His speech was a thing of beauty. He said the secularism is a dead horse. He also said that there are two types of Indians. Those that are poor who want to be rich, and the rich who want to help the poor. Nothing else matters.
Modi made three promises to the people, he said he’d “never to do anything with “ill intention”, “never do anything to make a personal fortune” and “every pore, every cell in my body will work non-stop to ensure that the country keeps moving forward”.
Targeting the caste-based politics practiced in large swathes of the country, he said, “There are only two castes left. These are... the poor. The second - those who remove poverty”.”
There are a whole lot of poor
People on this forum have not a clue the life the average Indian citizen lives
I have seen people on the street literally starving to death or dying from disease untended to
This was the 1980s
Today folks think it’s all Bollywood and cheery Patels behind the counter at every Sleep Inn or Independent gas station
That not indicative of the India I saw in Delhi and Bombay and Goa mid 80s
The disparity was the greatest of anywhere I traveled which was everywhere except the iron curtain
Haiti was maybe worse but had less disparity
Maybe India has changed or does it just have more rich people than before