Friday, February 08, 2013

Ramachandra Guha chimes in

on Modi here.

He claims Modi becoming the PM is bad because of his authoritative nature. He compares him To Indira Gandhi who stifled any opposition in the country and party. This might be true. In his speech at SRCC, he talked about HIM only HIM. It was impressive and motivational for sure. However, it still felt that He was the one who did it all. I am not saying that his approach might not work for India. I am worried if does not listen to other people, in a diverse country like ours it will be very hard.

Now, comapre him to Rahul Gandhi who gave an "emotional" speech after being "elected" as the Congress Vice-President. It was a speech full of instructions on how power is poison and corrupts people. Here is a leader who comes from a party that  has ruled India for 90% of the time since indepdence. Now, he claims power corrupts. Simple hilarious. His solution more governement. Government will solve you problems just like they did in the last 8 years. Basically, whether you see it or not, Rahul Gandhi will continue the status quo. I would rather have an authoritarian (not dictator, because we still have elections) man with vision at the head of the government then a "directionless" status-quo head. But, of course, we are getting ahead of ourselves here. There is the small matter of elections!

 

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