13th September
-2013 (Friday)
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 17th 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 13th 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.”.
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