I anyways expected these comments from Srs. when I was trying to reply to Zainab that Modi did a lots of good things from developmental perspective. I wasn't talking from Gujarath riots perspective. I offered a viewpoint why Zainab's father might have found Modi better than Advani despite some allegations on him regarding the riots. FYI, I condemn any form of pogrom and organized killing and I hope you do not brand me as an extreme Hindutva supporter. To set the record right, I'm not communal as well as Pseudo-Secular even though some of you might want to portray me as one.
Also, you cannot deny that the Congress has also been a divisive party more or so from Indira times and they still haven't provided justice to certain people in Punjab and it is a party that has been known to do minority, reservations appeasement like the Haj subsidy et al. And in this elections you very well know that Sajjan Kumar's brother has won in one of the Delhi seats despite strong reservations against Sajjan Kumar. So please acknowledge that both parties share considerable and similar flaws in their history and yet are better than most regionalistic parties in coming to development oriented politics. Bonobashi also forgets considerable number of Hindus were also killed in those riots when he/she mentions the figures of 2000, and again I'm not sure if Bonobashi is cracking jokes here or is being serious :P But if one looks up the developmental indices of Andhra where YSR is ruling and that of TN in DMK, he/she will find Modi trumping them up easily along with Nitish of Bihar wrt agricultural growth for Bihar. Which is what I brought to views of Zainab. I also asked her if she would be ok in letting us know via questions to his dad, what was the real reason he finds Modi interesting compared to Advani. And Zainab herself told that she didn't want to be drawn to the case of Hindu- Muslim riots. And I don't know why Suresh wants to bring in the topic of riots and hit out at me for bringing modi's developmental oriented politics. Suresh might want to read about the exaggerated death figures regarding the recent case in Orissa riots which was refuted by the Naveen Patnaik government. Sadly, this is what democracy is about. One can go upon expressing any viewpoint. even though it is ill informed, and it still is valid to express a view point in India and get branded as a supporter of some genocide. -- Bharat On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > Bharat Shetty [17/05/09 05:07 -0400]: >> >> It is a well established fact that Modi is a decisive leader with >> strong emphasis on good governance and strong development yielding >> strong results. No wonder Gujarath has been given thumbs up in most > > Are you joking? Or do you actually believe that? > >> welfare of rural segments as well as urban segments, and raises the >> Hindutva card only if Sonia Gandhi bites like the "Maut ka Saudagar" >> comment. Advani also didn't lead from front despite the passion he > > Raising hindutva card - hell, any number of people will do that .. Shiv > will probably point you to a bunch of harmless people (and I have very dear > relatives who are card carrying bjp members). It takes a very special kind > of person indeed to countenance a pogrom. And that's what the gujarat riots > were, plain and simple. > > srs > >
