What will Narendra Modi do?

May 29, 2014 12:38

What will Narendra Modi do with his mandate? The Bharatiya Janata Party and its supporters ask, not unreasonably, that critics wait upon events.

Spokespersons for the party reiterate that Narendra Modi has promised development for all.

They rather ruin the effect of this by tacking on 'and appeasement of none'. The word 'appease' is a curious choice in this context.

Appeasement is generally used to describe the propitiation of all-powerful beings, mortal or divine, but the BJP always uses it to describe the republic's treatment of its most depressed and marginalized community, Indian Muslims. Read

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