How western media has attacked Modi Sarkar in 7 years of its rule

26 May 2021 marks the seventh anniversary of the Modi authorities in energy. This day, precisely seven years in the past, Narendra Modi gained a landslide victory within the 2014 General Assembly elections, and was sworn in because the fifteenth prime minister of the world’s largest democracy, in a spectacular ceremony held in Delhi.
Modi’s election to the Centre was notably momentous, on condition that it was for the primary time in 3 many years {that a} single occasion gained the bulk seats to kind the federal government on the Centre. BJP racked up a shocking 282 seats by itself. This was the very best variety of seats gained by any occasion by itself for the reason that 1984 Lok Sabha elections, when the Congress, led by then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi gained a decisive victory.
Technically, it was the fourth time that the BJP had managed to win energy on the Centre (3 occasions earlier than Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in energy), however by far probably the most potent one. Armed with a thumping majority and PM Modi’s nationalist credentials, the federal government set about to banish the state of sluggishness that had turn out to be a trademark of the UPA-II years.
By distinction, PM Modi’s administration infused a brand new vitality in governance, policy-making and its implementation. India noticed a decisive management at its helm that didn’t flinch from taking powerful however mandatory measures to redirect the nation’s trajectory in the direction of progress and growth.
Key initiatives equivalent to Swachh Bharat Mission, Demonetisation, Make in India, FDI, Startup India & Mudra Yojna, Digital India, Ayushmaan Bharat, Expansion of electrical energy and street and plenty of others demonstrated the federal government’s willingness and resolve to usher the nation within the period of growth.
Even on the nationalist entrance, the Modi authorities displayed that the federal government was now not tolerate the fear assaults that had their roots in neighbouring international locations. While the UPA-II exhibited surprising pusillanimity in refraining from attacking Pakistan after the dastardly Mumbai 26/11 assaults, PM Modi authorised an audacious surgical strikes in opposition to the fear launchpads liable for sending terrorists that carried out Uri terror assault.
Before placing on India’s western borders, the Indian Armed Forces carried out the same surgical strikes to get rid of the terrorists hiding within the thick forests of Myanmar. Years later, in 2019, the Modi authorities sanctioned an unprecedented airstrike in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan, to annihilate a terror camp operated by Jaish-e-Muhammad in response to the Pulwama terror assault.
Additionally, the Modi administration was unapologetic about its Hindutva moorings. It took nice delight in its cultural identification and historic traditions, one thing that the earlier UPA regimes and the Congress occasion had all the time scorned and despised. The Modi authorities additionally stopped the minority appeasement and referred to as out the menace posed by the menace of Islamic radicalism.
The departure of Congress from the centre and the previous prejudices fuels Western media’s propaganda blitz in opposition to the Modi authorities
The Modi authorities’s daring governance strikes, radical defence measures, and rising assertiveness about its socio-cultural identification ran counter to the beliefs held by the Congress occasion, and by extension their allies within the western media. For the primary time in a decade, there was a authorities on the centre that saved the nation’s curiosity above its political self-preservation. The indisputable fact that Modi gained with a transparent majority solely served to embolden his authorities’s resolve to pursue nationwide pursuits.
Modi confirmed little regard for the worn-out insurance policies adopted by the Congress governments for many years since India’s independence. Neither did he search validation for the choices he took from the all however highly effective western media, which had grown accustomed to the subservience of the Congress occasion. Instead, he stripped the media organisations, each Indian and the Western, of the privilege that they had come to take pleasure in beneath the Congress authorities.
The relationship between the western media and PM Modi has lengthy been vitiated by previous prejudices. Since the times he was the chief minister of Gujarat in 2002, when the horrifying prepare burning incident passed off, ensuing within the widespread Hindu-Muslim riots in its wake, the western media, and the Congress stooges working in these organisations, have meticulously painted a grim image of Narendra Modi.
He was continuously criticised within the western media for his alleged position in inciting the riots, although the Supreme Court of India had given him a clear chit. Later, when he assumed the Prime Minister Office in May 2014, the Western media criticism of India and PM Modi solely grew sharper.
Ever since Modi got here to energy in 2014, a concerted try was made by the western media shops to weaken his authorities and make a case for Congress’ return to energy, for PM Modi had made it amply clear that he wouldn’t be meek, docile and gullible because the earlier UPA regimes. A vicious marketing campaign was run in opposition to him to cease his authorities from pursuing their insurance policies.
The western media continuously subjected him to relentless assaults, in a bid to forged him as a pariah of their respective international locations and to sully his status again in India. The assaults in opposition to PM Modi would then be cited by Congress and different opposition events to focus on how the Modi authorities was being criticised globally.
In a way, there was a symbiotic relationship between the Congress occasion and the western media shops. This anti-Modi campaign within the western media was led by journalists and academicians who had been Congress sympathisers and harboured pathological hatred in the direction of PM Modi. They desperately yearned for a Congress authorities on the centre, which was extra amenable to their propaganda than the Modi authorities.
