Posted on 04/15/2014 8:42:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
India, the world’s largest democracy, is in the midst of a marathon five-week election that will result in the selection of its next prime minister. Although Nate Silver has yet to make it official, most pundits and prognosticators predict that Narendra Modi will be India’s next leader.
Modi bears striking similarities to a celebrated American president: one Ronald Wilson Reagan. Both men rose from humble origins. Modi, in particular, worked from childhood hawking tea in railway stations. Both were popular and successful state governors: Modi is the chief minister (equivalent to a governor) of Gujarat, an Indian state whose gift to the world was Mahatma Gandhi. Modi, like Reagan, is an unabashed proponent of free market economics: “Modinomics,” the term coined to describe Modi’s free market and anti-corruption reforms, is of course a nod to “Reaganomics”; it has unleashed an economic boom in Gujarat.
A major common denominator between the two men is the nature of their detractors. Like the U.S., India has cultural elitists who seem to desperately crave the approval of their former colonial masters in Europe. The Indian cultural elite despises Modi every bit as much as the American cultural elite despised Reagan....
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I’m jealous.
All my Indian friends , who are all businessmen, seem to love him...
Oh Great sound like Bollywood actor LOL!
I have a copy of Modi’s Hawaii birth certificate. :-)
Remember Hindu nationalists are the ones doing most of the Christian persecution in India. That being said, he’s more free market than 90% of Europe’s politicians, his party is much less corrupt, he’s a social conservative and Obama is unlikely to see him as a friend.
Gujurat is well-known for it’s prosperous merchant class. Very much a free-market ideology there. One of the most rabid anti-Communists I know is a guy who emigrated here from Gujurat.
Sounds like India could be a great place to invest.
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