The guest of honor
Our country will welcome a special guest on this republic day the 26th January. It’s a usual feature we invite a head of a country every year as a very important person as guest of honor but it will be with a difference this year as it will be President of the United States Barack Obama who will witness the Republic Day celebrations this year. Obviously, when the guest is of the stature of President Obama the news and arrangements have to be matching to his own standards too. I live in the National Capital Region so it is but natural for me to hear more such news in compare with others living in far-flung areas.
Guest is god
Atithi Devo Bhav (the guest is god) is an old tradition of our country and we always keep it by inviting a head of state on Republic Day every year and this year it is going to be the president of the America considered to be the most powerful man of the world. The management planning is going on for his visit is in full swing but what is most impressing that India is doing it on his own way and style. Indian government is not agreeing to all the suggestions coming from different American agencies but working according to own laws and plans keeping guests’ safety priorities in mind but at the same time not bending on their knees.
We are a strong Nation
Our government’s firm decision on certain matters shows that India is on way to become a true world-power in making. By refusing certain security related demands of American agencies the Indian government has clearly indicated that India has learned to behave like a strong nation. The Indian government refused to close down Yamuna express way during the visit of president Obama as the American agencies considered it a security threat for their president but it was not agreed upon on the basis the road was more important where hundreds of thousands commuter travel coming towards Delhi from Agra side.
A good decision
I can imagine the problems the commuters would have faced if the Yamuna express way was closed for two days. I can agree to the point the traffic on road could be kept suspended for the duration when the main parade will be taking place and Obama will be sitting among the guests for couple of hours but not for the entire duration of his tour of India, not even when he will be visiting Agra next day on 27th January. We have seen that happening while our Prime Minister Modi visited America he traveled to his hotel like an ordinary passenger through the regular traffic stopping on every red-light as in normal course every other visitor does in that country.
Conclusion
So why should we stop our roads and commuters for someone that will not even be visiting on that road? I would say a good decision by an independent country that knows its own rules and powers. The visit of Obama further confirms our diplomatic position in world’ political circles and the way our government is taking strong decisions simply helps our cause towards becoming a stronger nation on the way to be a world power to watch in very near future.
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The recent tragic killing of school children in Peshawar by Taliban terrorists is a turning point in Pakistan civil society. It shows the utter failure of strategies followed till now by various Pakistani governments in that today their own nurtured creations are devouring them. It also demonstrates the fact that hate cannot be the basis of cementing together a nation.
Background
As we all know the creation of Pakistan was on the basis of religion. Its separation from India was zealously pursued by Jinnah on the basis that in independent India, on a one vote one person formula the Muslims would never come to power and would always remain under the mercy of the majority Hindu community. His plea that there should be a proportionate reservation in Parliament for Muslims was turned down by Congress leaders.There was no option left but to partition British India into Pakistan and India.
The birth of Pakistan extracted a heavy price in life and property of both Hindus and Muslims in the communal violence that erupted in 1947. The bitterness of that period has impacted the psyche of both nations tremendously and has in fact (mis)shaped many of their responses towards each other. The legacy of the Kashmir dispute is a carry over of that period and both nations have fought three wars over it. India and Pakistan do not seem to agree on anything.
Different Paths
After independence India, under the benevolent leadership of Nehru, launched itself on the road to developing its economy and improving the quality of life of its citizens.Today India is a emerging country with a growing economy which gives ample opportunity to its citizens to grow into fine human beings. The policy of secularism (keeping religion away from politics and governance) has helped create an atmosphere which provides excellent environment for growth and associated opportunities.It is a tribute to Indians that democracy has taken deep roots in our political system.For this, the much reviled political leaders also need to be complimented.
However exactly the opposite has happened in Pakistan. Right from its inception it has been facing leadership crisis. Unfortunately Jinnah passed away a few months after formation of Pakistan.The line of weak leaders that followed him gave way to military take over. Military officers like Ayub Khan, Iskandar Mirza, Yakya Khan, Zia-ul-Haq and Musharaff did not allow democracy to take root in Pakistan. In between attempts at civilian rule were not effective. The fact that it was only Islam that was the reason for creation of Pakistan, the different language groups like Punjabis, Sindhis, Bengalis and Pushtus did not gel with each other. The promotion of Urdu as national language saw the majority Bengalis revolt. Ultimately East Pakistan liberated itself and a new country Bangladesh was born. Pakistan was decimated but not broken.
The Problems
At the time of partition the Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir opted to join India with some conditions, following an attack on it by Pakistani forces. It resulted in one third remaining under Pakistan and two thirds remaining with India. Ever since Pakistan has been claiming that the whole of J&K should be given to it because it was a Muslim majority state. Wars have been fought over it. After creation of Bangladesh, a humiliated Pakistan has resorted to a low cost tactic, that of sending trained terrorists into Kashmir and "bleeding" India. It has succeeded in ensuring the flight of Hindu Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley there by making it more Muslim majority.
Democracy
While India has allowed democracy to take deep roots this has also acted in creation of a level playing field between different sections of Indian society. In a highly pluralistic citizenry like ours it is essential that all have an equal opportunity to be heard when they face problems and expect justice from its legislatures and fair execution by its executive wing and equitable resolution by its judiciary. Thus after independence India has faced many grave problems but these have found resolution in its participative democratic framework. This has strengthened the unity among its different groups and is helping India progress in a just manner. Thus while in a large developing country there will be differences from tome to time, their amicable resolution ensures a congenial atmosphere and increases the love for the country in its citizens.
The lack of participative democracy in Pakistan has resulted in the State apparatus being usurped by others like the Army and the terrorist groups. This has resulted in the non development of institutional framework in which citizens can have a say and which will respond to their needs and concerns. This has also meant that the non democratic rulers are not accountable for their actions. They have thus followed policies which are more warlike than a civilian government would follow. The army has created groups of terrorists whom they use for their strategic purposes both against India and Afghanistan. The finances are diverted considerably to fulfill the requirement of the army and the non state actors as they are called. This has impacted the economic development of Pakistan considerably. However it is to the credit of Pakistan army and government that they have been able to milk USA of billions of dollars by successfully convincing that they are in the fore front of fighting the bad Taliban whom they are also fighting to finish. This flow of dollars has sustained Pakistan.
Achievements
India today is the world's largest democracy and Pakistan is one of the ten most dangerous countries in the world. India placed its faith in the common citizens and they can every five years change the government through ballot. In Pakistan mostly it is the gun and the bullet which is becoming the agent of change.It has experimented with democracy but it is still a fledgling country with power vesting with the army and various terrorist groups. The elected government is sandwiched between the two.India today has effective governments to which all the instruments of State including the army reports and Pakistan has ineffective governments which many a time has to take instructions from the army and bow to the terrorists.
Pakistan's Kashmir obsession has not only been successfully exploited by its vested interests but is also a strong tool to unite Pakistanis. This common cause helps the Army and also the State to justify its both overt and covert actions of supporting and using different terrorist groups in its anti India tirade.This has meant lot of time, money and emphasis getting diverted from developmental activities into money draining but lethal activities. The blatant use of terror as a strategic tool to further its objectives has meant that Pakistan has given a state of legitimacy to such tactics.
Reactions
India is today engaged in containing the terrorism seeping in from Pakistan. It is acting mostly in a defensive manner. The Mumbai killings were a grave provocation but India did not respond. Right or wrong is a matter of choice. Perhaps this has emboldened terrorist groups and also Pakistani government to see India as a weak state and they are thus continuing with their destabilizing activities against India with impunity.
However now the terrorist groups are threatening Pakistan itself and under local and American pressure they have started acting against these groups. Thousands of Taliban members have been killed in FATA area of Pakistan along with their family members. This has hardened these groups and they are seeking revenge against the Pakistanis. The recent brutal killing of 132 school children in Peshawar was a retaliatory action by the Taliban.
It is for the first time that Pakistanis have felt the pain inflicted by terrorists.Civil society is up in protest. The government is under pressure to act tough. The mature and sympathetic response from India has also touched a chord in many Pakistanis. The non release of Mumbai attack accused Lakhvi even though granted bail is a welcome step. The civil government has got a terrorist given opportunity to seize the initiative and rid the country of such disruptive elements.
Constraints
But it is not going to be so easy for Pakistan government. The army and terrorist groups are not going to give up their profit ventures so easily. It calls for a statesman like act on part of Pakistan PM and the civil society has to stand united to keep up pressure. It is here where if democratic institutions were well established they could do so very effectively. This structural weakness is what will keep the anti India groups alive. Also the Pakistan govt. is not going to give up its stand on Kashmir in which it has invested right from 1947 till date.
However if Pakistan is not going to change after the dastardly act in Peshawar and continues its terror activities as before it is possible India may have ti seriously think about its options. How long will the new Indian govt. hold its horses and continue to suffer human losses from time to time at the hands of Pakistan based terror groups.With USA withdrawing from Afghanistan next year India will have to take a strong position to protect its interests and citizens.
