A tribute to the honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Counter currents

On the occasion of the celebration of Republic Day, January 26, allow me to pay my humble tribute to our beloved Prime Minister Narendra Modi. We are proud to have a non-biological Prime Minister, born from the direct contribution of God's sperm – a unique phenomenon in world history. We are also proud to learn that he obtained a master's degree in Whole political science from Gujarat University, the only university in the academic world to offer such a course. We are also impressed by his weekly message titled Mother's speechwhich can only be described in the words of Shakespeare: A story told by an idiot that means nothing. Which Indian politician, past or present, could claim to reach such Shakespearean heights?

We should also congratulate him for managing to delight the electorate with promises that led to him being returned to power again and again. We must congratulate him for his magic in making them forget the old promises he had rejected during the last two decades of his reign. We must also give him credit for successfully combining two political clothing styles. At the domestic level, he wraps himself in the comfortable shawl of Hindutva to arouse obscurantist feelings of loyalty to his personal ego among the populace, leading them to believe that he is an incarnation of God who makes Bharat.dependent on the soul (self-dependent). Yet at the same time, at the global level, it is donning the garb of neoliberal capitalism to seduce and appease the United States and other Western powers into investing in India, thereby depending on them. But does his game work? Arvind Subrananian, Modi's former admirer and chief economic advisor, recently expressed his disenchantment with Modi saying his government has become obsolete and devoid of ideas.New York Times. January 21, 2025)

Narendra Modi as Bharat Guru in the domestic sphere

Let us also pay a (left-handed?) tribute to Narendra Modi for achieving the unprecedented goal of taking the Indian economy to the most spectacular depths during his second term. Here are some illuminating examples of his success in promoting his message of “Made in Bharat”, and his steps on the path to his resounding agenda of “VYou (often mispronounced by anti-national urban Naxalites as big shit). Gross fixed capital has remained below 29% of gross domestic product (GDP) over the past ten years. High inflation led to low consumption, especially among the urban middle classes. This has had a negative impact on the manufacturing sector. The specter of unemployment haunts thousands of highly qualified young people. Real wages, even for salaried workers, are falling rapidly. As for foreign incentives supposed to stimulate the national economy, they proved disappointing. Net foreign direct investment (FDI) fell to a twelve-year low in April-October 2024 – indicating a growing disregard among these foreign investors for Modi's invitation, even as he tries to woo them with his publicity stunts. Following the advice of Narendra Modi to spread the image of India as Vishwa Guru (a term he coined during the G20 summit in Delhi in September 2023 to assert Indian leadership in global affairs and thus merge his personal selfish ambition with this nationalist demand), Indian companies have decided to leave India and to invest abroad. Young technicians are leaving for the greener shores of the West, to deploy their talents there. Thus, Narendra Modi is moving towards the goal of prosperity (described as viking) turns out to be a furrow on the forehead of imbecility. Its populist promise to offer We can't (opportunities) during the electoral campaigns, found himself in dirty (the popular snack) that is chewed and its remains spilled. His vaunted 56-inch chest shriveled into the shape of a sleeping organ, sliding and prostrating between the two domains of home and abroad.

Moving from the economic sphere of influence to the social sphere of influence, let's take a look at the contribution of Narendra Modi to our society. During the last decade of his regime, he can boast of having reached the highest point of record massacres of Muslims and Dalits, perpetrated by his lumpen agents roaming all over India. He can be proud because it made him a global figure, attracting the attention of international human rights organizations who accused him of presiding over the killing of members of religious minorities and depressed castes. Such killings by Modi-led BJP gangster outfits like Bajrang Dal, Vishva Hindu Parishad, among others, have also awakened his clients in Washington, who sometimes gently chide him for what they euphemistically call “excesses”. “. They know that Modi is intellectually deficient and dependent on his moronic supporters to run the Indian state, but at the same time they need to protect the stakes of the US technology-industrial complex (the term used by outgoing US President Joe Biden). in his farewell speech) had an impact on the Indian economy.

Meanwhile, Narendra Modi has successfully bought the media. Vast segments of the broadcast and print media – whose members are required to follow the professional watchdog code of revealing the truth in reporting – have become lap dogs, snuggling up to the prime minister, thus deserving the name Godimodi. They have turned TV channels and newspapers into echo chambers of malicious propaganda emanating from Modi's official chamber. So it’s another feather in Modis’ cap – or the saffron-colored turban he often wears on important occasions.

Narendra Modi as Vishwa Guru – preaching peace abroad and presiding over a civil war in his garden in Manipur

Let us now turn our attention to the achievements of our honorable Prime Ministers abroad, beyond our borders. It tried to transform itself into a global premium recipe retailer to solve all the problems. Preside over the world (Vishva) like his guru (religious tutor), he travels the world claiming to put an end to the two great world wars – in Gaza and Ukraine – while in his garden in Manipur, he turns a blind eye to the continuation of an ethnic conflict which is killing hundreds of deaths. While pretending to be neutral in the Israel-Gaza conflict, Modi continues to supply Indian labor to Israel to fuel its economy, which is suffering from a labor shortage due to worker desertion Palestinians. So, despite his public rhetoric of support for the Palestinians, he continues to support their enemy Israel. The Modi government is also reportedly exporting weapons used to kill Palestinians to Israel. Similarly, in the case of Ukraine, Modi has allowed the emigration of Indian workers to Russia, where his friend Putin is using them as mercenaries to wage his war against Ukraine. Only recently, information has been published about the murder of these Indians who were deceived and trapped by Moscow.

Dancing on the tightrope of balancing appeasement of Washington and Moscow, Narendra Modi has become the greatest comedian on the world stage, drawing laughter from diplomats around the world. But poor Modi! This time, his entertainment skills were ignored when his old friend Trump forgot (or deliberately snubbed him for facts yet to be revealed?) to invite him to his inauguration ceremony as President of the United States , which was attended by all dignitaries from around the world.

But despite this slap in the face of our dear Prime Minister, we, as nationalists, must support him. We must defend his catastrophic failures on all fronts – domestic economy, internal conflicts and foreign affairs – by accusing certain people, the urban Naxalites, the foreign human rights groups, of conspiring against our dear Prime Minister. Ultimately, Narendra Modi will remain an invincible god of Indian politics – revered by the Indian people and blessed by Washington.

He faces no rival. The only one who dares to challenge him is Rahul Gandhi. Modi, claiming to be his opponent, dismissed him as the sheh-zada (prince) of the Congress Shahi family. But then, according to traditional standards, the opponent of sheh-zada must be a haram-zada.

Sumanta Banerjeeis a political commentator and writer, is the author of In The Wake of Naxalbari (1980 and 2008); The Living Room and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta (1989) and Memoirs of the Roads: Calcutta from Colonial Urbanization to Global Modernization. (2016).