Letters | Narendra Modi will win Indian election: blame games will achieve little

Blaming weak opposition leaders and appeals to populism for the likely re-election of India’s prime minister ignores the fact that the people are happy with the government

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Kites bearing images of main election rivals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and opposition Congress president Rahul Gandhi, on display at a store in Bangalore on April 10. India’s general election, to be held over nearly six weeks starting on April 11, will see some 900 million voters cast their ballots in the world’s biggest democracy. Photo: AFP

Published: 11:00am, 12 Apr 2019Updated: 11:15am, 12 Apr 2019

I read with concern “The Modi blues” and various other articles in This Week in Asia. Most Indians in Hong Kong would concur with the views expressed in Vikram Dravith’s letter, “Why so harsh on Modi and Indian Hindus?”(April 6), and it didn’t take long for you to live up to those claims, with three articles and six pages on Modi and the Indian elections on April 7.

The writer made such an effort to interview the opposition Congress and its associates, Praveen Chakraborthy, Jean Dreze and Pallam Raju – but only one person from the BJP camp. Whatever happened to impartiality?

A sure sign of a solid economy is investor confidence and this is evident in the Bombay Stock Exchange crossing the 39,000 benchmark for the first time on April 1. The markets are booming.

The article cited the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies to support the view that jobs are a priority, but the same organisation in its most recent survey says that 59 per cent of the people in the country are satisfied with the government and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity remains high.

The article “The ones to watch” suggests Modi encourages fake news. Consider that Facebook recently deleted over 100 accounts connected to the opposition Congress party for that purpose.

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.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} Blaming weak opposition leaders and appeals to populism for the likely re-election of India’s prime minister ignores the fact that the people are happy with the government

Letters | Narendra Modi will win Indian election: blame games will achieve little

Blaming weak opposition leaders and appeals to populism for the likely re-election of India’s prime minister ignores the fact that the people are happy with the government