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The Peril is Immense
in Modi`s Reign
Having a humble background,
Narendra Modi, no doubt, is a great a
propagandistic, gadfly, dynamo, scold
and swashbuckler. In the history of
India, Narendra Modi is the first Prime
Minister who leaves no stone unturned
to sully and debase the Nehruvian legacy
& dynastic family, no matter national
or international platform. By doing
this eloquently, he is not likely to boost
the image of India but smear it with the
muck of Maoism & Nazism. Shiv
Visanathan, an Indian sociologist has
rightly delineated that “Modi`s nationalism
is about the elimination of opposites,
not accommodation of differences”.
Intellectuals, activists, writers,
speakers, poets & artists are living in an
atmosphere of fear. They are unable to
articulate freely. Modi is like Hitler,
Mao, Stalin, and Napoleon who
crushed all types of opposition to wield
power. The disgusting thing is that all
the BJP leaders including Narendra
Modi from public platforms project
India as it has never existed in the international
realm before they took over the
reign of the government. It is nothing
but simulation & mimetic. Modi and his
aides have shut their eyes permanently
to the history of Indian Diaspora.
Gandhi migrated to South Africa in
1893. Immigration of Indians to
Canada followed by in 1906. Hindus &
other caste people as indentured laborer
migrated to Mauritius, Guiana,
Trinidad, and Britain. Indians who
migrated to different British colonies
during the First World War glorified the
name of the country by achieving a
medal in sports. Many Non-Resident
Indians (NRIs) also including Gandhi
launched cultural and socio-political
movements in the African countries.
Komagata Maru ship was chartered by
a Sikh businessman Gurdit Singh carrying
376 South Asian immigrants
reached Vancouver (Canada) in 1914.
Indian scholars working on Indian diaspora
tell us the tales of honor, glory and
wealth of Non-Resident Indians
(NRIs). Modi needs to read first all
these pieces of literature before
indulging in the ingratiating cacophony.
Modi as a Prime Minister of 130
million Indians has been touring the
world since 2014 till date in the hope
that he would attract foreign investment
for India to boost up the crippling economy
but all in vain. It is also a fact that
Modi is neither an economist nor a
social scientist to understand the declining
socio-economic life standards in
America, Canada, Britain, Europe,
Hong Kong, African, West Asia, and
East Asia because of internal its social,
economic & political disturbances.
India should not be proud of huge population.
The burgeoning population is a
big problem for any country. Claude
Levi Strauss, a French Sociologist
warned: “The only true problem which
is posed for civilization today is that the
demographic population explosion. All
the rest of the evils from which we suffer
flow from it”
Let us have a close peep into the
current social & economic situation of
these nations to which Modi travels
proudly in Air India aircraft having 265
passenger capacity. Yellow Vest movement
in France has shattered the economy
of France. The pro-democracy
movement in Hong Kong since June
2019 has made a deep dent in the economic
structure of the country. A devastating
war killing thousands of civilians
is always on in the West Asian
countries. A recent drone attack in
Saudi Arabia is a pertinent example.
Afghanistan is always in trouble due to
ISIS fightings. Europe has been struggling
with the economy. Britain has
bristled with Brexit problems.
Unemployment rates in all these
nations have been rising. Natural disasters
and calamities in the Western
countries displaced millions of people.
Drug cartels have wreaked the western
societies. The resurgence of divisive
right-wing politicians promoting
nationalism, sovereignty & economic
protectionism has further de-
Globalized the world. If all these
nations are in trouble then where Modi
is looking for investment. Let us pose a
question to Modi and his aides. It is a
common sense that the householder
will safeguard first his or her burning
house and later he or she can think of
doling out some charity.
Modi has no concrete academic credentials
and skillfulness except fancy,
banal rhetorical as to understand that
diplomacy is quid pro quo, not carte
blanche. America, Russia, Britain,
Canada, China, Japan, all these nations
play a level field game to garner maximum
profit from the developing world
by selling their products. The multinational
corporations’ aim is to raise profit
by hook or by crook but not ready to
share economic benefits with the country
from which the corporations draw
huge economic resources. It is unfortunate
that the majority of the people in
India does not know how many bilateral
agreements are signed by Modi during
his visits to foreign countries. A
small but telling example can be drawn
from the case of India-UAE partnership.
When Modi visited the United
Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2015 he
signed MOUs/ agreements for strategic
partnership in several areas. One of the
MOU signed is in the field of Skill
Development. Since 2015 not a single
initiative is taken by Modi & his counterpart
to give impetus to Skill
Development. Most of the MOUs/
Agreements are paper tigers. All relations,
Foucault has argued are relations
of power.
In 70 years of independence, The
External Ministry, Government of India
has never engaged in constructive facilitation
to boost up economic contribution
to the Homeland. Brain Drain is the
biggest problem to face the shortage of
skilled manpower. Modi` s new mantra
of Brain Gainer as enunciated in
Houston, US, is shallow. A study done
by Dr. Saroj Rani in the United States
on International Labour migration of
Indian Diaspora in 2017 concludes that
‘ not a single academicians, businessman,
high profile of Indian origin
working in the United States expressed
willingness to come back to India and
serve the homeland’.
International migration is economic
migration. Several studies show that
children settled abroad come to sell the
property of their parents after their
death and go back to their respective
host countries. On inquiry, we come to
know that they do not want to stay back
in their ancestral lands. There are reasons
but prominent is corruption in
bureaucracy & judiciary; political indeterminacy,
social unrest, Mandir-
Masjid issues, lynching,
snatching, killing of elderly
people. Lack of proper
infrastructure & vicious
dirty political atmosphere
in the government
Ministries & departments
also prevents them from
coming back to their
homeland. Some of the
people belonging to the
lower castes assert that
Brahmins of India practice
hierarchical prejudice
and exclusion when they
return back which they
hardly experience in the
western countries. A recent statement
made by Santosh Gangwar, BJP
Independent State Minister for Labour
& Employment stirred the honest nest
that North Indians lack skills to acquire
jobs. This reflects the truth. Let us ask
Modi why he has established Ministry
of Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship if this Ministry can
skill youths. Western technology has
advanced further. India`s Research and
Development (R&D) is in a pathetic
condition. Will Modi make India a
Super Power by skilling people in hairdressing,
beautician, and mason work
courses?
