Comments by "Rutvik" (@rutvikrs) on "‘Surprised by Modi govt’s attitude u0026 its handling of Manipur,’ Mizoram CM Zoramthanga tells ThePrint" video.

  1. He won't because it enriches him and his community. You can't ask for ethnocentrism and Indian taxpayer money simultaneously. If you want to progress away from the tribal belt(Assam-Laos) the price is secular laws. Even the two major communities of India(Hindus and Muslims) have been subject to it.
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  2. Quite the contrary, it is the integration project that succeeded not the federalist one. South India wouldn't have been developed without access to cheap Central Indian resources and North Indian talent. If it was left to federalism, states would have taken the next logical step and become nation states. We all know the end game of small nation states without a regional command. Rapid rise followed by a gradual collapse.
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  3.  @lelin3984  because HDI is the wrong filter? Where did Sachin Bansal or Bhavesh Agarwal or Deepinder Goyal come from? If that matters, I am a Kannadiga myself. Any modern economy works only when there are common laws and free movement of the right people. If I want to do anything finance related I will shift to Mumbai, Chennai for manufacturing, Delhi for policy, Bengaluru for startups, Hyderabad for services.
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  4. ​ @luliana8 history shows that, no one needs to say that. Every country is subject to cycles of consolidation, integration and differentiation. We are moving into the integration cycle.
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  5. Both are ethnicentrists. 😂
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  6. When were we successful in that region? People forget that under every single government, it used to be ridden with insurgencies.
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  7. ​ @imtiimsong3465 India isn't a unique case of diversity. No constitution on earth is permanent or binding. It may have been the case in the past that we needed to adhere to the conditionality of diversity but we have run into the absolute limits of such an agreement. Not having simplified common laws is leading to socio-legal discord. We have to move into the integration cycle. It is a price we have to pay for modernity. When the majority community itself has been paying the price of a constitution led reform be it caste, institutional or gender related, then why are the minorities supposed to be exempted? Kerala and Coorg were matrilineal societies even though they were Hindus and yet they are legally patriarchal. Today a huge chunk of indigenous North Eastern population has no problems accepting patriarchal Christianity, but is opposed to secular Indian law.
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  8. How does that help?
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  9. Both are illegals. India should focus on people living here.
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  10. ​ @HunterSailo so did the Hindus and Muslims. When the two majority communities are subject to a constitution-led reform, why are the minorities any different?
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  11.  @HunterSailo  and we have lived millenniums without them and yet the political majority let them. Why do you suppose?
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  12. Yes bring back the UPA and crash the country into the dump because a revenue deficit region wants its own civil laws.
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  13. It is already a big business for decades be it on the Myanmar or Bangladesh border.
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  14. Both are ethnocentric, what is the difference?
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  15. ​ @sahilnegi4071 because of ethnocentric politics of the NE? I disagree with OP that he is CCP or ISI but the truth is he is fighting the wrong battle here. UCC is secular and both Hindus and Muslims have been subjected to it by the constitution and courts.
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  16. Both are ethnocentric leaders who use political capital to secure more of the pie rather than increasing the pie. No different to Yadav politics and caste based sugarcane barons(Sharad Pawar, Devegowda) . But he became kosher because he doesn't want UCC, which is secular? What kind of liberals do we have? 😂
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  17.  @sunnysing2717  there is no sarcasm in this comment. Zoramthanga himself was a separatist and lived in erstwhile East Pakistan fighting against India. He joined the mainstream only in the 90's. Every caste/ethnocentric politician does the same s###, placing their community at the center of political life. If he doesn't want to adopt a secular UCC because they have different traditions, what stops casteists doing the same? For instance there is ample historical evidence to show that temples and property deeds belong to specific castes not the entire community. Internal reform and constitution led to entry of backward castes into temples. What stops Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and every other community from asking for similar legal distinction? While the tribes don't have the same caste system, they do have the kind of ethnic strife as the tribal belt(Assam-Laos) and a distrust of outside influence. Having common laws and movement of people within the NE and with the larger national is the greatest antidote to such social discord. UCC must be implemented regardless of party in power.
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  18. Which version of UCC? 😂
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  19. ​ @dhrubalohkor2159 what exactly has he achieved? Is Mizoram a revenue surplus state?
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  20.  @dhrubalohkor2159  Some context, Mizo peace accords were signed in 1986 and Manipur 2013. The first step after peace accords is cutting down on arms and drug trade which insurgent groups rely on for income. Mizoram got 3 decades to do this and periodically went into crises. Why isn't Biren Singh accorded the same trust and time that leaders from Mizoram were?
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