Therefore, it’s no shock that Rahul Gandhi routinely begs for assist from the west to dislodge the Modi authorities. His video conferences with the so-called intellectuals from the west can be one other train to discredit the Modi authorities. However, it’s a completely different factor that these conferences solely find yourself exposing Rahul Gandhi and the so-called intellectuals.
Modi authorities subjected to unwarranted assaults by the International Media
The coverage selections taken by the Modi authorities is vigorously slammed within the western media shops. Even measures taken to ascertain deterrence in opposition to terrorists witness scathing criticism. While the United States may bomb the hell out of the Middle East to pursue their pet venture of ‘establishing democracy’ within the area, India is castigated for merely defending its sovereignty and stopping terrorism emanating from Pakistan.
Countless articles had been written terming the Surgical strikes carried out by India’s Armed Forces as figment of Indian authorities’s creativeness. While they requested the Indian authorities to furnish the proof for the assaults, by no means did as soon as the articles included proof that would have proved that the surgical strikes by no means occurred. When the Indian authorities did launch the proof, the journalists cried themselves hoarse claiming that the Modi authorities was utilizing retaliatory assaults in opposition to terrorists to burnish its nationalistic credentials.
Propaganda peddled by Indian left-leaning liberals was immediately lapped up by the western liberal bastions equivalent to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and a number of other different information publications, which provided area to Modi criticism with out critically evaluating the legitimacy of it. The liberals in India gave up the awards and recognition that they had acquired prior to now to oppose the “rising intolerance” beneath the Modi authorities. The western media adopted the go well with and accused the Centre of spawning intolerance throughout the nation.
The reviews cited doubtful a ‘hate tracker’ that selectively included solely hate crimes when the sufferer was a non-Hindu and the perpetrator a Hindu. In reality, the ‘hate tracker’ was so deceptive that it excluded religiously motivated crimes dedicated in opposition to Hindus by non-Hindus however included even these circumstances that had no spiritual undertones however the place the sufferer was a non-Hindu and the assailant was a Hindu.
These articles had been revealed to tarnish the picture of PM Modi, to color him as a frontrunner who allowed the Hindu nationalists throughout the nation have free rein to behave as per their whims and fancies. But the makes an attempt fell flat as individuals noticed by way of their treachery and the ‘hate tracker’ was lastly pulled down.
As their credibility was taking successful, the worldwide media shops pulled out one other arrow from the quiver to focus on the Modi authorities. They recognized persistent Modi haters within the Indian journalistic fraternity and offered them with their platform to hawk propaganda in opposition to the Indian authorities. The goal, maybe, was to revive credibility by getting Indians residing in India to pillory the Indian authorities.
However, the western media shops roped in disgraced Indian journalists for this endeavour. Perhaps, the west has all the time sought damsel in misery within the Oriental world to articulate fiction concerning the brown world’ sufferings. It was Arundhati Roy earlier than, now it’s Rana Ayyub, Barkha Dutt, and plenty of others.
Washington Post elevates discredited journalist Rana Ayyub for its propaganda battle in opposition to PM Modi
Journalist Rana Ayyub was lengthy consigned to the fringes of India’s journalistic firmament for her doubtful reporting practices. Ms Ayyub shot to fame for her ‘investigative journalism’ following the 2002 Gujarat riots. She tried to move off a fictional story as an investigative story to implicate PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah within the riots case, but it surely was summarily rejected by her then-employer, Tehelka Magazine.
Discouraged by this, she revealed a guide referred to as ‘Gujarat Files’, which earned the excellence of being trashed by the Supreme Court as a guide based mostly upon surmises, conjectures, and suppositions with no evidentiary worth.
But her doubtful journalistic credentials didn’t cease the west from glorifying her. The New Yorker author Dexter Filkins profiled her for an article dissing the Indian authorities’s transfer to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. The Washington Post co-opted her of their marketing campaign in opposition to the Modi authorities by enlisting her as a Global Opinions Writer. And immediately, Ayyub was elevated because the toast of the western world on all subjects regarding India.
She continued assailing PM Modi and the central authorities in her columns that had been replete with conjectures and suppositions quite than chilly arduous info. She was even accused of plagiarism however that didn’t forestall a bunch of stories channels and media organisations around the globe to deal with her as an authoritative supply on all issues in India.
Washington Post co-opts Barkha Dutt for its anti-Modi protection
The Washington Post additionally employed one other disgraced journalist Barkha Dutt to proceed with its anti-Modi propaganda. Dutt is thought for her questionable protection of the Kargil battle and the Mumbai 26/11 assaults, and her involvement within the Radia tape rip-off when audio conversations of her brokering ministerial berths within the UPA-II regime with well-known lobbyist Nira Radia had been launched within the public area.
Dutt was finally pushed to obscurity due to her extremely condemnable journalistic practices. But regardless of her shallow journalistic credentials, Dutt was co-opted as a contributing author by the Washington Post.
And since then, Dutt has not missed a single alternative to mount a propaganda blitz in opposition to the Modi authorities. Not solely did she write censorious articles in opposition to PM Modi and his authorities within the Washington Post, however she additionally criticised the federal government on different western media platforms. Recently, Dutt tried to take advantage of her father’s dying by indulging in tragedy porn and attacking the Modi authorities.
