Amartya Sen: Narendra Modi can not become Prime Minister of India
New Delhi (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The media storm provoked by Amartya Sen - known economist and Nobel Prize winner - after his criticisms of Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat shows no sign of abating in India. In an interview with national broadcaster CNN-Ibn, Sen said that "as a citizen of India, I do not want Modi to become prime minister," criticizing him for his model of government and for not having "done enough to make minorities feel safe ", during and after the massacres of Gujarat in 2002.
The Indian Catholic Church has
always criticized
Modi's actions, condemning his role in the pogrom that took place in the Indian
State and defending the Muslim community, the main victim of the carnage.
The
words of economist have unleashed an avalanche of criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Hindu
nationalist party of which Modi is a member and which could nominate the
popular chief minister of Gujarat in view of the general elections of 2014. To
the point that the BJP MP Chandan Mitra Sen urged the Nobel Laureate to return
the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor conferred on him in 1999.
After this
request Amartya Sen said he was willing to return the recognition and defended
his position on Modi, without apologizing. A
native of West Bengal, the economist has always defined himself as atheist.
Sen's
most serious criticism of Modi is that "her could have been more secular
and could have made minority communities feel safer." To
really understand that the governance model imposed by Modi is not good, he
says, "you need not be a member of a minority."
Moreover, according to the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics (won in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, ed) Indians do not want a situation where minorities "may legitimately think that in 2002 there was a violence organized against them. "
Recently, Modi was appointed director of the BJP's election campaign for elections in 2014, but not yet listed as an official candidate for the post of Prime Minister of India. A choice that has sparked much controversy - inside and outside of India - especially for his nebulous role in the carnage of Gujarat, in which more than 2 thousand Muslims died at the hands of Hindu ultra-nationalists.
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