New Delhi: BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's pledge to create a 'vibrant India' a la the Gujarat model cannot result in 'vikas' but only 'vinash', the CPI-M said today.
"In a public rally, a day after his anointment, (Modi) declared that he wants to create a `vibrant' India a la the illusory `vibrant' Gujarat," an editorial in the CPI-M mouthpiece "People's Democracy" said.
It said the 2002 communal violence of Gujarat "is sought to be replicated for the rest of India as the foundation to achieve such a `vibrancy'.
"This is the debt that the Gujarat's chief minister claims to have repaid to his state and now wants to repay for India," it said.
The editorial said "such disinformation ... conceals the fact that Gujarat has human development indices that are much lower than the national average.
"The country today is asked to endorse the extension of this Gujarat model for the whole of India. If this is the case, then what is in store is not vikas (development) but vinash (destruction)."
