Victory! Modi returns to power for his FOURTH TERM with brute majority in Gujarat!

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Asher
India.

Most boring country, ever.

Meh.

You're just jealous that you don't have any politicians who can wield a sword and actually carry if off, unlike your effete wussified politicians over there who'd be afraid of even holding the damn thing.

[Agathon]

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Originally posted by LordShiva


I think their allying with teh commies was a blessing in disguise, in that by their petulant refusal to face reality, teh commies have served to discredit teh lefties within teh Congress and strengthen teh centrists in teh party.

Weird you should say that since the Indian Communist Party is probably the most successful openly Marxist party in existence. They must be doing something right, since the conditions for a communist revolution are still a ways off.

[Asher]

Originally posted by aneeshm


Meh.

You're just jealous that you don't have any politicians who can wield a sword and actually carry if off, unlike your effete wussified politicians over there who'd be afraid of even holding the damn thing.

WTF? The only people who wield swords these days are retards.

The main problem with India is the politicians spend all day masturbating and swinging swords around rather than leading a country like grown adults.

[Asher]

Oooo Agathon, welcome back. I can't wait to hear your defend Apple's forcing of the closure of ThinkSecret.

[LordShiva]

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Originally posted by Agathon
Weird you should say that since the Indian Communist Party is probably the most successful openly Marxist party in existence.

They don't really have much competition.

Their success is limited to teh states of 1. West Bengal, where they've remained in power partly due to land reform and partly due to electoral practices inconsistent with free, universal franchise , and have recently started wooing foreign investors to teh state and violently suppressing farmer/worker protests against those policies , and 2. Kerala, where they and teh opposition Congress alternate turns in power, without fail.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Asher


WTF? The only people who wield swords these days are retards.

The main problem with India is the politicians spend all day masturbating and swinging swords around rather than leading a country like grown adults.

Gujarat has a bigger dic.... I mean, economic growth rate over the past decade than Canada has had for the past many... decades?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Agathon
Why? This is the BJP isn't it? Bunch of worthless bigoted, authoritarian lunatics.

I guess aneeshm wants to out massacre Al Queda.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Btw, on the world subpage of the NYTimes.com site (ie, yeah, most Americans really don't give a crap):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/world/asia/23cnd-india.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

December 24, 2007

Hindu Supremacist Wins in India

By SOMINI SENGUPTA

NEW DELHI — He has been likened to Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned. He has been denied entry into the United States for violations of religious freedom, yet praised as a business-friendly politician who has allowed private industry to flourish in his state.

On Sunday, voters re-elected the politician, Narendra Modi, arguably India’s most incendiary office holder, as the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat. His victory, by a wide margin, was a stunning defeat for the country’s governing Congress Party and signaled that Mr. Modi and his charismatic, often pugnacious, brand of Hindu supremacist politics will be a force to be reckoned with in the future.

Gujarat is considered a test case for national politics because it is viewed as a laboratory for radical Hindu politics in contemporary India.

Mr. Modi, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is accused of sanctioning or at least taking no steps to stop Hindu mobs from massacring at least 1,000 of their Muslim neighbors in February 2002, after a mysterious fire engulfed a train carrying members of a Hindu nationalist organization, killing 59 people on board. Ten months later, voters in Gujarat returned Mr. Modi to power.

In elections held earlier this month, Mr. Modi’s B.J.P. captured 117 seats in of the 182-member state legislature, falling just short of a two-thirds majority; the Congress Party, which leads the nation’s governing coalition, trailed with 59 seats, while 6 seats went to other parties. The results were announced Sunday by the Election Commission of India.

Political analysts said Mr. Modi’s unexpectedly wide margin of victory reduced the likelihood that the Congress Party would call early national elections before its five-year term expired in mid-2009. Congress leaders said Sunday that they were disappointed in the election result but played down the importance of the state race for national politics.

Critics of Mr. Modi, 57, expressed frustration that he had been returned to office yet again. “This is the dark side to democracy,” said Yogendra Yadav, a political scientist and pollster.

But as Mr. Yadav noted after election results poured in Sunday, the Modi victory was not necessarily a referendum on the violence in 2002. The B.J.P. swept districts that were affected by the riots and those that were not, as well as rural and urban districts across the state.

Here in the Indian capital, B.J.P. leaders celebrated Mr. Modi’s win, even as his rise undoubtedly makes it tougher for the party, the main national opposition, to cast itself as a moderate, centrist organization capable of representing all Indians.

Arun Jaitley, a senior B.J.P. politician, called Mr. Modi “a great asset to the party.” The party president, Rajnath Singh, described Gujarat as a “model state.”

