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If you want to know the blunders by Nehru – read Prof Ishtiaq Ahmed’s biography of Jinnah (or watch his numerous interviews on YouTube).
The only decisive decision Nehru seems to have taken is to send the army (without preparation) to fight against China (I only learnt this from Cut the Clutter!). We saw the consequences of that, didn’t we?
The problem with these folks is this – Modi is getting by with ‘last mile delivery’, making India and Indians strong around the globe and no one can find anything to throw at him that sticks.
Nehru set up the foundations of India, as a progressive modern state, different from a theocratic dictatorship or military state. The IITs were his vision. He started the space and nuclear programme – which has made India unconquerable by external armies.
If the BJP types had come in 1947, we would have only gomutra and gobar industries run by Baba Ramdev types, Ayirveda quacks. A country run by uneducated chai wallahs from shakhas would not exist 70 years after.
Ha!! Ha!! So did Islamic Pakistan voted for by majority of Muslims had Gaumutra that they are in such a mess?? And those Islamic voters who stayed in India despite Pakistan had Gaumutra too??
Nehru set close to zero foundations after giving epic Hindu lands to Islamic terrorists!! He was a stupid communist, quasi Mulla!!
His ultimate duty was to take back all Kashmir & send all those who voted for Pakistan to Pakistan!! But these leftist journalists will never talk truth!! Setting up space-nuclear programme was a good initiative though but poorly followed through or else India would have been a nuclear power immediately after China!!
@print with these leftists are rarely objective or truthful & call themselves journalists!!
Indeed Nehru took decisions jointly. In fact on Kashmir, Patel would have let it go, because he had said ‘if the limbs are diseased cut them off’. It was Nehru who did not want to cede J & K in the negotiated settlement. It was foolish to keep J & K after agreeing to partition. Either you don’t agree to partition and seek a united solution, or if you agree to partition, do it properly. But still I don’t blame Nehru : he was Kashmiri, and it was his home, I understand he did not want to lose it. Patel realised J & K would be an insoluble bone of contention, he would have let it go had it not been for Nehru.
As for Modi, he is fundamentally not a democrat, he has been raised in the Sangh, and Sanghis have always been brought up on Nazi ideology and methodolgy. Decisions are taken by a few autocrats and made acceptable to the public by propaganda, hate and intimidation.
The major decisions Modi has made that have set India back are : demonetisation, CAA-NRC, Article 370 and farmers’ laws.
Demonetisation shrank the economy by 2% of GDP, and India has not not recovered since. Was it based on consultation ? Well, when the media asked Jaitley if he knew about it, he could not say ‘yes’. The decision was taken by a team of Gujaratis close to the PMO. The reason given was to cut corruption and take out black money. Then what was the purpose of withdrawing 1000 and replacing with 2000 ? The purpose was to win the UP election. Only the BJP had access to the 2000 notes. Modi said, if demonetisation did not end corruption after 58 days, people could hang him. Now his followers will say that it was a jumla, and express surprise it was taken literally. 99% of the money came back, and Amit Shah’s bank had the biggest deposits. Afterwards, they invented reasons which the faithful parrot even now : card transactions, cashless economy, end of counterfeiting. Only a small elite is into card transactions. As for counterfeiting, there were many cases. In Kerala, the police caught BJP-RSS people printing the Rs. 2000 note using a printing machine – imported from China ! Recently, a temple in Gujarat was caught printing the notes. What will the bhakts say ? They will say that Modi and Jaitley only said the new notes would stop Pakistanis from counterfeiting, they never claimed it will stop Indians !
The CAA-NRC spread the news to the west that India is passing some thing like the Nuremberg race laws and this is the first step to concentration camps. There were censure motions in several US town councils. Amit Shah said on TV that CAA-NRC is decided, it will not be just for Assam, it will be all-India. Modi on the other hand said NRC has not been decided etc. Covid threw a spanner into CAA-NRC. People say the BJP always has a hidden agenda, that is why these contradictions come. They are driven by wickedness, so naturally lies and contradictions will abound.
Repeal of Article 370 was not thought through. It was all brawn and no brain. The BJP thought it was like beating up minorities and saying it is an internal matter. But J & K was disputed territory, so it brought China in, and China thrashed Indian soldiers and took land – and Modi kept quiet. Why weren’t the bhakths shouting against Modi then ? Now the situation is that India faces a two front war (Shekhar Gupta), and has to spend money (which is not available) to prepare for that. There will be ongoing attacks against Indian forces in Kashmir, but now the news does not come.
