The Vikas Fakery

There are Sales Managers who operate a region or territory and achieve their targets and not only show dramatic growth but a dramatic expansion of trade in their territory, more retailers and availability of their products everywhere. Then there are Sales Managers who are content to act as “Maintenance Managers” who achieve or fail to achieve targets but still show some incremental growth. The second type also has a bagful of excuses that are quite innovative for their lackadaisical growth but that innovation would be missing from their actions. PM Narendra Modi falls into the second category. He has been just a “Maintenance Manager” with nothing really great to show and no great innovation happening from India.

A newborn baby can grow from 1-foot to 3-foot in just one year. That would be more than 100% growth. But a teen of 16 doesn’t grow from 5-foot to 7-foot, it doesn’t happen. Indian economy too was a “Baby” so far compared to major economies like US, China, Japan or Germany when population sizes are compared. So, to brag about GDP growth over a small base is plain DELUSION. 

Of course, Modi and his bunch of lame idiots will brag about GDP growth of 7-9% or more roads and bridges and all that. But there is nothing dramatic in all this. Everything in the last 12 years is just incremental and nothing spectacular about India. In the current situation even foreign investment is slow, domestic investment has been a laggard and despite lower taxes for the corporate sector (than personal earnings) the outcomes have been below average. If India GDP has grown, it has been progressive or incremental from 1991 (when major liberalisation happened) and has maintained the same pattern. Nothing to brag about if you compare the road with China in all this:

After 35 years, we have reached No.4 in GDP alongside Japan but it doesn’t say much for a country of 150 bn that now has the highest population in the world. More new age businesses like food and grocery deliveries, more street vendors, more train and plane crowding all add up to this GDP. But the quality of life, law and order and a general sense of well-being hasn’t come to Indians. We are just travelling from one problem to another and surviving. The latest one being another Gulf-war and related petrol-gas problems. We may survive this too but don’t know how long it will last.

Modi and his bunch of donkeys (Piyush Goyal, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Kiren Rijiju etc) will not stop telling how you how being 4^th is being over the moon and is the most daring achievement of Modi. Milkha Singh was 4^th in the Rome Olympics. PT Usha was 4^th in the Los Angeles Olympics. Both are super-heroes in India. I wonder how India would celebrate if they bagged 40 gold medals like USA or China – maybe Modi would buy a golden saree for himself and another 1000 golden cameras. These BJP thugs also tell you that by 2035 or 2047 India will reach a GDP of 30Tn and become 3^rd. None of them have a dream of topping the world or beating China – they just want the Bronze medal because they really don’t have any idea how to beat China.

These BJP thugs also keep telling you that they have given so much “Vikas” that India is the “centre of gravity” of the whole world (Modi’s words). All this is nonsensical delusion and the grand propaganda that Modi has indulged in for a long time. It may make Dehati Aurats awestruck with wonder but intelligent folks should see through all this lipstick. The world only cares about India being a huge market for their products. Beyond that, I don’t think any Western country wants India to become their equal or surpass them in their rich lifestyle. They don’t say the same about China because China now is a major economic and military power while India is still a growling puppy despite being fat. Some of the claims of BJP thugs or their Mungerilal dreams is pure gobar-trash peddled for those in the cheap seats to clap their hands (like that yute who shouts “America tuh kya hai be”):

Modi is a man who stupidly keeps on ribbon-cutting the same trains. And these trains are sometimes held back so that they could be launched only during election season in the state as with many other projects that are held back. Modi has even ribbon-cut a goods train and a govt mall in Assam. Wonder why the govt should even build malls. Even roads, highways and bridges or metros are not spared from his idiotic inaugurals. That’s all these idiots have to brag about in this day and age:

LK Advani, when asked if Modi was his protégé, he denied but made a very important assertion about Modi’s character. That Modi was a brilliant “event manager”. And you can see the propaganda and PR master peddling all his immature, maniacal acts as the greatest achievements – whether he strikes poses at temples, utters nonsense like Extra2AB or gutter-gas, or ribbon-cuts some mundane local train at Palakkad. The entire attempt is to keep the focus on himself and project himself as the greatest PM ever when in reality he will go down as the biggest DUFFER-PM that India ever produced:

It was also clear that none of the senior members of the party like Advani, Jaitley, Swaraj or Rajnath Singh wanted Modi to be their PM candidate in 2013. It was evident from their body language and muted speeches too. Obviously, there must have been pressure from the US to project their pet-dog as the candidate with both – the BJP and the RSS. But this was supported by Modi’s popularity with the karyakartas and a large part of the public too. However, much as well as the events were managed since then for 12 years, it does not alter the fact that Modi really doesn’t have the brains or the character for the highest post. His intelligence lies in peddling falsehoods, creating fake imagery, Mungerilal speeches and aided by a general fall in the quality of Opposition parties.

