A Lincoln moment: What PM Modi has in common with the former US President | The Indian Express

A Lincoln moment: What PM Modi has in common with the former US President | The Indian Express

Written by Ram Madhav |Updated: November 18, 2019 9:42:17 am

The writer is national general secretary, BJP, and director, India Foundation.

A Lincoln moment: What PM Modi has in common with the former US President

Like Lincoln, Modi too needed an iron-will. Lincoln had to be ruthless with racial fascism in his time. For Modi, it was, to quote Bashir Assad in his book K File, masla-e-Kashmir is no longer political; it is about Nizam-e-Mustafa; it is a pan-Islamic movement now. Lincoln didn’t have any choice. Neither did Modi.

Liberals, whose great-grandfathers had attacked Lincoln as a despot, paint a dark picture of Kashmir today. (File/PTI Photo)

Abraham Lincoln put an end to slavery in the American South through the historic Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. He had always believed that slavery was against the basic tenets of the American Constitution.