As for the farmer’s strike, it is dragging the economy down further. Again it has come due to lack of transparency – the farmers suspect their lands will go to Adani. The blame is put on Khalistanis, Greta, Disha Ravi… pathetic.
Only on Covid, I would not blame Modi for malfide intentions. I blame him only for incompetence ! But then, he is a chai wallah.
But overall, the author is right about Modi’s decision making : the style of execution is secretive. The reason is it is driven by wickedness.
The only Nazis are Islamist’s & leftists/communists!! Partition was voted for by Muslims!! So what are Muslims still doing in India?? Did they stay here to drink Gaumutra?? As for Kashmir, it has been a Hindu land for eons & should remain so!! Islam was a only a guest and must learn to remain so!!
@Tog: Ha!! Ha!! So Indians & BJP should learn democracy from Congress?? This half mulla & half Vatican dictatorial family had done EVM hacking when Nehru was made PM despite he getting ZERO votes to lead India!!
It is an accepted and well-known fact that India could withstand, successfully, the world-wide economic melt down of 2008 only because of the strength of the nationalised banks.
@G. Radhakrishnan: Ha!! Ha!! You have a communist logic!! India a has made close to zero economic progress because of congress/Indira Gandhi & her soviet/communist policies!! Nationalized banks were used for corruption by congress as so many fraudulent farm waivers & NPA’s have proven!! It was because of this Vinci/Nehru family that India remained a colonized nation; the effects of which are felt even today!!
Patel was in Bombay when Nehru grandiosely announced that matter was taken to UN. It was informed to Cabinet after the matter was announced regards taking matter to UN. And Patle had famously mentioned – Jawaharlal Royega.
This is a poorly researched writing, if at all it can be called researched. Demonization provided the base for better financial accountability and majorly the fake currency menace which was encouraged by the previous govt for its benefit of compromising the country. It laid the foundation of digital payments which helped the entire country during the lockdown which was another very good measure. Critics of all of these have zero ideas on the contrary. Every tru farmer and economist has approved the farm law. So don’t see which school this IAS passed from. Kashmir has been bane for India. But the hard decisions of the current govt has been benefiting the country. When a true journalist writes another decade later it will be even more pronounced.
To be decisive always pays better dividends. In the process there could be mistakes in the decisions taken with or without consultations. Mistakes (whether of the past or the current Governments) when recognised are corrected. But to make progress it is imperative to take quick decisions and also act decisively.
‘We the people” feel this attribute of any Government as aa positive for progress.
The article is self-contradictory. Covid, of all the events listed, was a real emergency with nation-wide implications. Mulling over the possible second or third-order effects had low utility since the pandemic was without a historical precedent and its impact highly uncertain. If anything, I would argue that debating its consequences could have resulted in a dithering policy response, resulting in a higher fatality rate that India has experienced.
Heh Heh What about Article 370, it looks like you acknowledge it is a success, but unable to write because it will break your theme. Press kept repeating demonetisation affected industrial growth, Can someone care to explain why and how and how is that even possible?
China is beating India for Article 370, they killed Indians and took land, and your chai wallah said heh, heh, nothing happened.
Ha!! Ha!! So WHY is China running with tail between it’s legs?? And WHY are Pakistanis & Muslims who live for Islam are supporting these communists to kill/rape Muslims and do non-Han genocide??
Article with definite intent to defame present PM at the cost of wrongful glorification of past and less capable PM.
The presentation in this article of Mr Lahiri of The Print is intentional wrongful. He is glorifying Nehru and hiding he was made PM at the cost of Mr Patel and resulted in creation of rift with Mr Jinnah.
Similarly, no one should forget the speech by Mr Nehru in Parliament on Kashmir and China.
Feel sorry for newspaper to sell the sweat that has become stale.
Another Leftist writer , who got benefits from corrupt congress governments , paying his gratitude by spitting poison on Modi and Hindus , this shows how our Leftists Officers spoiled the Indian economy and its development to benefit corrupt Gandhi family .
Does, who an individual is or what post one held makes, one unbiased and objective ?
