It's important for Modiji to understand that when the country appears to be teetering on the edge of another war with china, it's not 'anti-national' to ask questions. The opposite is true. When soldiers are battered to death. questions will be asked.
This time the PM has been unusually reticent, but those 'proud to be followed by Modi' on Twitter have not. Like the BJP spokesmen they have hurled abuse at anyone who has dared ask questions about why 20 Indian soldiers were killed so brutally. 'This is a time for nationalism'..
This is an old playbook that has been used so often since Modi's second term that it has become tattered and useless. Nationalism as defined in this playbook means not questioning anything that the government does. To question Modi personally amounts to treason.
In the view of those who wrote this playbook, the nation n the PM are synonymous.
Let right people answer the questions. Where is CODS? Army Chief? Where is the NSA? We should hear from them. we might get what really happened instead of silly lectures on 'nationalism'.
Let right people answer the questions. Where is CODS? Army Chief? Where is the NSA? We should hear from them. we might get what really happened instead of silly lectures on 'nationalism'.
We should also hear from Modi. There are questions to which only he has the answers since he runs his government in a highly centralised fashion from the PMO.
He also conducts foreign policy in a highly personalised way, and has chosen to invest a great deal of capital in his friendship with Xi Jinping. There is no other world leader he has met more often since becoming PM.
