen. Don't you think after 7 years and with a virulently anti-Modi anti-BJP government in power in the center, that Modi would have been prosecuted or at least dismissed if there was any substance or evidence backing this claim?
It is precisely because of this sort of unmitigated and mischievous rumor mongering that many people are back supporting Modi. Just know that for every Pakistani attacking Modi, we see right through the game of muslim card they play! No wonder Modi won in a landslide,,,and part of that is squarely due to people like you!
Jai Hind!
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^^ So in other words
This guy butchers thousands of muslims and India elects him as CM
Indian Democracy at work
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oh he would have a chance like lifetime CM if he was in BD, pak
Re: Modi wins Indian Gujraat Election - vows "shall be CM forever"
^^ So in other words
This guy butchers thousands of muslims and India elects him as CM
Indian Democracy at work
he got majority of the votes in muslim areas, ask them, in his rule there is no riot or curfew or terrorist attack from past 5 yrs
and Gujrat is no#1 in development in india
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^^ woh kya jaane jin logon ne apni zindagi main kabhi democracy nahi dekhi kyonki democracy word unki dictionary main kabhi tha hi nahi.woh to bas padosiyon ka rajnitik,samajik,Arthik vikaas ko dekh kar jalate aur rote rahate hain.inn dono padosiyon main koi barabari nahi.dono padosi bebaak uddharit kar diye gaye hain
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It is a matter of shame that a leader who justifies encounter killings get elected with a landslide majority. Gujarat might be the most developed state in India( I have my own doubts) but still to elect a leader who had no qualms in taking the credit should have been made to bite the dust. Polarisation based on religion is not going to take the state or the country anywhere.
This election is a wake up call for the rest of the parties. Gujarat was supposed to be the experiment for the country. If this is going to be the norm, I seriously wonder where the country is headed.
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Watever u say but the stark truth is that modi has won with thumping majority inspite of all media propanganda against him for past 3 months.u ve to watch indian news channels to see how congress and news media were forced to chew on to thier words yesterday by the gujarat mandate(As they all predicted that modi will lose).All-in all everybody has written modi off for this elections even the RSS now he is back for another 5 year term third time in succession.there must be something in this guy that 5 + crore people of gujarat gave him mandate 3rd time.i remember only examples of nehru,mg ramachandran and jyoti basu before modi who got such a mandate by people and a mandate has to be respected in a democracy.Its not like inspite of Awami league getting the mandate from people was not allowed to rule and result of that is infront of everyone to see today.
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^^ that is like in America in the 1930's, a white mob kills thousands of blacks and the American Governor encourages the white mob to kill blacks
and then later on, the whites elect that governor to another term in power
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^^ but sir blacks were not empowered till 1960 s in america.so who was there to raise voices for the black's murder in 1930 and there was no check and balance for such killings in usa untill martin luther king jr. agitated.At least india has this check and balance to keep tab on such incidents.And ur justification can be turned to raise this point of bush winning the second presidential term by fear mongerring of islamic terrorist to america the so called ideal democracy of today's world.
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The fact that hinduunity has endorsed Modi clearly shows what kind of a fascist man Modi really is
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Why are people here assuming that Modi is guilty? In seven years, with a congress govt that is virulently against BJP and Modi, they have not been able to prove it. And somehow you people here know he is guilty?
Yes it is democracy at work. Our progress in every front shows that.
Jai Hind
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Why Modi appeals to Hindus
B Raman
Maut ka Saudagar’, ‘Liar’, ‘the Ugly Indian’ etc etc etc.
All the kind of epithets, the likes of which till now used to come easily out of President George Bush’s [Images] mouth and the pens of his neo conservative supporters.
Mr Bush should be worried that he has now a growing number of competitors in the coining of demonising epithets in the community of the self-styled secularists of India.
What epithets they did not use against Narendra Modi [Images] for the last five years and particularly in the weeks before the election to the Gujarat legislative assembly, in which the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party won a spectacular victory despite the best (or worst) efforts of these self-styled secularists to demonise him day in and day out!
The pathological dislike – even hatred – that some of our journalists – particularly in the electronic media – have for Modi could be seen or sensed as one watched the television coverage of the counting of votes on December 23.
