MODI moves centre-stage!” “Modi storms in as the BJP’s PM candidate.” “It’s Narendra Modi vs Rahul Gandhi!” “In PM mode, Modi spells out strategy on big issues.” Thus scream the headlines in leading Indian publications and TV channels — part of a systematic corporate blitzkrieg to build up Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a messiah of “development,” who is destined to lead India. In … Continue reading Hype vs reality – Praful Bidwai
Picture by Javed, taken in Ejipura, full album here. For documentation of slum demolitions in Mumbai, see here. Bangalore, April 10: Several citizens of Bangalore including residents of EWS quarters gathered at 3 pm near the KPCC office on Queens Road and marched over to hand a memorandum to the Congress Party. The memorandum, attached in English and Kannada, expresses our disgust at the way … Continue reading Ejipura and Golibar Slum Dwellers will Protest March to Congress & BJP Offices in Bangalore – Press Release
Riots under BJP rule are the culmination of the Sangh Parivar’s ideological impulse to keep communal tensions alive while for Congress they are tactical instruments Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh’s decision to accord a prominent role to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is presumably based on the belief that the diverse Indian electorate would forgive him for the communal mayhem of 2002, as … Continue reading Why memories of Gujarat 2002 stay? – Ajaz Ashraf
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