[Reader-list] Fw: Tatas, Ambanis, Mittals bat for Modi as PM

[Rakesh Iyer]

Dear all

This is indeed a brilliant piece of news. Certainly Modi should be the PM
after all.

He has shown how to respond to a situation like Godhra; by allowing
religious bigots and their companions to murder, unofficially, 2000 citizens
of that state, which not only includes Muslims who were not at all
responsible for Godhra, but also includes Hindus who were trying to
protecting those Muslims and even mazaars.

He has shown how to use religion for a wrong purpose like communal
polarization.

He has shown us the path of decency to be attained in election speeches, by
using these words for the then Election Commissioner, during the 2002
elections : 'The Chief Election Commissioner is acting like a Christian'.
Of course, in continuation with that, he carried on with saying that 'The
Indian Government is actually Delhi Sultanate' and what not.

He has shown how to allow people to roam about with municipal lists and go
around butchering Muslims, but not at all touching Hindu homes beside them.
He has also shown how to deal with the 'Muslim menace': by getting their
women raped and their foetuses burned.

He has shown how to deal with issues of justice: by simply proclaiming that
since Hindus didn't receive justice in the past, due to 'Islamic rule', now
it's the turn of Muslims to suffer retributive action for it.

He has shown the path to industrialization, so much so that today the salt
industries are now polluting the sea coast of Gujarat, flouting all
environmental norms, because as they say 'Modi bhai protects us'.

He has shown how to turn election campaigns to gutter politics of the worst
kind.

He has shown the media the door to attain freedom, by asking through his
government, the PTI, to publish 5 articles as per government based view in
the papers compulsorily, when all this time even a central government could
not order the same.

He has shown how to go ahead to prove his secularism, by just brazenly
destroying temples in the name of encroachment. After having got mazars and
mosques demolished in 2002, now he is out to prove he can also be secular,
like his great mentor, L.K.Advani.

And certainly for the Tatas, he is a god-gift. After all, when the Singur
people were asking for their democratic rights, and at least their voice to
be heard, the Tatas found it to be 'undemocratic'. And when the Gujarat
government has given them subsidy, which would in totality amount to nothing
other than Rs. 30,000 crore, they think it's perfectly legal.

The Tatas have not lost out anything by Singur, except a few hundreds of
crores, which is no big money for them. On the contrary, they have earned a
subsidy, which is difficult even for other companies to earn. The Tatas
think it's a divine right of theirs to do so. What they forget is the
devastation of Singur, and how they wanted things to be done their way, even
at the expense of democratic rights of people. Singur and India have proved
that we will not lie back, and if that means Tata has to go from Singur or
even India, let that be.

Jamshedji Tata was a great person, but his successor has forgotten the basic
human courtesy which should have been given to people.

The less said about the Reliance, the better. If I am not wrong, 'Guru' is
the movie which is about Ambani, (played by Abhishek Bachchan), whose false
deals and bogus claims are brought before the public by Shekhar Gupta
(played by Madhavan) of the Indian Express, with the help of the editor
Ramnath Goenka (played by Mithun Chakravorty). Reliance, according to true
market insiders, is nothing else but a gamble. And Dhirubhai was known in
earlier days and even now their company is known, to influence public
policies to suit their ends. It's believed Pramod Mahajan introduced
policies which would have helped Reliance in hindsight. And now they have
Amar Singhs and others to help them.

As for Mittal, it would be better to get his company's accounts audited
properly, before declaring Modi to be the best CM. I hope he doesn't end up
the way Satyam has.

Indian companies and corporates are basically stooges of the US today, at
least the big ones. And we all know how the US companies, being deregulated,
have blown themselves up and the financial economy as well. I only hope
these companies don't also end up the same way.

They get so many tax benefits, and still crib about subsidies to farmers and
Indian agriculture. For them, it's just profits earned by hook and crook. If
made to face proper competition, they would be sunk. They are only surviving
on the basis of loans and other financial freedoms granted to them by the
state and the central governments. And the people have definitely voted out
governments in the past, which focused only on industralists and not on the
common man, as 2004 has shown.

And since Modi is the best CM for them, the UPA should prove themselves to
be the worst rulers, by first getting the accounts of these companies and
their folk audited publicly, to find out whether they do earn profits, or
they are the new Satyams to be discovered in future. After all, since these
companies believe in free markets and capitalism, let subsidies for them be
thrown out, and let it be found out whether these companies deserve to
survive or not.

Regards

Rakesh