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| Rahul Gandhi compares BJP's Modi to Hitler |
| 2014-03-12 |
| [DAWN] Rahul Gandhi, the heir to the dynasty that leads India's ruling party, on Tuesday compared opposition leader Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... - his sharpest attack yet on a rival who is forecast to beat him in an upcoming general election. Modi, the pro-business candidate for prime minister of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has topped several opinion polls as the most popular choice to head the next government. He has electrified the campaign with promises of getting India out of its economic downturn and creating jobs for its burgeoning young population. But Modi's rivals say the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... is an autocrat who failed to stop religious riots in his state in 2002, in which more than 1,000 people,mostly Mohammedans, were killed. He has denied wrong doing and India's Supreme Court did not find enough evidence to prosecute him. In a speech in Modi's home state, Gandhi criticised the Hindu nationalist's development record and contrasted him with the type of leader who had founded modern India. "There is another type of leader," Gandhi said, after describing independence hero Mahatma Gandhi. "The biggest example is Hitler. Hitler, who believed that there was no need to learn from the people and who thought whatever happened in Germany was done by Hitler and that the people had nothing to do with it." India's ruling Congress party has lost popularity after a decade in power marred by corruption. In recent weeks a string of leaders have compared Modi's rise to the emergence of fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces-- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... in Europe. |
| Posted by:Fred |