Where's The Pakistan Tough Talk Now, Modiji?

[karan.1970]

Then your main focus should have been the same Economic and Industrial Dev while in opposition. author has narrated instances where BJP's main focus was Congress policy on Pakistan and China.

You have no clue how politics works in the region

 

[axisofevil]

Read my post again i said i am a modi supporter . I 100% know that we cant have a war but my question is why IA is silent after modi took over? they have to repeat what they did last year eventhough i hate this madness in LOC

Kashmir will be fixed but only after elections. You cannot expect Modi to resolve Kashmir properly without having a stable, friendly govt. Abdullah and the Gandhi's are on the same page. They will do anything and everything to limit Modi. Kahsmir needs a complete overhaul for security. This requires a strong local govt willing to push the reforms that are coming.

 

[Omega007]

I guess once again it's time for IA to bring out the ZSUs and L 70s and repeat what they did last year.Damn I miss that sight,L 70s spewing fire with bristling 40mm high explosive rounds leading waste to the Pakistani concrete pill boxes.

The Infian Army should do it more often,it's a delight for the eyes.

 

[SrNair]

Oh boy.
Some Pak members become excited because a Congress MP used their nations name to criticise our PM .
It is just 2 months.
The one regularly talking for action is actually pacifist.But beware a PM who has silent when he deal with national security.
Ajit Doval is our NSA.Modi made him as our NSA due to someobvious reason.
When Modi finished his work to reform our economy,you can see.

 

[Emmie]

As long as you are able to interpret rhetoric and ground reality severally you are politically on a right track. What politicos say before elections is irrelevant and unimportant what politicos do after being elected is relevant and important. On papers they can bring down the stars for you but in reality they work conventionally. Modi as a politico would say anything to attract voters but as a PM he has limited options.

 

[spectribution]

Simple fact, Modi delivers!

 

[Raje amar]

Shashiji forget the fact that Congress was in the power. They had the mejority. Then what stopped them from bringing in the reforms???? BJP was just an opposition party. They didn't had the numbers to veto the bills.......

The policy paralysis which Congress bar ought in UPA II was their own creation.

As of Modi is concerned, there was a news not too old about additional deployment of 2000 BSF men on J&K border to check infiltration. The steps are planed.

 

[arp2041]

Ahh...Even 2 minutes Noodles isn't made so INSTANTLY as these Modi Opponents (the world over ) are expecting INSTANT results from this govt.

Actually, I have to AGREE, If there will be a competition of Hypocrisy, we Indians will be UNCHALLENGED Numero Uno. Give Congress LOOTERS 60 years & don't say a word, but Ask Modi every MINUTE where are the Achey Din you Promised? Actually this question was starting to be asked even when Modi Govt. Din't complete a DIN in OFFICE!!!

 

[HariPrasad]

MORE BY SHASHI THAROOR

(Dr. Shashi Tharoor, a two-time MP from Thiruvananthapuram and the former Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Human Resource Development, is the author of 14 books, including, most recently, Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century.)

If there were ever to be an object lesson in the fundamental political wisdom that opposing is different from governing, Narendra Modi and the BJP epitomize it.

We have already seen the Modi government reverse half a dozen domestic positions of the Modi campaign. Our new BJP rulers now support GST (the proposed Goods and Services Tax), sugar subsidies, railway and diesel price hikes, FDI in insurance and other key UPA budget measures, all of which they had ferociously denounced, obstructed and prevented progress on when they were in Opposition.

Nowhere is the U-turn more apparent, though, than in foreign policy. One of the first acts of the newly-elected Prime Minister was to invite Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to his inauguration, after attacking the Congress Party and his predecessor Manmohan Singh for being too soft on our neighbour. Modi, who had excoriated the Congress for "serving chicken biriyani" to a Pakistani visitor, now exchanges shawls and saris with his Islamabad counterpart. (I mischievously tweeted my hope that chicken biriyani would be on Modi's dinner menu for his Pakistani guest: it wasn't.)