Both India and Pakistan started together in 1947 but today both are wide apart in their achievements. Pakistan is thus at crossroads and the Peshawar incident is its moment of reckoning
ACT EAST
Our Prime Minister Modi is on a ten days’ visit to Myanmar, Fiji and Australia to work on his ‘Act East’ policy. I am sure Modi is interested to improve relations with neighboring countries and countries located in eastern sector of the globe. Modi will participate in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in Myanmar and then take part in G-20 Summit that will provide him an opportunity to talk to more than top forty leaders of the world. I am also sure with his kind of vision Modi will be able to develop relation with many countries and will be able to improve diplomatic and business relations.
LOOK EAST
Actually, the then congress Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao had started the plan to improve relations with eastern countries and that was worth praising as until then Indian relations were mainly revolving round western countries especially Russia, America, France, England and Germany that seriously neglected our attention towards eastern countries which were not only near us distant wise but culture wise too.
Our former Prime Minister Rao had a very good vision trying to improve relations with Asian countries especially in East Asia being similar in culture and geographically besides some of these Asian countries are developed financially and good relations with these countries could have opened the doors of economical improvement of our country.
There are many crucial factors which need to be kept in our plans to improve relations with eastern Asian countries as the area has several crucial waterways in this area, which are important in security and business improvement. Being one of the biggest nations in Indian Ocean India should share the responsibility of keeping peace and development in different sectors that is possible if we have cordial relations with countries like Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Fiji, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Korea and New Zealand etc.
Modi changed LOOK into ACT
Modi has Eastern countries in his mind from day one so he worked on his east based policies on priority basis. He immediately converted LOOK into ACT and acted fast by visiting different countries in the neighboring areas and inviting country heads from different eastern nations. His current visit to all these nations is part of the strategy that will bring wonderful results benefiting for our country in the long-run. The results of his Japan visit and Prime Minister of Vietnam have already begun to show. We can see remarkable improvements in business and other activities between these two countries with India. There is another strategically important point both these countries have no good relations with China which gives an important message to the world that India is ready to stand on a parallel platform in Asia competing for the top slot with China.
India has communicated the message to the world community that she is ready to lead Asia on equal terms with developed countries and no country can overlook her any more like they did in the past. Incidentally, our president Pranab Mukherjee was in Vietnam during visit of Chinese president discussing about oil extraction treaty from the sea that was objected by China later as the Chinese government feels the area where Vietnam and India are planning to extract the oil is within Chinese territory. But by not caring about Chinese claims or their objections India has made it clear that India does not care much for such fake claims of china that is one of the biggest changes in recent years. India in fact was behaving too hesitantly dealing with Chinese related issues and by signing this oil treaty with Vietnam India has made it clear that Indians are ready to face challenges coming from Chinese sides. India is no more concerned how China thinks about our relations with countries which are not in so called good books of China. As far our Prime Minister is concerned he is absolutely straight forward in his visions, for him Indian interests are on top of his priorities.
The Current tour of Prime Minister
The current tour of Modi brings new hopes for our country expecting a common platform shared by countries like India, Australia, Vietnam, Myanmar and Japan by making combined programs in the field of defense and economical developments that will help reduce the increasing Chinese pressure on different countries in this particular region. I am hundred percent sure there will be a detailed discussion on this topic in Australia during our PM’s stay in Australia and the dinner invitation in Brisbane by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Modi is indication of importance of Indo-Japanese friendship in this regard.
Role of India in ASEAN
India is looking forward at ASEAN meet in Nay Pyi Taw where our Prime Minister will be meeting different state heads of East Asian countries. The meeting will provide India a chance to show its role in the region. The important part of the meeting is presence of Barack Obama the president of the USA who thinks India especially Modi has an important role to play in the politics of this region. Obama, the president of strongest nation of the world considers Modi a man of action that believes in work rather than words.
Modi himself was very enthusiast while speaking in the ASEAN summit reassuring all the heads of countries from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam that India has already on the path of building new relations with all these countries for a better future of the region. If any of you watched him speak in the summit you might have noticed he also warned China indirectly regarding the dispute/possession of China on South China Sea that is one of the main reasons of dispute within the area for countries like Vietnam, Japan and Philippines in particular. Modi wants China to follow the water border rules as per international norms just the way countries follow the cross border rules in the air.
Conclusion
We should have no doubt that India can lead ASEAN movement taking all countries together and it’s so natural since most countries have similar cultures, religions, arts, cultures and most common the problems associated with being third world nations. We have already moved ahead few steps in this direction and the day is not far off when we shall be right on top in the able leadership of our ever so active Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
PS- I had submitted this article a couple of days before so it may read different in today's contest.
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Introduction:
India has resolutely rebuffed the Congress commanded by Sonia Gandhi since 1998. In this general election, people voted overwhelmingly for the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) led by competent leader Narendra Modi. India is the biggest democracy in the world. In this general election, the highest percentages of voters cast their ballots on electronic voting machines (EVMs). In 2004, Congress led by Sonia Gandhi dethroned popular Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government in 2004. During that time, government of the day failed to detect an undercurrent of support for the Congress Party. Throughout an election it is expected to UPA 2 drubbings all over India but no one ever thinks of such superlative performance of the BJP and NDA. The BJP has won more seats in UP (Uttar Pradesh) than entire seats won by Congress. Many popular leaders of Congress, who lost this election, have begun showing signs of opposition to top leadership of Congress.
What went wrong for Congress in this recently concluded general election?
In the past, Congress leaders have feared to criticize their top leaders. But with such pathetic election performance, many leaders raised questions over coteries surrounding Rahul Gandhi, who is mostly leaders who have no contested election in the near future. They have accused the hired Japanese agency which works for image makeover of Rahul Gandhi failed miserably in the pursuit of success in the last general election. The advertisement agency is clueless about culture of India, idioms and phrases of the common man. They are trying to derive the meaning that working of Congress has shifted to a completely different domain which is detached from realities of India’s life. Uttar Pradesh (UP) is a crucial state which sends 80 Member of Parliament (MP) to lower house of parliament. Jairam Ramesh has the charge of UP which many thought he did not have any understanding of the way voters of UP behave. He lacked minimal knowledge of local equations and issues. They were unable to foresee what creates anger within voters. In the initial phase of the election, one of the contestants in UP of Congress raised serious communal issues which seem to have united majority voters against Congress. Gandhi loyalists have come up in defense of dynasty rules. It seems 125 years old grand party seems to lack good state leaders at this juncture. Most of leaders who form coterie are either unpopular or have their glory past lost amidst past years. Congress was unable to determine the might of Modi and failed to gauge the mood of Indian voters who kept silent still last moment and voted them out from government.
Dynasty name is no longer password for success:
Voters gave 206 seats to Congress in 2009 general elections. They feel it would be suitable for this grand old party to rule the nation with a comfy cushion of seats in Parliament. Sadly, Congress could not utilize the leverage coming out from a good showing in 2009. Last government was unable to ensure accountability through visible performance. This election proves dynasty name is no longer password for success. Now, enough time for grand old party to reinvent and establish a new Congress. Throughout the annals of history, Congress is full of popular leaders from across all segments of people. Now, it is searching for effective state level leaders still to date not visible so far. In the last ten years, due to centralized structure, many regional leaders failed to foresee the future and slowly faded away from the political scene. Many allies of UPA are blaming Congress, for this drubbing. Owing to faulty leadership and damaged reputation, Congress base is shrinking for the first time in late 1970s. Dravidian parties captured the void space shredded by Congress in the south.
Congress is losing out in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, UP and smaller states. In the recently concluded general election Congress suffered its worst defeat in Odisha. It slips to third place in term of voting share in West Bengal. In UP, it won two seats represented by the dynasty and failed to open account in other regions of UP. In Bihar it is losing miserably and it performed its worst performance even during its glory days in 2009. In the last ten years, frontal organizations of Congress suffered huge set back. Most of these frontal organizations are accountable for attracting young voters to Congress. Scheduled to complete centralized leaderships most of these organizations suffered huge set back and its spaces are occupied by other frontal organizations of different political outfits. In the future of Rahul should look forward bringing reforms in frontal organization of Congress.
Congress is slowly moving away from populist sentiments of people:
Congress is a cadre based party just like the BJP. That is why these parties able to survive even worse drubbing during their political histories. Depending on some estimate, 70 percentages office-bearers of Congress are either from different dynasties or have never ever fought any election. This goes on to show how slowly the major decision making part of Congress is moving away from populist sentiments of people. If it is true then this is terribly unpleasant situation for Congress. Their important decision making authorities such as central committee and frontal organization is both sorts of able leadership. Most of their state chief ministers are either lost in anonymity or have been reduced to the state level. These make a void between people and the party. Decision making authorities should consider it carefully in order to fill up these blank spaces. While studying human resource development in management course, we have been taught of what are different important traits of leadership. A leader should have been a good communicator, eloquent orator, visionary with able determination to foresee future set of events and should be able to stamp his authority in every sphere of life. Leader should not shy away from the media and people. Leader should be able to define the authority and should not be influenced by sycophants. A leader should be hard working and are under a clear, definite and constructive vision which could create dreams and hopes in the minds of people.
