Community leaders and clerics have welcomed PM Narendra Modi's “Muslims in India live and die for the nation“ statement, but have also asked him to pull up sangh parivar's polarizing figures. The leaders have said the comment has sent a positive message but Modi must show zero tolerance to leaders who make hate speeches. “We welcome the statement.It is also true that he has not made any communal utterances since becoming the PM. But he has remained silent at times when he should have spoken up like when Yogi Adityanath and Sakshi Maharaj made hateful statements. We hope this remark sends a message down the government machinery and his party ,“ said Dr Zafrul Islam Khan, president, Majlise Mushawarat, an umbrella body of Muslim organizations.
Many said Modi must rein in communal leaders if he desires to usher India into an age of peace and prosperity . “Muslims and other citizens want him to stop the venom-spewing leaders.He is the PM of not a party but every Indian. He has stated a fact that Indian Muslims are not attracted to organizations like Al Qaida, but a section of the community feels alienated when some Hindutva leaders get away with hate speeches,“ said ex-MLA Bashir Patel.
Maulana Mustaqeem Azmi of Jamiatul Ulema-e-Hind saw it as Modi's ploy to increase popularity among Muslims. “Perhaps he has seen the writing on the wall after the BJP received a drubbing in the recent by-polls. If he is sincere about establishing peace in the country , he should reprimand elements who foment communal trouble in the name of fighting the so-called love jihad,“ said Azmi. The Urdu press too welcomed his statement.“If Modi is sincere about what he said in the interview, he should crush the communal forces,“ said The Urdu Times' editorial.
Prime minister Narendra Modi has said India has a chance to rise again as a global economic power and suggested that it could match with China and he has a clear road map to channelise entrepreneurial capabilities of country’s 1.25 billion people. “This is a country that once upon a time was called ‘the golden bird’. We have fallen from where we were before. But now we have the chance to rise again. If you see the details of the last five or ten centuries, you will see that India and China have grown at similar paces. “Their contributions to global GDP have risen in parallel, and fallen in parallel. Today’s era once again belongs to Asia. India and China are both growing rapidly, together,” he told CNN in an interview.
On comparison with China, he added that India does not need to become anything else and must become only India. Modi said he had a lot of faith in the entrepreneurial nature of India’s 1.25 billion people and “I have a clear road-map to channel it”.
On being asked if he ever wished to have some of the authority the dictatorial regime in China had, he said democratic countries have also grown and if there were no democracy then someone like him, born in a poor family, would not be sitting here. Asked what he would like to tell people as his accomplishments one or two years later, he said the trust people have should never break.
When asked if India is concerned over China’s behavior in the East China Sea and the South China which has worried many of its neighbors, Modi said we should have trust in China’s understanding and have faith that it would accept global laws and will play its role in cooperating and moving forward.
Modi in his first interview after taking charge as prime minister said China’s focus on its economic development is a sign that it does not want to be isolated.
Many said Modi must rein in communal leaders if he desires to usher India into an age of peace and prosperity . “Muslims and other citizens want him to stop the venom-spewing leaders.He is the PM of not a party but every Indian. He has stated a fact that Indian Muslims are not attracted to organizations like Al Qaida, but a section of the community feels alienated when some Hindutva leaders get away with hate speeches,“ said ex-MLA Bashir Patel.
Maulana Mustaqeem Azmi of Jamiatul Ulema-e-Hind saw it as Modi's ploy to increase popularity among Muslims. “Perhaps he has seen the writing on the wall after the BJP received a drubbing in the recent by-polls. If he is sincere about establishing peace in the country , he should reprimand elements who foment communal trouble in the name of fighting the so-called love jihad,“ said Azmi. The Urdu press too welcomed his statement.“If Modi is sincere about what he said in the interview, he should crush the communal forces,“ said The Urdu Times' editorial.
Prime minister Narendra Modi has said India has a chance to rise again as a global economic power and suggested that it could match with China and he has a clear road map to channelise entrepreneurial capabilities of country’s 1.25 billion people. “This is a country that once upon a time was called ‘the golden bird’. We have fallen from where we were before. But now we have the chance to rise again. If you see the details of the last five or ten centuries, you will see that India and China have grown at similar paces. “Their contributions to global GDP have risen in parallel, and fallen in parallel. Today’s era once again belongs to Asia. India and China are both growing rapidly, together,” he told CNN in an interview.
On comparison with China, he added that India does not need to become anything else and must become only India. Modi said he had a lot of faith in the entrepreneurial nature of India’s 1.25 billion people and “I have a clear road-map to channel it”.
On being asked if he ever wished to have some of the authority the dictatorial regime in China had, he said democratic countries have also grown and if there were no democracy then someone like him, born in a poor family, would not be sitting here. Asked what he would like to tell people as his accomplishments one or two years later, he said the trust people have should never break.
When asked if India is concerned over China’s behavior in the East China Sea and the South China which has worried many of its neighbors, Modi said we should have trust in China’s understanding and have faith that it would accept global laws and will play its role in cooperating and moving forward.
Modi in his first interview after taking charge as prime minister said China’s focus on its economic development is a sign that it does not want to be isolated.
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