In the election campaign, Modi had breathed fire and brimstone about Bangladesh, accusing it of sending millions of illegal immigrants into India and promising that the moment he won the election, they would all have to "pack their bags" and leave India for home. Bangladeshi officials had publicly and privately expressed their disquiet that any attempt to do this could be deeply destabilizing for their politically fragile state. Within weeks of his victory, however, Modi's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj was all smiles on her first official visit abroad - to Bangladesh. Illegal immigration wasn't even mentioned in Dhaka.

The Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh concluded by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, which Indian diplomats had considered vital to removing bilateral irritants, had never been implemented because UPA couldn't win the BJP's support in Parliament to ratify the territorial swaps required. Now the Modi Government is the biggest votary of the Land Boundary Agreement, with the BJP leadership calling for it to be ratified.

The BJP had been virulently critical of the Indo-US nuclear deal, Manmohan Singh's signature foreign policy triumph. They had even supported a no-confidence motion against the UPA government on the issue of the deal. Yet, in a quiet and under-reported move, the Modi government wisely ratified the India-specific Additional Protocol, a UPA undertaking to grant greater access to India's civilian nuclear sites to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency.

In the lead-up to and during his election campaign, Modi and the BJP had constantly berated the government of India for being unable to do anything about frequent Chinese incursions across the disputed frontier. Today, the same Modi has not only had effusive meetings with both the Chinese President and Foreign Minister, but is inviting China to help modernize the Indian railways. As to the border incursions, the BJP government echoes the very line it had denounced when the Congress government uttered it - that since the two countries have differing perceptions of where the border lies, each patrols in areas the other considers to be theirs. What was excoriated by Modi as pusillanimity and appeasement in the Congress has become wisdom and statesmanship in the BJP.

The most poignant issue relates, of course, to the most sensitive: the killings of Indian jawans in shooting incidents on our Line of Control with Pakistan. Every time any such tragedy occurred, Modi and the BJP used to savage the Congress. Their campaigners frequently said that if Modi won, the killings would stop because Islamabad knew that a Modi government would retaliate ruthlessly in taking ten Pakistani heads for every Indian one that fell.

The first killings occurred immediately after the BJP victory, but before Modi had been sworn in: the victors' silence was understandably not held against them. But this week, when news again came in of a jawan being killed on the LoC, the silence of the Modi government was deafening.

In a tweet on August 11, 2013, Narendra Modi had declared with typical bravado: "India is going through a troubled situation. China intrudes our borders, Pakistan kills our soldiers time and again but Centre doesn't act!" The implication was clear to his fans: this won't happen on my watch.

Well, it just has. As one critic sarcastically posted on the social media site this week: Completely Agree with Narendra Modi. China Intrudes border, Pakistan Kills Soldiers. Centre doesn't act.

Prime Minister Modi has wisely chosen not to rise to the bait. Where you stand on foreign policy, in other words, depends on where you sit. Your stand is different when you're sitting in South Block and not in Gandhinagar.

The cerebral American politician, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, once memorably observed that you campaign in poetry, but govern in prose. Hard reality, he suggested, replaces the fights of policy fantasy that afflict those without power.

With power comes responsibility. And with responsibility, Modiji, comes realism. Welcome to Indraprastha.

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One simple question to Shashi Tharoor.

If BJP is following the policy of congress than why you people oppose BJP?

 

[The A-5]

LOL these indians always use my country's name or else they want us to believe that they dont have anything better and more mature to do.

The congress party has got beaten up bad. They don't even have enough strength to be recognized as leader of opposition in parliament.

What do you expect them to do other than use pakistan issues to score brownie points against Modi?

Anyway, as far LoC firings are concerned, the norm is, you kill one of our's, we kill one of you. 3 deaths, two of Indian side,
one pakistani happened so far, another pakistani death is awaited. The Army, BSF know the traditions, the PM needn't
tell them that. Everyone knows why these border firings take place from pak side first - to sneak in terrorists.

