The Special Investigation, directly monitored by the Supreme Court has found that he asked for the Army assistance within 6-8 hours after the burning of the train in Godhra and till then deployed the Police with "Shoot" orders to control mobs. Police bullets felled about 170 rioters in the first 2 days. And remember, only about 5% of the cops are armed. The rest only have a bamboo stick. This is something that the media, paid off by the Congress Party, will never report.
Modi wins on development, utter lack of personal corruption, swift decision making and his agricultural growth record. Not on any anti-Muslim sentiments as the MSM would have you believe.
And if the rest of the Country does not want him as PM, we in Gujarat will be absolutely delighted to keep him here.
Foreign diplomats have flocked to Gujarat not only for economic reasons, but also because the SIT report has exonerated him. Of course, the Japanese, Chinese and the Singaporeans had distrusted the NGOs and realised the truth long before the SIT report.
Well Modi had better be anti-Muslim because Muslims cause problems not only in India but throughout the world.
Modi magic once more
Editorial
The Pioneer
Friday, December 21, 2012
Gujarat backs politics of development, not hate
The resounding victory of the BJP in the Gujarat Assembly election is an endorsement by the people of the politics of development and a rejection of the politics of hate. Chief Minister Narendra Modi has led the party to a third convincing win in as many consecutive State polls, and he fought this election purely on the plank of the development work that his Government has done for the people of the State.
On the other hand, the Congress campaign, weak and insipid as it was, kept taking potshots at the Chief Minister without offering its own model of development. The voters of Gujarat, unfortunately for the Congress, have already seen and tasted the fruits of progress during the decade of Mr Modi’s rule, and it was difficult to mislead them with the shallow criticism that the Chief Minister’s rivals kept levelling against him. This is not to say that every segment of the population in every part of the State has benefitted; there are many that have been sadly left out in the wave of development. But even they seem to have realised that their situation is not a deliberate creation of the Modi-led regime, but rather one of an administrative failure at some level — which, they believe, the BJP will address in the coming months. For weeks in the run-up to the election, detractors of Mr Modi, and that included the Congress and so-called civil rights activists who have created a career of sorts out of demonising the Chief Minister, had been spreading the message that Mr Modi was a polarising figure and that he was absolutely reviled by the Muslims in the State. Although the Congress, scared as it was after the 2007 experience, did not once raise the issue of the 2002 violence or the ‘persecution’ of the minorities by the Modi-led Government, the fact remains that its workers had continued to spread venom against the Chief Minister throughout the election campaign at the grassroots level. But the results seem to suggest that even that strategy of the Congress has failed. The BJP has managed to make significant inroads into the minority votes as well, and which clearly indicates that the Muslims of the State are by and large disgusted by the hate propaganda unleashed by the Chief Minister’s critics. They are willing to leave the past behind and move forward. Additionally, neither the dreaded anti-incumbency factor nor the Keshubhai factor has worked to the advantage of the Congress. The BJP has held on to its support base in Saurashtra region which has a significant Patel community presence that was supposed to shift to the Chief Minister’s arch rival Keshubhai Patel, and the party has performed no less better than it did in 2007, as the number of seats and the share of votes plainly indicate.
True to form, the Congress refuses to see the writing on the wall and, much less, refuses to acknowledge the fact that neither Ms Sonia Gandhi nor Mr Rahul Gandhi has been able to make much difference to the party’s fate in the State. As it had happened in the case of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election and earlier of the Bihar Assembly poll, the two tallest leaders of the Congress have led their party to an emphatic defeat in Gujarat as well. The party’s senior leaders must stop giving pathetic explanations and accept defeat gracefully.
But, even as the BJP celebrates its triumph in Gujarat, it must introspect on its debacle in Himachal Pradesh, where it has ceded control to the Congress. There appear to be a slew of reasons ranging from internal rebellion to a perception that the BJP Government had been less than clean in its governance. There can be a dispute over whether those perceptions have a basis, but the fact is that the people have voted out the party in the hill State. The BJP must not go the Congress way by trying to explain away its defeat in silly terms.
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