Courtesy The Hindu Narendra Modi, India’s possible future Prime Minister, was in Kerala yesterday. According to a front page report in today’s Malayala Manorama (the widest circulated paper among all the regional languages in India – leaving out a Hindi paper), Modi proclaimed in Kerala that his family meant the Dalits, the oppressed, the Adivasis and the backward communities in India. He didn’t mention Muslims, of course. Please understand his constraints. Vote for Modi so that all the backward communities in India will be liberated. Don’t ask which backward community of Gujarat he liberated so far in spite of being the Chief Minister of that state for three consecutive terms. He brought development to the state. At what cost? And what kind of development? According to the Raghuram Rajan panel conclusions, Gujarat does not even figure in the list of developed states. The hunger rates in Modi’s Gujarat are higher than those in the Yadavs’ UP. The Shiv
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