While concluding “It is now generally accepted by experts that the demonetization decision was flawed and proved counterproductive” are there no experts with a contrary conviction who also need a mention?
Do we know what percentage of the MSME/SME sector depends purely on support to heavy industry and what percentage is stand alone?
Is is not obvious that during covid and pre-covid slow down the entire industrial sector suffered and MSME/ SMEs could not have been exceptions, and the pick up in that sector will also come with a lag i.e. after the heavy industry picks up.
The successful decisions of surgical strike and Balakot must have been taken only after following the due process or were too insignificant, since they do not find a mention above.
NOT ONE article on the farmers issue including this clearly mentions specific points that will harm the farmer. If the existing system is good why the the suicides except in area where there protesting farmers come from ?
Forget the farmers, but at least the intellectuals supporting the farmers should put up 10 points that need the change .
Or have the Babus who wrote the laws just put a whole lot of jargon without understanding it?
There is something wrong or is it something like the Hemorrhoids which pain but cannot be displayed. We need the doctors to explain but why are they silent.
Yet another Nehru family bootlicker is out of the woodwork. For the record, Nehru was the most horrible british colluders forced on india by Gandhi and the British. We are still paying for the follies of that monster. I would love to see Modi as the PM for the next 20 years just to watch these librandus squeal and squirm into extinction.
@RJ: Exactly!! I wonder if Nehru & even MK Gandi were freedom fighters, If they were so fierce freedom lovers, WHY were they not sent to Kaala paani as so many other real patriots & nationalist fighters??!! WHY were they not hanged like Bhagat singh??
With the advantage of hindsight, one can safely conclude that Nehru & MK Gandhi were British stooges!! They never let any nationalist & patriot come to power!! They were brought in by the British to make a fool of Hindus & Sikhs!!
They even divided India & gave epic Hindu & Sikh lands to Islamic terrorists & let those traitors stay in India!!
ps: Hindu is everyone who is patriotic & nationalist for this land & civilization!! This includes Muslims & Christians!!
If you want to know the blunders by Nehru – read Prof Ishtiaq Ahmed’s biography of Jinnah (or watch his numerous interviews on YouTube).
The only decisive decision Nehru seems to have taken is to send the army (without preparation) to fight against China (I only learnt this from Cut the Clutter!). We saw the consequences of that, didn’t we?
The problem with these folks is this – Modi is getting by with ‘last mile delivery’, making India and Indians strong around the globe and no one can find anything to throw at him that sticks.
Nehru set up the foundations of India, as a progressive modern state, different from a theocratic dictatorship or military state. The IITs were his vision. He started the space and nuclear programme – which has made India unconquerable by external armies.
If the BJP types had come in 1947, we would have only gomutra and gobar industries run by Baba Ramdev types, Ayirveda quacks. A country run by uneducated chai wallahs from shakhas would not exist 70 years after.
Ha!! Ha!! So did Islamic Pakistan voted for by majority of Muslims had Gaumutra that they are in such a mess?? And those Islamic voters who stayed in India despite Pakistan had Gaumutra too??
Nehru set close to zero foundations after giving epic Hindu lands to Islamic terrorists!! He was a stupid communist, quasi Mulla!!
His ultimate duty was to take back all Kashmir & send all those who voted for Pakistan to Pakistan!! But these leftist journalists will never talk truth!! Setting up space-nuclear programme was a good initiative though but poorly followed through or else India would have been a nuclear power immediately after China!!
@print with these leftists are rarely objective or truthful & call themselves journalists!!
Indeed Nehru took decisions jointly. In fact on Kashmir, Patel would have let it go, because he had said ‘if the limbs are diseased cut them off’. It was Nehru who did not want to cede J & K in the negotiated settlement. It was foolish to keep J & K after agreeing to partition. Either you don’t agree to partition and seek a united solution, or if you agree to partition, do it properly. But still I don’t blame Nehru : he was Kashmiri, and it was his home, I understand he did not want to lose it. Patel realised J & K would be an insoluble bone of contention, he would have let it go had it not been for Nehru.
As for Modi, he is fundamentally not a democrat, he has been raised in the Sangh, and Sanghis have always been brought up on Nazi ideology and methodolgy. Decisions are taken by a few autocrats and made acceptable to the public by propaganda, hate and intimidation.
