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| Modi Rings In 2017 With New Set Of |
| Modi Rings In 2017 With New Set Of Falsehoods
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| INDIA
, 2-January-2017
1:57:38 AM |
| The Honourable Prime Minister's address to the nation on New Year's Eve adhered to his usual style - it was full of sound and fury and signified absolutely nothing. Rather, it heralded in a new low in the affairs of the nation. At the end of the promised 50-day period of state-inflicted abrogation of constitutional rights on the vast majority of innocent law-abiding Indians, the PM chose to ring out the old and ring in a new set of falsehoods.
It is necessary to strip off the cloak of verity Modiji seems to be clothing himself in even at the risk of abuse and invective by the ever-vigilant army of trolls, the vanar sena of the social media (for whom the essence of democracy lies not only in their being entitled to their own opinion, but more important, to their own facts). Quite like the disrobing of the fabled emperor's new clothes that required a child to publicly counter with fact an oft-repeated lie masquerading as truth. It is indeed an unfortunate day when the man holding the highest elected office in the land also chooses to propound his own brand of "sachai" based not on fact or accountability, but on rhetoric, empty promise and repackaged half-truths.
Fifty days on from November 8th, the Prime Minister applauded his "pyaare deshwasiyon" for joining him in the fight against the three stated evils of corruption, black money and counterfeit currency. Laughably, he even invoked parallels with the border wars of 1962, 1965 and 1971. Apparently the lack of widespread popular revolt against his government was sufficient proof of unflinching support for this undemocratic and constitutionally invalid move! Did no one beat up a bank manager? Did no one set fire to an ATM machine or a bank branch? Did no one lay siege to the residence of the Finance Minister, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India or even the Prime Minister? No, no one at all.
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