Modi's job is to work at apex level to curb terrorism. Our PM is not supposed to be a jingo militarist like Musharuff and shout stupid slogans as "Pakistan has moved ahead of India in space race" bullsh!t, or instruct soldiers to kill all pakistanis/muslims
they see - border firings are hardly ever initiated by Indian side.

As long as you are able to interpret rhetoric and ground reality severally you are politically on a right track. What politicos say before elections is irrelevant and unimportant what politicos do after being elected is relevant and important. On papers they can bring down the stars for you but in reality they work conventionally. Modi as a politico would say anything to attract voters but as a PM he has limited options.

There are no "limited options" or "anything you want can be done, huzoor" type of things in a matured democracy. There are
only sufficient options. It's all about how you exercise those options.

 

[arp2041]

As long as you are able to interpret rhetoric and ground reality severally you are politically on a right track. What politicos say before elections is irrelevant and unimportant what politicos do after being elected is relevant and important. On papers they can bring down the stars for you but in reality they work conventionally. Modi as a politico would say anything to attract voters but as a PM he has limited options.

With full due respect, It would be FOOLISH to think that the People of India gave Modi there mandate just because of his speeches on Pakistan. People of India are mature enough to understand the realities. Modi got the mandate due to corruption, inflation & decrease in Growth which was effecting the common man. He may had got some votes on Pakistan rheoteric but NEVER such a mandate.

 

[Mr.S.Singh]

Pakistan is a military behemoth armed with most powerful weapons mankind has ever created.

What can Modi do?

Status-Quo standstill between India and Pakistan isn't going anywhere.

No country can defeat the other country. Both countries can destroy each other. Effective MAD factor exists.

Indians see Israelis butchering defenseless Gazans and get arousals of doing the same to Muslims everywhere in the region.

They need to control their testosterone

seriously ? It comes to this speech ??

This is a simple incident of cross firing, you kill one today, they kill they next chance they get
Rule of the game is not to provoke a war

As stupid as it may seen, the count will increase in the following days !!
So please, keep the Status-Quo for your self, it isnt even needed in these situation

 

[Mike_Brando]

The writer has a point. Modi was practically a God to BJP supporters with rants on how he was going to fix Pakistan, China and the economy whilst at the same time sorting out the USA, Italy etc. Now that he is the PM, India seems to see no change. Pot shots from across the border which killed a jawan and his twitter account suddenly seems to have been silenced ? Shawls and saris for Sharif's mum? If Rahul did the same, BJP supporters would have gone ballistic !

Pray tell me how you came to this bizarre conclusion considering the fact that you aren't even an Indian and has been living in a country ruled by none other than the legend Mr.Mugabe for God knows how many years!!On the other hand we,the common Indian citizens know the ground reality of our country and i can assure you that Mr.Modi is doing his part and soon we'll see the results....

 

[Emmie]

With full due respect, It would be FOOLISH to think that the People of India gave Modi there mandate just because of his speeches on Pakistan. People of India are mature enough to understand the realities. Modi got the mandate due to corruption, inflation & decrease in Growth which was effecting the common man. He may had got some votes on Pakistan rheoteric but NEVER such a mandate.

Nowhere in my post I made a comment on what you are explaining!

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Pray tell me how you came to this bizarre conclusion considering the fact that you aren't even an Indian and has been living in a country ruled by none other than the legend Mr.Mugabe for God knows how many years!!On the other hand we,the common Indian citizens know the ground reality of our country and i can assure you that Mr.Modi is doing his part and soon we'll see the results....

Now that I criticize Modi ji. I get stripped of my Indian citizenship

One simple question to Shashi Tharoor.

If BJP is following the policy of congress than why you people oppose BJP?

He said that BJP opposed the policies of Congress but now adopt the policies of Congress when they are in office.