3 Reasons Why Mr Modi Is The Right Man For The Job

Now, as the ‘dust’ of our longest election settles, we hear murmurs of ‘intellectuals’ who carefully, congratulate the BJP and go on to explain why the nation must collectively keep a vigil on the PM designate Mr.Modi lest he wavers off the ‘path’.The collective rhetoric of how Modi can be the biggest travesty to the nation, has been part of national news since what seems eternity.And from the looks of it, even now, it ceases to stop, albeit in hushed tones.

As an individual, with no experience of any background, pertaining to national service as such, why would Modi appeal to my general sensibilities, is a lingering question.Even now.What I can do is, easily enumerate three points as to why me and many like me have supported Modi.

Speech

Lets face it.We as a nation have been denied the opportunity to hear mature public discourses for well over a decade.Being a youth, I have heard my elders go on and on about how they would dream for statesman like Vajpayee or Narsimha Rao or even Rajiv Gandhi, deliver a speech to the common Indian in their hometown.They would nostalgically remember how and when they went in rapt attention to hear views from influential personalities.And being a youth of today, I would find that very fascinating to hear.Not because I wanted to know what the yesteryear politicians said in those days.But to ponder over the curiosity, that I absolutely couldn't relate to it.

At this juncture, Mr.Modi brought that tradition back.Constant speeches on different topics in different cities over the course of a year, littered with rhetoric and narrative of a vision he upheld.He gave four speeches in my hometown.And each and everyone had a new topic.The fact that they may be littered with exaggerations and bravado was exactly the sort of thing which was immaterial and necessary at the same time.Whenever Mr.Modi referred to India as his Mother (whether he meant so or not is immaterial), it would give the listeners a gravity of emotion synonymous to patriotism.Such narratives set a basic tone for every public address.Even such references as ‘Shehzaade’ to Mr.Rahul Gandhi, fell under the very gamut of mature mischief.Such addresses, in the last few months have given rise to the belief that, here is a man who can wield complex issues on the tip of his tongue, by the dint of his verbal dexterity.It shows a clarity of thought.Every resounding applause for his words, will become a burden for him.This in turn will drive him to serve the nation.

Information

This person is a 4 time unanimously elected Chief Minister. Amidst, the marshes of rhetoric, as the ‘intellectuals’ believe, surely resides a speck of glittering brain.

His range of topics, in every speech was impressive.His short term, easy to sound, easy to hear solutions, even if flawed, were an impressive balm for the swollen and bruised economy.Now by no means, they may be the right solutions.But here was a person who was offering solutions to the best of his ability.A person who has been at the helm of affairs, doling out mass solutions like bullet points out of a kindergarten textbook, was exactly the kind of thing people wanted to hear.Simple points like linking of rivers to canals seemed like one such solution to tackle water shortage.To implement it at national level may not be a child's play.But it is a solution.A baby brained, deterministic solution at that, but a definite solution.Mr Chidambaram may chide Mr.Modi for not having enough economic sense to understand the implications and the problems of his expectations and ideas.But the fact of the matter remained, that neither Mr.Chidambaram nor Mr.Ahluwalia, in any speech or interview, gave a clear understanding in layman terms, of what was wrong and what needs to be done.In essence, their mature discourses on Indian economy, whenever inflation increased or output decreased, were nothing short of closet cynicism with regards to economic recovery.This was always candy-flossed as their superior knowledge of economics.

Mr.Modi did not just project himself as a motor mouth of solutions on national issues.He was in charge of a state ministry and working committees which gave lucid, clear and structural points on many issues of national and regional importance.Case in point, the working committee on essential commodities under the stewardship of Mr.Modi, submitted a report in 2011 to the Prime Minister.It highlighted many measures to stop inflation and exploitation of farmers to bring down prices of essential commodities.Two of the most important points in the report were, setting up a network of cold storages and temporarily stopping futures markets on essential commodities.It doesn't take a smart man to figure out that cold storage benefits supply chain of essential commodities.But it takes a smart man to know that cold storage is the solution.Even if Mr.Modi, did not think of cold storage himself, the brains to identify that particular point as a solution and uplift it as an actionable plan deserves merit.

