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But those rallies were conducted in West Bangal and highest COVID cases are in Maharashtra. I'm definitely against these rallies but logic seems to fail us here

But those rallies were conducted in West Bangal and highest COVID cases are in Maharashtra. I'm definitely against these rallies but logic seems to fail us here, isn't it?

pas 5y ago
Any Modi/BJP (or otherwise government permitted) rally anywhere sends the signal that people can be more lax.
- revendell_elf 5y ago
  Even if they're in two opposite ends of India? Also, I don't want to take sides, but all other parties rallied during elections so why single out BJP? Once again, I'm strictly against these gatherings and I firmly believe that they should be banned without delay but this selective outrage is rather obvious that the agenda or the narrative is something else altogether.
  - pas 5y ago
    There very well could be a selective outrage, but I'm almost as far removed from this as possible. HN as a groupmind usually scolds the official government, because the assumption is that they have the most effective control over behavior of people. -- I simply said that Modi/BJP is responsible wherever they are. Of course the other parties are responsible too. And we can simply apply the Spiderman rule: more power, more responsibility. Modi is the PM, BJP is the ruling party. (And yes, of course in some states BJP's influence is lesser than some other party's. And there the responsibility of that particular party is greater.) On top of all this it also depends what was the rhetoric of the other parties. Were they also loudly claiming victory over the pandemic? Naturally Modi trapped himself into a bit of a corner with that. (Even if facists can usually disregard/bend reality, but we shall see how the electorate takes this dissonance.)
kumarvvr 5y ago
A certain section of western media is distinctly biased against the ruling party. So there seems to be a lot of marketing for a certain point of view, nudging the facts aside.
- HotVector 5y ago
  Might be because BJP is a right-wing nationalist party.
  - revendell_elf 5y ago
    any data to back your statement? I'm genuinely curious as to how one label a political party as right or left wing? BJP is a nationalist party no doubt about that though.
pvsukale3 5y ago
Testing per capita is not same across the country. Maharashtra has been doing a lot of testing. I have been in touch with my friends in UP and it is really hard to get tested there. So the current official numbers are not accurate there.

But those rallies were conducted in West Bangal and highest COVID cases are in Maharashtra. I'm definitely against these rallies but logic seems to fail us here, isn't it?

pas 5y ago

Any Modi/BJP (or otherwise government permitted) rally anywhere sends the signal that people can be more lax.

revendell_elf 5y ago
Even if they're in two opposite ends of India? Also, I don't want to take sides, but all other parties rallied during elections so why single out BJP? Once again, I'm strictly against these gatherings and I firmly believe that they should be banned without delay but this selective outrage is rather obvious that the agenda or the narrative is something else altogether.
- pas 5y ago
  There very well could be a selective outrage, but I'm almost as far removed from this as possible. HN as a groupmind usually scolds the official government, because the assumption is that they have the most effective control over behavior of people. -- I simply said that Modi/BJP is responsible wherever they are. Of course the other parties are responsible too. And we can simply apply the Spiderman rule: more power, more responsibility. Modi is the PM, BJP is the ruling party. (And yes, of course in some states BJP's influence is lesser than some other party's. And there the responsibility of that particular party is greater.) On top of all this it also depends what was the rhetoric of the other parties. Were they also loudly claiming victory over the pandemic? Naturally Modi trapped himself into a bit of a corner with that. (Even if facists can usually disregard/bend reality, but we shall see how the electorate takes this dissonance.)

kumarvvr 5y ago

A certain section of western media is distinctly biased against the ruling party. So there seems to be a lot of marketing for a certain point of view, nudging the facts aside.

HotVector 5y ago
Might be because BJP is a right-wing nationalist party.
- revendell_elf 5y ago
  any data to back your statement? I'm genuinely curious as to how one label a political party as right or left wing? BJP is a nationalist party no doubt about that though.

pvsukale3 5y ago

Testing per capita is not same across the country. Maharashtra has been doing a lot of testing. I have been in touch with my friends in UP and it is really hard to get tested there. So the current official numbers are not accurate there.