Showing posts with label Hindutva. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hindutva. Show all posts

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Amit Shah: The architect of India's rightward turn may succeed Modi one day

Election News
New off a reverberating re-appointment triumph, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined different legislators in India's frontier period parliament to extol the man on his right side.
There stood Amit Shah, Modi's go-to person for over three decades, who at that point continued to make one of the most critical declarations in contemporary Indian history: The legislature would quickly end about seven many years of self-rule in the Muslim-lion's share locale of Kashmir.
"Allow us five years, we will make it the nation's most created state," Shah announced.
The memorable discourse toward the beginning of August stamped to some degree a turning out gathering for Shah. Since quite a while ago known as one of India's best political strategists in the background, he's currently taking a more prominent in propelling a motivation since quite a while ago held by Modi's decision Bharatiya Janata Party to raise the interests of Hindus who involve around 80 percent of the nation's 1.3 billion individuals.
The moves are intended to keep the BJP in control for quite a long time to stop by endeavoring to make a brought together Hindu personality in a country customarily partitioned by rank—an advancement that dangers on a very basic level adjusting the character of India's mainstream popular government. In the event that fruitful, they could make ready for the 55-year-old Shah to one day take over from Modi, 69, as India's head administrator.

"When Modi is at last prepared to step down, Shah will obviously be a top contender to be his successor," said Michael Kugelman, senior partner for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington who has intently looked into India's governmental issues over the previous decade. "He is profoundly faithful to the gathering, happens to be near it most dominant figure, and harbors sees that are in close arrangement with the BJP's present zeitgeist.".....READ MORE

Monday, April 8, 2019

BJP manifesto rooted in reality, prepared with nationalist vision: Jaitley

Election News

BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Monday said the BJP's manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections beginning this week has not been prepared with a 'tukde tukde' mindset but with a strong nationalist vision.
The document, 'Sankalp Patra' (document of resolve), is rooted in reality, Jaitley said after Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the manifesto.

"Our new policy, new doctrine of striking terror in its origin has received global recognition," Jaitley told the gathering.

The Union finance minister said the party was committed to annulling Article 35 A of the Constitution, which provides special rights and privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
The provision is discriminatory against non-permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir, he said.
When India is at the cusp of history making most of all its lost opportunities, does it require a fragile government or a decisive one, he asked.

Jaitley added that previous governments only gave slogans, but the Modi-led administration gave resources to the poor.

He said the essence of the BJP manifesto is to deplete poverty over the next five years to single digit and then gradually eliminate it.

"Our fiscal prudence since 1947 has been best ever for any government," the finance minister said.

 (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)