– Dr. Rahul Kumar, Ph.D.
As a journalist, I got
an opportunity to attend
the 46th AIMA National
Management
Convention 2019 in
New Delhi. Ravi
Shankar Prasad, current
Union Minister holding
the Law & Justice,
Communications, and
Electronics &
Information Technology
were one of the key
speakers at the event.
Mr.Prasad in his speech
told that “When he went
to his dentist recently he
enquired from the dentist
about the needle and
the dental chair. He further
asked the dentist
who manufactures these
items in India. The dentist
told Mr. Prasad no
sir all these items are imported and we
manufacture none of them”. India is
still far behind America, China, Japan,
and Britain in smart technology. From
Metro train to X-rays machines India is
importing. This is New India of Modi.
As everyone knows that the colonial
British government had left some of the
vices of bureaucracy, slavish mentality
in the blood of Indians. Modi is a slave
ship on which helot, meek, sycophants,
flunkey, sheep followers, sacrilegious
& contaminated people are on board.
The slavish mentality is perceptible in
the cabinet Ministers of Modi. Every
sensible man will feel ashamed to know
that almost all the cabinet Ministers in
the Modi government repeats Modi
name in their rambling speeches at private
or public functions. One can find
that every cabinet Minister from the
dais will shower praise on Modi`s
visionary outlook. They behave as if
they have no brain to
think. A culture of savage
mentality has
become a disease, a virus
in the Indian government.
The majority of the
cabinet Ministers in fear
are a slave to Modi`s
shrewd & wily mind.
Such slavish mentality
and servility have given
unprecedented political
power to Modi. The
result is that Modi thinks
he is the supreme leader
and nobody in the government
or in the BJP
can dare to raise an accusing finger
against him. Not a single cabinet minister
in the government has thought of
stopping Modi from wasting taxpayer
money on foreign trips. Not a single
cabinet minister in the government has
thought of asking Modi how much he
has invested and how much he has
received from the countries he visited
last. What a tragedy for the frigid
Indians who are struggling day and
night to meet both ends.
Lukewarm Modi is least bothered
about trade and industry sinking in
India. Fastidious and swagger Modi is
least bothered about bestialities being
committed on the Dalits, Muslims,
Christians in India. The concentration
of political power in the hands of a single
party tends to crush the opposites.
The litany is that the BJP/RSS since
2014 has been shamelessly exploiting
the wave of popular disturbance. Modi
and his aides have caused severe damage
to public institutions. Before Modi
came to power all Brahmins of India
were clamoring from the scaffold that
Merit should be the sole criteria for
selection in the government jobs but
now almost all appointments are made
in public or private institutions by favor
through RSS Nagpur headquarters.
Saffron clad Brahmins priests (Babas)
are committing rapes under the nose of
Modi government. In rural India,
Saffron clad Brahmins priests are
usurping the land of the marginalized
farmers under the Modi government to
establish their academic institutions &
factories. Vermin Brahmins patronized
and protected by the elite Brahmins are
plundering the treasure of the country
and running to the foreign lands. Vijay
Mallya, Nirav Modi & many smalltime
plunderers have looted the country
and fled. And many more in the
pipeline to flee the country.
Creativity & innovation has been
hampered by curtailing public funds.
Half of the population of the country is
fighting court cases in various lower
and higher courts. In Modi reign, everything
is settled through courts including
the results of SSC examination. Modi
and his aides have been inflicting egregious
brutal castigations on the people
in India. See the case of Kashmir. Once
paradise Kashmir has been turned into
hell by Modi by abrogating articles 370
& 35A. Due to abrogation of 370 &
35A Pakistan has already inflicted a
hefty financial loss to India by closing
air space for overflights Pakistan airspace.
Is this Sab Ka Saat Sab Ka
Vikas? Modi and his aides have no
respect for the constitution of India.
Liberty, Equality, Freedom, the ideals
of the Indian constitution are ruthlessly
trampled upon by Modi & his aides. Let
us not forget unless social peace is preserved
in India no foreign investment
will come& stay back in the country.
We cannot call the business of
Franchise a foreign investment for
development.
Nowadays it has become de rigueur
among the Ministers and leaders of the
BJP to glorify the highest eight civilian
awards conferred on Modi by some
countries. But one thing is clear Modi
will never be equal to Dr. Manmohan
Singh, a great consummate economist,
in terms of intelligence and acumen.
Modi having the blood of Gujarat carnage
on his palm will never become a
Nelson Mandela of India. Today, he is
cursing Nehru`s sluggish legacy the day
is not far off when the people of India
will repeat the same history and curse
day and night the reign of Modi.
– Dr. Rahul Kumar, Ph.D.
Dr. Rahul Kumar, Ph.D. Jawaharlal
Nehru University, Delhi. India. He is an
independent researcher and senior
media columnist. He is working currently
with the “The Asian Independent
UK” newspaper as a Bureau Chief.
His book on “Elderly Punjabis in
Indian Diaspora” traces trajectories of
Elderly Punjabi migration to U.K. He is
a member of the Editorial Committee of
Global Research Forum for Diaspora
and Transnationalism (GRFDT) New
Delhi. India. The views expressed by
the author in this article are personal
and does not necessarily reflect the official
policy of the paper.