Vote counting continues in India today, but it’s all academic at this point, as the Indian National Congress has conceded defeat and the ultranationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will end up with an absolute majority.
That means Narendra Modi is the new Prime Minister-elect, and a more polarizing figure in Indian politics would be unimaginable. Modi, the outgoing Chief Minister of Gujarat, has campaigned on an openly anti-Muslim platform.
Modi’s warnings that Muslim immigrants in the east better have their “bags packed” seem especially ominous when one considers his administration oversaw the 2002 Gujarat riots, which saw the deaths of at least 790, and by some accounts nearly 2,000, Muslim civilians.
Modi’s provincial cabinet ministers were accused of direct involvement in the riots, and while Modi himself was never firmly implicated he has since 2005 been denied entry to the United States. Despite this, the US says that it “looks forward” to working with Modi’s government.
The BJP has won praise for its economic and anti-corruption policies, but has pushed draconian “anti-terror” laws in the past, and Modi’s own policy seems particularly extreme, even by his party’s standards, toward India’s Muslim minority.
Modi's triumph is a sad day for India.
Pinche pendejo.
Good day in human history.
Ghandi is rotating.
he's probably burning in hell. Most of so called Gandhi's sainthood is a media creation. If you dig deeper you come to a whole different conclusion about him.
From what I have read on the issue, the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that controls the Congress Party has been extremely corrupt and autocratic for decades. That got Indira Gandhi knocked off nearly 30 years ago. Perhaps a BJP broom will sweep clean. Regardless, it's up to those people to sort things out for themselves. No Western nation has any dog in that fight.
As for the Muslims, they would no doubt be welcome in Pakistan or Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan). The 1947 partition was supposed to have created Hindu and Muslim homelands.
Thank you, not being sarcastic.
Let’s just call it exactly what it is:
NATIONALIST = NAZI
There, simple! Does not matter what country we are talking about.
What do you propose? That everybody embrace islam and live happily ever after?
Narendra Modi will be a powerful, transformational Prime Minister of India, who will transform Indian society & economy while standing up to terrorists, imperialists, climate change cultists & One-Worlders.
In much of NE India, Hindus are already turning on Muslims as a scapegoat wholesale. Modi will give them his backing to continue slaughtering human beings to satisfy his personal bloodlust. Ever since Ayodhya mosque rampage, Modi and his party have stood exposed as fraudulent genocidal maniacs who see hindu salvation through the myopic lens of xenophobia. And yet, the worrying thing is that they have absolute backing of the Indian nation as of now. If it wasn’t for Pakistan and Bangladesh, we would all be as dead as Gujarati muslims today.
Why don't you ask your brethren to emigrate to pakistan or bangladesh then? there they can enjoy everything wonderful islam has to offer. That's why partition took place, right?