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India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Re: India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Post by cmadan »

ebbv wrote: post #19
cmadan wrote: post #14

Here's a short summary to help others who haven't heard much about him. Short background - Has been the Chief Minister (equivalent to Governer) of the Western Indian state of Gujarat for 14 years now. The Good --- * Achieved a very high GDP growth rate for Gujarat * Made Gujarat a preferred destination for big industrialists to set up their factories since he gives land & clearances very readily. * Developed infrastr…

Interesting to me that you have: > Known to rule with an iron fist - a "my way or the highway" style of politician. Under "The Good". I certainly wouldn't classify that as a good characteristic in a leader. You want someone who will get things done, yes, but someone who will ignore and bully minority opinions is not a good leader.

I agree with you (FWIW - I didn't vote for him), however it is often cited as one of his positive qualities by the Indian media since there is the perception that the outgoing Prime Minister Mammohan Singh was too soft and was unable to rein in his ministers and push through policy changes.

Re: India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Post by wging »

tokenadult wrote: post #12

Submitted in part because a Hacker News participant recently berated Americans on Hacker News for not being more aware of the election in India. (The person who wrote that comment is an American of Indian heritage, I'm pretty sure.) I was drawn to this article from the Google News news aggregator because it was listed as one of the "in-depth" articles. I was also startled by the title because until now I haven't hear…

There's a bit given little or no space in that article: Modi was denied a US visa as a result of the Gujarat riots. Will be interesting to see what happens here...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Home/Lok-Sabha-Elections-...

Re: India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Post by eshvk »

When I last used to be interested in Indian politics ( around 10 years ago). The man was supposed to be a local extreme right wing politician with genocidal tendencies. I am rather surprised that "pro-business" was the tagline the HN post finally went with. Has the man changed since?

Re: India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Post by joosters »

Note that 'pro-business' is a politically empty phrase. After all, no candidate in any election would claim to be 'anti-business'.

If the opposite to any given political standpoint is completely unacceptable, then IMO that makes the original viewpoint empty and meaningless.

Re: India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Post by intull »

It might also be worth mentioning the numbers here. The BJP, party to which Mr. Narendra Modi belongs to, alone has got more than 50% of the seats in the Indian Parliament and nearly 60% with allies.

The INC (Indian National Congress) has suffered a historic defeat with not even 10% of the seats. Which also brings the interesting fact that the NDA will not have a Leader of Opposition as none of the other parties hold more than 10% of the seats.

Re: India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Post by [deleted] »

cmadan wrote: post #14

Here's a short summary to help others who haven't heard much about him. Short background - Has been the Chief Minister (equivalent to Governer) of the Western Indian state of Gujarat for 14 years now. The Good --- * Achieved a very high GDP growth rate for Gujarat * Made Gujarat a preferred destination for big industrialists to set up their factories since he gives land & clearances very readily. * Developed infrastr…

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Re: India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Post by yepyepyep »

breitling wrote: post #17
cmadan wrote: post #14

Here's a short summary to help others who haven't heard much about him. Short background - Has been the Chief Minister (equivalent to Governer) of the Western Indian state of Gujarat for 14 years now. The Good --- * Achieved a very high GDP growth rate for Gujarat * Made Gujarat a preferred destination for big industrialists to set up their factories since he gives land & clearances very readily. * Developed infrastr…

From what I've read about this guy, there seems to be a lot more to add to the "ugly" column. - He equates the plight of muslims murdered in 2002 to a puppy run over by a car [1]. - He has been a life long member of party's most militant wing [2]. - He's not shy about delivering flagrant speeches. Seems to be a very divisive figure. If I were one of the minorities in India, this would be a very disappointing day. [1]…

I no longer live in India but have a large extended family that does. Being in the minority, they are filled with paranoia about what this could mean. I'm still skeptical if anything bad will happen but I am also not living there.

Re: India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Post by icebraining »

joosters wrote: post #24

Note that 'pro-business' is a politically empty phrase. After all, no candidate in any election would claim to be 'anti-business'. If the opposite to any given political standpoint is completely unacceptable, then IMO that makes the original viewpoint empty and meaningless.

"No candidate" is too strong a word; around here we have a few that are certainly anti-business.

(EDIT: Note that I'm not an US citizen, and this is not a jab at anyone, it's a statement of fact. I can assure you that the candidate of the Reorganized Movement of the Party of the Proletariat is indeed anti-business)

Re: India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

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Post by pessimizer »

Pro-business is a really narrow way of describing Modi's ideology.

Here's a disturbingly comprehensive post that paints a more complete picture:

Narendra Modi and the rise of India’s neo-fascist Far-Right: The facts

http://www.loonwatch.com/2014/04/narendra-modi-and-the-rise-...

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