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Modi seeks humble, tolerant new image after poll rout

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https://in.news.yahoo.com/modi-seeks-humble-tolerant-image-poll-rout-062022891.html
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It's out with the flashy suit, in with religious tolerance for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is seeking to soften his image after an electoral pounding in New Delhi and grumblings in his party about his top-down leadership style.
Abruptly ending a string of national and regional election victories, Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was thrashed in the capital this month, a defeat many blamed on a perception that Modi was tacitly fanning Hindu extremism.
"The Delhi ​election results ended ​the party's ​honeymoon period with a jolt," a senior BJP leader in New Delhi said, asking not be identified as he is not authorised to speak to the media.
"If we don't start the damage control and make immediate corrections, defeat in other state elections is imminent."
In the space of a week, Modi, a Hindu nationalist who rarely attends events organised by religious minorities, delivered a long-awaited speech about inter-faith tolerance to a Christian congregation.
Leaders of the hardline Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad associated with the BJP have cautioned members across India against making comments that "hurt Narendra Modi's image".
A saint-like bust of the prime minister was removed from a temple in his home state of Gujarat after he tweeted his disapproval, and a designer suit he wore to meet U.S. President Barack Obama was auctioned for charity in Gujarat.
The navy blue outfit, embroidered with gold pinstripes bearing Modi's name, was mocked by his opponents, and even the party faithful said it undermined the voter-friendly narrative of Modi's humble beginnings as the son of a tea seller.
"Modi's image as a son of a tea vendor was his trump card," said a senior election campaign adviser to the party. "Voters admired his simplicity, but now he is viewed as a flashy leader."
On Friday, the suit was sold for 40.3 million rupees($647,765) in the western city of Surat to a diamond merchant, a government official involved in the three-day auction told Reuters. The proceeds will be used to clean up India's holiest but heavily polluted River Ganges.
'MISTAKE'
The day before the suit went on auction, Modi broke months of silence after a series of attacks on Christian institutions in New Delhi and vowed to protect all religious groups.
"Voters did not expect him to be silent after churches were attacked," said the BJP leader. "We realise that it was a mistake."
Urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu said the Delhi elections were a setback for the BJP and cause for introspection, but denied Modi had lost touch with voters.
"There is no change in their regard and admiration for Narendra Modi," Naidu told Headlines Today television this week. "People love him."
The day after Naidu spoke, senior BJP official Prodyut Bora quit. In his resignation letter to the party's president, Amit Shah, the rebel complained about the centralisation of power in the prime minister's office.
Bora, who set up the BJP unit that spread the party's message through social media, said Modi's leadership style was damaging democracy within the party.
People might soon forget that Modi's monogrammed pinstripe suit cost as much as a million rupees ($16,100), Bora told Reuters.
"But the increasing arrogance of top (party) leaders does not seem to be fading away," he said.
($1 = 62.2139 Indian rupees)
(Editing by Douglas Busvine and Robert Birsel)
 
But I still like the flashy image of Modi..the song goes 'Every girls crazy about a sharp dressed man"

I do not think its entirely wrong to be a fashion icon..a sharp dressed person is always more confident in approach.

To work good..one needs to feel good..to feel good..one needs to dress good.

One more thing is if we dress well we can distract the crowd a little so our mistakes goes unnoticed especially when giving a speech.

I have noted when a speaker is not sharp dressed people are very attentive to every word he/she says and people start to comment more on the flaws in speech.

But when we are sharp dressed all these mistakes goes unnoticed.

When I was in the government service and needed to make a speech at times addressing public for health issues I used to make sure I dressed up real well to distract the crowd so that they do not ask too many questions...in fact you have women coming up after the speech asking where I got my outfit from.

So one does not always need to project an image of man/woman of substance..one just needs to know how to silence the crowd and they are happy and we are happy!

Even another male doc I knew would dress up real sharp and distract the crowd and not even prepare his speech but yet the crowd loved him.
 
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Bharath, hindutva, development are all synonymous. Some have not understood this, and it does not matter.

Its not that some do not want to understand...there is no harm even if Modi is still "Hindutva"ish..its just that the approach needs to change..

When we are too open about our agenda the opposition knows every step we take.

One needs to keep others guessing what our Modus Operandi would be and be gradual in approach..too much too soon we only get a burn out and have barnacles sticking on the us as we swim along.

Other good for nothing ones who just want a platform to scream attention and be in the lime light will be the cause for our own downfall.

When one is a politician..one should make sure our "well wishers" are not there to hog the limelight.

Half of the Hindutva brigade are leeching on to Modi cos there is no other way they can gain some importance in life.

So these weeds need to be extinguished.
 
Half of the Hindutva brigade are leeching on to Modi cos there is no other way they can gain some importance in life.

So these weeds need to be extinguished.
Some that is in this site as well.
If Hindutva is for right wing Hindus alone, it can not be good for the rest. Modi is the prime minister of the country. His government should return to Govern the whole country.
Hindutva is a divisive instrument, Modi should shelve it, and tell his RSS fringe to zip up their mouth.
 
Modi repeated his convictions at Christian meet

They who really want to know what is hindutva and political hinduism must read RSS propaganda material and modi's speeches.

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Prime minister Narendra Modi’s speech at a Christian congregation this week was hailed by many but RSS mouthpiece Organiser says it’s only a repetition of what he has been saying since he was Gujarat Chief Minister.

Modi invoked Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago address in his maiden appearance at the function organised by Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and immediately intellectuals and media with ‘secular mindset’ made political overtones out of it and declared it as the PM’s message to Hindutva outfits, the weekly said in its editorial in the latest issue.


“Critics of Modi also tried to see it as an attempt of projecting himself as a ‘secular’ leader. If we carefully read the speech, PM Modi only reiterated the ethos of this civilisational nation for all segments of the society.


“He repeated his convictions about ‘acceptance of all and appeasement of none’, which he has been saying since he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. This ethos is being cherished and practised in India from th Vedic period, irrespective of way of worship,”
it observed.


In fact, the publication said when the PM remarked that the Indian Constitution did not evolve in a vacuum and had its roots in the ancient cultural traditions of India, he was talking about Hindu way of life being the torch-bearer of religious harmony.


“Many people with British spectacles should realise that we were practising freedom of religion much before the ‘secular’ word arrived on India’s political scene,”
Organiser said.

Modi repeated his convictions at Christian meet: RSS mouthpiece | DeshGujarat
 
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