Amy Goodman
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India Elects Hard-Right Hindu Nationalist as New Indian Prime Minister Backed by Corporate Interests
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5:22Now PlayingEarly results from the largest election in the world show India's opposition leader Narendra Modi has won a landslide victory to become the country's new prime minister. Modi is the leader of the BJP, a Hindu nationalist party. "This is the result that the corporations in India wanted," says Siddhartha Deb, Indian author and journalist, noting that Modi "is very a prodevelopment politician, which basically means probusiness." Deb adds that Modi served as the chief minister of Gujarat, where antiMuslim riots in 2002 left at least a thousand people dead. After the bloodshed, the U.S. State Department revoked Modi's visa. Modi has never apologized for or explained his actions at the time of the riots. Deb's recent article in The Guardian is "India's DynastyDominated Politics Has No Space for Dissent" and his nonfiction book is "The Beautiful and the DamnedA Portrait of the New India."
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