09-24-2011, 02:10 AM
[quote name='dhu' date='24 September 2011 - 03:54 AM' timestamp='1316816160' post='112979']
...his supporters will always support him, the apolitical will also gravitate to him...
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Dhuji,
In politics nothing of that sort is a given.
In the Dravidian Tamilnadu and in the socialist Bihar, Karunanidhi and Lalu were given the sack for they couldn't command the emotive chord. 'Development' is not an emotive chord with the larger population but bribe is. Religion is an emotive chord that propelled BJP after Ayodhya. There could be other emotive chords as well and they can defeat bribe which otherwise is an efficient tool. Bribery takes many forms such as naked cash offering to materials such as free rice or TV sets or reservations to fringe sections etc. In the case of Congress it also takes the form of pitting one section against the other on caste and religious basis.
But then BJP became secular and no sooner they went this way the bribers took command and defeated them. Bribery is the proven tool of secularism and the neo-secularist BJP proved no match to the experienced black money hoarders of the Congress.
Development slogan (India Shining!) brought disaster to the Hajpayee led BJP, screaming of 'wealth stashing in foreign lands' got the boot in the rear for Advani. Modi has not learnt this lesson from his national party.
Capitalist 'development' is subject to extreme vagaries of the market and today's European debt crisis is a stark reality to this unmitigating disaster called market economy where all humans are made wage slaves and who are variously kept either at work or being laid off from it as the market dictates. Capitalism is the pursuit of profit and it is global, that is the anti-thesis of nationalism.
Gujaratis thrive a lot in foreign lands and their nationalism is in their language and not in the land of Gujarat. Gujarti 'nationalism' is nothing new. We have seen this in Kerala where the Keralites will choose a fellow Malayali even if he is a Muslim or Christian rather than a fellow Hindu who may or may not speak Malayalam. This is the essence of Linguism. If Mody is going to tread into this illusion of so called development (a euphemism applied against Hindu identity) and parochial nationalism his political demise is not far off.
Hindu identity is the underlying current that is propelling Modi. Its historical weight is too heavy and Modi would ignore it only at his own peril. Talking 'secular equality' to please the putrid kept press isn't worth it. He has been winning against the kept press so why change course?
Sandhya Jain and Radha Rajan remind Modi of this stark reality in their own unique style.
I expect Modi to correct his course though.
...his supporters will always support him, the apolitical will also gravitate to him...
[/quote]
Dhuji,
In politics nothing of that sort is a given.
In the Dravidian Tamilnadu and in the socialist Bihar, Karunanidhi and Lalu were given the sack for they couldn't command the emotive chord. 'Development' is not an emotive chord with the larger population but bribe is. Religion is an emotive chord that propelled BJP after Ayodhya. There could be other emotive chords as well and they can defeat bribe which otherwise is an efficient tool. Bribery takes many forms such as naked cash offering to materials such as free rice or TV sets or reservations to fringe sections etc. In the case of Congress it also takes the form of pitting one section against the other on caste and religious basis.
But then BJP became secular and no sooner they went this way the bribers took command and defeated them. Bribery is the proven tool of secularism and the neo-secularist BJP proved no match to the experienced black money hoarders of the Congress.
Development slogan (India Shining!) brought disaster to the Hajpayee led BJP, screaming of 'wealth stashing in foreign lands' got the boot in the rear for Advani. Modi has not learnt this lesson from his national party.
Capitalist 'development' is subject to extreme vagaries of the market and today's European debt crisis is a stark reality to this unmitigating disaster called market economy where all humans are made wage slaves and who are variously kept either at work or being laid off from it as the market dictates. Capitalism is the pursuit of profit and it is global, that is the anti-thesis of nationalism.
Gujaratis thrive a lot in foreign lands and their nationalism is in their language and not in the land of Gujarat. Gujarti 'nationalism' is nothing new. We have seen this in Kerala where the Keralites will choose a fellow Malayali even if he is a Muslim or Christian rather than a fellow Hindu who may or may not speak Malayalam. This is the essence of Linguism. If Mody is going to tread into this illusion of so called development (a euphemism applied against Hindu identity) and parochial nationalism his political demise is not far off.
Hindu identity is the underlying current that is propelling Modi. Its historical weight is too heavy and Modi would ignore it only at his own peril. Talking 'secular equality' to please the putrid kept press isn't worth it. He has been winning against the kept press so why change course?
Sandhya Jain and Radha Rajan remind Modi of this stark reality in their own unique style.
I expect Modi to correct his course though.