LOST OF TRUST AND MORAL LICENSE !
It is sobering to observe that a sensible section in the country was hoping that the Bihar voters would rebuff Mr. Modi, which in turn would, hopefully, induce him to reinvent himself. But it is too hopeful a hope to expect Mr. Modi to change his stripes.
This pessimism suggests itself on three counts. First, what the people of Bihar -as also in the rest of the country-saw was the real Narendra Modi. Abrasive, abusive, acerbic, cheerfully acrimonious, a bruiser, a street-fighter with a preference for the knuckle-duster. A leader who is refusing to grow up. Perhaps that is the only trip he knows. During the 2014 parliamentary campaign his massive media machine was able to bewitch the middle classes as also the leading liberal intellectuals to make them believe that Modi had put "2002" behind him; that he had grown into a sober, rounded personality.
It is sobering to observe that a sensible section in the country was hoping that the Bihar voters would rebuff Mr. Modi, which in turn would, hopefully, induce him to reinvent himself. But it is too hopeful a hope to expect Mr. Modi to change his stripes.
This pessimism suggests itself on three counts. First, what the people of Bihar -as also in the rest of the country-saw was the real Narendra Modi. Abrasive, abusive, acerbic, cheerfully acrimonious, a bruiser, a street-fighter with a preference for the knuckle-duster. A leader who is refusing to grow up. Perhaps that is the only trip he knows. During the 2014 parliamentary campaign his massive media machine was able to bewitch the middle classes as also the leading liberal intellectuals to make them believe that Modi had put "2002" behind him; that he had grown into a sober, rounded personality.
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