The ‘Modi’fication of Indian politics

The ‘Modi’fication of Indian politics

The whole country is divided in two parts- ‘Pro-Modi’ and ‘Anti-Modi ‘- the sad part is that if you are Pro-modi , you are categorized as ‘Communal’ and if you are anti modi , you are ‘Secular’…Now whatever ‘Secular’ means , It certainly cannot mean ‘Liking’ or ‘Disliking’ a person. Another theory that is equally vague is the one Nitish Kumar propogated few days back- “we will support if Advani is at the helm but will walk away if Modi will be the PM candidate”…. Nitish is a great leader and doing pretty good and I respect him for that but certainly this logic is even more illogical than the Duckworth –Lewis system.A party stands for an ideology , you either support or reject that ideology. How can you support an individual in a political party,I have no idea.

The barometer of secularism is confined to just one thing-how much can u criticize Modi . From CBI to IB all govenment machinery have been given the task to polarize voters( as if voters are +ve or -ve charges),We are nation who likes people who question- people like Sagarika Ghose , Barkha Dutt and these days Arnab Goswami. We hate people who answer 'Bluntly'- people like Subramaniyam Swamy, Rajeev Dikshit, Arvind Kejriwal , Jairam Ramesh and Narendra Modi . Its not because who they are but because who WE ARE ? We are a  bunch of Selfish, Mean minded and cunning people . The other day government agreed to pay thrice to Mukesh Ambani for his natural Gas  and one of my friend was happy because he had taken a 'Long position'(buy the share incase you dont know what that meant!!!)  on that stock so despite knowing that this may hurt country he was seemingly happy .Another dear friend of mine was opposing the Jan Lokpal bill sometimes back because he thought that it may bring accountability and being in a government job he did not want to work …..

And that’s precisely why India Needs Modi . Modi represents ‘decisive Leadership’ , You can either like him or dislike him…something like Binary of 0s and 1s…there is nothing analog in Narendra Modi . He doesn’t  talk the language of appeasement. He doesn’t has a traditional caste votebank . Neither he has a political connection and the best part is he has a problem solving attitude (remember TATA shifting from Singur to Gujarat) unlike those who just beat around the bush .

The biggest damage any Government can do to its citizen is make them dependent on them. UPA by its policy of Social Justice with populist schemes like MNREGA, Food Security Bill  is trying to make people lazy, dependent on master(Government) . This needs to be changed. A country cannot develop unless its people don’t  compete . We are looking at a Fiscal Deficit of 10% glooming on our head and with such intelligent Finance veterans like Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram and Raghuram Rajan we  cannot run populist measures like this at cost of Fiscal Deficit and falling Credit Rating.

Had Lord Ram been there and we would have asked him that do you want a temple in Ayodhya , He himself would have said No . It doesn’t matter where the Temple is anymore(it might matter to some people in  country) but what matters is that India’s Fiscal deficit should be reduced, Rupee should get some strength, our Youth should no longer work in Call Centres , India should be the intellectual capital of the world, Our Education system needs to be revamped and infrastructure should be world class .

I have some hope. From  last General elections 18 Crore new voters have added. There have been record turn out at Polling booths and Youth has begun to cast their vote.there has been clear mandate even in states like UP and Bihar . its time people vote for development rather than communist or secular governments .  We need’ jobs’ more than ‘MNREGA’ and we want ‘pride’ more than ‘food’ .

Neither I say that  Narendra Modi is flawless individual nor he will come and all problems will vanish like smoke or he has some magic wand like Harry Potter but Just Like CAT/GATE exam , Its not always the correct answer but the most closer alternative out of given options that makes the difference between Right or Wrong . I have not mentioned statistics because statistics have bad habbit of showing what you want to show .This is just an opinion and you can always differ .