Hunger for power can lead men to great heights of opportunism, our leaders these days don't hesitate to grab any opportunity that comes their way. It need not be an opportunity to prove their own merit, just the opportunity to bring down the opposition is enough, then misinterpreted facts and improper language don't really bother them. As long as they get to say - "Hey look, this is what this guy is doing, so it proves that this guy is bad for India, so I am good for India, vote for me". All political statements these days fall into this template, more or less.
Making allegations on one another is one thing, but these elections, people have taken it too far, politicising matters like the Chennai Central blasts is opportunism and narcissism at its peak, its a terrorist attack for God's sake, at least let the first probe finish before saying that it proves Modi's life is in danger. The recent violence in Varanasi, whatever people there may be doing, violence of any sort is not justified, whether its AAP who is at fault, or the BJP, you cannot just beat each other up in a brawl to decide who is right, we don't live in a lawless land. Politicising the Assam violence, saying it was caused because of so and so leader and party, BJP members are already saying, Congress has plans to instigate nationwide riots once BJP comes to power, to destabilize the government, and the Assam violence is just the beginning. And of course, the Muzzafarnagar riots, they were the result as well as a source of major political opportunism. These are all the most violent episodes of political opportunism these elections, the incidents of politicians using poor language are just too many to recount.
What has happened to our leaders, have they lost their intellectual mojo so much that this what they have had to resort to, whatever happened to clean, noble, gentlemen leading a nation. Where are the AB Vajpayees of this election? even the party that Yogendra Yadav(the gentlest man in Indian politics today) belongs to has failed to produce leaders that have any dignity left now. It literally is a jungle raj out there , a man eat man world. And it will not stop until one man's desire to be PM is fulfilled- Narendra Modi.
Some people say, they saw all this coming the day NaMo was declared the PM candidate by the BJP. He is known for politics of polarisation, the good old divide and rule policy.We Indians love it don't we, just divide us and we will let you rule us.This is how he wins his elections they said, this is how he governs even, shutting down voices against him using brute force, even arm twisting his political competitors in his own party into supporting him. Snoop-gate, the fake encounters in Gujarat , the '02 riots, the toothless Lokayukta, its a long list. This is one side of NaMo.
The other side of NaMo is the one industrialists love, not just the Adanis and Ambanis as RaGa claims, but all businessmen in general have had a good time doing there business in his state. They have prospered, and the people of Gujarat have prospered with them. And only a fool would want to oppose that model being replicated at the centre. In today's times, any model will be better than what the UPA is doing, the Gujarat model has its merits and ought to be tried.
NaMo is seen as a man of strong decisions, of authoritarian leadership. The policy paralysis that the country is going through right now, a dose of NaMo is exactly what we may need. At least that's what the nation's industrialists want, and it may not be a bad idea to give them what they want. Their prosperity, in theory at least, can trickle down to the nation's poor as well.
With the elections coming to their final rounds, the results to be out soon, it looks like in all probability NaMo will be our next Prime Minister, and whichever side of him you choose to look at, you have to accept that he is the man today's India is turning to, for better or for worse, the next five years India's future will be his doing. We will be ruled by the Dr Jekyll and Mr hyde of Indian politics, Maano ya na Maano!!
Making allegations on one another is one thing, but these elections, people have taken it too far, politicising matters like the Chennai Central blasts is opportunism and narcissism at its peak, its a terrorist attack for God's sake, at least let the first probe finish before saying that it proves Modi's life is in danger. The recent violence in Varanasi, whatever people there may be doing, violence of any sort is not justified, whether its AAP who is at fault, or the BJP, you cannot just beat each other up in a brawl to decide who is right, we don't live in a lawless land. Politicising the Assam violence, saying it was caused because of so and so leader and party, BJP members are already saying, Congress has plans to instigate nationwide riots once BJP comes to power, to destabilize the government, and the Assam violence is just the beginning. And of course, the Muzzafarnagar riots, they were the result as well as a source of major political opportunism. These are all the most violent episodes of political opportunism these elections, the incidents of politicians using poor language are just too many to recount.
What has happened to our leaders, have they lost their intellectual mojo so much that this what they have had to resort to, whatever happened to clean, noble, gentlemen leading a nation. Where are the AB Vajpayees of this election? even the party that Yogendra Yadav(the gentlest man in Indian politics today) belongs to has failed to produce leaders that have any dignity left now. It literally is a jungle raj out there , a man eat man world. And it will not stop until one man's desire to be PM is fulfilled- Narendra Modi.
Some people say, they saw all this coming the day NaMo was declared the PM candidate by the BJP. He is known for politics of polarisation, the good old divide and rule policy.We Indians love it don't we, just divide us and we will let you rule us.This is how he wins his elections they said, this is how he governs even, shutting down voices against him using brute force, even arm twisting his political competitors in his own party into supporting him. Snoop-gate, the fake encounters in Gujarat , the '02 riots, the toothless Lokayukta, its a long list. This is one side of NaMo.
The other side of NaMo is the one industrialists love, not just the Adanis and Ambanis as RaGa claims, but all businessmen in general have had a good time doing there business in his state. They have prospered, and the people of Gujarat have prospered with them. And only a fool would want to oppose that model being replicated at the centre. In today's times, any model will be better than what the UPA is doing, the Gujarat model has its merits and ought to be tried.
NaMo is seen as a man of strong decisions, of authoritarian leadership. The policy paralysis that the country is going through right now, a dose of NaMo is exactly what we may need. At least that's what the nation's industrialists want, and it may not be a bad idea to give them what they want. Their prosperity, in theory at least, can trickle down to the nation's poor as well.
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