The Two Main Lies In Modi’s Propaganda
By People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism
04 April, 2014
Countercurrents.org
Not so long ago, Modi was described in the media as a mass murderer, a man who used his state machinery to track a young woman who was important only because she attracted him, a man who repeatedly mixed up names and historical facts in his public speeches. But now many of the media, clearly toeing the line of owners who care only for the profits that big capital can make, have suddenly begun to see only good in him. They have forgotten the damning things they said.
The Clean Chit
Modi’s propaganda team makes much of the “clean chit” he has supposedly received from a court in Gujarat. This ignores the fact that the verdict of a Metropolitan Magistrate’s court is only the beginning of a process that will move to successively higher levels of the judicial system. Modi is nowhere close to being exonerated: his trial has only just begun. We have seen that he cannot control or influence the judiciary outside Gujarat.
Development
Much is also being said about Modi’s being the embodiment of the idea of development. It does not need too close a look at the reality of his own state to see the fatal flaw in this. Modi has bent over backwards to oblige big business and the super rich, and in the process has taken away much that belongs to the ordinary people of Gujarat, specially farmers. Giving the state’s resources on a platter to the Tatas and the Adanis is nothing other than robbing their real owners, the very Gujaratis who elected Modi to his seat of unbridled power. A handful of rich people have benefited because of his “development” while tens of thousands of the poor have suffered. Modi is Gujarat’s biggest enemy.
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