Gujarat always a model of industrial excellence
Persistent and unrelenting denial of a reality coupled with loose and inaccurate figures , is the dream of people following Dr Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda manager of Hitler. This Goebbellian approach does not serve the purpose any more for the world has changed and people have moved on to effectively separate the truth from propaganda. One Mr.Sahil believes that nothing has been proved against Modi. Sure, yes, we know that. One must remember that even murder cases in India take years to come to their logical conclusions. Law will deliver justice. If not today, then tomorrow even in Trial courts of Gujarat. By the way, Sahil, Why were so many cases shifted out of Gujarat? You know the answer. Let me add that though the matter is sub judice, the public perception is that Modi has failed to protect his citizens when criminals raved in glee.The other is one Mr.Somalya
To both the Goebbelians in context, Gujarat has always been a state with a positive attitude towards business. Nothing new. A double digit growth rate has been seen in the 90’s. Entrepreneurs and huge companies have dotted the Gujarat business horizon since ages. Multiple business ventures of the Ambanis, Amul group, Ahmedabad-based Dishman Pharma, , Zydus Cadila, founded in 1952, is one of the top five pharma companies in India with a turnover of(Rs 37 billion) today, the Rs 35.50 billion Nirma group , the Sandesara group with a market valuation of about $6.5 billion , Rs 27,000 crore Ahmedabad-based Adani Group, $2.02 billion worth Torrent Pharma, multi million $ worth Arvind Limited (formerly The Arvind Mills Ltd.) , $455 million AIA Engineering Ltd was incorporated in March 1991, Electrotherm (India) , Sintex Industries has grown to an over Rs 3,200 crore (Rs 32 billion) company , the Indian Institute of Management, the institute of Rural Management, the introduction and growth of Cooperatives and so on. How many more do I have to name!!!!! And finally, Ahmedabad has been known as the Manchester of the East long before one Mr.Modi appeared on the horizon! Let us give credit to the illustrious Gujaratis who have been exemplary since ages! Modi has just flown with the tide. He has been like any other normal leader. Mr. Somalya should get his facts correct before heaping unwarranted eulogies. He sounds like a hollow vessel with a cracked base . Every state in India has progressed in the last couple of decades-some more some less. This is because India as a nation has gown by leaps and bounds. Growth at the Macro level has reflected on the micro level. I hope this settles the issue of Modi being the messiah and the harbinger of industrial excellence in Gujarat and the Sahils and the Somalyas will stop parroting the same.
Now, comes the last issue of Muslims and Modi. As one Director General of police says, “No Rioting can continue beyond 24 hours except if there is complicity of authorities”. And this is very true. What we say to Modi is that why riots were not contained for almost three days!! Either the CM was downright incompetent and did not know what was happening and had no clue as to how to control or he deliberately looked the other way. Somalya can choose whichever option he likes. In both cases, Modi is culpable. This is why we say “ Modi fiddled and twiddled in glee while Gujarat burnt”. Mr. Somalya, two wrongs do not make a right. If Congress party is guilty of rioting, they need to be punished. Just because they failed in 1984 it does not mean Modi can slaughter Muslims and claim innocence. Somalya prescribes that Muslims should forgive and forget. Indeed yes. It should be. But for this, one must see sincere repentance on part of the perpetrator. Is this there? Rather, it is to the contrary! Modi has never been to a single victim’s family or a refugee center, to express regret and pacify the bleeding heart. Did he even try to assuage the feelings of those whose lives have been ripped apart? Somalya, you forgive one who seeks forgiveness…not force it on him! Atal Behari Vajpaee was dismayed and saddened at the atrocities perpetrated. And he expressed that the Rajdharma was not followed. And yet, Somalya praises heaps on that very man whose governance saw hundreds of gallons of blood flow from thousands of innocent children, pregnant women and old and helpless bodies ! What bigoted thinking!