The major decisions Modi has made that have set India back are : demonetisation, CAA-NRC, Article 370 and farmers’ laws.
Demonetisation shrank the economy by 2% of GDP, and India has not not recovered since. Was it based on consultation ? Well, when the media asked Jaitley if he knew about it, he could not say ‘yes’. The decision was taken by a team of Gujaratis close to the PMO. The reason given was to cut corruption and take out black money. Then what was the purpose of withdrawing 1000 and replacing with 2000 ? The purpose was to win the UP election. Only the BJP had access to the 2000 notes. Modi said, if demonetisation did not end corruption after 58 days, people could hang him. Now his followers will say that it was a jumla, and express surprise it was taken literally. 99% of the money came back, and Amit Shah’s bank had the biggest deposits. Afterwards, they invented reasons which the faithful parrot even now : card transactions, cashless economy, end of counterfeiting. Only a small elite is into card transactions. As for counterfeiting, there were many cases. In Kerala, the police caught BJP-RSS people printing the Rs. 2000 note using a printing machine – imported from China ! Recently, a temple in Gujarat was caught printing the notes. What will the bhakts say ? They will say that Modi and Jaitley only said the new notes would stop Pakistanis from counterfeiting, they never claimed it will stop Indians !
The CAA-NRC spread the news to the west that India is passing some thing like the Nuremberg race laws and this is the first step to concentration camps. There were censure motions in several US town councils. Amit Shah said on TV that CAA-NRC is decided, it will not be just for Assam, it will be all-India. Modi on the other hand said NRC has not been decided etc. Covid threw a spanner into CAA-NRC. People say the BJP always has a hidden agenda, that is why these contradictions come. They are driven by wickedness, so naturally lies and contradictions will abound.
Repeal of Article 370 was not thought through. It was all brawn and no brain. The BJP thought it was like beating up minorities and saying it is an internal matter. But J & K was disputed territory, so it brought China in, and China thrashed Indian soldiers and took land – and Modi kept quiet. Why weren’t the bhakths shouting against Modi then ? Now the situation is that India faces a two front war (Shekhar Gupta), and has to spend money (which is not available) to prepare for that. There will be ongoing attacks against Indian forces in Kashmir, but now the news does not come.
As for the farmer’s strike, it is dragging the economy down further. Again it has come due to lack of transparency – the farmers suspect their lands will go to Adani. The blame is put on Khalistanis, Greta, Disha Ravi… pathetic.
Only on Covid, I would not blame Modi for malfide intentions. I blame him only for incompetence ! But then, he is a chai wallah.
But overall, the author is right about Modi’s decision making : the style of execution is secretive. The reason is it is driven by wickedness.
The only Nazis are Islamist’s & leftists/communists!! Partition was voted for by Muslims!! So what are Muslims still doing in India?? Did they stay here to drink Gaumutra?? As for Kashmir, it has been a Hindu land for eons & should remain so!! Islam was a only a guest and must learn to remain so!!
@Tog: Ha!! Ha!! So Indians & BJP should learn democracy from Congress?? This half mulla & half Vatican dictatorial family had done EVM hacking when Nehru was made PM despite he getting ZERO votes to lead India!!
It is an accepted and well-known fact that India could withstand, successfully, the world-wide economic melt down of 2008 only because of the strength of the nationalised banks.
@G. Radhakrishnan: Ha!! Ha!! You have a communist logic!! India a has made close to zero economic progress because of congress/Indira Gandhi & her soviet/communist policies!! Nationalized banks were used for corruption by congress as so many fraudulent farm waivers & NPA’s have proven!! It was because of this Vinci/Nehru family that India remained a colonized nation; the effects of which are felt even today!!
Patel was in Bombay when Nehru grandiosely announced that matter was taken to UN. It was informed to Cabinet after the matter was announced regards taking matter to UN. And Patle had famously mentioned – Jawaharlal Royega.
This is a poorly researched writing, if at all it can be called researched. Demonization provided the base for better financial accountability and majorly the fake currency menace which was encouraged by the previous govt for its benefit of compromising the country. It laid the foundation of digital payments which helped the entire country during the lockdown which was another very good measure. Critics of all of these have zero ideas on the contrary. Every tru farmer and economist has approved the farm law. So don’t see which school this IAS passed from. Kashmir has been bane for India. But the hard decisions of the current govt has been benefiting the country. When a true journalist writes another decade later it will be even more pronounced.