This election is a remarkable study of contrast between two different styles of leadership:
It is true, not all leaders have seen the civilization shift the way it has been achieved in this election. Narendra Modi has seen and senses the mood of people. One of the most brilliant parts of leadership is to find the hopes and aspiration of people and correctly judge the moods of people. On the contrary, Rahul failed to judge the mood of people and unable to get out from its own set of coteries who desperately trying hard to show him the artificial sense of satisfaction which was never ever been there. This election poses a noteworthy study of contrast between two different kinds of leadership and their success and failures. It is all about image building through step by step of calculated move through different gestures while collecting populist sentiments in determining different hopes and aspiration of the common masses. Those leaders who have performed excellent in their respective fields have been in a position to sustain the deep negative impact of issues raised by some political parties. Even before polling began, Modi showed the victorious sense which can only be compared with Churchill percept in victory and magnanimity during strong war of words in a heated debate during the election.
On one side the victor showed his class and became calm and peaceful and the other contrary loser is quite irritant and constantly charging different verbal volleys which the victor manages to make a rich dividend in his favor. Even aftermath of election Modi showed peacefulness and took his own time before swearing in ceremony. He does not want there should be the mass showcase of how distribution of portfolios can create a sense of negativity among some people who have voted him into power recently. Aftermath of meaningful election drubbing, instead of going into deep introspection of what goes wrong; Congress is busy scoring self-goals. Top echelons of Congress and its bad performer chief ministers give resignation one after another and then followed by cancellation of resignation to the utter dismay of the public who has just voted them out. This proves that Congress is unable to understand the mood of people who have voted against dynasty and pseudo secularism. People want reform from this grand old party and want them to make a complete makeover so as to prepare for the future.
Congress shreds its centrist character to move towards extreme leftist politics:
The so called sycophants coterie in and around Gandhi’s dynasty have cried foul over this defeat and have reached at the conclusion that due to extreme right wing politics of BJP they have been defeated severely. They failed to realize how they have moved the grand old party from centrist politics to extreme leftist politics. In the annals of history; Congress always balances from leftist to rightist politics. In UPA 2, it has become one of the most leftist parties and making gaga over minority appeasement and completely ignoring secularist character of this great country. The farthest Congress can go from here on is from Rahul Gandhi to Priyanka Gandhi. It goes on to prove. Congress is deprived of leadership and there is no clear cut state leaders are available from which Congress can ride the role of opposition. On the other hand, those leaders who have worked for people’s development and have given their blood as water for the development of the masses is working relentlessly for the people in and around different from life. Some popular leaders who had to bite the dust this time due to Modi’s wave have been criticizing severely to the coterie of advisors as well as the people who have listened to their advices.
There is no authority which can be called as credible without sanction of responsibility:
So far after the historic drubbing of Congress Party, its reaction is somewhat not in line with people who want complete removal of top leadership. For this debacle, the party leadership needs to take responsibility. There is not any authority which can be called as credible without sanction of liability. Surprisingly, the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) of Uttar Pradesh (UP) does not blame its super top leadership in its terrific drubbing of a national election. It lost 75 seats out of 80 seats. The five seats it had won are the same for their family members. It was party’s poorest show in election. BJP won 73 seats out of 75 seats lost by SP. It is guaranteed base vote camps of SP. The Muslims are slowly shrinking from this party. It is running out of grip over real issues of people. It divides society in the name of religion. Indian people have voted for real secularism, which was carried on so called secularist forces for mere political gains. It is time for this party to change its principal leaders. Instead they are reluctant to it and now they have removed heads of all district units. Party loses because of some lackluster performances of top leaders. They are not seeing reality instead falling back on measures to remove ground cadres. Mayawati of BSP scored a duck in this election and they are dodging responsibility. They blame the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) for their failure to gain a single seat.
They are located in fear of losing federal party status due to shrinking vote bank base throughout India. It is a surprise dissemination of a party which failed to look towards one of the actual cause of their defeat. BSP lost miserably in the assembly election of UP and now they have been unable to win a single seat all over UP. Surprisingly the core vote bank base of this party is making progress towards the BJP. It is time for serious introspection. It is time for quiet room discussion on war front about what goes wrong and what are the steps that need to be amended and perfected so that in future party can revive from different adverse conditions. In the recent general election, Mayawati on the advice of her confidants have nominated 21 Brahmins and 10 Muslims and reduced number of core vote bank candidates. After poll debacle, there is no such action against confidant, and they are riding high but there is severe action against zonal coordinators who have worked on grassroots levels despite heavy odds in ground situations. It seems most of political parties who have seen drop of their vote banks are unable to find the actual cause of their defeat.
Opportunistic politicians are destroying noble principles set by Patel and Nehru:
Father of Constitution B.R.Ambedkar said. “democracy is only a top dressing on Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic”. It is now proving from actions of BSP, SP, Congress and other parties who have faced serious loss in the just concluded general election. These are examples of opportunistic politicians who have been destroying the noble principles set by Nehru and Patel. In the last ten years of UPA (United Progressive Alliance) rule crime and punishment became accepted principles. It is a tribute to the spirit of India and people of India who have been silent for years before voting decisively and showing the doors to the most corrupt government in the history of India. People have a lot of anger and they register it by voting in the largest number and providing course for the most stable government of India. All over the world, most democracies have showered praise for people of India by showing brilliance in turning out in large number to reach out booths and cast their ballot.
It is the beauty of democracy which is providing maximum power to people of India. People have shifted their support from extreme leftist politics to right wing politics which has won due to hopes for development. We are at the turning point of history. In the last ten years, UPA government has resorted to large ministries which culminate into policy paralysis and takes longer time in processes of decision making. People do not know about policies, they want all welfare measures and decision making must have speedier access for them. License raj creates overlapping of large number of ministries, removes single window system and creates multiple points of corruption. People want speedy access to singular schemes and conveniences of government. Persistent expansion of ministries arising out from coalition constraints and corruption motive can be shunted out in order to create a cleaner image for government.
Era of coalition has become era of compromises:
In 1994, Rajiv Gandhi had a clear mandate. It empowers him to join different relative ministries into one segment. He created HRD (Human Resource Development) ministry by combining youth welfare, culture, sports and child ministry. In 1984, there are 45 ministries and it expands into 79 ministries now. The new government of Modi has a clear mandate and it aims to downsize existing ministries and create block of ministries for development and welfare of the masses. Since the beginning of the constitution, prominent constitutional experts such as Ambedkar and Ayyangar have opined in favor of smaller ministries and cutting down the size of government considerably to suit systematic reorganization of government in performing day to day affairs. A large chunk of ministry is tied under policy paralysis and confusion over the distribution of authority. From 1990 to just before this general election, the era of coalition has turned into an era of compromises. Every government irrespective of its mandate must govern. Maximum governance is the achievement of objectives and it is essential to reduce the void space which is obstructing flow of decision making. India is facing a huge energy crisis. The domain of energy lies within an administrative ladder of seven ministries, Planning Commission, state government and energy regulators. This delays decision making processes and stalled major project from being implemented in time. The new Government of India is under respected Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken few nice initiatives which are very decisive and significant. We are in the stage of a serious water crisis. Due to illegal construction on sweet water zones various water levels are drawing downwards and becoming emptier.
New Prime Minister has significantly downsizing government as PM Modi (Prime Minister Modi) tries to unite single ministry which is of utmost importance. There are vast repositories of coals in eastern India. Sadly, those areas do not have infrastructure and communication mediums. Most of these areas fall under the deep jungle and uninhibited land of India. New governments have decided to create railway lines in cool zones of India in order to supplement extraction of coals for creating more efficient energy. The work of government is to create the infrastructure and provide basic amenities in far away areas. Investors come flocking into those areas once a sign of development touches mineral rich areas. There are vast areas of mineral rich energy sources in India which have not been touched so far due to law and order issues and issues of development. When government straight forwardly reaches those areas and builds vast areas of communication mediums, slow corporate go ahead of their welfare measures to enrich those potentials. Take a look at these figures; the number of ministries handling of water is water resources, urban development, rural development, agriculture, food and panchayat raj of the central government and several ministries of state governments and planning commission. If all these ministries are united, it would go beyond 100 departments of India.
