How the heck this article qualified for print? There is no beginning, no end and no theme-other than "I hate Modi". Forget the content. The prose is pathetic-fifth grade level.
//“There is only a slim chance Muslims other than these sections would support Modi-style economic development. They are the poorer, uneducated lot, who see no benefit in it,” says Desai// This is an opinion. This is not information! Do you understand the difference? They should be directly proportional to each other. Atleast make an attempt. Did you even get paid for this ? The progress in Gujarat and the infrastructure development is there for everyone to see. 99% & 76% of the poor in yankland in 2001 had refrigerators and air conditioning resp. The best way to get people out of gut-wrenching poverty is largely free enterprise. History proves that!
So in the world of jhollawallah CON party supporters, to say that a part of India (Sir Creek or Siachen glacier) should remain in Secular India and not be gifted to THEOCRATIC Pakistan is an act of communalism.
Tomorrow the CONgress party and the media supporters aka paid journalists will tell us that we should also gift our own homes to Pakistan to prove our secularism !!
My only question is - why dont the media worthies first prove their secularism by gifting their own personal assets to the poor people of Pakistan?
Will Vinod Metha do that? Will the owner of this newsmagazine do that?
Total BS article!!
The continued existence of these jholawallas and mediapersons is the biggest repudiation of their claim that people in Gujarat, especially those opposed to Modi live in fear. These folks have badmouthed and made wild allegations against Modi every single day since the 2002 riots, but they continue to live there and what's more, thrive.
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