Maybe BBC should make a documentry on the massive human rights abuses under british rule across the planet. Feels good to see britain failing economically though 🥳. Pigs deserve it.

> This whole about useless opposition is a myth. He and the BJP have systematically destroyed independent media and that has ensured that we will not even know if the opposition is up to any good…

I literally cited 2 clips of one of the most prolific anti-Modi journalists

Not to mention NDTV, the wire, etc are all alive and well. I would've believed your media censorship argument in 2014 but it has been 8+ years and Modi loses state elections regularly

> No opposition wants to stand up because if you do you will have a million cases filed against you and of course incur the wrath of the IT cell

This is straight up just a lie. Especially because every party has an IT cell

This whole about useless opposition is a myth. He and the BJP have systematically destroyed independent media and that has ensured that we will not even know if the opposition is up to any good…

No opposition wants to stand up because if you do you will have a million cases filed against you and of course incur the wrath of the IT cell

At the risk of downvotes I will provide an opposing stance. I shouldn't need to say this but I will in case rabid anti-Modi people accuse me of being a bhakt. I am not a Modi voter but I do have my head out the clouds unlike some people.

Modi's government doesn't stay in power magically. The driving factors are:

1. A useless opposition, an entire political party run by a corrupt family versus a less corrupt tea seller. There is quite clearly a difference here in terms of who people would vote for and it's been bloody obvious since 2014. Especially for Mumbai, Shiv Sena is even more fascist than BJP could dream to be, and NCP is even more corrupt than both combined. They both want to stay in power hence the Shiv Sena NCP alliance last term even though they are political opposites and have conflicts.

2. Development, because despite what you want to believe the Hindu supremacy myth gets old pretty quickly. A lot of people who voted Modi aren't rabid enough to believe in that, and many of those who are have expected less and less from it, especially with Nupur Sharma controversies and how the government decided to go on an apologia tour in the gulf states.

So this means a lot of people who voted for Modi did so again for his 2nd term in 2019 because he delivers on many of his federal promises. When journalists traditionally anti-Modi admit there are some positives to his leadership, that is when you know the Modi situation is a lot more complex than what the original comment and BBC are willing to admit.

https://youtu.be/hwnnn1M-T5U

https://youtu.be/o5P_sYXBEDM

3. the 2002 Gujarat riots are a complex series of issues and I don't believe the BBC provides a nuanced view on it. There is an excellent comment already made by us over at r/indianmoderate that I will edit in here if you care about the nuance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianModerate/comments/10g4j5i/-/j50is1k

So my point is, someone like Modi doesn't stay in power for so long magically. There are many factors responsible for this. Calling a discussion of this the "modi brigade" or "bjp it cell" is just spineless because you just fuel their politics instead of holding a healthy discussion and convincing them why your politician of choice is better.

It's not about BBC, whatever BBC has shown is already publicly known. There is a reason why modi doesn't give press interviews after he got flabbergasted by questions on Gujarat riots by Karan Thapar.

It’s sad, as an Indian abroad I hate to see it. Brainwashed fools dragging indian backwards.

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>How do they seriously still call India a democracy?

>discriminated against Indian muslims

Because that's what democracy is. In its purest form, tyranny of the majority.

For real bro. Everyone with 2 brain cells can tell how India is thriving lately.

Ever heard of propaganda?

A bit of both. His opposition is extremely incompetent but Modi has tried to maintain India’s diplomatic relations with other countries

Him and S. Jaishankar are walking a tightrope by allying with both the U.S and Russia

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Hang on, the BBC puts all its prerecorded content on the archive, regardless of geographical licensing restrictions ? No vpn?

Mostly the second,he kinda fell off

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I wonder how is getting elected again and again. Either he is a really good politician or the opposition leadership totally sucks.

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Look mate. You're obviously really upset about this.

I think you should start caring more about the average person in the population rather than the political powerplay from narcistic Politicians.

You're more than welcome to be a card carrying Modi fanboy on the other hand. All the best 👍

What was the new information in this?

Israel soon wont even pretend to call itself a democracy no more. Expect how India is run by ultra far-right nationals to be a preview of Israel's new government

How do they seriously still call India a democracy? Their courts and police are run by a group of corrupt far-right ultra hindu nationals who are in charge of the country? They issued citizen law which plainly discriminated against Indian muslims, they repeatedly called for genocide against them as well as destroyed their houses and took their lands. Numerous reports of rapes and crimes against Indian muslims have not seen justice. What happened to that journalist who stomped on the body of a muslim man who was protesting police from taking his land?

Of course I am talking about Pakistan. And of course you have the fullest idea what I am talking about. Not only that, you care deeply about Pakistan. After all every second post from your account is about Pakistan.

The point is that, you were completely wrong about the anti-Sikh rhetoric. You dug a deeper hole when you mentioned Khalistan without even knowing it's a movement from the '80s and BJP has little do with it. Your concern is neither Modi nor BJP. You simply hate India, which I totally understand given how your country's entire existence is based on that. But when you try to criticise India/BJP at least do some research instead of making inane statements about "anti-Sikh" rhetoric. You do not even have enough prudence to at least read the article that you posted. Why do you think you'd have enough knowledge to talk about anything?

As for the very capitalistic age, I hate to break it to you, but we are relevant while you are not. That's what matters. I don't care if we have a monkey in power or if Modi is literal satan himself. We will keep marching forward and that is why I mentioned in my earlier comment that Modi is an intl. star inspite of what he did in 2002. Don't you understand what I am trying to say here? I dgaf if Modi was behind 2002 riots. For me those riots actually showed that jihadist elements cannot burn Hindus in a train and not expect retaliation. At the end of the day, it's been done and dusted and we keep marching forward while you keep imploding because you pander to those same Islamist fundamentalists that caused the Godhra train burning.

Naive if you thought I care about Modi. I care about India. And I care about getting the facts right. And that is why I haven't commented elsewhere on this thread. I only chose to comment when you ignorantly mentioned "anti-Sikh rhetoric"

Anyway keep crying more.

Lmao modi brigade already shown up