Though I refrain from writing anything about
politics because I was saturated long
ago ( guess it’s been 2 years now) and secondly writing about politics allow
many random people to start a debate
and they usually get carried away
because of their sentiments and create scenes which I don’t like. Anyway, I
couldn’t resist the tempt to write about 'rise of Narendra Modi' and relevant events
after the drama of past few days.
Those who know me and know my political stand consider
me as very pro Narendra Modi and as a matter of fact I am. I proudly accept
this. I remember the first day when Narendra Modi has made
a solid impact on me. It was during some election campaigning and he was giving
a speech. He was having one 'fatwa' in his hand issued by some terrorist organization and
he was reading it with eloquent style and great confidence stating how he was
responsible for prevention of terrorism in Gujarat and that was the first day I
appreciated him as a leader. Excellent speaker, confident, different and
dominating; a perfect man who can lead the nation.
Later I become familiar with all the controversies
that revolves around him, his portrayal as pro Hindu anti Muslim leader and
many other adjectives like ‘ maut ka saudagar’. I always used to wonder that
time that there are many states but no chief minister gains such a massive
popularity. Modi remains in highlight whether he is speaking or
silent, whether he is in Gujarat or in any other state, whether opposite
parties are talking about him or not. Rise of
Modi into central politics was always an undeniable truth, it was
inevitable, sooner or later it was going to happen and it’s a happy news that
it has happened finally.
I won’t speak of any known facts or statistics about
development of Gujarat or how Modi has reformed it or how he has successfully
encapsulated traditional farming and industries with modern corporate culture
or any such praise of him. What is most appealing in him is his attitude, his
firmness, his tenacity, the way he never leaves what he is just for the sake of
politics. I guess to every person knowing the basics of politics, it’s very
apparent that he could have easily gained popularity and could be redeemed of
all his sins by taking all the blames of Gujarat riots on his head and asking
for forgiveness. But he has never done this; he stood against Atal Bihari ji
and many other prominent leaders for this. Now in politics, this stunt is
always very expensive and a person like Modi can easily comprehend the costs
and side effects of this but he sticks to it. So we can safely conclude that this
person is more on being the person he is rather than playing cheap politics.
I would not comment on his portrayal as ‘vikas purush’
or whatever adjectives he gets these days but no one can deny the fact that
Gujarat has developed in past couple of years with due credit to policies of
Narendra Modi. He remained firm on many of his projects though they were not supported by many but this is the quality of a true leader; standing for
whatever is right as per you. He remains mostly silently when others criticize him;
he doesn't talk about Gujarat riots or Hindu-Muslim or any kind of
fundamentalism these days. He talks only about building a new India or
development of the nation. Now one may say that he is just escaping from his
past sins and diverting the attention of people but even if he is doing this;
what’s the harm?? Only our country is getting benefit.
My support for Narendra Modi as a candidate for
prime minister is not because of his charismatic character, or him being a
brilliant orator or his policies or anything but only because of the fact that
there is no better alternative. No one is in fact near him as of now. Mr. Rahul
Gandhi, no doubt I supported him very much in his initial political career. It
was like more mature, stable and supported Rajeev Gandhi, but sadly he lacked
everything. He was not like his iron lady grandmother, or his fierce and
courageous Uncle or his simple and visionary father.
I support
Rajeev Gandhi in everything; he was an honest man away from politics in his early days. He
brought computers in India. He was the only person so far in India who openly
opposed caste based reservation by saying that it’s a way to divide the country
again. Rahul Gandhi, initially tried to walk on footsteps of his father. He
also said many revolutionary things interacted with students and in fact
opposed the reservation system in higher institutes but sadly he was muted by
his party. He now says only those things that party approves or party talks.
There is no vision of Rahul Gandhi, there is no separate perspective of him and
there is no opinion of him. He remains silent on majority of issues when people
of our country are expecting the leader of the future to walks in and give them
some assurance. In fact I appreciate people like Digvijay Singh and Jayram
Ramesh. At least, they say something opposite to party and party discard their
statements by saying that these are their personal views. But they at least
have some contradicting opinions. Rahul Gandhi has no personal opinions, no agenda, no vision, no direction. He is not a
person who can lead the country because he has no decision making power or
skill. He acts on wills and guidelines of party and all of our great prime
ministers share one skill. The ability to stand for their decision even if the
whole world is against them.
Many times people talk about the dominant character
of Modi that he has the tendency to destroy every other leader in his regions.
He doesn't incorporate any other leader. He is not a good person for an
alliance. He works like a single man army. I think it’s not a negative point
instead it’s a great quality. Now we all know what happens when one tries to
take care of every other person’s demand. UPA government failed to implement
various reforms like FDI, Food Security, women reservation bill and many other
just because of the oppose of people in their alliance. In fact many a times,
their own party leader opposed their ministers (like Ajay Makan’s proposal of
brining BCCI under RTI). So unlike the popular opinion; more
diversification in a government brings more instability and lesser
productivity. Whereas uni-polar forces always brings solid results like Indra
Gandhi’s decision of 71 war or Atal Bihari’s decision of nuclear tests. So a
person like Modi, who only cares about his decision and doesn't pay much heed
to what the party is saying or what opposition or alliance are saying may bring
some much needed reforms in the country which hitherto are not done due to lack
of decision making power.
I was just reading some facts about how Muslims have
developed and progressed in Gujarat after riots. I don’t know whether the facts
are right or not but one thing for sure that no government can continue for 3
runs if they haven’t got support from whole society. There have been no riots
in Gujarat after 02 but UPA failed in many riots. The recent one in Assam is an
example of failure of congress government. Riots of 84 and 93 happened in
congress’s rule. No FIR or cases are running for many riots at least lots of
BJP leaders are indeed arrested for Gujarat riots but I won’t get into details of that. Congress has remained a hypocrite in accepting the
facts and has given rise to this opportunistic politics where every one can
form alliance on the basis of secularism and communalism. No BJP leader ever
talk about betterment of Himduism or any think but congress leaders continue to
polarize and divide country on the name of religion and create separation by
cheap blame games and dirty politics. It’s such a shame to see hypocrisy of
Nitish Kumar and JDU these days and the way they are on the same track as
Congress, RJD, SP and BSP, dividing the Indian Voters further into hindu,
muslims and other minorities. I don’t understand according to what criteria
Advani ji is secular but Modi isn’t.
Anyway, in a nutshell, my support to Narendra Modi
is plainly because of lack of any other good alternative. Apart from this, he
is a man of his words, a standalone leader, and a visionary. Now even European
Union and senators of USA are also favoring him. He is connected with ground,
popular among the workers of BJP and there is no godfather of him. Rise of Modi
is something that has happened gradually. From a tea stall owner, then a worker
of RSS, then rise in Gujarat, transfer to Delhi, winning the battle there,
coming back to Gujarat and taking power from his own mentor Keshu Bhai and then
Gujarat riots and the politics afterwards. He has proved himself on every
level. He may not be perfect but I guess he is the best in present circumstances.
PS: Do not wish to provoke any discussion or debate.
Just my personal views and I don’t want to get into any argument about how bad
Modi is or what he has done or what happened in Gujarat or whatever.
