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What's behind Narendra Modi's high popularity in India?

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20 Nov 2017 17:31 #354795 by mapoui
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/...171120081319785.html

New Delhi, India - Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains "by far the most popular national figure in Indian politics" more than three years after coming to power, according to a survey released by the Pew Research Center last week.

Nearly nine out of 10 Indians say they have a favourable view of Modi, says the survey conducted between February 21 and March 10 this year among 2,464 respondents.

The survey says people are satisfied with the direction in which the country is being steered and the state of the economy under Modi despite the controversial decision to ban high currency notes last November and a bleak employment situation.

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For the prime minister's supporters, these approval ratings seem like vindication.

"It's easy for the masses to identify with Narendra Modi since he is literally one of them having risen from a humble tea-seller to now the prime minister of the largest democracy," said Nalin Kohli, spokesperson of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

"His agenda includes poverty elimination and creation of a 'New India' which is developed and inclusive, corruption free where delivery of benefits reach the intended and where aspirations can attain flight as India attains its rightful place in the global arena," he told Al Jazeera.

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20 Nov 2017 18:24 #354806 by ketchim
Expect a rename from British India :to Hindustan or Bharat !

similar to Bombay (mumbai) Madras (chennai) and Calcutta !

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20 Nov 2017 18:26 #354807 by mapoui
well heres more:
theduran.com/afghanistan-china-india-mus...oreign-policy-plans/

Why “fulfil” US’s expectations?

During his recent visit to Manila where he met Trump and other world leaders, Modi remarked that India would “try its best to fulfil the expectations that the US and world has from it”. It is not a healthy precedent. If non-alignment with an inclination towards the former Soviets is being evaluated as an impractical foreign policy stance today, the eagerness to fulfil Americans’ expectations is akin to disaster. India should know by heart that the Americans will never fulfil India’s expectations. Why the love, then?

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20 Nov 2017 18:30 #354808 by mapoui
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The idea of Quad is useless

The idea of joining the Quadrilateral alliance or Quad featuring Japan and Australia besides the US is of no benefit either. The Modi government must know that such an arrangement was tried earlier as well and it never delivered.

China has consolidated its power further over the last decade and looks to storm more barriers in the days to come under the powerful leadership of Xi Jinping. India has already erred in not welcoming China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which in itself is a major diplomatic game-changer and its hopes in respect of the Quad to corner China would hardly be successful.

The Americans’ retreat from East Asia has already made countries like Japan focus on bettering relations with China while Australia too has an economic relationship with the Chinese to ruin. India is the only country of the Quad to have a common land border with China and there is a massive potential in the two populous countries’ economic relation to achieve in the days to come. Why allow the negativity to rule the roost and side with an American presidency which several in the US itself consider inefficient and futile?

Prioritisation is a big task to accomplish in international relations and the Indian leadership needs to do it cautiously, especially in today’s conditions where there are no clear friends and enemies and where the thinking of the Cold War days will not work. The US has made too many enemies around the world, thanks to its thoughtless pursuits and Modi needs to understand that backing it blindly could damage India’s own well-nurtured relations with many countries besides worsening the already worse ones.

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20 Nov 2017 18:36 - 20 Nov 2017 18:37 #354809 by mapoui
and a comment from below:

VeeNarian (Yerevan) • 5 hours ago
The more Modi licks US arse the more he will realize that only the smelly brown stuff will fall on his face. Indians just need to look at Pakistan to see what happens to US allies (aka poodles and slave states). Does India want to become the new Pakistan?
NOT IN MY NAME!



where in the hell are Kwami and Googley? did they no argue vociferously that India under Modi would get all they are after, defeat China and conquer the world???????

the answer for India was always to work with China to return India and China to the top, as the leading nations of the world... not to cooperate with, or sell their soul to a jackass johnny come lately bully, whose time as world hegemon was particularly violent, brutal, genocidal..... but short-lived
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21 Nov 2017 12:05 #354849 by ketchim

dem bhais seh tekk win! BUT the Modi popularity vote in Hindia must be recognised :whistle:
SCA refuse to surrender unles Modi recognise him first wife !

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21 Nov 2017 12:30 #354856 by ketchim

dunno what is taking the BJP a hindu fanatical party, so long to change
and bring Sanskrit back alive !

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