Like Moodi's ratings, here are Modi Index reviews of Modi governance in Swarajyam 2014 by cabinet ministers, Aruns Jaitley and Shourie and Subramanian Swamy:
Here are some samplers: Bloomberg and Youtube clips. It is good to do Modi's ranking in a samudramanthan, a churning of ideas and moves needed to realise the expectations of Swarajyam 2014.
My take: NaMo, restitute kaalaadhan, the nation trusts you.
Kalyanaraman
EXCLUSIVE - Suresh Prabhu On Modi Govt’s Achievements In One Year
http://www.btvin.com/videos/watch/12490/exclusive---suresh-prabhu-on-modi-govt%E2%80%99s-achievements-in-one-year
Namo's Year Important For Govt
May 15: The economic growth under Modi Govt is because of the base year change, and there's no real economic acceleration, says BJP leader Subramaniam Swamy. Siddharth Zarabi speaks to the outspoken leader, who suggested some out of the box ideas for the BJP to win middle class support. Here's a slice of that conversation.
http://www.btvin.com/videos/watch/12485/namo%27s-year-important-for-govt
| Wednesday , May 20 , 2015 |
| Wednesday , May 20 , 2015 |
He who lives by Twitter shall... | |
| Our Bureau | |
 Narendra Modi plays with a child during a visit to Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon Stream, the massive urban renewal project on the site of a creek in South Korea, on Tuesday. (PTI) Modi, susceptible to being carried away by tumultuous receptions abroad, appears to have crossed the 140-character rekha when he said on his latest foreign tour that "earlier, you felt ashamed to be born in India". Not once but twice - in Shanghai on Saturday and in Seoul yesterday. The dam broke this morning - and digital fire and brimstone fell mercilessly upon the unchallenged poster-boy politician of the Twitter age. Overnight, the darling of the social media - Modi is said to be the most popular politician on Twitter after President Barack Obama - found himself being demonised on the very platform he had straddled like a conqueror. The first tweetlash coincided with the run-up to Modi's first anniversary in power. #ModiInsultsIndia top-trended on Twitter in India for many hours in the morning. Globally, the hashtag was the second highest trending topic much of the day today. Over 1 lakh tweets using the #ModiInsultsIndia had been posted till 6.30 this evening. A sample. "Ashamed we chose a Prime Minister who was not proud of being Indian till he became PM himself," declared one Kunal Mazumdar. "Respected PM, when you are on a foreign tour, do remember that you are representing a nation, not your political party," tweeted Dipankar, an MNC executive from Noida. Many changed their Twitter handles into "ProudToBeAnIndian" to express their disapproval and to remind the Prime Minister that their pride in being Indian had nothing to do with which political party was in power. Behind the surge of criticism on the social media site were two comments made by Modi while addressing the Indian community in China and South Korea. "Earlier, you felt ashamed to be born in India," Modi had said on May 16, speaking in Hindi to a 4,000-strong Indian community gathering in Shanghai. "Now you feel proud to represent the country." Modi's comments in Shanghai did not appear to have caught the attention of Netizens. But when he followed it up in Seoul two days later, in even more graphic detail, the storm began to gather. "There was a time when people used to say we don't know what sins we committed in our past life that we were born in Hindustan," Modi said, reaching out again to an Indian diaspora audience in Seoul on May 18. "Is this any country, is this any government? We will leave. There was a time when people used to leave, businessmen used to say we can't do business here." These "people", Modi said, are now ready to return to India. "The mood has changed," he said. Hours later, the famed digital army of Modi, which had tasted blood during the Lok Sabha poll campaign, appeared to have put together a strikeback force. Soon, the hashtag #ModiIndiasPride began trending. (Modi has 12.4 million followers on Twitter. But all followers cannot be bracketed as his fans.) By evening, #ModiIndiasPride was racing to the top on the trending list, pushing back #ModiInsultsIndia, both at the all-India level and globally. In Delhi, however, #ModiInsultsIndia continued to trend at the second position with #ModiIndiasPride figuring nowhere on the trending list on Twitter. "Propaganda against a good man has limit. It can't undone the good work done by an individual," tweeted a self-proclaimed Modi " bhakt". "No wonder #ModiIndiasPride. A very hard working PM who has not taken a single vacation day in full year," said a tweet from Kiran Kumar S. Despite the robust retaliation from the supporters of Modi, the rare blizzard of criticism became a topic of animated discussion in political hangouts and in government offices. "Modiji appears to have committed a mistake. His comments may not go down well even among our hardcore supporters," said a BJP leader. The Congress seized the opportunity and poured scorn on the Prime Minister. "In world history, there is no other example when the head of the state has insulted his country, saying people used to think what sin they committed to have been born in India. Such decline, such low-level discourse has never been seen. We are pained by this," Kapil Sibal said. He added: "But why did Modi say so? We expect the Prime Minister to think before he says something. He has a habit of speaking without applying his mind." Footnote: Talk about timing. Indian officials in Beijing dutifully pointed out on Tuesday that Modi's selfie with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has been blessed with over 31 million hits on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. The selfie, taken on Friday, had prompted The Wall Street Journal to wonder whether it was "the most power-packed selfie in history". The Indian officials did not say whether Modi, having been ticked off on Twitter for the first time, would switch permanently to the warmer Weibo. |