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It is time for a change, a contradiction in the prime minister's style of working over the last four and a half years.
"It's too late for a message now." The message is: Sorry, it's time to go, "Tharoor said in an interview to PTI on his new book" The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India .
The book was released Friday by Prime Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The sitting MP from Thiruvananthapuram and a former minister of state, Tharoor, however, noted that it could have been a successful prime minister in the past year.
He said instead of his rhetoric of ushering in transformational change in the country's progress and economic development, Modi focussed on his votebank and gave a hand to such elements that indulged in lynching, cow vigilantism and attacks on minorities and Dalits.
Tharoor was also critical of these incidents of violence and drew a parallel with US President Barack Obama who addressed the nation on every attack on Americans.
"If PM Modi had chosen to curb the elements in his support base and genuinely concentrated on economic development, genuinely concentrated on transforming the lives of Indians, and on 'sabka saath sabka vikas', he could have been a success because of his diagnosis very often right.
"Tharoor whose book examines the paradoxes of the prime minister.
Prime Minister Modi is somebody who always talks about how important it is for everyone to go together, but his tenure in the country's history of forming a diplomacy, explaining the paradoxes.
"He is someone who is always on the look-out for the world."
"These are government figures." This and other paradoxes are the heart of analysis of the book, "Tharoor said.
He described the BJP rule as one with huge contradictions at its heart.
"The PM has come to power saying liberal, inclusive and development things and yet he is definitely in favor of political support for the most illiberal elements of the Indian society," Tharoor argued.
He said the central paradoxes to Modi was the difference between his rhetoric and reality.
"There are many paradoxes to the PM But the central paradox is the gap between rhetoric and reality, the contradiction between a man of action and the disastrous records of his government," he said.
In the book, Tharoor also speaks of the prime minister's "Aadhaar and FDI (foreign direct investment) in retail".
"Here is a man of great eloquence who is silent when Dalits are flogged, Muslims are killed, cowards lynchings happen," said Tharoor on Modi's contradictions.
Narendra Modi's initiatives, including Swachh Bharat, said the prime minister had failed to curb majoritarian Hindu elements.
"When he first came to power and started making conciliatory statements I thought he was going to move his own party from communal identity politics to politics of performance.
"But it was not possible that the Hindu majoritarian elements that had arisen in the wake of his victory, in many ways it is possible that their reaction to the point of … the economic stuff was so window dressing, "Tharoor said explaining why he praised Modi's plans at times and reasons he was so disappointed now.
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