Monday 4 August 2014

TWO MONTHS ON: WHY BJP GOT CLEAR MANDATE & WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOW?


On 26th July, 2014 Narendra Modi’s government completed its two month. In this two month, Modi took strong decisions to bring economy back on trajectory. Yes, the people criticized BJP government but those decisions were necessary and I strongly advocate his decisions. Further, it needed audacity to hike railway fares after getting thumping victory and they did it. People were exasperated but the people must realize that the Indian Railways is suffering from heavy cash loss. To bring Indian Railways on par with railway services of developed countries, the government need funds and people will have to pay more if they need better services. People will have to stop their habit of simply sitting at home and criticizing the government. Narendra Modi has no magic wand. BJP had created such an image in their election campaign that some people felt that Modi has magic wand with him and the day he will take oath as PM every issue will be solved. Luckily, Modi during his election speeches requested the voters to give him sixty months, unlike Dr.Manmohan Singh who promised to make radical changes in hundred days. Ultimately, people made radical changes by replacing Dr.Singh. Narendra Modi took amazing effort to maintain and develop relations with neighboring countries. Who can forget the BRICS Summit? No doubt this government laid all his efforts to bring back the Indian nurses from Iraq.

But in this two month period, there were some serious issues which are or will be a matter of concern for Narendra Modi government. While leaders at the top like Modi, Rajnath Singh, Prakash Javadekar, Arun Jaitley, Nirmala Sitaraman ,Smriti Irani and Piyush Goyal are working day and night to make radical changes which they have promised and bring India back on track ,some MPs ( especially newly elected ones) or MLAs of BJP governed states are creating a problem for day-to-day functioning of  government. Everyday some or the other controversial statements are made by this MPs or MLAs. The next day because of this people Parliament is adjourned with much hullaballoos. A Shivsena MLA indulges in force feeding on a Muslim person. Deputy CM of Goa sparks a big controversy by saying Modi will make India a Hindu nation. Telangana BJP leader drags sports icon Sania Mirza in his cheap politics. This is just two months and there are list of controversies. All sections of the society, irrespective of caste and religion, voted for Modi and it is his responsibility to come out and condemn this incidents and oust those people. On a serious note, not even single candidate of Shivsena who contested election, deserves to be MP. It was only the Modi wave which led their victory. Still Shivsena think that they are ruling the country. Narendra Modi has shown Shivsena their level by giving Anant Geete a low profile portfolio. This is enough for them to understand what is their participation in the government.  

Narendra Modi will have to oust every such leader, at any cost, which will create a problem for his development agenda because it was, only he, because of which BJP came to power. The right-wing people need to understand that this is India of 2014 and not India of 1990s.This is India under Modi who has used technology to govern the nation and not India under L K Advani. Had BJP projected Advani as PM candidate, we would have seen Rahul Gandhi as PM.

It is just two months and we have seen some unnecessary controversies which must be avoided. If this continues, one day MPs of Shivsena & BJP (especially newly elected ones) will only bring down Narendra Modi government. My only request to Mr.Modi is that people have lot of expectations from him and i hope he delivers outstandingly in his first innings of 60 months