January 18, 2015
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Demystification of Modi

CP Bhambhri

NARENDRA Modi has launched his new year with Pravasi Bhartiya Sammelan and seventh vibrant Gujarat festival of three days where he extended an open invitation to investors from capitalist countries, whether NRI’s or private capital investors of multinational corporations to accelerate their engagement in the ongoing process of capitalist development of India led by Indian monopoly capitalist fractions of the ruling class. Modi as the chief political executive of the Indian capitalist State has announced to the global monopoly capitalists that he has facilitated foreign investments by proclaiming ordinances to curb the rights of trade unions and ease conditions for the acquisition of land for industrialisation which are really favourable to the investors. This reference to the proclamation of ordinances favouring the capitalist class is meaningful because Modi conveyed a message that he can pursue his pro-monopoly capitalist project even without the consent and approval of democratically elected parliament. This is the real meaning of these two Sammelans or conferences held specifically in Gujarat during the first fortnight of the 2015, that the Modi government is determined to pursue building capitalist India by fully integrating it with global capitalism. The process of this model of growth has created a situation in which national capital or national sector of economy has become quite indistinguishable from the foreign component of the economy of India. Modi has lived upto the expectations of his class supporters – whether the monopoly capitalists or the professionally mobile ‘rent seeking’ social classes after he won the elections on the basis of the enthusiastic support extended by private property owning exploiting classes. These seven months of Modi in government have been spent in the consolidation and strengthening of the exploitative ruling classes who are in league with monopoly capitalists of the imperialist countries. If pro-big business ordinances and legislations have been pushed enthusiastically, not a single pro- poor, exploited marginalised basic class programme has been launched. On the contrary, the Modi government is making efforts to subvert even the single pro-poor programme like the MGNREGS. It is not a government of the poor because there is no evidence to substantiate this statement. Not only this, Narendra Modi is not only a prime minister of the exploitative capitalist class, he is an open champion of the RSS ideology of Hindutva and Hindu Rashtravad and he is practicing Mohan Bhagwat, the RSS supremo’s agenda that India is a Hindu country. Bhagwat on the RSS founding day, Vijaydashmi in October clearly said that Modi is doing a good job and give him time and support. ‘Modi-Bhagwat Joint Stock Company’ of Hindu Rashtravadis are actively engaged in spreading hatred against religious minorities like Muslims and Christians. The multiple affiliates of the RSS are spreading hatred against minorities by targeting their personal marriage decisions. They are also engaged in making everyone a Hindu on the specious argument that the ancestors of Muslims and Christians were all Hindus. They are also pursuing an anti-modern agenda in education. The Modi government has provided full support to all outfits of the RSS and Hindu priests, astrologers, serving to ensure and pursue the offensive agenda of Hinduisation of Indian society and culture. The Modi government has not only provided a protective umbrella to the practitioners of obscurantist form of Hinduism and anti-knowledge Hindu groups, it has actively involved the RSS and all its affiliates in public policy formulations. Public policies of the Modi government are either inspired by the RSS ideology like the imposition of Sanskrit language over the children or the RSS activists and sympathisers are formally employed in government and other public policy making institutions. The central government of India has become an instrument in the hands of the RSS trained and its sympathisers, with a simple goal of making India a Hindu State. These two real indistinguishable faces of real Modi as prime minister have been clearly revealed during the last seven months of BJP in government at the centre. There is no mystique about Modi because he is an RSS pracharak prime minister who wants to make India a Hindu society and also push forward the integration of Indian capitalism with global finance capital. The red carpet treatment to investors from imperialist countries has become a routine affair. The abolition of Planning Commission of India and the creation of so-called Niti Aayog is a clear sign to the Indian and foreign monopolists that the free capitalist market era has arrived in India. (CP Bhambhri is a former professor at Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)