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Modi’s campaign was seen by many as a media and marketing coup for a man whose background ties him to bloodshed in his home state of Gujarat, where communal rioting in 2002 left more than 1,000 people dead, most of them Muslims. Modi is accused of doing little to stop the rampage, though he denies any wrongdoing
Sounds like a typical conservative. Now that India’s conservative party has won, I hope they’re not as crazy and destructive as our conservative party.
I’m still looking at that 66.38 percent – wow! Would that we could get even 50% to vote here. How? We seem to be going in the wrong direction with voting. Sigh.
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It’s hard to think of any conservative party anywhere in the world as crazy as the Republicans in the US.
I hope this election doesn’t mean increased conflict with Pakistan. 2 nuclear-armed countries with long-standing enmity is not a good thing.
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US turnout is at or near the bottom of the world rankings.
Congratulations to PM-Presumptive Modi.
Well, India doesn’t have an election day. I believe its more like a week, perhaps 10 days…and then its done in stages so it actually stretches out for several months.
I can’t support anyone who embraces nationalism, it never ends well.
I read that before the election Modi suggested that one of the first things he was going to do was to ban Wendy Doninger’s recent book on Hinduism (which the fundamentalists find offensive). So much for the priority of jobs.
Welcome to the joys of right-wing rule, India: appease the religious fundamentalists, maybe stir up some good ole anti-Muslim sentiment, and meanwhile give the wealthy the tax breaks, etc. that they so desperately need.
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66.38 percent of India’s 814 million eligible voters casting ballots
Wow India is just enormous!
Pakisatan is a basket case. The place is infested with terrorists. Terrorism and terrorist sympathizers are have been a long standing part of the social, moral, and religious fabric of Pakisatan. Terrorists and terrorist sympathizers funded by Saudi Arabia have infiltrated their political, legal, military, educational and intelligence infrastructure for a long time. Minorities and women are routinely persecuted.
There is a lot of extremism by the large political parties in India. The Congress, which just lost the election, was involved in a campaign that forcibly sterilized millions of Indian males and decades of authoritarian tyranny under descendants of the Nehru family that has controlled in Indian government and enriched itself. What is not mentioned is that Muslims funded by Pakisatan and al Qaeda burnt a whole train load of men, women and children in order to appease their so-called all merciful god. ˇThe Congress party at the center did not do anything to stop the muslim terrorist.
I think that you have drunk the koolaid and cynicism too easily. It is time to respect democracy.
This is really a pro-business conservative party.
I never suggested the Congress Party is a model of uprightness. But “Pakisatan”? Please. This, alongside the rest of your crazy anti-Muslim ranting, is supposed to be reassuring about the mindset of the BJP?
I have no problems with anyone living peacefully. However, I think that focusing the attacks on Modi exclusively on the riots that followed the burring of a train load of innocent men, women and children by religious extremists is distortion. It is like focusing on the forced sterilization of millions of Indian men by the Congress party under the leadership of the tyrannical and authoritarian Nehru dynasty.
But I didn’t even mention Modi’s reaction to the riots. I focused on his promise to ban Doninger’s book. My point was that right-wing politics in India is similar to right-wing politics in this country: distract people by focusing on religious disagreements and meanwhile reward the wealthy.
I don’t disagree. I think that the right wing behaviors in many countries is similar. Conservative parties in the US, England, Russia, Germany, France and India pander to religulous extremist and opposition to immigrants. Likewise, left wing parties go overboard in accusing the right wing parties of religious extremism and drive divisions as a result.