Initially, as it appeared that the BJP might not do well in the final tally, there was excitement among many television anchors. They thought they had tasted blood. After an hour, the BJP candidates started racing ahead and it became clear the the Congress was in for a drubbing.
The disappointment on the faces of some of the anchors was to be seen to be believed. A star lady anchor could not help remarking: ‘Modi might be able to win the elections in Gujarat, but he still can’t get a visa to go to the US and other Western countries.’ Some consolation!
Instead of spending their time searching for abusive expressions in the dictionary and in their copy-book of such expressions, if these self-styled secularists had only visited the Web sites, discussion groups and blogspots of members of the Hindu community not only in India, but also in other countries of the world – particularly in the US – they would have noticed something, which might have given them cause for introspection.
They would have noticed that Modi is becoming the icon of a growing number of Hindus not only in India, but also in the Hindu Diaspora spread across the world. The support for him is not confined only to the Gujarati-speaking Hindus of the world. It is spread right across the Hindu spectrum – whatever be the language or ethnicity or place of origin of the Hindus concerned.
They would have noticed that in the Hindu Diaspora in the West, more young people admire Modi than grown-ups. Many of his young admirers in the US were born and brought up there and had the benefit of the best of secular education. In spite of this, there is a sense of pride in them that the Hindu community has at long last produced a leader of the calibre of Modi.
What is it they see in him?
His simple and austere living of the kind associated with the late Kamaraj of Tamil Nadu, but not seen in the leaders of today?
His reputation as an incorruptible politician, the likes of which is not found anywhere in India, not even in his own party?
His style of development-oriented governance, which even his detractors do not hesitate to praise?
The fruits of his policy, which Gujarat and its people are already enjoying?
His tough stance on terrorism?
His lucid-thinking on matters concerning our national security?
His defiance in the face of the greatest campaign of demonisation mounted against him, the likes of which only Indira Gandhi [Images] had faced from her political opponents and sections of the media in the 1970s?
All these are factors, which influence their favourable perception of him, and which have already been highlighted and analysed in the articles on his impressive election victory.
But there is one factor, which is more important than these and which has not found mention in the analyses.
That is, for large sections of the Hindus – young and old, even more among the young than among the old – he gave them a sense of pride in their identity as Hindus.
They feel that he removed from their minds long habits of defensiveness as Hindus carefully nurtured by the self-styled secularists.
As if to proclaim one’s Hindu identity and to assert one’s rights as Hindus in their own homeland in which they are in a vast majority (80 per cent of the population) is to be communal, is to become an ugly Indian.
For these self-styled secularists, a pretty Indian is a Hindu, who is all the time on the defensive, fights shy of proclaiming his Hindu personality and asserting his rights as a member of the majority community.
These self-styled secularists would not address their sermons of secularism to the Islamic countries, where for a Muslim to convert a non-Muslim into Islam is an act blessed by Allah, but for a non-Muslim to convert a Muslim into his religion is a crime calling for the death penalty.
For them, secularism is a virtue which a Hindu should practise towards others, but not others towards him.
It is Modi’s rejection of this hypocrisy of the self-styled secularists, which makes him stand apart as a Hindu leader with a difference in the eyes of his admirers.
Bharathiyar, the Tamil poet who inspired millions of Tamil youth to join the independence struggle under Mahatma Gandhi [Images], wrote: Tamizhanenru Chollada, Talai Nimirndhu Nillada (Say You Are a Tamil, Hold Your Head High).
The growing legion of Modi’s admirers in the Hindu community all over the world are saying: Hindu Enru Chollada, Talai Nimirndu Nillada (Say You Are A Hindu, Hold Your Head High).
They are no longer prepared to be defensive in proclaiming their Hindu idenity, in asserting their rights as Hindus.
They are secular in the genuine sense of the word, but for them secularism does not mean developing a guilt complex about being a Hindu and all the time conceding the rights of others. They do not accept the argument that a Hindu, who asserts his rights, ceases to be a secularist.
B Raman
Why Modi appeals to Hindus
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I am not a fan of modi but this fellow has changed Gujarat's economy its high time our CM should learn how to make a state economically developed as we still are living in the era of power cuts
(BTW i am from Maharashtra)