I refrain to talk anything remotely close to political parties due to the backlash by Pseudo Political Pundits. I even get many messages asking about my opinion on who I’m supporting in the upcoming general elections. I do not support any political party blindly. I like to call a spade a spade.
But after all the dilly-dallying, the choice is pretty clear for me – Bhartiya Janata Party.
I get it. Demonetization was a sheer failure. Maybe. In the implementation, it was a disaster. Black money was never recovered. BJP changed the goalpost every time from black money to the digitisation of Indian economy. What did it do? It brought in more taxpayers. It evaded large garbs of hawala transactions and parallel economy. Also, small accounts received a commission to whitewash their black money!
I get it. They glorified surgical strikes. At least, they did something. They didn’t go back to unending peace talks. The Prime Minister’s party did not ask or force him to do nothing and sit with the notion saying the next PM has to do that (so he can keep taking all the credit), unlike somebody, you know how. It is better to be a hawk rather than a dove when your neighbour is just habitual of backstabbing.
I get it. Narendra Modi is out of India on many important occasion. At least, he provided a voice for the Nation. And trust me I know more about the rise and fall of nations than your average scion of the dynasty. In this international milieu of Afghan peace talks, Brexit and American hard protectionist stance, it is nothing but a marvel to walk a tightrope on these issues. And India is doing really good. Today it is fictional to even think that any educated person would not know of Yoga and its exuberant benefits. The International Day of Yoga strategically acts as a catalyst in India’s rising soft power.
I get it. We don’t need bullet trains. At least, we have the resources where we can aspire for. Since the last four Finance Bills, hardly any new trains were announced but the focus was on bringing in good services, Swachh Bharat to stations have actually been commendable. Visit Mata Vaishno Devi railway station and see the Jaguar taps in the washroom. How do I know? Because the contractor of the station was one of my friends’ father.
I get it. There have been more Gau Rakshaks, as reported in the (biased) media. Some of my friends are engaged in Dairy business. They milk cows and buffalos. They say there is nothing to worry about. They unanimously said, “these cows get transported to Bangladesh and the cow protectors try to stop that.” Media only glorifies selective episodes of violence. I feel this is a basic tenet of humanity, and peaceful co-existence is a Policy every individual must abide by.
At least a long time after P.V. Narasimha Rao and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, there has been a leader who has the charisma to represent a nation, rather than getting toyed by a nepotism-clan headed by an NRI party, you know who. What kind of Indian aspirations do we intend an addressal for?
Having grown up in the walled city of Ahmedabad, I have experienced humanly highest levels of dopamine while driving through or sitting at the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad. No longer the tourists glance at me in amazement when I say I am from Ahmedabad. Rather so far the majority greeting has been: “Oh wow! That’s India’s Heritage City.”
These are a few glimpses of the Indian-ness for which the nation owes gratitude to the Prime Minister, His Excellency Modi. My vote will be for BJP. Modi deserves one more term. On one hand, he is a meritorious fellow who has truly inspired the world through Gujarat Model. On the other hand, is the well-known nepotism personifying scion of the dynasty.
The choice is yours, India. What kind of leadership We the People need?
P.S. A few very reputed (pseudo) independent news websites have denied me for publication and on my repeated probe they have confessed they have been instructed “from above” to not let anything Pro-Modi publish on their forum. And that’s when I realised how Pro-India too falls in the same garb, which the biased media keeps fabricating with!
The Author is Co-founder of the Ikigai Group of Spiritual Healing, a Masters candidate in Public Policy (Class of 2020) at O.P. Jindal Global University School of Government and Public Policy, and an alumnus of Ahmedabad University, India.