Om “NaMo”-INDIA

13^th September -2013 (Friday) 

Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales  and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects(I repeat, begin new projects). When this Friday is coupled with the number 13^th it’s considered as one of the worst combinations according to western superstitions. It didn’t seem to bother our politicians much, this time at least , With already existing slogans didn’t do much to the progress of the nation a new slogan has been added officially to the walls of our nation  “nayi soch, nayi ummeed” (new thinking, new hope).

  

Since the time I recollect there has always been a saying ‘vote for the best, vote for us’ but in Indian polity it doesn’t seem to work much , the best suited for the job never really finishes ahead of others. So the above stated adage is of no use in this machiavellian system. If you want to sound positive we can call it as phenomenal marketing skills or he knows how to strike the chord with the youths (Remember, the person I’m talking about turned 63 on 17^th of this month)  to sound in a negative way you can tell it’s more than a hype . Whatever it may be i haven’t seen a person in Indian politics being trusted and disbelieved so much at the same point of time. Media seems to increase their target rating points (TRP) by pouring their affection for this man or rather they are bored of covering the same faces for the past 10 years.

The man of the day, the man of the moment- Narendra Modi aka NaMo. For many of us at the start of all this he was a person who was highly criticized for the 2002 Gujarat riots. The most respected man in the BJP Mr.Vajpayee once admitted that the riots can’t be ruled out as a major reason for the party’s defeat in the 2004 election and also acknowledged that he made a mistake by not removing Mr.Modi.

But today, for the man who won the hearts of Gujaratis in the past three elections surely knows how to win the rest. But wait, we are missing out the fact that he is struggling to convince the 14.23% Muslims of our country (secularism…???).

Keeping these riots and statistics aside for a while (but I’m surely going to come back) let us think about the economic slowdown and what might be Modi’s statement to alter and put back our GDP growth and control inflation (this comes as a serious doubt for me when a cabinet minister’s callous statement about skyrocketing of the onion prices– “”Why don’t you ask the traders this (hike in onion prices)?  The government is not the one selling onions”). What if he or his party’s ministers ask the same questions after rising to power?  In one of his rhetoric speeches Modi was lamenting the ruling party that there is a lot of FII involvement in Indian stock market and there might be a slump in our markets if they withdraw, he added that “But this does not mean there is no way out.... The country need not be in such a depressed state.... I am a very optimistic person. We can find solutions”. Seeing his optimism even in such a crisis situation(some claim that we aren’t doing as bad as the media sounds after all In 1991 our forex reserves were just $5.83 billion dollars which wouldn’t have funded us for more than 3.5 months of imports. But today it stands at around $287billion dollar.) is good to see but it would be much better if he can state a solution which can help us out of the blind belief we have on this man and we can start believing that he really has something to offer us.

But on the other hand, UPA believes that they are in the driving seat after passing the Land Acquisition Bill and the Food Security Bill. They think that the two bills will increase the vote banks and make it a hat-trick for them but they failed to recollect that Indian citizens no longer believe in the utopia that the bills promise to deliver and also the fact that elections are fought on local issues rather than the national issues (remember that congress had to find their egress in 1996 and BJP came to power even after 1991 economic reforms by the UPA).

So 13^th September,2013 Mr. Narendra Modi the CM of Gujarat has been anointed as the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP  ahead of the party’s patriarch Mr.Advani, a new journey has surely begun for him , he has started a new project(recall my first two lines) -to guide a billion Indians .To convince those 14.23% Indians(they really need a special mention in this case), that past won’t be repeating itself and get their votes and mainly their trust, to find his way to 7,Race Course Road, New Delhi.

Namo smartphones (with special signature edition), Namo phablets, Modi kurtas the sensation has already hit the markers and if this trend continues he is well on his path of acing the election-2014 unless the congress has some magical tricks to change the happenings.

P.S-My friend and I were having an argument, my friend was arguing that both parties shouldn’t come to power and he did have some valid points to debate on, but I oppose it strongly because elections are around the corner and no party or an individual is as strong as the existing two parties to sweep the elections, we are left with no other option of choosing between these two. I would like to accept with what churchill once said “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”.