This is the result of lagging of decision making and for this it is high time to unite such ministries and make it into a combine entity so as to make room for speedier decision making. That is why it is high time to unite all these ministries of center into one distinct unit. India is a state where woman issues are getting prominent but time to time it is very difficult to solve them owing to the complexity of departments and running of files from one department to the other and taking huge amount of time due to these files sharing processes. The idea of improvement of skills among women depends upon rural development, social justice, sports, youth affairs, finance, women, child welfare and Panchayat ministries. There should be a single ministry for welfare of women and this time Modi government has done so and it is hopeful for future welfare schemes aim at augmenting different qualities among women should reach to women and make their life happier than ever before. Dream of a modern India has always been diminished within the spectrum of shared authority. Each decision making is taking a huge chunk of time and delays project time considerably.
What is the justification of existence of the ministry of company affairs in previous governments?
In the midst of shared authority, all responsibility is diluted and implementation part becomes a mirage within an oasis. It is now time to redesign government department to derive proper results. It comes from satisfaction of all aspects of decision making which might have some sort of participative authority as well as compulsory management of ideas which comes forward with each noble thoughts and management of ideas through simple decision making. What is the justification of existence of the ministry of company affairs in previous governments? There are regulators of company law, regulator of serious frauds and regulator for all company affairs. They examine and direct order according to merits and these organizations are administered by professionals who are excellent in their respective departments. They used to act according to the needs and there is no requirement for another authority over these regulatory bodies. These are autonomous self-regulated bodies that provide a strict watch on companies. They have legitimate and punishable powers and they can ban or suspend any company for crossing the line. It is time to strengthen these organizations and create specialized developments in different areas and in this manner plenty of advantages in decision making processes can be executed. The aim of government is to meet the nation.
It can be done with direct participation of people in different welfare measures and provide direct access of government in diverse affairs for people. What is the justification for the ministry of civil aviation? In the past ministry has been in the wrong name for the wrong reasons. Airports and airlines are both under regulators bodies. Regulators provide stringent watch on these companies and issues different notification and policy guidelines. They have a sharp eye on different parameters of passenger fares of different air-line companies. All these regulators are for betterment of people and for this there is no need for a civil aviation ministry. It is the mindset that government works under ministries. Government can work under different regulatory authorities and vigilant administration. The main function of government is not to show that there are ministries in every department but to realize the hope and aspire of people and how to meet that expectation in the shortest possible time.
It is time to rebalance between authority and responsibility:
Every inch of India is governed by states and every part of India is under administration. There is no justification of creating ministries and overseeing those lands which are already being administered by different wings of government. If some part of the administrator is being ruled by a provincial government or center, then why there is need for another series of specialized ministries to look beyond such powers which create a bunch of confusion and irrational files sharing and delaying the process of decision making. Man is a rational entity and he always wants to see the reasoning among all the functions. That does not empower human to go for a set of confused reasoning and a bunch of different farcical ideas which can obstruct and collide with different power sharing units and this can be dangerous for different organizations and for welfare of the masses. There should be clear cut demarcation of every part of government starting from center to state and then to different supervisory authorities. In the recent past, it has been seen that some media houses are actively involving in detecting determination of distribution of ministries.
This has been done in UPA 2 and the matter is subjugated and after verdict of court more and more information will come out. This is then proved that the source of corruption and confusion origins from different abstract departments. It is high time to redesign government departments and separate committees in order to provide smooth transactions of governance to needy and right people. The ministries such as education, health, transport, rural development can be united into a single ministry and power can be delegated to two different sets of self-autonomous regulatory authorities, to provide a cleaner and perfect set of government administration. It is now time to rebalance authority and responsibility. Center and state should work united and goes in a coherent manner in implementing different welfare schemes. There should be clear cut demarcation of every ministry irrespective of their administrative ladders.
We can change luck but cannot change neighbors:
The concept of democracy runs within the tripod of liberty, justice and equality. Democracy evolved from religious crutches of the United Kingdom (UK) in the United States (US) which aims to remove crony capitalism in its own state. France builds democracy on the basis of liberty and fraternity. All these aspects of democracy encapsulate and create a bundle of hope and congenial atmosphere for rest of countries who have adopted democratic ideas. India got its democracy from the dawn of independence from Britain. Slowly, it is maturing into a perfect democracy and the whole world is seeing this as the rise of a new movement where the participatory and regulatory powers of politicians are the common man. They can defeat any party and can make win any party. Beyond doubt, India is the biggest democracy with a large chunk of voters who have franchised their votes in a peaceful manner. The process of a general election in India is on the higher side of people participation, and people have utilized their mandate in the correct manner to bring down the government and give opportunity to their government of choice.
It is a true challenge for the new government. There are skeletons of the past and it is high time to remove those skeletons and replace with fresh humans in decision making process and create a sense of hope and aspiration for the common masses all over India. Inviting neighboring countries in swearing-in-ceremony is a welcome step forward as this creates a sense of unison among neighbors. Former prime minister of India, Vajpayee once said that we can change luck but cannot change neighbors. It is true. There is not the right way one can change the neighbors. It is a welcome step forward of calling Sri Lankan prime minister to India despite heavy opposition from Tamil parties. It is the duty of statesmen to convince the whole of India not to sway upon from demands of regional leaders. In a news discussion, South Asian reporter of the New York Times told. World knows Modi, and they follow his words but most of the leaders of the world will not know who regional state leaders are. When a statesman such as Modi takes decision, world sees in his eyes and follows his words. Now, the world will realize the potential of India due to a clear majority and this new prime minister will be able to function appropriately without bogging down from the pressures from different political pressure groups.
Is it opening season for dissidence in Congress?
Among all these fanfares and oath ceremony of the new government, persistent question arising out from memory of Indians what went wrong with Congress? Since the beginning of this general election, it is almost clear of defeat of UPA led by Congress. The Indian National Congress is 125 years old and it had been represented by many great leaders in the past. It is simple. When the center does not have, things fall apart. It is open season for dissidence in Congress. Recently, Madhya Pradesh party unit of Congress openly criticized and challenged quality of leadership of Rahul Gandhi, blaming him exclusively for mass defeat of their party in Madhya Pradesh (MP). Till to date, no one ever dares to raise any voice against Gandhi’s dynasty of Indian National Congress. It is going seriously to Mumbai Congress leaders such as Deora and Priya Dutt blaming lack of central leadership’s quality in creating such a disastrous situation for Congress. It is reduced to two digits and well below 50 marks. This is the time for serious introspection of what goes extremely wrong for this party.
Coalition of compulsions for Congress at various states:
Almost two decades of leadership’s worship has reduced Congress to a state of lack of leadership. It is now bereft of very few credible state leaders who are now having to face with infighting from among their own dissidents. Slowly, factional rebellions on the ranks of provincial leaderships are gaining ground all across India. Captain Amarinder Singh defeated Arun Jaitley the seat vacated by Sidhu, which BJP lose eventually. Now Captain Amarinder Singh is revolting against current Congress’s state leadership. All these are moving towards a state of extreme confusion for Congress. It is high time for central leadership to get their act together and make a proper decision to unite their party in times of difficulties. It is true. Congress has risen from nowhere many a time in the past, but in those times, such defeats are not in such measure as of is today. It has been reduced to 44 seats fall short of 55 needed to be recognized opposition party. In the last ten years there was no government and now there is no opposition. In Assam, for the first time, Gogoi is facing chin music due to the worst performance in the state in the recently concluded Assembly election. BJP won seven seats out of 14 in the north eastern state and it reaps the seeds of factionalism within ranks of the Congress Party and one segment of Assam MLA are demanding resignation of the incumbent chief minister.
In the aftermath of election result, Gogoi sent his resignation to Congress chief and she rejected it out rightly. Many people of Congress believe such resignation drama can have adverse impact on the common masses that are slowly moving away from Congress in large numbers. Himachal Pradesh's (HP) chief minister said it is due to bad governance of center. Congress lost all four seats of his state and now where is the reason behind of him to resign for the fault exclusively done by former Prime Minister of India. All these arguments seemed to be in the state of extreme absurdity and only fools can believe such arguments but people of Congress are still not learning from their mistakes and are continuing doing such mistakes time and again. India is not a unitary country, it is assimilation of small parts of the Confederation and all parts unite to form a single state. When an incumbent government lost the election, it is due to a combination of inaction, misrule and state of policy paralysis. Now, with only two seats from 48 seats for Congress from the state of Maharashtra, the position of the incumbent chief minister is as shaky path and it is expected that he can be replaced soon. The problem with Congress after unexpected death of Vilasrao Deshmukh, mass leader quality is lacking from the ranks of state leaderships.
