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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.
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.
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Though to some this might be a distinction without a difference, I prefer this viewpoint.
I'm not Indian and have no connection to the sub-continent. But it does not fill me with the warm fuzzies to read in wikipedia that:
"In 2005, Modi was denied a diplomatic visa to the United States. In addition, the B-1/B-2 visa that had previously been granted to him was also revoked, under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act which makes any foreign government official who was responsible or "directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom" ineligible for the visa."
What are his opinions on mass surveillance in India, which seems to have become about as aggressive as it is in US and UK in the past few years, or has that issue not even been raised? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A91idibgT0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwCixZk0snM
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Terrorism_Act,_20...
Calling Modi "pro-business" seems like a bit of an over-simplication. He's a member of the RSS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh ), which is arguably a violently anti-muslim paramilitary group, as well as leading the BJP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party ). It's not unreasonable to call the BJP centre-right on economic/business issues ... but they have other policies as…
Calling Modi "pro-business" seems like a bit of an over-simplication. He's a member of the RSS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh ), which is arguably a violently anti-muslim paramilitary group, as well as leading the BJP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party ). It's not unreasonable to call the BJP centre-right on economic/business issues ... but they have other policies as…
I am, so allow me.
1. The RSS is not "violently anti-muslim", despite what you read on teh internets. They have a Muslim wing, so to speak: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/the-saffron-muslim/...
2. If the "BJP has other policies, which are disturbing", please enlighten us. Just lobbing an attack and walking away doesn't do any good.
3. The US denies visas to all sorts of people; including people like Nelson Mandela. He (Modi) was investigated for the 2002 riots by Supreme Court of India, and given a clean chit.
BJP (the party under Modi's leadership) allegedly spent 100 billion Rs on advertisement. Like cunning businessman they exploited a loophole in the law; the parties are exempted from disclosing the source of their income!
With this amount of money, every child in India could be educated for free. Imagine that for a second.
The huge spendings, presenting a lipstick-on-a-pig development model of Gujrat[1] and bogus-voting (with many people publicly claiming to do so[2] to no brunt by the law) BJP has won these elections.
The money input allegedly came from businessmen Ambani & Adani. They gained 1.5 billion dollars today itself![3] Adani has quadrupled in value over past 6 months.
A very sad day for the minorities indeed. But India is so huge that even if a thousand die, people are unaffected. People have a very weak memory and any deed, howsoever bad, is easily forgotten within days. Add to that the ignorance of people to indirect influence of any event; people wont respond until they get the heat directly. I have lost hope. I feel I don't understand the majority of my nation.
[1](I worked in the capital of Gujrat) [2]http://indianexponent.com/scrapbook/he-bragged-he-voted-18-t... [3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-16/india-s-ambani-adan...
Calling Modi "pro-business" seems like a bit of an over-simplication. He's a member of the RSS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh ), which is arguably a violently anti-muslim paramilitary group, as well as leading the BJP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party ). It's not unreasonable to call the BJP centre-right on economic/business issues ... but they have other policies as…
I just believe in data and not articles, here is something to check. http://ibn.gramener.com/live?Muslim=40%25%2B&Muslim=20-40%25
try: http://ibn.gramener.com/live?Muslim=40%25%2B
or hindi: http://ibn.gramener.com/live?Hindi-speaking=Hindi vs non-hindi http://ibn.gramener.com/live?Hindi-speaking=Rest
Also can someone explain what bi-polar means in this context (best guess so far, single party majority in voting district)? It looks very distinct: http://ibn.gramener.com/live?Bi-polar=Bi-polar
Calling Modi "pro-business" seems like a bit of an over-simplication. He's a member of the RSS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh ), which is arguably a violently anti-muslim paramilitary group, as well as leading the BJP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party ). It's not unreasonable to call the BJP centre-right on economic/business issues ... but they have other policies as…
I just believe in data and not articles, here is something to check. http://ibn.gramener.com/live?Muslim=40%25%2B&Muslim=20-40%25
I am not sure what you are trying to say with this. If you are claiming that this means that he can't be that anti-Muslim then I think that's far from the only possible explanation.
For one, you are showing every district with at least 20% Muslim population. So even if every one of them had voted for the opposition, the 80% non-Muslims would have still decided the election.
Calling Modi "pro-business" seems like a bit of an over-simplication. He's a member of the RSS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh ), which is arguably a violently anti-muslim paramilitary group, as well as leading the BJP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party ). It's not unreasonable to call the BJP centre-right on economic/business issues ... but they have other policies as…