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Nice. I wish more leaders from both sides take up such confidence-building exercises I think its the other way around. Modi has indeed "achieved" a lot, but he is being encouraged in the wrong direction - he should instead be directed to courts for confession. To escape from this, he has...

Make no mistake - UPA needs to be crushed for the pest that it is. But that does not mean we put a cobra in its place! Do read that blog entry to educate yourself how Modi's own economic dept data contradicts what Modi and his online brigade has been passing. There is a whole new thread here at...

The means are quite evident in his case. Not been convicted doesnt mean 'not guilty' in India. Like said in part-2 of that blog entry, there are enough prima facie evidences stacked agianst him. Why isnt congress using it? In India, what political parties say in public and what they actually do...

Depends on what you mean by results. If sliding ranking in literacy rates, human development indices etc are results, then most in India, where a vast majority are underdeveloped in all these, would disagree. The whole argument by capitalists of trickle down effect is proven false here - far...

No.. WE decide. And hence this discussion on clearing some facts (from many many fiction and half-truths) about one candidate Modi. Also remember, there is always a period of uncertainty when there is a huge change - If we didnt have the stomach to bear instabilities we would still be living...

Of course it does make sense! If you can compare contemporary growth rates, you can also compare rates of two temporal periods, and then compare this temporal difference between two states (to normalize factors that affected both states uniformly during both periods). Why not?! The reason why...

Or have a decent, efficient and performing PM - why compromise? Our country is certainly not lacking in talents that we should compromise goon vs lameness for PM and other parliamentarians!

You mean the blog does contradict? or not? :clueless: As the blog shows, using planning commission data sourced from gujarat's own directorate of economic, if you include 2002 & 2003, gujarat is fastest under Modi. If you consider only from 2004, it is not. Also, Gujarat was fastest even in the...

In a parliamentary system, and with rise of regional satraps, I dont think a single leader can do much. We need good and well-wishing parliamentarians themselves. The strength of a leader does not come from within but from the mandate he commands. Gujarati farmers are fine with paying for...

I had already addressed that, if only you had cared to read the blog before you post your comment on it. Let me quote just one: Gujarat was the fastest growing state in 90s (also 80s, but no data link in the blog) even before Modi took over. Anyway, please read the blog and my comments here so...

Even Raja or Kalmadi have not been convicted, but we do believe in their guilt, dont we? So, why this double standard for Modi? (as for the reasons for my belief of Modi, you should read the second link posted at the start of this thread, and the references quoted therein). The biggest reason...

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Oh, if the comparison of Modi is with UPA or Sonia, then it boils down to pure hardcore supporters taking sides while the neutral voter stands clueless. But we can all agree that there are certainly better candidates in both UPA and NDA, and even among Indians at large (c'mon, our country of...

No, we dont needs strong leaders, we need strong systems. But unfortunately, given the way Modi has been known to run down lokayukta and police & prosecution wings (remember, the HC & SC had to intervene a few times!) etc, he doesnt come out as someone who will put in institutions that will...

I dont see any disagreement between the figures there and in that blog! What the blog goes on to do is to compare how much the growth rates have improved under Modi (over his predecessors) and how have things improved in other states during these same times. Not to mention the socio-economic...

Good you brought that up (the Sarchar report)! That is another typical example of the Modi's marketing machinery at work. The Appendix of chapter-4 on education clearly says the data was based on Census 2001, before Modi's rule. The Appendix of chapter-8 on income levels says the data was taken...

Thats true of all societies: Left to themselves, the top 20% will accumulate all of wealth in asymptotic time. But thats why we have governments with an equal right of vote to all: To make sure that the development is not as lopsided as in gujarat, for eg (as that blog shows for literacy to...

Social policy is not cutoff from economic policies, and one cannot be evaluated in isolation, especially if he wants to run a country like India that needs to cater from the Ambanis to sub-saharan levels of poverty and malnutrition. Also, as for GDP, you are only comparing with India. Look...

Of course you can look at different sectors (textiles, retail, serives etc etc) and you will find that different states have different positions. Take FDI, for example: The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) report for 2011-12 shows Orissa, followed by AP and then...

Actually, the well known online Modi brigade cares more about seeing a hardcore hindu ruler than real development of India. They have been spreading blatantly lies about Modi's godly handling of economy just so that people would vote for him and he could get his hindutva as* to the PM seat. I...