RISE OF MODIWAAD..............

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.