Is India in for a major transformation?
Narendra Modi, the new prime minister, is giving all the right signals since his historic win on May 16, and which is important. He has made departure from the previous governments by refusing to indulge into witch-hunt, adopt exclusivist approach, pamper one community at the altar of others and join the wagon of petty politics.
If his win proved pollsters right, the statements that he is coming out with is proving the analysts wrong: That he will usher in an era that will reduce minorities to a second class citizens and that the ideology of Hindutva will be uppermost in his mind while carrying the administration.
First the presidential speech that largely reflects on the government’s agendas and then Modi’s own maiden speech in Parliament on June 11 are enough to allay the fears of the minorities as also those who subscribe to India’s time-tested secular principles.
Out of several important observations he made in his speech, the one that Modi confirmed was that he would work for minorities. In this regards it is important to understand what he says about them: “If one organ of the body remains weak, the body cannot be termed as healthy. We are committed to this. We don’t see it as appeasement.”
It’s important because Modi subscribes to an ideology that was born out of hatred against the minorities mainly the Muslims. — Shazia Haque, New Delhi
Has Modi changed?
