Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted an invite from President Emmanuel Macron to go to France between July 13-14. This go to holds particular significance as PM Modi is the visitor of honour on the prestigious ‘Bastille Day Parade’ scheduled for July 14.
The Bastille Day Parade, held yearly in Paris, is a grand army spectacle that commemorates the historic French Revolution. It showcases France’s army may and pays homage to the nation’s nationwide pleasure.
To additional improve the importance of this yr’s occasion, an Indian tri-services contingent will take part, symbolising the rising bilateral ties and shared values between India and France.
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Being invited because the chief visitor for the ‘Bastille Day Parade’ is taken into account a sign honour. The final international chief to obtain this distinction was former US president Donald Trump in 2017, underscoring the importance of PM Modi’s presence.
Enhanced bilateral relations, defence offers between France and India
This go to presents a worthwhile alternative for each India and France to strengthen their strategic partnership and discover avenues for additional collaboration in varied sectors, together with defence, commerce, and expertise.
One of the most important highlights is the signing of offers price over ₹90,000 crore, which incorporates the procurement of 26 Rafale M plane (22 single-seater variations and 4 double-seater coach variations) and three Scorpene submarines. These are anticipated to strengthen the defence capabilities of the Indian armed forces.
France ranks because the eleventh largest international investor in India, with a complete Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) contribution of $10,389 million from April 2000 to September 2022, highlighting the strong financial ties between the 2 nations.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state go to to France holds immense significance in strengthening the bilateral relationship, enhancing defence capabilities, selling financial cooperation, and fostering strategic ties between India, France, and the European Union.
As an rising world energy, India’s participation within the Bastille Day Parade highlights its rising affect on the world stage and signifies the deepening ties between the 2 democracies.
Leftist media-politician nexus planning to play spoilsport
Even earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Paris, the leftist media-politician nexus had begun unveiling its sinister plans. French information outlet Mediapart, which has a infamous historical past of planting faux tales, posted a vicious piece on the 2016 Rafale deal involving India and the United States.
“As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who signed the deal, prepares to attend France’s Bastille Day celebrations as guest of honour, documents obtained by Mediapart reveal how Modi’s billionaire friend, Anil Ambani, boss of the Indian conglomerate Reliance Group, which was handed a lucrative contract as a condition of the Rafale sale, directly solicited the intervention of then economy minister Emmanuel Macron and finance minister Michel Sapin in a bid to escape a 151-million-euro tax claim against his French subsidiary,” it claimed.
It have to be talked about that within the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, French publication Mediapart printed a number of deceptive studies on the Rafale deal. As such, it comes as no surprise that the publication is now attempting to stifle India’s new defence take care of France by reiterating the identical claims over and once more.
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The Supreme Court in December 2018 had declined to order a probe into the Rafale deal. Consequently, in May 2019, the apex court docket dismissed overview petitions in opposition to its earlier verdict. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had additionally concluded that the Indian Government had not overpaid for the Rafale jets.
A leftist French newspaper by the title of Le Monde has been influencing public opinion concerning the Modi authorities by making false insinuations about India’s democracy and spiritual freedom.
“India’s democratic regression,” the paper printed a propaganda editorial piece on April 24 this yr. It lamented the supposed removing of chapters on Mughal historical past in Indian textbooks and claimed {that a} concerted try was underway to show India right into a Hindu theocratic State.
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While calling for international intervention, the article mentioned, “Attempts to suppress the media, harassment of opponents and minorities, manipulation of the justice system, educational revisionism: Modi’s record speaks for itself.”
“This makes it all the more regrettable that countries that claim to defend democratic values prefer to remain silent so as not to upset a regime that is asserting itself in the new global geopolitical order,” it additional added.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Le Monde resorted to vulture journalism and exploited the deaths of Covid-19 sufferers for political narrative constructing.
“Narendra Modi’s lack of foresight, arrogance and demagoguery are obviously among the causes of a situation that today seems out of control and requires international mobilization. The Prime Minister, after having, in 2020, paralyzed and traumatized his country by decreeing brutal confinement, abandoning millions of migrant workers, completely let his guard down at the beginning of 2021,” it had claimed.
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It is thus apparent that Le Monde won’t let go of any alternative to bitter the Indian Prime Minister’s State go to to France. The same disinformation marketing campaign about India, PM Narendra Modi and his politics is led by one other French newspaper named Libération.
In a current piece, it claimed, “In a context of democratic regression and the rise of the far right, making Narendra Modi the guest of honour on our national holiday, a few months before the Indian elections, is a major fault of Emmanuel Macron…”
The leftist newspaper labelled PM Modi as ‘far-right leader’ who’s supposedly main India on a ‘virulent path of Hindu nationalism.’ It additionally lamented the choice of the French authorities to ask him as a visitor of Honour for ‘The Bastille Day Parade.’
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Libération has been unabashed in its all-out effort to current a distorted model of the Indian authorities to the gullible French readers. Earlier, it tried to undermine India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity by suggesting that Kashmir is a ‘contested piece of land.’
The French paper additionally forged aspersions on the revocation of Article 370 within the Valley and accused the Modi authorities of selling ‘pseudo-normality.’
“Ultra-militarised and repressed since the brutal abrogation of its autonomy in 2019, Kashmir hosted a G20 meeting this week. The opportunity for Delhi to promote tourism and a regained pseudo-normality,” it had mentioned.
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Besides media retailers, leftist politicians are additionally prone to play spoilsport. A distinguished French politician by the title of Clémentine Autain had beforehand made unsolicited and uninformed feedback concerning the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS).
“The RSS is a Hindu nationalist paramilitary group, whose early leaders openly admired Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and which has been repeatedly accused of stoking inter-religious hatred and committing acts of violence,” she had claimed in April 2021.
“Attacks against religious and ethnic minorities have also increased under the current government of India, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an offshoot of the RSS,” Clémentine Autain had brazened it out.
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Interestingly, her feedback have been republished in an article by a well-liked, anti-India activist with ties to Khalistani terrorists, Pieter Friedrich.
Riots in France and media narrative
Protests and unrest ensued in Paris suburbs after a teen was killed by a police officer on 27 June. The 17-year-old named Nahel M. was a supply agent. He was stopped by the police and was requested to indicate paperwork whereas he was driving when he tried to flee the scene, throughout which photographs have been fired.
One of the bullets hit him within the chest, and he died on the spot. The instruction to cease was issued below a routine site visitors verify. The sufferer was beforehand convicted of failing to cease at a sign in addition to driving and not using a license. The accused official was detained on suspicion of manslaughter.
Despite the federal government’s repeated requires calm and elevated policing, the saga of violence, loot and unrest continued. The authorities cracked down on the rioters, arrested 3400 of them and performed fast-track trials.
Conclusion
The response of infamous leftist publications and politicians have been alike. They tried to downplay the mayhem on the streets of France as ‘democratic protest’ and accused the police of committing brutalities on protesters.
The State go to of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Paris for ‘Bastille Day Parade’ thus makes him susceptible to malicious propaganda by this ecosystem. False analogies between the scenario in India and France are prone to be drawn.
PM Modi shall be accused of following within the footsteps of French President Emmanuel Macron and clamping down on dissent.