These particular nuances cannot be incorporated by any individual, unless he/she is a smart politician.Being a chief minister for long, puts him in the perfect position to see things at grassroots as well as nationally at equal distance and come up with quick blueprints on various issues.

Opposition

Since hundreds of years, Indians as a thumb rule, has been a model society of 'anti-establishmentarianism'. The Mughals ruled comprehensively for 200 odd years.The British ruled for 200 years.The 1857 revolutionaries loosely joined under the banner of Bahadur Shah Zafar, even as a namesake, to fight the British.The Gandhi family, whether you like it or not is here to stay for proverbial eternity as well.Which is not wrong any in sense.Indians like to derive faith from a fulcrum.A focal point is always our unifying factor.This was evidenced after Indira Gandhi’s death and the subsequent polls which gave the Congress a colossal never before, never after vote share.All the Gandhi family members have been in varying degrees, not bad PM’s. Not bad at all.Each one had a vision of their own.Each one had an individual idea.And to come to think of it, India would have voted for Gandhi once again, this time too.Had it been a relatively competent person.

It has to be admitted.Mr.Rahul Gandhi is certainly not worthy to be a Prime Minister.Nor a Minister.Not at this juncture certainly.I admit, the personality has some positive traits.His emphasis on youth in the party,the idea of primaries to contest Lok Sabha polls.His desire to connect with the Dalits,even if it may fall under exhibitionism, is admirable.But the right heart has to couple with the right mind to hold public office.Mr.Gandhi’s apparent denial to work in an official Indian Government position, where he may have been able to implement his ideas, full-fledged, is his downfall.Not to mention, were his speeches which ranged from lackluster at best to incoherent at worst.Had Rahul Gandhi been in an official position, as a mayor, Minister of state or just a head of a vital committee, and developed a single idea to conclusion, he would have given Mr.Modi a run for his money.

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lollipops and bubblegums

So what is money exactly?

For so many years I had a definite perception that the blighted thing is the single most powerful intsrument to buy for oneself things such as cars or a computer or a snack.Surely the musings of a naive mindset.

But imagine the bout of unrestricted madness that filled my facial expressions, when I found out that when i have a currency note, it invariably implies that i possesses a speck of gold in the national reserve.Well, it was a revolutionary thought for my realtively pea-sized brain.Now that i come to think of it,it isnt that a dynamic thought as i thought it was.For the simple reason,that any local bank would throw me into a mental asylum if i demanded my share of gold (even if its only a speck of it).

So I went digging further to understand the ‘intricacies’ of world economy..As i scrape through the this ‘rocket science’ of gibberish,with such words as regulation,devalutaion,liquidity i come up with certain conclusion as regards to money,recent recession and try to complete the process in a circle.

1) I had many lollipops..my friend had many bubblegums..he was tired of blowing..i was tired of licking..we exchanged..pure business..exact business..definite purpose..and now as i gather an obsolete thing..apparently this heavenly simple thing was called a barter..its extinct now..how pitiful

2) Civiilisation makes amends..brings in ‘exchange medium’ for an asset..birth of a money note..now u had to give these notes for the lollipops..and also give for the bubble gum..u wud say same amount..now they make it complicated..civilisation tells me lollipops come at more notes than gums..i become more demanding to my friend..bloody civilisation creates a tiff between 2 perfectly good friends..

3) Civilisation comes up with a most novel idea..now the notes actually represent a yellowish thing called gold..

4) The above points carried on for ages...shift to present time..world recession..some idiots I hear on the news give loans for houses to the penniless in america..they invest on the penniless..and one day come to their senses and say...”Hey,these guys are penniless..damn..now where do we get our pennies”..and rather appalingly absurd is the fact that the banks of the world provide loans to the penniless for homes..that starts what is known as recession...(Dont go by my word,its what the experts kept blabbering on the TV using the same gibberish financial terms) ..how stupid can that be..you invest in the penniless for pennies..its like one friend giving the other bubblegums expecting lollipops in return..only the other one didnt have any...and rather stupidly the first friend knew that the 2^nd didnt have lollipops..what were they waiting for...rain of lollipops??

5) The world pumps in money now..to end recession..only the tiny problem is..the debt is in trillions..now here comes the cruncher...is there actually multitrillion worth of gold that this money represents??