A bachelor and teetotaler who began his career as a full-time volunteer with the hard-line Hindu organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Mr. Modi managed to buck a powerful tradition of anti-incumbency in this country.

Despite several high-profile defections from his state party and the enmity of some Hindu nationalist groups that had backed him in the past, he turned the election into a stark referendum on himself. In one of the leitmotifs of his campaign, his supporters donned grinning Modi masks.

In what appeared to be a bid to render himself as a candidate with broad appeal, Mr. Modi cast himself as a proponent of economic development, rather than Hindu supremacy, by emphasizing his record on water and electricity projects, for example.

Similarly, his rivals in the Congress Party seemed to tiptoe around the memory of the 2002 religious violence, apparently wary of alienating their own Hindu supporters, choosing instead to hammer Mr. Modi’s economic record. The Congress also joined forces with B.J.P. defectors, including those accused of complicity in the 2002 violence; the tactic yielded virtually no benefits at the polls.

Only at the tail end of the campaign did the rhetoric heat up, with the Congress Party chief, Sonia Gandhi, labeling Mr. Modi’s government “merchants of death.” Mr. Modi responded that such name-calling was “Italian mud” that would make him stronger, in a reference to Mrs. Gandhi’s Italian background, which Hindu hard-liners have deemed unsuitable for an Indian political leader.

Mr. Modi, for his part, has invoked issues that play to Gujarat’s religious divide, including a provocative speech that seemed to justify the high-profile police killing of a Muslim man named Sohrabuddin Sheikh. The Election Commission on Saturday rapped both Mr. Modi and Mrs. Gandhi on the knuckles for violating a “moral code” of campaigning.

Violence has not been the exclusive purview of B.J.P.-led governments. As the columnist Tavleen Singh pointed out Sunday in The Indian Express, 3,000 minority Sikhs were butchered here in the capital in 1984 during Congress Party rule, after Indira Gandhi, then the prime minister, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.

On Sunday morning, Juzar S. Bandukwala, a Gujarati Muslim and retired physics professor, watched the election results with his friend, a Roman Catholic priest. He said he felt his spirits sink. “We both felt very let down,” Mr. Bandukwala said by telephone from the city of Baroda.

He said he fully expected Mr. Modi to win, but not by such a wide margin. He did not think it would make life any better for his fellow Muslims in Gujarat, who he said were already “second-class citizens in this state.”

“It has been a big letdown,” said Mr. Bandukwala, who was awarded the Indira Gandhi National Integration Award in November. “I thought he would just barely make it and he would be, in the process, weakened. That did not happen.”

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by aneeshm

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[Asher]

Originally posted by aneeshm




Gujarat has a bigger dic.... I mean, economic growth rate over the past decade than Canada has had for the past many... decades?

It's easier to grow when you start with nothing...

Canada is a 1st world economy, India is a 3rd world economy. When we have **** work to do, we go to India to do it. That's India's role in the world. Get used to it.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I guess aneeshm wants to out massacre Al Queda.

Teh Hindu memetovirus

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by BeBro


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[Agathon]

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Originally posted by LordShiva

They don't really have much competition.

Yeah right. I don't see anyone stopping people from running against them.

Their success is limited to teh states of 1. West Bengal, where they've remained in power partly due to land reform and partly due to electoral practices inconsistent with free, universal franchise , and have recently started wooing foreign investors to teh state and violently suppressing farmer/worker protests against those policies , and 2. Kerala, where they and teh opposition Congress alternate turns in power, without fail.

Sounds like any normal political party to me. If people keep voting for them, they must be doing something right. It's amazing what can happen when your party isn't suppressed by elites, as happened in New Zealand.

[LordShiva]

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Originally posted by Agathon
Yeah right. I don't see anyone stopping people from running against them.

I mean among Marxist parties of teh world.

India's political spectrum is vast. There are tens of political parties with as much or more success than teh CPM, which is nothing more than one of many reasonably successful minor regional parties.

Originally posted by Agathon
Sounds like any normal political party to me. If people keep voting for them, they must be doing something right.

Of course they do some things right, as do teh BJP or any of teh other aforementioned parties who have any degree of electoral success.

Teh point is that in Bengal, part of teh reason why "people keep voting for them" is teh degree to which they've blurred teh lines between teh state electoral and police machinery and their party ranks. In Kerala, teh people don't, in fact "keep voting for them" - they vote for them in alternate election cycles, because neither of teh two parties with sufficient organizational machinery can manage to deliver on their promises.

[LordShiva]

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Originally posted by Agathon
It's amazing what can happen when your party isn't suppressed by elites, as happened in New Zealand.

Teh Communist Party is run by elites.