A defeat for PM Modi, says NYT editorial on Delhi polls – The
Hindu, February 11, 2015
While U.S. officials
refrained from comment on Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) massive victory in Delhi
elections, the New York Times saw
“A Defeat for Prime Minister Modi” in the results.
refrained from comment on Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) massive victory in Delhi
elections, the New York Times saw
“A Defeat for Prime Minister Modi” in the results.
“Fresh
from the diplomatic high of a successful summit meeting with President Obama, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has been brought down to earth by domestic politics,”
the daily said in an editorial. “Ordinarily, elections in New Delhi would not
draw international attention,” the Times said.
from the diplomatic high of a successful summit meeting with President Obama, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has been brought down to earth by domestic politics,”
the daily said in an editorial. “Ordinarily, elections in New Delhi would not
draw international attention,” the Times said.
But since
sweeping to power last year with the biggest national election victory in three
decades, Mr. Modi and his BJP have generated “an aura of invincibility” winning
a succession of other State elections, it said.
sweeping to power last year with the biggest national election victory in three
decades, Mr. Modi and his BJP have generated “an aura of invincibility” winning
a succession of other State elections, it said.
“The
election won’t affect Modi’s hold on the Prime Minister’s Office and the
federal government,” theTimes said. “But it will increase the
enormous pressure to deliver on his economic and governance promises even while
making that harder.”
election won’t affect Modi’s hold on the Prime Minister’s Office and the
federal government,” theTimes said. “But it will increase the
enormous pressure to deliver on his economic and governance promises even while
making that harder.”
“After
imploring Americans, Japanese and Chinese, as well as Indians, to believe in
his vision, it is a good bet that no Indian federal budget will be more
scrutinised for what it may, or may not, deliver on building infrastructure,
reforming taxes and making a tangled, stratified system more efficient than the
one Mr. Modi is expected to make public by the end of the month,” the Times said.
imploring Americans, Japanese and Chinese, as well as Indians, to believe in
his vision, it is a good bet that no Indian federal budget will be more
scrutinised for what it may, or may not, deliver on building infrastructure,
reforming taxes and making a tangled, stratified system more efficient than the
one Mr. Modi is expected to make public by the end of the month,” the Times said.
The State
Department spokesperson declined comment on the Delhi elections calling it “an
internal matter for the people and the Government of India.”
Department spokesperson declined comment on the Delhi elections calling it “an
internal matter for the people and the Government of India.”
FEBRUARY 11, 2015, @ 11.49 PM
My letter to all the PLIANT NATIONAL DAILIES on RESOUNDING Victory of ARVIND KEJRIWAL and AAP in the DELHI ELECTIONS:
Dear Sir,
Subject: The Concerted attempt by a Compliant
Media at PLAYING DOWN the Historic, Unprecedented and Resounding victory of AAP
in Delhi and to deflect responsibility of Modi away from BJP’s ignominy! Dated:
February 11, 2015
Media at PLAYING DOWN the Historic, Unprecedented and Resounding victory of AAP
in Delhi and to deflect responsibility of Modi away from BJP’s ignominy! Dated:
February 11, 2015
I am
appalled at seeing the entire National Media being used to ORCHESTRATE an
URGENT PROJECT to UNDERPLAY the Historic, Unprecedented and Resounding victory
of AAP in Delhi and to deflect responsibility of Modi away from BJP’s ignominy!
(By the way, one wonders whether our National Media also has got mortgaged
itself to the Zionist Manipulative Power that is CONTROLLING and holding the
western media by the scruff of its neck!)
appalled at seeing the entire National Media being used to ORCHESTRATE an
URGENT PROJECT to UNDERPLAY the Historic, Unprecedented and Resounding victory
of AAP in Delhi and to deflect responsibility of Modi away from BJP’s ignominy!
(By the way, one wonders whether our National Media also has got mortgaged
itself to the Zionist Manipulative Power that is CONTROLLING and holding the
western media by the scruff of its neck!)
Mr. Modi was right in
the MIDDLE of the EXTREMELY CORROSIVE campaign that the BJP had unleashed
against Arvind Kejriwal under a
presumption that it would UNNERVE the
AAP and its Diehard Volunteers and they would succumb and get involved in
hitting back at Modi Personally to give BJP an electoral advantage but which
the AAP and its Volunteers Consciously and strategically avoided doing!
the MIDDLE of the EXTREMELY CORROSIVE campaign that the BJP had unleashed
against Arvind Kejriwal under a
presumption that it would UNNERVE the
AAP and its Diehard Volunteers and they would succumb and get involved in
hitting back at Modi Personally to give BJP an electoral advantage but which
the AAP and its Volunteers Consciously and strategically avoided doing!
Mr. Modi called,
Arvind a NAXALITE who deserved to go to the Jungles! Modi called him an
anarchist who did not deserve to be given ANY POSITION of responsibility, let
alone the Chief Minister-ship of Delhi! Modi called him an EXPERT HAWALA – MAN
who according to him had indulged in “Hawala- at- Night AND many more such
personal barbs were thrown by Modi personally at Arvind that Boomeranged on the
BJP eventually!
Arvind a NAXALITE who deserved to go to the Jungles! Modi called him an
anarchist who did not deserve to be given ANY POSITION of responsibility, let
alone the Chief Minister-ship of Delhi! Modi called him an EXPERT HAWALA – MAN
who according to him had indulged in “Hawala- at- Night AND many more such
personal barbs were thrown by Modi personally at Arvind that Boomeranged on the
BJP eventually!
