MUMBAI:
Barack Obama’s re-election as the US President has received three cheers from the Indian film industry. Well-known film personalities like A R Rahman, Anupam Kher and Shekhar Kapur believe that he will bring positive changes.
Obama scored a victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The results were announced on Tuesday.
Bollywood celebrities took to Twitter to congratulate him.
Here’s what some of them wrote:
Landed in Delhi to news of Obama’s re-election. Good start to the day
Barack Obama ji… Yes! You can, again… Mubarak USA!
And he’s done it again! So relieved and happy to see some ray of hope in world politics. Obama
Obama’s back! Let’s hope his second term sees an upswing of the economy!
It is good to see a country elect leaders where they don’t have to choose between the lesser evils but between the greater common good. USA
It’s never been a doubt in my mind that Obama will win Election 2012, but this will be a really tough term
Congratulations, President Obama for winning the second term
Obama is a true leader of our times. The world needs more like you Mr President. Congratulations
Congratulations Barack Obama for being re-elected as President… I would have voted for you!
Just landed back in Mumbai and came to know about Obama’s win. It made me happy. There is something optimistic about him
Published in The Express Tribune, November 8th, 2012.
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A real catastrophe has been averted! His opponent was an extremely shallow, “me-above-all” capitalist who remarked that 47% of electorate comprised just bums wanting to be forever on social welfare, that great industries like the auto industry should be allowed to go belly-up for the sake of the purity of the capitalist system, that all tax breaks should go to the richest class although world’s wealthiest men like Warren Buffett thought that it was outrageous that he was paying lesser income tax (percentage-wise) than his own secretary did, etc., etc..