Telangana is the biggest blow to Congress which has failed to leverage from the goodwill for the creation of Telangana:
The most disastrous performance of Congress in the aftermath election is the serious drubbing of Congress in Telangana. It is expected for them to perform brilliantly due to honour for statehood for this land by Congress government, but they have not regarded this grand old party with many seats. The problem with Congress is that people have detected, that Congress has kept the matter of Telangana issue for far too long and now at the eve of the election they have created the statehood. In 2009 elections they promised statehood of Telangana, but they did it at the end of 2014. This creates a lack of belief among the different ranks of people who have seen a long stretch of strike and lack of industrial development due to series of agitation and meetings over creating statehood of Telangana. Secondly, while talking of seat sharing with TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samiti) Congress deputed central coterie leadership to speak of seat sharing arrangements and completely ignored state leaderships there. As a result the central leadership though they are alone can win plenty of seats and decide to go it alone in the state. This shows how immature the central leadership is in judging the mood of masses there and this creates a huge loss for the state of Telangana where they expected to perform brilliantly. It is the biggest blow to the party which has been unable to leverage from the goodwill for the creation of Telangana.
This general election has been part of the most fiercely contested general elections. During campaigning for all political parties and medias shared leverage and the most honest politicians which people believe shares the majority among all ranks. Against the backdrop of shrinking popularity and a dismal performance; Congress hosted a low key meeting to churn out their strategies about what went wrong for them and it is expected that in future there should be many more discussions among ranks of leaders to know more about principal reasoning about such mass drubbing of such grand old party. Some coterie of Congress leaders who have been advising Rahul Gandhi, have told Sonia Gandhi about Rahul becoming the leader of opposition to nurture his leadership qualities. Many Congress leaders who have won amidst such humongous debacle have voiced their opinion against such moves. So far it seems Congress is clue less about their future course of actions. But they have five years to ponder upon what goes wrong for them and try hard to find about different connotations of reasoning that can have an adverse impact on their worst defeat.
Congress is at a crossroads and it needs serious introspection of what went wrong?
In this election, people of India have spoken and they have overwhelmingly chosen a distinct idea of India. They have voted out the UPA government from power which has been ruling continuously in this country for the last ten years. People have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the BJP and they have given their huge mandate to perform fearlessly. Sonia Gandhi is perceived to be the most influential political power center and it proves to be not immortal. Congress has now seen its worst performance since inception of the Indian National Congress. It was the worst performance than Sitaram Kesari Congress president. At that time, there were unconfirmed reports of being shunted out from party’s office due to the dismal performance. This time, Congress has performed its worse performance but surprisingly there are no clamors and no tension within party rank. There was phenomenally successful campaign by Modi in this general election, but Congress performed poorly and at times there were very few persons in their meeting of top leaders. This could have a sign of desperation and party could have shown better performance against non-BJP regional champions like Naveen Patnaik, Mamata Banerjee, Jayalalitha, but sadly Congress has given them a complete walk over.
Mayawati and Mulayam who have volunteered to give support to UPA, have been punished severely by the people of India through their mandate. People have overwhelmingly negated cast and religion in politics played by various provincial satraps and they have chosen for a clean record and performance over so called pseudo-secular politicians. Such was the tension of defeat among ranks of Congress at Amethi was that at the last leg of election Priyanka Gandhi surfaced in the Mahabharata of campaigning’s war and ultimately she failed to increase vote share of Rahul Gandhi that it was earlier expected to be. This has been done after sending Sanjay Singh to Rajya Sabha and giving a ticket to his wife to a nearby constituency, so that its vote bank of Amethi for Congress remains intact. After doing so many permutations and combinations before election, still Congress has just been able to save Amethi seat. Current HRD (Human Resource Minister) Smriti Irani fought directly with Rahul at Amethi and gives a tough fight and almost succeeded in defeating him from this constituency. It proves the state of mater of Congress in which they have been fighting for survival for seats of their staunch leaders who appear to be winning at every seat from where they have contested.
People have rejected the “Idea of India” given by UPA:
Similarly, the SamajwadiParty (SP) returned with five seats from UP are from one family and all the other candidates have lost from there. Now, SP instead of amending their acts is giving huge power cuts to the areas which have voted his party out in this general election. Modi and BJP have received a decisive mandate. The opposition has been reduced to cipher. There is no opposition and now every opposition party can say to have the status of opposition. In Tamil Nadu, BJP is the only party to have won a seat except Jayalalitha’s party. It has increased its fees and vote share to a comfortable margin. In West Bengal BJP’s vote share is now on the higher side and it has also performed exceedingly well in Odisha.
Will Modi be the Messiah to transform India?
In the international media it is widely reported in right wing leanings of India and it is perceived as not a new entity in the world sphere as in most of vibrant democracies are now crutching upon right wing political parties in times of deep economic crisis, unemployment. In this grand election, more than 66 percentages of Indian voters and 81.4 crore voters pressed the button of EVMs (electronic voting machines) to express their franchise in favor of their popular candidates. There are 12 crores additional voters who have participated overwhelmingly in this general election. People have largely liking to vote and for this they have stood in a long row to press the button of EVMs even during scorching heat of summer. It is the most important thing ever electoral battle fought anywhere in the world. That is why India is regarded as the largest democracy in the world. World leaders and world people have been following this election with great interest and deep concentration. There are many left and center wing political thinkers are thinking about how the BJP has been able to get a majority in a so called secular country like India.
There are many answers to this and so called electoral pundits have failed to understand the true wing’s wave which has been blowing across many democracies all over the world. Last year Netherland’s Freedom party has tripled its representation in the House of Representatives. Freedom Party of Netherland is a right wing party. In France, National Front is famous for its open stand on racial positions and it bagged one percentages vote share (15%) less than President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Party. Progress Party of Norway gained 23 percentages of votes. Progress Party of Norway is known for its right wing leanings. In UK (United Kingdom), the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has made significant inroads into traditional vote banks of both Labor and Conservative Party. UKIP is a right wing party of UK. All these European right wing leaders are talking about the problem of immigrants and condemning imminent dangers of ever-growing Islamic influence in their society. The right wing upsurge in Europe is counter product of economic downsize, unemployment, and low GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the state. His top priority is to create jobs which can only be done by growing manufacturing sectors. Will Modi be the messiah to transform India?
Conclusion:
India is not a rich state; there is the enormity of issues regarding poverty of large scale among the Indian population. In the past, few prime minister had a ride to the success of top post by playing emotional care of poverty. Still to date no other Prime Minister has not been able to eradicate this menace of extreme poverty and rootlessness completely. In the past, there were schemes which aim to remove such rootlessness but all these schemes are marred by middle mans’ extra employment guarantees and fails to react to real people who need complete sustenance. In the past various Prime Minister have given shallow deceitful promises and in the process all these promises never been fulfilled at all. Prime Minister Modi’s prime agenda should be job creation, diversification in agriculture, development of rural areas, developing confidence in economy, creating congenial atmosphere for building investor’s confidence, development of rural areas, creating smart cities, containing inflation, finding massive resources for rapid growth, creation of reliable, friendly and open environments, rapid growth, distribution of income visibly to reach to poorest of classes, a galvanized administrative machinery, accountability, speedy and efficient implementation of project construction and removing weaknesses of administration in all walks of life.
Introduction:
The massive mandate of India created through Modi’s wave is a chronicle prefaced on actuate demarcation; the price versus the Pauper, the dynasty versus doormat. It was an election contested on the notion between hope and fear. One leader continuously vouches for hope and for a modern India which people have accepted overwhelmingly. It was a strong sharp Modi’s wave which has been running deep inside the hearts of millions of voters, who came out from home to support their beloved leader. General election of 2014 was fought completely on the basis of virtual presidential type of election. The results speak for all. BJP got a massive mandate with over 282 seats. On its own it had crossed the halfway mark. With pre-election alliance of 29 parties of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the number is an impressive one with 336 members of parliaments. It was completely majority for NDA and people of India have given a decisive verdict in favor of Modi. Congress suffered its worst defeat at the hands of Modi. It was reduced to two digit numbers and in the danger of losing principal opposition status in lower house of Parliament. In the last ten years of rule of United Progressive Alliance (UPA) people of India saw rise of inflation, unbelievable increase of corruption and bad external affairs, which created tremendous inequalities among rank and files of Indian population. The story of hope and a better future promulgated by Modi during the month long election campaign speeded like wild fire with new stories replacing the older ones with strong sharper contrasts added to each emotional appeal.
People might have seen a sense of trueness in Modi’s speech and follow him like mad whenever he went for election campaigning. Opposition called it as a marketing gimmick and packaging of ideas, but they forgot that people of India are educated and they knew what they were about doing. They voted Modi with a thumping majority that could be compared with election success of late Rajiv Gandhi in 1983. During election campaign Modi told his wish and ambitions and people of India listened to these and became permanent sympathizer to it. They compare last ten years rule of perennial failure of UPA with a brilliant performance of Modi’s Gujarat model. It is a complete winner of a reformist over socialistic principles. People have voted out a socialistic government at the center after realizing its failure to cope with different crucial parameters that relate directly to daily lives of people in general. They have seen Modi’s Gujarat model for the last 12 years and have realized how much of a state can grow and it shows how a country can become if such reformist principles can be successfully implemented at Center. Modi born and brought up in a poor family has seen and realize real difficulties of the common-man. He believes in economic reform, hard work, thrift and upward social-mobility. He believes in united India and he wants to develop whole of India spreading in every nuke and corner of society.
