trump hovers around 35% approval
This. The difference is that he wasn't elected out of spite for a community.
He (modi) was elected out of spite for the largest and oldest political party of india.
Muslims in india are the largest unified minority, the hindu majority on the other hand is divided into dozens of subcultures. As such targeting the muslim votebank was the surest bet to power and this is what the aforementioned party had been doing for the last 40 or whatever years. Let me reiterate, these people won with overwhelming majorities for decades until this guy popped up flipped the tables.
The party mentioned above always took steps to keep hinduism down a notch while giving additional privileges to the muslim minority.be it in the form of reservations, monetary aid for pilgrimages, promotion and sustainence of extreme religious beliefs, . To this day, a large sector of the poor muslim population in remote parts of the country doesn't attend schools but is taught in certain madarasas which focus solely on religious education. And certification from such places are actually accepted when enrollment into higher education or certain jobs.
My post is not meant to berate the beliefs of a community btw,everyone has a history of how they arrived at their culture or sensibilities and i have no right to question it.
Its meant to berate a party that ruled for decades and had a popular yoga guru beaten up in the middle of the night because he brought up some ills done by the said party in an interview while a lecturer who openly advocated extremist jihadi beliefs was defended upon prosecution.
The reason modi is popular isnt because he got people killed on the streets its because the riots he's infamous for took place in a highly volatile region within days of him assuming power in that state. Accounts say religious communities imposed curfews on their on own in those areas.
And in the last 15 odd years since, there hasnt been a single riot or a case of communal disharmony in that state and he's been elected every single time.
The riot move, assuming he did get people killed effectively killed any chance of his party ever coming back to power in the national scene because of the vote bank he alienated.
He wasnt banned to travel to us because he's goddamn hitler, he was banned upon the request of the same political party i mentioned above based on the same incident i talked about above.
I spent half of 2016 and some part of 2017 in india as apart of my job and according to my ex colleagues people even hate modi's own party. But the thing us their last pm, who was an economics doctorate from the london school, upon being questioned about joblessness and poverty literally made an emergency statement on national television where he said money doesn't grow on trees so fuck off.
He was like a trump who barely did anything but made a trump like statement every two years.
On the other hand they see modi as someone who is to an extent capable of looking beyond religious votebanks even if its at the cost of some perceived radicalism.
In any case, thats it for my rant. It bothered me a little seeing claims of rape being a part of culture because most the people i met there were genuinely nice and sensible.As in every country with economic issues and racial diversity, there are bad apples, the overpopulation doesnt help. But this isnt something you can fix with something like criticism of western intervention. Itll just have to be allowed to wash away with time as influence of good education and lowering levels of poverty(hopefully) .
Believe it or not, their is actually far more popular among educated youths than he is among the elderly or religious extremists who grew entirely in the shadow of the big political party.
And as a half latino, i can tell you the 'racism' there doesnt have shit on what we have here. Yes at times youll be made to feel different but ill be damned if i ever even got a bad stare because of my nationality or skin color let alone go through shit thats been going on here of late.
Are you an Indian who lives in India?
I've always been curious to hear the demonetization experience from someone who was living in India at the time.
I was there when it happened. In the city i was in people had hassles for a day or two and then switched to cards and digital payments entirely which isnt nearly as prevalent as it is here.
Cant speak for the suburban regions tho.