To be decisive always pays better dividends. In the process there could be mistakes in the decisions taken with or without consultations. Mistakes (whether of the past or the current Governments) when recognised are corrected. But to make progress it is imperative to take quick decisions and also act decisively.
‘We the people” feel this attribute of any Government as aa positive for progress.
The article is self-contradictory. Covid, of all the events listed, was a real emergency with nation-wide implications. Mulling over the possible second or third-order effects had low utility since the pandemic was without a historical precedent and its impact highly uncertain. If anything, I would argue that debating its consequences could have resulted in a dithering policy response, resulting in a higher fatality rate that India has experienced.
Heh Heh What about Article 370, it looks like you acknowledge it is a success, but unable to write because it will break your theme. Press kept repeating demonetisation affected industrial growth, Can someone care to explain why and how and how is that even possible?
China is beating India for Article 370, they killed Indians and took land, and your chai wallah said heh, heh, nothing happened.
Ha!! Ha!! So WHY is China running with tail between it’s legs?? And WHY are Pakistanis & Muslims who live for Islam are supporting these communists to kill/rape Muslims and do non-Han genocide??
Article with definite intent to defame present PM at the cost of wrongful glorification of past and less capable PM.
The presentation in this article of Mr Lahiri of The Print is intentional wrongful. He is glorifying Nehru and hiding he was made PM at the cost of Mr Patel and resulted in creation of rift with Mr Jinnah.
Similarly, no one should forget the speech by Mr Nehru in Parliament on Kashmir and China.
Feel sorry for newspaper to sell the sweat that has become stale.
Nehru was the greatest and the most intelligent human being walked on earth ….. !!!
@Pradeep: Yes!! Nehru was the face of Islamic “prophet” Mohammad & indeed communists!!
Any decision not taken in haste by Modi, Mr. Lahiri ?
Another Leftist writer , who got benefits from corrupt congress governments , paying his gratitude by spitting poison on Modi and Hindus , this shows how our Leftists Officers spoiled the Indian economy and its development to benefit corrupt Gandhi family .
@Reddy: Spot on!!
Does, who an individual is or what post one held makes, one unbiased and objective ?
While concluding “It is now generally accepted by experts that the demonetization decision was flawed and proved counterproductive” are there no experts with a contrary conviction who also need a mention?
Do we know what percentage of the MSME/SME sector depends purely on support to heavy industry and what percentage is stand alone?
Is is not obvious that during covid and pre-covid slow down the entire industrial sector suffered and MSME/ SMEs could not have been exceptions, and the pick up in that sector will also come with a lag i.e. after the heavy industry picks up.
The successful decisions of surgical strike and Balakot must have been taken only after following the due process or were too insignificant, since they do not find a mention above.
NOT ONE article on the farmers issue including this clearly mentions specific points that will harm the farmer. If the existing system is good why the the suicides except in area where there protesting farmers come from ?
Forget the farmers, but at least the intellectuals supporting the farmers should put up 10 points that need the change .
Or have the Babus who wrote the laws just put a whole lot of jargon without understanding it?
There is something wrong or is it something like the Hemorrhoids which pain but cannot be displayed. We need the doctors to explain but why are they silent.
Yet another Nehru family bootlicker is out of the woodwork. For the record, Nehru was the most horrible british colluders forced on india by Gandhi and the British. We are still paying for the follies of that monster. I would love to see Modi as the PM for the next 20 years just to watch these librandus squeal and squirm into extinction.
@RJ: Exactly!! I wonder if Nehru & even MK Gandi were freedom fighters, If they were so fierce freedom lovers, WHY were they not sent to Kaala paani as so many other real patriots & nationalist fighters??!! WHY were they not hanged like Bhagat singh??
With the advantage of hindsight, one can safely conclude that Nehru & MK Gandhi were British stooges!! They never let any nationalist & patriot come to power!! They were brought in by the British to make a fool of Hindus & Sikhs!!
They even divided India & gave epic Hindu & Sikh lands to Islamic terrorists & let those traitors stay in India!!
ps: Hindu is everyone who is patriotic & nationalist for this land & civilization!! This includes Muslims & Christians!!