Social-fabianism:
UPA government led by Rahul Gandhi believes in social welfare model which depends to a large extent on populism, social and economic subsidies, social security programs, food securities and other giveaways. If all these policies are expected to be carefully compared all leads to one direction of giveaways. In the recently concluded assembly election of Rajasthan, Congress routed completely. Their chief minister giveaways everything to people in free of charge yet, surprising people have overwhelmingly voted his party out of power. This is due to the fact that people want the overall development. Such freebies can fulfill their wants in the present time, but it will not guarantee their future. They wish to see the dream of hope for betterment of the future and they find the hope construed from speeches of Modi during election campaign seemed to have the same overtone and justification which they are dreaming of. Congress is still running with the concept of social-fabianism started by the first Prime Minister of India Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru. There is abundant water passed in the Ganges since then. During independent India was a poor country, but now it is developing country having a capacity of going forward and reaching at the same level of some of the best of worlds.
Modi is reformist, pro-market, pro-business and creates economic reforms with greater openness and transparency of foreign capital except in the retail sector. He had announced to create employment and build infrastructure all over India in order to create inclusive development and sustainable upgradation at each nuke and corner of India. Rahul had earlier promised to create an inclusive India by empowering minorities and marginalized. Modi’s vision of a new Bharat is to build 100 new cities all over India with IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) and AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Science) in each city. He likes to speak about a blue print of industrial and manufacturing revolution through the development of spreading all across India homogeneously. He seeks views on what should have happened and try to see what are the achievements of past government that can be continued and improved upon through proper management decision making. For UPA idea of economy was from the ideas of Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen and for BJP and Modi it was from Colombian based MIT professor the free trade advocate Jagdish Bhagwati. Modi owes its root to RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh). RSS is a social organization and work relentlessly for the betterment of people of India. It considers India as a great country with a long tradition. Modi believes in undivided India based on nationalism, patriotism and social conservatism. Social conservatism is a theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes. It believes in preserving social ethos and long drawn cultural traditions that have been the hallmark of Indian society. Congress idea of India constitutes coexistence of secularism, socialism and social liberalism. It firmly believes in political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution.
This election is only a matter of hope versus despair:
People of India see hope with Modi and overwhelmingly rejected despair and depressions of ten years of past UPA rules. People want to see their betterment of the future and want development irrespective of cast, creed and politics. In the recently conclude the general election of India, these two stories of hopes and despair underwent additions, deletions and interpolations. These two contrasting stories of Modi and Rahul Gandhi were received by the people of India and they meet it in the perspective of future and past. In the last ten years of UPA rule, people are twisting in pessimism, despair, agony, and disposition and baffled with corruption, policy paralysis, and indecisiveness. In sharp contrast, Modi offered dream, hope, aspiration, happiness, optimism and expectations of a better future. People believed in his words as it is evident from election results due to his super success in implementing Gujarat model in Gujarat. This election is more than a matter of futuristic promises of Modi versus defensive incitements relating past governance of Rahul Gandhi. It seems angry voters cutting across boundaries of caste, race, religion and gender support Modi collectively to articulate their wrath against so called anti-people government.
The mandate of BJP under competent leadership of Narendra Modi proves to be a miracle and unprecedented. A party with two seats in the early part of 1980s is in the process of the most popular party of India. On its own, it crosses the halfway mark and won seats all across India beginning from Ladakh to Kanyakumari and from Nagaland to Andaman Nicobar islands. Vote share of the BJP is now over 31 percentages with over 17 cores of voters voted for this party. It is unprecedented for a non-Congress party to receive votes from some astronomical amounts. Never before a non-Congress has party received so much support all across India post-independence. On the contrary, Congress is marginalized and decimated to two digit numbers. Its worst performance since independence and it is still in the shock and awe from the jolt given to this party by voters of this wonderful country. BJP has 19 percentages of votes in 2009 and now it has 32 percentages of votes all across India. It is a 13 percentages positive swings, which are a record swing of any national party on India since independence. During former NDA government of 1999 under former prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee, vote share of the BJP was 26 percentages. It has improved six percentages from its idiosyncratic best benchmark. It is impossible to mean achievement for a political party which is considered limited to the Hindi heartland of north India.
From 'no government' to 'no opposition':
Performance of Congress is completely opposite. In 2009 they have 26 percentages of voting shares and now they have 19 percentages of all Indian vote share. It has negative swing of seven percentages of voting shares. Congress’s own personal best is 48 percentages of voting shares in 1984 and now it has come to a stage where it is competing with regional parties of Tamil Nadu and West Bengal for leader of the opposition post. In principle opposition party should have ten percentages of Lower House seats. Congress gets 44 seats which are ten seats lower than the designated leader of opposition rank. Then, speaker of Lok Sabha can designate any member from opposition ranks as a leader of opposition. Even after emergency Congress was able to secure more than 100 seats, but now it is feeling deeply in double digits. The historic Leviathan had been reduced to a double marginal digital player and unable to open an account in ten states. BJP has found a way out of obscure anonymity in 1984 to reach epitaph of success in 2014. It is a massive mandate for Modi and BJP with plenty of hopes overloaded with preferential development. After this election, there is a paradigm shift of Indian polity from “no government” to “no opposition”. In social medial there is a cracker line for Congress is that its tally is sufficient to form “WhatsApp- group”. This mandate successfully reversed perceived sense of pessimism, guarantees greater responsibility and created a gibbosity of hope and positive optimism. This is a decisive mandate which leaves no room for coalition politics traits such as compromise, consensus-building. This mandate guarantees any time a government based on competitive experience and professional-expertise. India wants smart arrangements of administrative structure which wants to overthrow red-tapism and wants to see progress of development at its peak.
With this massive mandate, challenges pose to the new government are gigantic in nature:
It needs ruthless reform and restructures of government departments to revive India’s growth. Price rise is directly connected to people and this new government should create an inflation index for individual states and accelerate reforms in freeing up farm-to-fork markets. Cracks down on hoarders and create an environment for acceleration of competitive market model in different states. It will usher in a healthy competitive environment among states which will encourage marketing of goods and services. This will help in the reduction of price and create a sustainable environment for competitive market products. The government should reduce the gap between what it earns and what it spends in order to reduce fiscal deficit. It is the need of hour to make a smaller cabinet and reduce treasury expenditure by expediting decision making process by removing bottlenecks. Big chunks of large loans need to be dispersed within a year in order to reduce the financial burden on the country. With the advent of Modi, market is vibrant and investors are regaining confidence due to perceived advent of pro-market and pro-people prime minister. Government should capitalize on rising of Sensex to disinvest. Auction of enormous natural resources is another line of approach to raise revenues. The government must also review unexplained exemptions to industry and unanswerable low collection of a wealth tax. All aspects of revenue streams need to be considered and managed before taking healthy decisions of economic conditions.
Subsidy is a grant contributed by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public. Subsidy is unattainable. It is a different biggest item on the expenditure balance sheet. It is crucial to determine who is poor, how many are mediocre. Subsidy must be reaching too poor. UPA governments’ financial inclusion of the poor in connecting direct cash transfer was unable to grab attention due to lack of technical efficacies in determining proper poor. It needs excellent transmission of knowledge, technology and inward resources to identify genuine poor from amongst different classes of society. Modi has spoken about federalism, state cooperation, local development, decentralization of clearance regime and illegitimacy of permit raj for attending sustainable development all across India’s society. India is a developing country and it adds millions of people every year to work classes. Labor laws need to be revamped and simplified in order to create a competitive environment in manufacturing and services. Job creation can be created from economic inputs with correct proper political intent that should be based on proper deliverance of decision making processes. Modi can implement Gujarat model of development in India which empowers workers for training at their office and creates job satisfaction in terms of perks, salaries and advancements. In earlier times, workers used to skip the training process and worker unions think of Gujarat and these incline workers to cooperate with unions and government to make a congenial environment for work forces. This creates a congenial environment in working conditions and these results in job satisfaction and creation of newer jobs.
The genius Narendra Modi:
Oppositions and detractors are saying many absurd words for success of Modi and BJP in the recently concluded general election. But in reality, as a political analyst and thinker one can find Modi’s organizational genius, spectacular campaign and sophisticated public relations have yearned change of minds of people of India. Many are calling it Modi’s wave that compels voters of India to come out from their home and cast their vote. Voting percentages of this election are highest among all time voting percentages. This goes on to show, people find it really inspirational to vote for a person who has charismatic leadership and they hope he will drive the nation forward towards a brilliant future. Narendra Modi is a master strategist, the most gifted orator encapsulates the imagination of millions of people who which voted massively to come back them into power. Rush of scandals in ten years of UPA rule coupled with a culture of sycophancy and ignorance offended sensitive people of India. Change has come. It is a meaningful change which blows away previous government. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh aims for growth and development so as current prime minister designate Narendra Modi. People are looking for real world for real issues which are meant for real people. They are tired of government run schemes and slogans which not only failed to stop inflation but also become a silent spectator of huge corruption issues. Modi has created imagination. He has a mandate and freedom to perform and fulfill the wishes and hopes he has risen among citizens during exhaustive campaigns.