Whether it’s Modi or any of his donkeys like Goyal or Rijiju, they keep abusing Nehru for even ills of the present day. The (ab)use of CBI, IT, ED to arm-twist politicians and businessmen to fall in line by either filing bogus cases or dropping cases is the most prominent political tool by Modi. He even jailed Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia while the CBI cases proved to be bogus and the courts also proved to be idiots for holding them in jail for a long period without bail to manipulate the Delhi elections.

At Independence, India was indeed a poor country with a huge population and a PM struggling with his own imperfections in dealing with a huge number of problems. However, despite all the problems, India trundled along with many firsts in various domains under different PMs unlike Modi. If you examine it carefully, all these PMs and govts led India to a decent position of strength from which to grow faster. All the previous govts had some achievements to its name as a “First”. In comparison, Modi Govt has NOTHING whatsoever to show as a “first” in 12 years. Their only claim has been UPI. Even if we give them that, their inventiveness or innovation for India has been actually ZERO compared with the past. India’s growth in GDP and various domains all actually started with 1991 under PVNR. Following this, there was a dream budget in 1997 that watered down personal income tax and created many financial strategies. In 12 years, Modi has really NOTHING to show. He is just a MAINTENANCE MANAGER that continued to build on the platform given to him:

Modi neither invented nor innovated any of the above – he doesn’t have the brains or courage for it and he has surrounded himself with the worst possible incompetent idiots who are only authorized to sing his praises all day. The real governance model of Modi is pretty much like the striptease or pole-dancer whose only attraction or value is in exposing body parts slowly. Whether oil, mining or airports, Modi has put all of India’s eggs in two corrupt baskets – Adani and Ambani. He extorted money from all major contracts – from vaccines to road construction through the now-defunct “electoral bonds” scam which was done secretively to fool the people. Adani in particular had his wealth growing from $7bn in 2014 to over $100bn in 2024. Ambanis grew from $18bn to $119bn in the same period. A growth over 1500% for Adani. This video (by MNS – 49 secs) graphically explains the CORRUPT GROWTH of Adani:

To summarize, Modi is neither innovative nor an intelligent man. The last 12 years have been spent by him in lipstick self-glorification rather than any great achievements. India’s foreign policy also is no more than the PM being a pet-dog of US and its allies. Many aspiring citizens or rich ones are desperately trying to get out of India apart from the most hateful poison of caste-wars injected by Modi into the society. The BJP should wake up and replace this lipstick idiot and find a better country-manager. Currently, they are riding high on election victories (by mass-bribing of women) but people are realizing the hollowness of Modi’s farcical development and fate may consign BJP to the wilderness for a long time.

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The Varanasi Wake-Up Call

Media folks are supposed to have their ears close to the ground where politics is concerned. Some of them claim to be such big “experts” that they predict events instantly. Bad politicians take at least 2 years to taint themselves in corruption or misdeeds; some careful ones take 20. But in their quest to realise their own political agendas some media crooks wanted instant gratification without the patience to watch and observe. That’s what they did when Arvind Kejriwal and his AAP got a good number of seats in the Delhi election. They declared him the messiah. They declared him the man who would be king. Here’s the end part from the post “Polls 2013 - And the losers are…”

Immediately after the state results were declared on December 8, 2013 the MSM was thrilled that there was finally someone who could challenge Narendra Modi. The Gandhis have run aground. Arnab Goswami started off on December 9 with “Is AAP now a threat to Modi”? Others were rubbing their hands in glee in hope that AK will deal that final blow to Modi. None of the media pundits were willing to accept that not only is AAP a small player restricted to Delhi but also that the Delhi performance was helped by a corrupt Sheila Dikshit govt and the BJP’s sleeping beauties in Delhi. It also hinged on a lot of tall promises that AK made to the poorer section of voters. AK took oath as CM on December 28 and after 49 days of non-stop nonsense resigned with a fake excuse. Gone were his lofty claims of fighting corruption or prosecuting SheilaD and other corrupt politicians. AK turned out a moron who started believing the stupid stories in the media. He believed he was the David who was slated to slay the Goliath. Some in the media, particularly folks from AajTak, NDTV and the CNN-IBN group, spared no efforts to breast-feed AK into believing he is the royal baby who would be king. It was PM or nothing!