6) Birth of new thought..total money does not equal total gold..voila..!! Now that i think of it,it doesnt take an einstein to figure that printing notes is cheaper than buying or finding gold..and there are also conspiracy theories floating around that some guy called Nixon in america , started this trend of imbalancing money and gold...way back in 1971..

7) We jump from world level to local level...all people around me are buying new ipods,cars and apartments..i say only select few afford it...but no ..the whole city can afford it now..that gives a fishy feeling..a feeling that all governments around the world like to create imbalance in money and gold..

8) Now it dawns upon me like a zen monk..we live on partly trash currency..thats why a litre of petrol costs so much i say..thats when i grasp the real meaning of the gibberish term ‘inflation’..

9) But now is where it gets really amusing..suppose prices of all things skyrocket..to absurd levels..the government will have to lower the prices ... for the sake of sanity..so what is the possible alternative?? Bring the gold equal to the money...so what would it need to do? Bring down the value of trash money...How is that possible...that will be possible after 2 or 3 generations from now when our great great grandchildren will earn money equivalent to our great great grandparents..in value..

10) And that brings me to an enterprising prospect that as the stray cash wears off, we may just go back to bartering after a few centuries..to the uncomplicated version of lollipops and bubblegum..to the friendship of two friends.. and the completion of the circle..

bureaucratic travesty

Speaking in a matter-of-factly manner, it is raining for a few days.Possible respite to the drought affected.All over the deccan plateau to be precise.And i volunteered to be a seargeant-at-arms, at my friends request, to help him apply for a passport(read standing in queue of the passport office accompanying him).A passport to travel internationally.You can strike this venture of mine as a most singular case of travesty. Well as i have come to know,now, it would be a particular pleasure of mine to rather be sitting on a bed of cactus(for only a second though) than be part off such a bureaucratical spinoff as the passport office.

Now you see,excepting the ration card, all other proofs( prescribed by the Govt such as PAN,electricity bill,election card etc etc) have more or less been applied by the applicant to prove that the said person is indian.A gas bill or an arms license is not worth its weight in gold to the applicant if it isnt accepted as a resident or an indentity proof.But the passport is undoubtedly the only real 'king' of proofs in the indian system to 'suggest'that you are indian (unless you are some superspy or terrorists with multiple passports of multiple countries).Thus all the other proofs are apparently skewed in its sense of heirarchy at passport office.

With that background, I'm in a comfy position to illustrate the intricacies of the passport issuing division in numbered fashion-

1)We start on a positive note.Ever heard the saying,at the god's doorstep,everyone is of equal importance?

Similarly, at the issuing office,everyone has equal importance.No one is higher than the offical.And no one is important..

2)Apparently on a less crowded day,it would take just about less than 2 hours to get inside the office..queue or not..

3)If you can actually comprehend this,the address on the bank statement of a private bank is considered a do-able proof as compared to producing a valid driver's license.Most probably a road transport office official may have broken a passport officials' nose during a party of beer.

4)Those born on or after 26th of january 1989,have to compulsurily produce a birth-certificate as a proof of your indian identity.A domicile or school leaving certificate wont do.Also probably some important education and domicile division officials pinched the passport official at the above said beer party.

5)As was not known to us, an affidavit on a stamp paper stating one's birth in absence of his birth certificate,will not hold water as a case in the courts, because the affidavit has such a thing as 'non- judicial' written on it.What it needs, as a noble lawyer in the queue told us, was a 'registered' stamp paper.

That one holds forte in indian courts.By the end of that procedure, I and my exhausted friend almost fell on

the ground( It seems the passport official accept the non judicial version of affidavit.The lawyer as it turned out was not a noble man).

6)One attains a certain degree of bliss(read patience) and is able to harness the flow of the universe(read staple together,print,glue your photo and keep all documents in order) once you end up in the never ending queue of the office.

7)The actual heirarchy of importance accorded to the proof's required to be shown to obtain the passport is generally a mystery.Even to the passport official.

8)Be sure of one fact applicant! on completing all prerequisites of the application process,guarantee to obtain the passport is not guaranteed.

9)Lastly,be sure of one thing.Helping a friend in the monsoon for such a draconian purpose lands one at home.With a headache,cold and strepsils..