By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 14 Dec 2014: Even though he impressively won the General Elections on development plank, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appeared to be soft-pedalling the surge in divisive and hate speeches of his party leaders since he assumed office in May this year.
Why isn’t PM Modi dealing hate campaign with iron hand? Five reasons are offered here.
1) Since BJP came to power and he became prime minister, the country has faced by-polls (Bihar, Uttar Pradesh) or full elections (Haryana, Maharashtra, and now Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir) at regular interval. To keep the saffron constituency upbeat, some BJP leaders and parliamentarians have been allowed to continue communal tone, while PM himself would talk development to keep people hopeful.
2) The general perception about the first six months of Modi government is that it has failed to deliver as much as people had expected; and that’s why things like Ramzade-Haramzade, Nathuram Godse and conversions were created to capture full space of public debate leaving little time for voters and opposition parties in poll-bound states to talk about performance of the BJP government.
3) Though it is hard to assume he is helpless before a small section of trouble makers in his party, it is said some within his party want to derail his development dream.
4) He himself rose to the height through using the same hate tactics (his Gujarat election speeches of 2002 and 2007). If some of his juniors are now following him, how can he stop them?
5) PM Modi has maintained a deliberated gap between his liberal articulation, development speech and their actual implementation so wide that he could drive a rath through when required.