The European Union recently banned alphonso mango. People found these mangoes contain flies. Now, these mangoes are also required for the Indian market without removing flies and other harmful creatures. Indian chilies are forbidden in South Arabia. Indian prawns are denied by developed countries. All these are diverted to the Indian market without considering adequate safeguards. Modi should create designate authorities which will look into these issues of civilizing the country like India to safeguard the health of citizens. A proper mechanism to investigate adulteration and safeguard health of Indian people will enable Indian companies to observe safe marketing practices that will pave the way for good transmission of supply chain management.
Modi gives a very clear-headed truly inspired leadership:
Then devil dance of the Green Revolution can be considered as excess use of harmful pesticides by farmers of Punjab. Excess use of harmful pesticide such as endosulfan creates evil farming stocks which create pitiably deformed small children and adults. It is more catastrophic than devastation of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Foreign government eventually banned endosulfan but previous government still considering research on this harmful pesticide. This shows how the UPA government is averse to health issues of common people. New government should observe and carefully ban pesticides in order to create a healthier environment for agricultural production. India is the dream land of worldwide pressure groups. Last local factory of endosulfan is closed in the US, but they are lobbying for wide scale distribution of these pesticides in far and wide corner of India. Prime Minister Modi should carefully look at all these shameful impacts of life which the previous government has failed to ban ignoring public outcry. Modi’s victory granted an aura of invincibility to the BJP government and empowers it to implement popular policy issues in wide scale through different spectrum of Indian society. During campaigning UPA is saying far and wide as this election is all about fighting among ideologies. In fact, real statistics after poll suggest it is all but Modi’s wave which has proved tsunami for most of new opposition parties. During campaigning, most leaders and journalists could not connect to the ideas of India which they have decided to vote for. It is one of the most decisive mandate since 1984 victories of Rajiv Gandhi. Modi believes in unconventional administrative structure, abolition of existing elite administrators. He is presenting an alternative idea of India. He is slowly moving away from pulverized cellulose politician with an elite mindset. This verdict is against divisive Secularism (pseudo-secularism) and crony capitalism.
Indian people have given abundant numbers to Narendra Modi. Modi has always been putting emphasis on “minimum government with maximum performance”. It is time to implement such swift measures which are unprecedented and gigantic in nature. The rule says that the prime minister can have maximum 15 percentages of membership from both the houses of Parliament. Prime minister can have maximum 80 ministers in his cabinet. Narendra Modi should look for a minimum size of the cabinet to go for a complete automation of the decision making process. He should implement Gujarat Model of administration which creates a single consortium consists of professional secretaries who can coordinate and accelerate decision making process. These consortiums will remove bottlenecks and clear projects within the shortest span of time. For the last 20 years, Prime Ministers have been distributing various portfolios to different pressure groups to sustain over difficulties arising out from coalition government. It not only creates a heavy burden on the exchequer but also it creates red tapism and various decision bottlenecks which ultimately stop progress of nation. It disheartens foreign institutional investors (FII) to a large extent due to dalliance of project approval. Hands of government of the last 20 years are bound with tensions of coalition politics. For the first time after 1984, a single party have a majority and this can expedite the decision making processes. According to some estimates, each minister costs exchequer ten crore yearly. It is essential to reduce the size of a number of ministries. Railways, surface transport and civil aviation ministries should be integrated into a single ministry. These can expedite decision making and development ambitions. Functions of these three departments are interconnected. There is no need for separate ministries. Functions of corporate affairs and finance are same and these two ministries should be merged into one ministry. Multiple departments delay the decision making process. Complete autonomy should be given to each ministry for attendance of fully functional work. In the world India’s bureaucracy is famous for red tapism and incompetence. Narendra Modi have ordered all secretaries to present their achievements in the last five years and from these presentations it is expected he would be choosing appropriate professional secretaries who excel in their work.
New prime minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi is known for his integrity:
In the past, such large number of secretaries was only doing push paper works and creating lucrative post-retirement jobs for them. Many of these secretaries are being alleged to work for specific business interests while on duty and after retirement they receive high-salaried jobs from those distinctive business houses. In this way, their decision making is being scuttled in and this creates space for corruption, inefficiency, bad governance. Work ethics should scrap such posts of secretaries immediately after his swearing in ceremony as Prime Minister of India. For the last 20 years, India is reeling under deep divisive politics of fake secularism which many a time crosses the line of sensitivity and seriousness. Various theologians call it as pseudo-secularism. When roads are built, industries are made and jobs are generated all these are not for specific groups of citizens. These are for the entire mass of people and this is the hallmark of social harmony which comes from Gujarat Model of development. It builds people’s confidence and removes economic constraints and improves social and public life of all citizens. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, everywhere announces that he would be working for 125 crores of Indian people. Genuine secularism is the order of the day when we consider creating a long term civilization such as India. Many theologians feel Bharat is obliterated among neglecting India. In this way, every part of Bharat come to the forefront and put forwards its journey towards a successful and comprehensive developed India.
Rural healthcare and sanitation are a great problem. Most of rural India is reeling under abject poverty. Lack of knowledge makes them vulnerable to advancement of proper health care and sanitation services. New Prime Minister of India should introduce clean and effective rural health care by opening many governments of hospitals in rural India as well as introduce quality education for building a better future for future generations of India. India is predominantly a rural nation. Large chunk of people are living in rural India. They are depriving of basic amenities of health care and quality education. In the past, there were many token reforms for encouraging students to reach to school. These include awarding them free uniforms, foods and so on. This makes students rush to schools, but they reach them for food and dress not for education. New Prime Minister of India should ensure the school going children must have a quality education. Education sharpens the mind and creates a newer thought processes. In the last 12 years, due to efforts from government and minister’s dropout rates of girl student reduction from 35 percentages to two percentages. Most of times for years, secretaries and ministers stays inside the village and unite villagers and parents to send their child to school. This creates decisive connections of government with people. People realize the potential of education and encourage by insistence of people of government. A direct connection of government with people is necessary. This sends proper signals to parents and they send their child to quality education. For this, it is necessary to build a quality educational institution in rural areas. In Gujarat, government provides infrastructure to investors and they build quality educational institutions and clean and effective health care.
Diplomatic ethics that put India’s first and advantageous positions among all the other nations:
Recently, Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi invited all leaders of South Asian countries to his swearing-in ceremony. It is a wonderful gesture to call these neighboring country heads and create congenital relationships from among them. Recently, government newspaper of China quoted as administration of Narendra Modi is similar to Chinese administration. This goes on to show. China also wants to work closely with India. Modi during election campaigning announced that working with China should be on merit to merit basis and there should not be any such fearful element hiding inside these relationships. Make India a global power like China, Japan or South Korea and not subservient to United States and European Union. In short, new government should prepare a level playing field for its strategy to work enormously around neighboring countries. It is the one to one partnerships in business management and development that can create a sustainable environment for people to people contact and contact of business to business in South Asian countries. Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has been more damaging issues for all governments of India. This issue is still lingering on. People in J&K have given Narendra Modi three Member of Parliament out of six and it seems they are in favor of a peaceful resolution. In a sense, they have provided you with the legitimate power for the creation of a sustainable environment to start the process of full integration of the state with India.
India has fewer cities and most of these cities are now congested with large scale of people from around different nearby rural areas. India is essentially a rural country. Narendra Modi should create 50 more cities so that bigger cities can be saved up from large scale moving population, pollution and overburden from different strata of society. The government of India should make life of rural India better with availability of all basic amenities and conveniences. Modi’s model of development is to move forward villages to create newer cities and creating many such opportunities for people nearby their households. It takes such feeling of inclusive development and comprehensive coexistence of people from all strata of society. Bullet trains and development of information technology can touch every village to create space for sustainable development and create basic amenities for people of India. Bullet trains, availability of basic amenities and education are the real asset of India and a new government should look forward to developing all these aspects of life in order to create a new India. Modi always stress the need for better Bharat than a modern India.
