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notes, "During 2006-09, GSPC sold gas to Adani group at a price which was much lower than its.
purchase price. This incurred loss of Rs 70.5 crore (Rs 705 million)." No wonder Modi tried his best.
to block the appointment of a Lokayukta in Gujarat for a very long time. Particularly when he was.
facing allegations of massive corruption and irregularities in at least 17 scams!.
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So, the 'Modi model' is no different in its economic essentials than the Manmohan model..
Why, then, is Gujarat a preferred destination for the corporations? When faced with peasants'.
protest in West Bengal or workers' protests in Haryana, why do corporations threaten to take their.
business to Gujarat instead?.
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What the corporations hope is that Modi can successfully overcome the obstacles to higher.
economic `growth' ( itself a code word for faster circulation of capital and higher returns on.
investments), by "managing" democracy as he has done in Gujarat through a combination of.
communal terror and sops to some sections. They hope this model will be able to avert the kind.
of popular mass protests that the Manmohan Singh regime has witnessed, given growing public.
anger at the sordid story of the nexus of corporations and politics that led to a haemorrhaging of.
the country's resources and assets. It is in moments of crisis that capitalism seeks a fascist.
resolution, exemplified by an authoritarian leader and a 'hard' state. And so the.
corporations hope that Modi's 'Hindutva hero' image combined with the 'governance.
superman' image crafted by the notorious international PR agency APCO and corporate.
media, will suffice to get him to power and to diffuse the political crisis of a State.
beleaguered by people's protest movements..
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Modi 'magic' lies precisely in the mix of pro-corporate policies, authoritarian governance,.
and 'consent' manufactured on a communal plank. Hatred and violence against minorities is a.
key ingredient of the 'consent' Modi has achieved for his pro-corporate, repressive governance.
model. In Gujarat, a series of fake encounters were scripted to build up Modi's image as a 'Hindu.
nationalist' hero being targeted by so-called 'Muslim terrorists'. Whereas in other states, such.
encounters are usually faked by trigger-happy cops to achieve promotion or medals, in.
Modi's regime they were knit together by a nefarious political design. Each fake encounter.
reinforced the idea of Muslims as the supreme threat to the social/national order, who were ritually.
vanquished by Modi's police force, over and over again..
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Communal violence and hate-speech, then, is not an embarrassing aberration, it is at the.
heart of the Modi model of governance. When he uses the analogy of 'kutte ka baccha' (the.
English 'puppy' cannot convey the abusive connotation of this Hindi phrase, a more apt translation.
would be 'sons of bitches') for victims of the communal pogrom of 2002, or derides secularism as a.
'burqa,' it is not a 'gaffe' as some of his corporate media apologists have claimed. This is the.
language he has always used: recall his infamous speeches equating Muslims with five wives.
and overpopulation ('ham paanch hamare pachchees'); attacking the Election Commissioner.
with taunting reference to his Christian name ('James Michael Lyngdoh'); and brazenly.
celebrating custodial killing by asking an audience "What should be done with a man like.
Sohrabuddin?" and hearing the response: "Kill him." Modi's image-managers claim he is a hero of.
'development', far above any communal politics. But Modi has brazenly affirmed that contempt,.
hatred, and violence towards the Muslim minorities is inextricable from his imagery, his metaphors,.
and his politics..
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Secularism and Democracy: Essential Components of Pro-People 'Governance'.
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The prevailing mainstream discourse on secularism also calls for urgent challenge..
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Modi's Open Derision for Secularism.
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Scott Pierce! Deseret News! TV reviews, Eeyore of the Show. Email him at pierce@desnews.com, and you'll get a response if you're lucky.