Well, you know the story since then; AK in Gujarat, ruckus all over, then violence by his thugs in Delhi, then Mumbai and Nagpur, more violence and nonsensical rants. Life goes on. Of course, in all this while he openly threatened Modi with a challenge from anywhere the latter contests the LS election. AK roared he would challenge Modi and show the world what a great hero he was. All this, till Modi’s candidature from Varanasi was announced. Naturally, someone had to test the waters for AK. He sought a poll from the locals in Varanasi to decide on his challenge but that is yet to happen. In the meantime the Macaulay Sisters from the unholy trinity in media, Barkha Dutt and Sagarika Ghose rushed to Varanasi to test the waters. They literally landed up on the Ganga waters. Let’s watch an edited excerpt from Barkha first (4.07 mins. There is a lag between video and audio and that’s from the NDTV site itself):

What Barkha really did was quickly run through a single street in Varanasi to seek opinions and then settle on the Ganga with two guys and a discussion with politicians in Delhi. Apparently, she didn’t hear what she would have liked to hear. Even in that one street she came across a former AK supporter (with the bike) who had sound advice for AK. He says “glass once shattered can’t be put back”. BD talks of religion, roads and so on but the former AK supporter clearly says AK has failed and should perform before seeking votes at Varanasi. Barkha pre-empts his sound-bite claiming “confused” supporter but the man seems in no confusion at all. Ordinary folks reflect this wisdom which seems to be missing the media folks all the time in their studios. The rest of the discourse is Hindutva or soft Hindutva and all that is usual monologue by BD. If Barkha was there, the other Macaulay twin had to follow. Here’s Sagarika Ghose (5.41 mins):

It is amazing that even folks in far-off Varanasi are talking of and desiring the Gujarat model; the model that some blind analysts and media folks like to trash as nonsense. It’s the very model that AK has been screaming about as rubbish. A lady makes a good point about a nearby town having an airstrip for private use but no railway station. That is something the Centre can solve even if not all the local problems. As for development and roads that both Barkha and Sagarika talk about, it is dependent more on the state and local govt. This is worth special attention because most of the Hindu pilgrim towns in India, especially in the north are in total disrepair. In contrast the southern Hindu pilgrim towns are far better maintained and managed. Whether it’s Varanasi or Rishikesh or Puri the Hindu pilgrim centres deliver a lot of money which can easily be ploughed back but the state govts seem to have different priorities when they should be making it as comfortable as possible for visitors and pilgrims.

The folks at Varanasi explain how their society is made up of small entrepreneurs and just need the support to perform well. That’s what they expect from Modi having heard the Gujarat story. When Sagarika tries to repeatedly rake up the “communal” agenda the people dismiss it as media propaganda. One hopes the blind people in the media learn from these voices. People are simply not buying the media propaganda. NDTV, CNN-IBN, TimesNow and the others have been trying very hard to paint the Varanasi choice of Modi as a “safe seat”. Except these morons everyone else seems to understand the political impact and implication of Modi’s choice. It wasn’t as if Modi would have lost from Lucknow or Kanpur or Patna but the choice makes the political statement he wants to make. And Modi is a politician first and not a stupid media anchor or panellist.

Read the last para from the first pic in this post. It recalls: “Arnab Goswami, acting like the regular circus clown, had a stupid question at his 6pm show on December 8: “Is AAP now a threat to Modi”? Well moron, get used to it! All of you are a threat to Modi including Congress, SP, JDU, RJD, RLD, DMK, CPM, AAP, Third Front, Fourth Umpire, CBI, Salma and Sabrina, IM, LeT, JuD and the Indian MSM collectively. He’s still standing. You’re the ones who have fallen to the pits”.  Oh yes, the “sickulars” are trying very hard to present a single candidate to represent their Army which is what the media folks have also been egging them to do. The Congress has even tried to put up Sachin Tendulkar to battle Modi. It’s good the cricket hero wisely declined. Elsewhere, more misdeeds of AK are leaking. He is now alleged to have indulged in electoral fraud. His nautanki and fall was foreseeable for everyone except his cronies in the media and his own party.

