“The heavily loaded message from PM Modi’s Lakshadweep visit”, The Commune Mag, January 5, 2024:
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Lakshadweep to highlight the massive under-utilized tourist potential. Having snorkelled & dived in Lakshadweep and Maldives, I can honestly tell you Lakshadweep lacks nothing. So why are the opposition making fun of this visit? You see in the 1980s Rajiv Gandhi and family visited Lakshadweep and it suddenly became the go to destination. However except one island – Bangaram admirably and sustainably managed by CGH – no other licenses were granted and the entire area was kept backward and poor with limited connectivity.
Today the PM essentially heralded what should become an economic opening up of an extraordinary region of India that has deliberately been kept poor. What’s worse for the opposition is that Lakshadweep is 97% Muslim. Their entire narrative of Muslims discrimination and alienation has already collapsed in Kashmir where the insurgency has ended (major terror attacks will happen for a while though). Imagine if Lakshadweep develops – then the entire “Muslims in danger” – “Muslim genocide” narrative crumbles. In many ways Kashmir & Lakshadweep demonstrate the difference in approach to Muslims of the Congress & BJP.
Congress used to keep them poor & ghettoized & racked with crime – with a feudal polity, so they could be exploited as a vote bank. The feudal lords of the community would be made minister, MP etc., to perpetuate their venal hold on the community……”
Read the full article at Thecommunemag.com
