Friday, March 28, 2014

My brief views on India's and Gujarat's Development Model

  • We must question the unjust and undemocratic neo-liberal development model blindly followed by all parties in our country. In that sense, I disagree with several Congress leaders especially M S Ahluvalia, Manmohan Singh, Chidambaram and their ilk. In following this model, everyone has violated almost all environmental laws and flouted several land acquisition provisions. 
  • However, in following this model and destroying India's natural resources, Narendra Modi stands out for promising big business houses unobstructed access to our country's assets at fire-sale prices. This abuser of democratic values will menacingly crush every legal process and pugnaciously suppress every dissenting voice. Do you know that we are entitled to a public hearing when a large scale public land is handed over to a private party? It is our land folks. Letting it go for dirt cheap price directly leads to increase in taxes without any substantial increase in government services.This deepens poverty and pushes the marginalized ever so more into an abyss from which they will only come out dead. An entire generation of destitute are sacrificed at the altar of this modern development model. I vociferously deny any support to such lop-sided and illegal development model. I have voiced my concerns against all 

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