Barkha and Sagarika aren’t the only ones who dashed to Varanasi though. There are others from the print media too who rushed there to test the waters. There is “No Modi Wave” they all claim. Fine! One can’t help those who don’t breathe and those who are blind. The rude awakening at Varanasi has Modi’s opponents hunting for their candidate but like I wrote on December 9 the media folks are the ones who are the losers. Modi is still standing. 

Jayalalithaa Goes Fishing..

J. Jayalalithaa, TN Chief Minister, was in New Delhi today for a meeting with the Prime Minister. A charter of demands for TN may be the apparent reason for the meeting. However, our media, alert as ever, had all kinds of headlines including this one from Times Now – “Jaya Storms Delhi’. You would have thought JJ had launched an attack similar to the midnight one at Ramlila Maidan. And all the channels and sites reported “DMK watches closely”. I don’t think that is completely true. DMK may not have bothered much considering Sonia Gandhi is in Switzerland along with Rahul Baby, according to Subramanian Swamy.

Post her meeting she addressed the media and there was this routine demand for Dayanidhi Maran’s exit and other mundane utterances. There is one statement she made that stands out though (From NDTV website):

Home Minister P Chidambaram "has not won the parliamentary election. In fact he lost the election...he has played a fraud on the nation." According to official records, Chidambaram defeated his AIADMK opponent by 3,354 votes. The Chief Minister said that in the general elections in May 2009, the data entry operator in the Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu transferred votes won by her candidate Raja Kannappan to Mr Chidambaram.

PC has reacted by stating that it is “contempt of court”! So what are you gonna do, PC? JJ had dared to say out loud what many in the opposition and media had long avoided touching upon. As far back as I can remember, PC was trailing in that 2009 LS election and was declared defeated, even in the media, but some hours later was declared the winner. A lot has since been written about the EVM being tampered or not being fool-proof. That is a topic for the election commission and the Madras High Court, where a case is pending on that election outcome.

Politics is not the normal business of this blog but in this case I will make an exception. Jayalalithaa has won the recent TN elections against the DMK on issues of corruption. The UPA and the Congress are parties to the extraordinary saga of corruption all around. If JJ is hobnobbing with the Congress it will be another foolish mistake from this lady who has always been an opportunist and a terrible alliance partner. If she has learnt her lessons from past mistakes and respects the verdict of her electorate she will stay clear of the Congress. On the other hand she may also be well aware that she is getting on in years and the only thing of interest to her may be staying in power one way or another. Well, that is true for any politician, isn’t it?

Let’s get back on track with her comments on P.Chidambaram though. The news channels that covered her press conference mentioned various topics touched upon in the post-presser analysis but none of them touched upon the statement she made about PC’s election being fraudulent. A few Hindi channels started mentioning it as did some websites so now all of them are back to talking about this.

Unlike a Laloo or a Digvijay Singh who frequently shoot their mouths off or utter some nonsense regularly (Less by Laloo lately for obvious reasons), PC is a skilful and smooth talker. Regardless, there is a lot that PC has to answer for and some of these questions were raised in previous posts I had made.

Ravi Shankar Kapoor not so long authored a book 'How India'sIntellectuals Spread Lies'. Prominently featured among the lie-mongers were Jawaharlal Nehru, Suzanne Arundhati Roy, Mani Shankar Aiyar and of course P. Chidambaram…I wrote that in my post “Saffron Terror: Chidambaram's Cheap Trick” In case you haven’t read the book by Kapoor, I recommend reading it. (You can read a chapter at his blog.)

I also recommend browsing through these previous posts on this blog:

Radia Tapes, Phone Tapping - Chidambaram Must Come Clean

Radia Tapes Leak: Needle Of Suspicion Closer To Chidambaram?

I believe there is a lot that PC has to answer for. To start with, after all the drama about Nira Radia and phone tapping there is yet to be a case filed against her. For two years her phones were being tapped for many reasons and it is hard to believe that the government couldn’t come up with a case against her. Well, we will wait and watch.

There is something very intriguing. Many have wondered and even alleged that PC may be the brain behind the Ramlila atrocity on the night of June 4. There was all-round condemnation of that action by non-UPA political parties, even by the detractors of Ramdev and those who were opposed to the ‘civil society’ movement. There was something missing.

I may not be the best informed person but I have not found any news report on any channel, newspaper or website reporting Jayalalithaa having condemned the Ramlila attack. I would like to be corrected, but it makes me wonder what she’s fishing for!