Modi in many ways has been compared to Donald Trump except where Trump puts his foot in his mouth, Modi stays silent.
Both have their hard-core supporters that back them up no matter what wrong they do. A lot of moderate, even secular-minded Hindus can be seen increasingly to have sympathy for his policies, a fact which surprises. As for the non-Punjabi Indian Diaspora, they are solid backers. Of course deterioration in Parliament and its committees is to be expected. Can one expect anything different when fully one third of the members have criminal charges hanging over them and loads of unaccounted money is used in every election by all parties that have the money. Congress being out of power is impoverished or else for example in Goa they would not have allowed the BJP to buy their majority. Is there anybody to replace Modi? Not really. Rahul Gandhi is a joke. He hugged Modi in Parliament during the no-confidence vote debate and was then caught winking on camera and chastised by the Speaker. So come 2019, if you want someone better than Modi, you got to hope the BJP wants that too. Roland. > On Jul 20, 2018, at 2:34 PM, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Please see this: > https://newsclick.in/undermining-institution-parliament > The Narendra Modi government has systematically undermined the working > of Parliament and its committees which has weakened democracy in > India, says S.N. Sahu who has worked with former President K.R. > Narayanan and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. > > [The references to Goa are interesting! FN]