Challenges before new prime minister:
While writing this article, in a matter of days there will be a new government led by Narendra Modi at the center. This will be a strong government led by a popular leader Narendra Modi with a Herculean task to remove rampant corruption, spiraling prices resulting out of rise of inflation, policy paralysis. Of course there is no hard and fast rule to end all these menaces all at a time but the country is headed by visionary leadership of prime minister designate Narendra Modi, who has delivered in all fronts in Gujarat for over 12 years and have been instrumental in keeping high percentages of growth even in times of economic distress felt by India at center in last ten years. Emergence of AAP against anti-graft measures and offering freebies to the citizens of Delhi has short stayed and unable to deliver on promises given to people of Delhi. BJP chooses versatile leader Narendra Modi as prime minister-candidate for this election who has huge success and development regime being followed and praised worldwide. When he speaks of development and creating of a new India, people of India believe in his talk as he has delivered already in different administrative positions. Under the hood of crony capitalism hoarders is hand in glove with certain sectors of government to create a monopoly market. First and foremost challenge of Narendra Modi as prime minister of India would be controlled and destruct series of crony capitalist players from the market and remove hoardings and punish wrong doers so as to control inflation and stop spiraling prices of essential goods and services in the market. There are huge expectations from people of India over performance of the new government.
First and foremost task of Modi to restore faith of minorities by creating communal harmony among all segments of society. There should be zero-tolerance to any form of community and past disturbances. Miscreants should be punished immediately irrespective of their political affiliations. According to the Constitution of India, subject to law and order is a state subject. On the spot administrative machinery must handle a riot-like situation irrespective of state and center. There are numerous provisions in the Constitution of India which empowers center to act upon certain perceived acts of riot immediately overriding power and administrative machinery of the states. In all these cases, an active center with the principles of federalism can initiate dialogue with chief ministers. During election campaigning, he stresses on the principles of federalism by creating a consortium of chief ministers and prime minister in running this great country. When all stake-holders of constitutional units to function as messenger of development, whole lot talk about secularism, left, right and center goes awry. A trained force should be located at separate node point of state and they should be reaching to riot hit areas within three to six hours. They should not be there waiting for orders from state or center. District governmental officials must be given freedom to direct and take action whenever such riot like incident resurfaces. Modi has promised to make India a safer place for all people irrespective of cast, creed, and religion. The cooperation of states must be sought and if any state tries to ignore basic principles of the constitution, there are many acts of the Constitution which empower the center to act ignoring commands of state government. Modi has promised real inclusive development across all sorts of people and there are hopes and wishes which people have been celebrating in anticipation of a better future.
How to immediately stop riots:
The state has a rapid action force and the center should construct and build anti-riot forces in order to suppress signs of riots irrespective of political affiliations. Anti-riot forces should be deployed in various strategic zones of India and they should be reacting to these spots within three to six hours. In this way, such elements are curbed with an iron hand and disturbing elements should be suppressed mercilessly so that such ideas mitigate completely before they resurface. In the recent months, riot hit Muzaffarnagar and Assam are deeply affected due to delay in response time of district administration, state machinery and center. When center in coordination with states targets zero-tolerance of communal riots, then the entire political fabrics related to secularism and communalism will cease to exist. Slowly, the debate will be changing employment, development, health-issues, education and infrastructure. Whole ethical discourse will ignore agents who exploit religious sentiments. Price rises and inflation are core issues which directly affect the mindset of the Indian population. It affects budget of citizens and many a time destroys household cost and expenditure balance due to rise of inflation. Due to the advent of crony capitalism, few corporate houses override existing rules to plunder natural assets. With the blessings of little political masters such mafias of crony capitalism monopolies in acquiring assets and discourage competition and healthy growth. The new government should introduce transparency and prompt persecution of mafias in graft charges. It should create an effective mechanism in procurement through in-house checks and balances. All these decisions making should be followed by a time bound process and important decision making mechanisms must not be puzzled within departments to create room for corruption and unethical practices.
During his election speeches, Modi has showcased what he is going to function as prime minister of India. He has promised for full-time electricity uninterrupted electricity supply to all households. Some theologians believe it is difficult to achieve, but those who know Modi as chief minister of Gujarat justifies this call. In Gujarat Modi has segregated consumer and business electricity supply. Business houses are required to prepare in house generation of electricity production. In most states, business demand for electricity overrides demand and for this there are shortages of electricity for consumers. Odisha is a glowing example of how commercial demand for electricity grows and slowly this reduces demand for consumer electricity. Few years back electricity is surplus in Odisha. With increase of industry they consume higher electricity and for this quota of consumer electricity reduced considerably. There are power cuts and power failures. On the contrary, in Gujarat there is complete segregation of consumer and business electricity needs. Business House has to perform corporate social responsibility by producing electricity and giving back to consumers. In this way, electricity is never been in deficit and people enjoy uninterrupted power supply. Gujarat model of uninterrupted power supply is derived from both private and public participation. In this way, institutions should be reformed and work in accordance with writings of the Indian Constitution.
Smart administration:
The next biggest task of Prime Minister Modi is aimed at ensuring that the executive should work in its own spheres. In previous government, there are many instances where heads of ruling party override powers of executive decisions. He should promise executive must not override policy making and implementation and stop override basic functions of other constitutional agencies. Different elements of inelastic issues connecting federalism must be preserved through different constitutional attachments. Modi’s aim is to run India in principles of federalism through institutional mechanisms and restoration of tradition of communication between center and state. The entire center acts have to be reviewed particularly if they delegate and supersede powers of states. In this way, conflict and confusion among state and the center will be resolved and pave the way for smoother governance and proper administration at the grass root level. The consortium of state and the center should have licensing power over environmental clearances, investment proposals. All these need to be delegated to competent authorities in order to find a suitable approach for development proposals. In previous government, lump sum amounts put in charge to states through various welfare proposals but it lacks direction and proper auditing. In this way, many funds have been skirted out to middlemen and real beneficiaries have hard time in receiving tangible benefits. All these traditional bottlenecks which create impending delay and extra expenditure to exchequer need to be disciplined and the person with grafts charges whoever may be should be punished with iron hands.
Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi has started his work even before his swearing in ceremony. The visionary and mass leader wastes no time and he begins his work by issuing commands to secretaries of different departments to produce a dossier of priorities of different ministries of central government and departments on a subject which requires immediate attention. Modi will be 14th Prime Minister of independent India and his PMO (Prime Minister Office) will be at historical southern block. Secretaries and officers of the center have been advised to prepare “top priority list” concerning last two to three years followed by visions of these departments for the next five years. Modi has shows dreams to the people of India and he is preparing a perfect future through these moves. Modi is pro-market and wants public sector enterprise works just like corporate sectors, and for this he should be initiating the process of disinvestment in public sector undertakings (PSU). There is much important legislation which is pending such as “Women’s Reservation Bill” and “Land Boundary-Agreement”. Constitution of key ministries such as home and defense is right on the agenda of the new government and Modi would like to fit a proper minister who believes in hard work and keen eagerness to drive forward decision makings of his decisive mandate.
One day governance model:
Modi deals firmly with terror activities and he would like to initiate strong anti terror law to fight against terror activities coming out from outside as well as inside. Naxal problem is a growing menace and Modi will like to create unanimity among different political parties to eradicate growing Naxal problems. On June 2, complete transmission of two states from Andhra will be formed; it is duty of the new prime minister to ensure seamless distribution of human resources, assets between two new states of Andhra and Telangana. Gujarat model of administration initiates newer measures which become real time inspiration for other states. Time-bound delivery goods and services bill empower citizen of Gujarat to receive time bound delivery of passport, birth and death certificates. There is a proper grievance redress mechanism for non-compliance with its provisions. All these bills give power in the hands of the common man and in this way most of the works at Gujarat become highly successful. In this approach, more than 40 lakh applications are entertained and completed. In this way, perception of the common people in governmental offices comes about radical change in Gujarat. Governmental organizations are much more efficient and transparent than corporate organizations.
Conclusion:
On May, 16th the improbable happens. There has been an expectation of NDA’s win, but the way the BJP and NDA under capable leadership of Narendra Modi posted a thumping wins by easily crossing half way mark has been the most limelight happening of all time. One time tea-seller has won the most authoritative position of India. Modi is famous for winning improbable victories and this time he has done so. When he talked about 272+ before election, no one has confidence in his words. People reciprocated and get out of here with substantial numbers to vote him in. As chief minister, he empowers bureaucrats and dealt directly with them. He is a really good listener and gathers plenty of information and analyzes pros and cons of each and every project before implementation. He remembers each and every segment of workers in his name. Many a time’s party workers are surprised with his response when he calls them by their name. Memory power of prime minister of India Narendra Modi is very high and he utilizes these memories for smooth functioning of day-to-day work outs. Modi loves glitzy watches and designer Indian clothes. He has a very good sense of color combination. He can speak for hours without interruption. Modi is an ace communicator with a sharp mind and he takes a decision on his own. In future of the new Indian prime minister will surely make his presence felt all over India with his work.
Narendra Modi prime minister designate during his last speech as chief minister in Gujarat Assembly, “As I am going now, I do not know when I will come back here, I want you to forgive me if you have felt that I was not up to the mark in my work or if there was any shortcomings in my conduct”.
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