By Sidharth Mishra
Prime Minister Narendra Modi never misses an opportunity to take pot shots at his ‘secular’ political rivals, who may not necessarily be practitioners of secularism in the true sense as defined by our Constitution. These people, however, cling on to the ‘secular’ flag more as a means to take on Modi’s politics than anything else. Now it’s again very difficult to delineate the course of politics, which the Prime Minister is pursuing.
Prime Minister is consistent in his very voluble proclamations of pushing for an agenda of development and trying to cut on the subsistence economy. At the Facebook Town Hall, he promised to make India into a US $20 trillion economy. He proposes to do this with the help of educated and progressive Indians. However, at the same time, he does not ever lose the opportunity of reminding his ‘secular’ rivals that he essentially is a practitioner of Hindu religion and proud of its traditions, which to him are also his nation’s traditions.
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