General question about Pakistani politicians (and Indians, too)

[Solomon2]

Can anyone point to a speech or article where a national Indian or Pakistani politician corrected the mistaken beliefs of his core supporters?

 

[Iggy]

Can anyone point to a speech or article where a national Indian or Pakistani politician corrected the mistaken beliefs of his core supporters?

You are kidding.. right??

 

[Solomon2]

You are kidding.. right??

Not at all.

What about locally-elected politicians?

 

[Invincible INDIAN]

Not at all.

What about locally-elected politicians?

You are still kidding... right??

 

[Iggy]

@Solomon2 , mate we are not making fun of you..

You have to understand that the political culture of India and Pakistan is different from that of US..

 

[Jackdaws]

Can anyone point to a speech or article where a national Indian or Pakistani politician corrected the mistaken beliefs of his core supporters?

Gandhi's speech - most Indians believed in violence to attain independence - even the leadership.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJ00KvsHuQ

 

[Iggy]

Gandhi's speech - most Indians believed in violence to attain independence - even the leadership.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJ00KvsHuQ

Gandhi was not a politician..

 

[Jackdaws]

Also, despite it being considered a part and parcel of Indian social norms, Gandhi did continuously speak out against the caste system and against untouchability - he gave them the rather patronizing name "Harijans".

Gandhi was not a politician..

Of course he was.

 

[Solomon2]

@Solomon2 , mate we are not making fun of you..

You have to understand that the political culture of India and Pakistan is different from that of US..

Trying to grasp how different. Does anyone know of Indian or Pakistani politicians who corrected their constituents in small group meetings?

 

[RPK]

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Jackdaws]

@Solomon2 , mate we are not making fun of you..

You have to understand that the political culture of India and Pakistan is different from that of US..

You have to be kidding right?? If anything, the American politicians are well aware of their constituents and seldom deviate from their wants. Why do you think the Romney lost - in the primaries he was pushed so much to the right by the likes of that moron Rick Santorum. Whenever, Presidents have gone against the grain of popular opinion, they have ended up being assassinated - Lincoln who ended slavery, Kennedy who ended segregation.

 

[RPK]

K. Kamaraj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._N._Annadurai

 

[EyelessInGaza]

OP, can you give an example from another culture/ country so one can have some context?

Meanwhile, random answer I can think of: "Pakistan khappay"

Can't deny that it's true, though.

 

[Leader]

There are like 100s of incidents where Imran got corrected or he arrogantly stood by his words, only to be proven right later !!

just recently the whole PTI got divided over whether to join Qadri's sit in in Islamabad or not, Imran stood by his stance to not join...and hollah it was a right decision and all the supporters who became critics on imran/CEC's decision admitted to stand corrected !!

 

[livingdead]

LK advani called jinnah secular, faced wrath of his own party and core voters. He could not change their minds, but still sticks to what he said..