These personal barbs particularly thrown by
Modi at Arvind boomeranged because all these barbs coming from a PM who
had been caught in the narcissistic act of
wearing a Coat that was purportedly worth Ten Lakhs of Rupees & that
too with GOLDEN strips woven on it that displayed his FULL NAME, against a
simple leader of common men who walks around in casual wear and sometimes even
in hundred rupees worth “Hawai Chappals” wearing his trade mark Fifty Rupees
worth Muffler around his neck, were seen as an UGLY DISPLAY of Unbridled MONEY and POLITICAL POWER from a man who used to portray mock humility
only nine months back calling himself a humble
“OBC – Chai Wala”!
Modi at Arvind boomeranged because all these barbs coming from a PM who
had been caught in the narcissistic act of
wearing a Coat that was purportedly worth Ten Lakhs of Rupees & that
too with GOLDEN strips woven on it that displayed his FULL NAME, against a
simple leader of common men who walks around in casual wear and sometimes even
in hundred rupees worth “Hawai Chappals” wearing his trade mark Fifty Rupees
worth Muffler around his neck, were seen as an UGLY DISPLAY of Unbridled MONEY and POLITICAL POWER from a man who used to portray mock humility
only nine months back calling himself a humble
“OBC – Chai Wala”!
Apart from these
“MISCALCULATED” personal attacks on Arvind by Modi, what really “Cooked the BJP’s
goose” was his studied silence over the last nine months over the incessant and
BLATANTLY COMMUNAL attempts at Religious Polarisation of the Majority Hindu
Community against both Muslims as well as Christian Minorities , particularly
in UP and Delhi through various PATENTLY and Pungently Anti-Minority Remarks
made by WORTHIES like Swamy Nithyanad,
Sakshi Maharaj, some other Sadhvis and others of their ilk, as well as acts
such as provoking riots and attacking minority religious places by the so
called fringe elements of the extended Sangh Parivar that resulted in a BACKLASH of MINORITY Votes
getting polarized against the BJP and in favour of AAP!
“MISCALCULATED” personal attacks on Arvind by Modi, what really “Cooked the BJP’s
goose” was his studied silence over the last nine months over the incessant and
BLATANTLY COMMUNAL attempts at Religious Polarisation of the Majority Hindu
Community against both Muslims as well as Christian Minorities , particularly
in UP and Delhi through various PATENTLY and Pungently Anti-Minority Remarks
made by WORTHIES like Swamy Nithyanad,
Sakshi Maharaj, some other Sadhvis and others of their ilk, as well as acts
such as provoking riots and attacking minority religious places by the so
called fringe elements of the extended Sangh Parivar that resulted in a BACKLASH of MINORITY Votes
getting polarized against the BJP and in favour of AAP!
Last but not the
LEAST, Modi’s failure in not being able to FULFIL any of the THOUSANDS of
POPULIST promises that he had made
GRANDILOQUENTLY during his LOKSABHA
blitzkrieg against UPA-II government and his right hand man Amit Shah, now brushing
aside those promises as being only “CAMPAIGN JUMLAS”( that is ONLY CAMPAGIN
RHETORIC like the promise to get Fifteen Lakh Rupees in to every Indian’s Bank
account out of the Trillions of rupees
the BJP promised it would bring back from the Foreign Black Money Accounts held
by Corporate Indians!) turned out to be the proverbial last straw on the
Camel’s back that broke its back!
LEAST, Modi’s failure in not being able to FULFIL any of the THOUSANDS of
POPULIST promises that he had made
GRANDILOQUENTLY during his LOKSABHA
blitzkrieg against UPA-II government and his right hand man Amit Shah, now brushing
aside those promises as being only “CAMPAIGN JUMLAS”( that is ONLY CAMPAGIN
RHETORIC like the promise to get Fifteen Lakh Rupees in to every Indian’s Bank
account out of the Trillions of rupees
the BJP promised it would bring back from the Foreign Black Money Accounts held
by Corporate Indians!) turned out to be the proverbial last straw on the
Camel’s back that broke its back!
So to CONCLUDE, this IGNOMINY of being almost on a Par
with the Congress ( ZERO!) in getting only three out of 70 seats as compared to their 32 seats that they
had won when they had fought the December 2013- January 2014 Elections of Delhi
without Modi at their Helm, has to NECESSARILY be placed on the shoulders of
Modi as well as his equally MEGALOMANIACAL RIGHT HAND MAN, AMIT SHAH! And the attempt
through PACIFIST & APOLOGETIC panel discussions in TV studios and articles
& editorials in the National Press can’t really cover-up the
INDICTMENT of Modi and Shah, that
the DELHI VOTERS have already announced
and that too at the TOP of their Voice
AND these indictments by the People of India’s “Dil” ( Heart) that is Delhi, are definitely going to have their REVERBERATIONS across
the entire length and breadth of the
country whatever be the attempts at playing them down by a PLIANT MEDIA!
with the Congress ( ZERO!) in getting only three out of 70 seats as compared to their 32 seats that they
had won when they had fought the December 2013- January 2014 Elections of Delhi
without Modi at their Helm, has to NECESSARILY be placed on the shoulders of
Modi as well as his equally MEGALOMANIACAL RIGHT HAND MAN, AMIT SHAH! And the attempt
through PACIFIST & APOLOGETIC panel discussions in TV studios and articles
& editorials in the National Press can’t really cover-up the
INDICTMENT of Modi and Shah, that
the DELHI VOTERS have already announced
and that too at the TOP of their Voice
AND these indictments by the People of India’s “Dil” ( Heart) that is Delhi, are definitely going to have their REVERBERATIONS across
the entire length and breadth of the
country whatever be the attempts at playing them down by a PLIANT MEDIA!
The Complete Link to the NYT editorial published in The Hindu, Dated: February 11,2015 is:
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