"Who does Narendra Modi represent and what does his rise in Indian politics signify? ...it is tempting to see the Gujarat chief minister’s arrival on the national stage as a watershed moment in the escalation of communal politics... And yet... Modi is where he is today - on the cusp of power - not because the country is becoming more communal but because the Indian corporate sector is becoming more impatient..."
"PANAJI: Cyber crime cell of Goa police on Wednesday registered a complaint against a person for his alleged inflammatory posts on a social networking site which were targeting the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls..."
The slogan 'Har Har Modi' has caused some controversy, symbolising the extent to which the campaign looks like a personality cult. Modi claims this slogan is the creation of over-enthusiastic supporters, but the evidence suggests it was prepared by his own strategists.
Who says what in the Sangh Parivar... For example, which Harvard alumnus said: "make learning of Sanskrit and singing of Vande Mataram mandatory, and declare India a Hindu Rashtra in which non-Hindus can vote only if they proudly acknowledge that their ancestors were Hindus"?
"... a terrifyingly fascinating exercise that is right now underway in the election campaign is the trivialisation and normalisation of the Gujarat pogrom, to pave the way for the crowning of the emperor, the Vikas Purush..."
"For someone who speaks a lot, Narendra Modi reveals very little about his actual views. He has preferred not to be interviewed by the press to the extent that a leader of his position should be open to doing, though he isn’t alone here... This is why, an interview he gave to the editor of Urdu Nai Duniya around the same time is so important... The news from this interview centered around Modi’s dramatic statement that he should be hanged if found guilty of the riots (since when do the accused decide their own punishment?).
"Modi is sending out hundreds of officers, ministers to other states ‘with a view to make aware Gujarati community and local residents of respective State about progress achieved by Gujarat in various fields... Under this program, it has been decided by the State Government to depute delegation consisting of Hon’ble Members of Parliament/Hon’ble Members of Legislative Assembly / District Panchayat Presidents / Mayors of Municipal Corporation under Chairmanship of Hon’ble Deputy Speaker / Hon’ble Minister for dissemination of information on project of “Statue of Unity” ...
"Gujarat intelligence and anti-terrorist squad officers stalked and snooped on Madhuri beyond the boundaries of the state. Her would-be husband, parents, brothers and friends were under surveillance too. And this had nothing to do with her personal safety or national security. A Saheb in Gujarat was interested in knowing the details of her love life... It's no longer an internal matter of Gujarat.
"The footsteps of fascism can be heard – this time in the hallowed hallways of the national capital’s courts. A woman who filed an FIR against a man physically threatening her for her anti-Modi Facebook posts, found to her dismay that the Metropolitan Magistrate in the Tis Hazari courts let off the man accused of threatening her safety, while ordering an FIR against her instead! The media’s coverage of this outrageous incident has been, till now, biased and factually misleading. Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, a journalist and a Ph.D.
The Snoopgate story starts with the abduction and cold-blooded murder of an innocent young woman, who was framed as a terrorist by her killers [1]. One of them, G.L. Singhal, kept recordings of his telephone conversations with Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, in case he might need them to exonerate his own conduct. It is clips from these recorded conversations that were released by Gulail and Cobrapost.