Dutt’s father was handled in among the finest hospitals within the nation after he was down with COVID-19. He acquired all of the services and key antiviral drug required to fight the an infection. Yet, Barkha slammed the Indian authorities on worldwide media channels for not with the ability to save his father’s life.
Dutt additionally resorted to theatrics throughout her protection of the latest coronavirus outbreak within the nation. From tenting exterior civil hospitals to crematoriums, Barkha shared her footage the place she sat on an upturned tin can and positioned her laptop computer on upturned plastic dustbins to deliver us a floor report. It was not misplaced on many who Barkha was attempting to magnify the pandemic and paint a grim image about India’s preparedness to cope with the contagion.
Business pursuits of Amazon on the centre of assaults in opposition to PM Modi by Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post?
It is value noting that the Washington Post is owned by American enterprise magnate Jeff Bezos, who’s the founder and CEO of the multinational expertise firm Amazon. The enterprise pursuits of Amazon in a thriving financial system like India and which has a inhabitants of over 1.4 billion can’t be overstated.
Amazon faces stiff competitors from the likes of Flipkart, Snapdeal and different on-line portals which have just lately cropped up in India after the Centre’s push for digitisation. Therefore, it couldn’t be thought of past the realm of potentialities that Jeff Bezos was utilizing his one enterprise entity to shore up one other enterprise entity.
The use of Washington Post to relentlessly assault the Modi authorities is perhaps an try by the American behemoth Amazon to pressure the Indian authorities to stack the deck in its favour. India has kept away from exhibiting any favour or disliking for overseas entities working within the nation. With the rising competitors and the expansion potential that India holds, the ceaseless assaults by the Washington Post in opposition to the Centre may very well be aimed toward extracting a beneficial deal to brighten Amazon’s enterprise prospects within the nation.
The duplicity of western media over India’s COVID disaster and its unhealthy fetish with burning funeral pyres
Never has been the duplicity of the western media extra stark than in its protection of India’s coronavirus outbreak. Even although India had efficiently warded off the preliminary bout of the coronavirus outbreak, the west tried to painting that the federal government failed in controlling the an infection. Towards the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, the western media faulted the Indian authorities for instituting one of many strictest lockdowns on this planet.
It argued that the coronavirus-induced lockdown had introduced unspeakable hardships to the individuals. Migrant labours streaming again to their villages, financial downturn, rising coronavirus circumstances had been cited to claim that the Modi authorities had failed in dealing with the pandemic.
Now, when India was struck with the resurgent coronavirus outbreak, the western media pivoted and requested PM Modi to introduce strict lockdown. The western media shops wasted no time in utilizing the chance to rail in opposition to the Modi authorities. The COVID-19 pandemic disclosed the western media’s morbid obsession of linking India’s COVID-19 outbreak with funeral pyres.
Several media organisations, be it Washington Post or Reuters, posted footage of funeral pyres from numerous locations in India to focus on the severity of the pandemic. One of the Washington Post journalists even described a cremation floor’s vertical shot as “stunning”.
Where there are deaths, there are clearly going to be funeral pyres. When the pandemic took its devastating toll on the US, Italy, Brazil and different western international locations, there have been hardly any media organisations that symbolised the outbreak with the photographs of burial grounds. However, this indignity of linking the COVID-19 outbreak with funeral pyres is reserved just for Indians, and it smacks of the west’s envy of India, which was remarkably profitable in staving off the preliminary COVID-19 outbreak when the developed and richer international locations of the world had been discovering it extremely tough to manage it.
The vilification of Kumbh Mela as ‘super-spreader’ occasion of COVID-19
The western media shops studiously blamed the Kumbh Mela gathering for the resurgent coronavirus outbreak, although the farmers’ protests continued unabated. They held the Kumbh Mela liable for the unfold of the contagion whereas giving a free move to the ‘farmers’ protests which were taking place for months alongside Delhi’s borders.
Even although analysts and epidemiologists claimed that the brand new surge of the COVID-19 circumstances in India may very well be attributed to the UK pressure, which they claimed may have unfold due to the protests carried out by the so-called farmers, the International media shops continued blaming the Kumbh Mela for the fast unfold of the virus. This, when preventive measures had been put in place to cease the unfold of the virus throughout the Kumbh Mela.
There has been a litany of articles within the western media shops the place the Kumbh Mela gathering is held liable for the latest spurt within the coronavirus circumstances within the nation. However, hardly a number of articles attribute the rise in coronavirus circumstances to the continuing ‘farmers’ protests in Delhi and the adjoining areas.
It has been seven years since PM Modi got here to energy on the centre, two years since he retained the facility within the 2019 General elections. Over the years, the worldwide media has proven its unhealthy alacrity to mount a smear marketing campaign in opposition to the Modi authorities, which has solely intensified because the years progressed. It continues to be three years for the 2024 General meeting elections, But if historical past is something to go by, the Modi authorities ought to put together itself to fend off shriller assaults from the International Media.