If you want to know whats going on in the 2014 election campaign, & what the CPI-M is fighting for -- follow @cpimspeaks on twitter and friend the Cpim FB page. Todays Hindu has an interview with Com. Prakash Karat, who lays out why Narendra Modi is bad news for India: We are the anti-thesis of what [BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra] Modi’s platform stands for. A call for a strong leader is the call also of the corporate media. The turn away from [Prime Minister] Manmohan Singh by the corporate media is because it sees Modi as the man who can deliver better for us now. Along with that is the strong authoritarian message which is what big business and corporates want. In the name of firm rule, and law and order, put down all discontent. Marry this with the Hindutva ideology and it becomes a dangerous mix. That is why we stress the opposite. We stress a more federal set-up; decentralisation of power at the Centre. Forget about an individual, we don’t want this sort of authoritarian power concentrated even in the government at the Centre. We do not want what the BJP has always hankered for — a presidential form of government where one man will have all the executive power. In a country like India, this will have a very disrupting and divisive impact. India is too diverse and vast a country to be ruled by an authoritarian model. thehindu/todays-paper/tp-national/corruption-not-just-a-moral-question/article5849859.ece
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:37:57 +0000
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