Ashok K.JhaNarendra Modi Likely To Holds On The Power !
December 17th 2007 08:33
Gujrat election is over and as per poll pundits,Narendra Modi will retain his office.There was so much focus on Gujrat that the election of Himachal Pradesh went largely unnoticed.The Gujrat obsession has done a world of good for Modi.It has elevated his status so much that the BJP leadership thought it prudent to announce L.K.Advani as its Prime Ministerial candidates amidst the election.The growing mass appeal of Modi transcending Gujrat borders might have forced BJP central leadership to act in haste so that Modi is confined largely to Gujrat Politics.
Rajnath Singh,the present BJP president is not in good terms with Modi and Arun Jaitly,who were not included in the apex parliamentary body of the party sometimes ago.Jaitly ,the suave and articulate ,was divested from his responsibility of party spokes person also.It was a bizarre decision as the party is always held in suspicion and Jaitly had been defending party moves very successfully for years.After the victory the Modi-Jaitly combination will certainly try to redeem some space they have lost.Besides,Rajnath Singh is considered a Pramod Mahajan Protegee who in the absence of his mentor would find it hard to hold of his own.
BJP would claim that by declaring its prime ministerial candidate it tried to give the message to the voters that a parson from Gujrat is trying to occupy the highest executive post at the centre also.So, ensure that Modi return to the power and strengthen the hand of Advani.
Modi might have inflame-ted communal hatred and riots but that is yet to be proved in the court .If found guilty he will be punished as per the law of the land.But the double speak of the secular parties who are desperate to show their secular credentials only to garner a certain section of votes did not go well with the masses.Had the Congress and other secular parties shown equal concern for those who were burnt alive and visited the affected families too then the message would have been delivered clearly.But here the impression was that all these parties were shying away from even mentioning the plight of these families.
To make matter worst the congress led government started showering the award and accolades to the activists like Teesta Svetalvad,who had been so vocal that angered even the most liberal Gujrati people.Those people who switched their loyalty from the BJP and joined the Congress were given tickets also and this was something which did not go well with the average people.The congress was also unable to portray its vision of prosperous Gujrat that the average citizen is craving for now.
Congress need to change with time otherwise all these years of carefully crafted policy and planning to hand over the crown to Rahul Gandhi will go haywire.The best way is to showcase the achievement of its ruling state.In absence of any major achievement to sell, the general people would go for the party which would promise to deliver.Leaders like Digvijay Singh will never stop politicking congress style and the party would be shrunked further and further.The best way forward would be to unleash the young Turks and the people will respond favourably.
There is an under current flowing across the country and that is the yearning for development.Those seem following aggressive developmental zeal would attract the voters.The impression by and large now is that the economy is on auto pilot and had this government not succumbed to the Left's threat and pursued economic reform than the result would have been far better.Will it now pursue developmental politics or keep politicking traditional ways is the moot question now.Hopefully the congress will introspect and effect the course correction.The country needs stronger congress otherwise all those parties would come to power which have no other policies than spreading the caste hatred in the name of social or equitable justice.
Rajnath Singh,the present BJP president is not in good terms with Modi and Arun Jaitly,who were not included in the apex parliamentary body of the party sometimes ago.Jaitly ,the suave and articulate ,was divested from his responsibility of party spokes person also.It was a bizarre decision as the party is always held in suspicion and Jaitly had been defending party moves very successfully for years.After the victory the Modi-Jaitly combination will certainly try to redeem some space they have lost.Besides,Rajnath Singh is considered a Pramod Mahajan Protegee who in the absence of his mentor would find it hard to hold of his own.
BJP would claim that by declaring its prime ministerial candidate it tried to give the message to the voters that a parson from Gujrat is trying to occupy the highest executive post at the centre also.So, ensure that Modi return to the power and strengthen the hand of Advani.
Modi might have inflame-ted communal hatred and riots but that is yet to be proved in the court .If found guilty he will be punished as per the law of the land.But the double speak of the secular parties who are desperate to show their secular credentials only to garner a certain section of votes did not go well with the masses.Had the Congress and other secular parties shown equal concern for those who were burnt alive and visited the affected families too then the message would have been delivered clearly.But here the impression was that all these parties were shying away from even mentioning the plight of these families.
To make matter worst the congress led government started showering the award and accolades to the activists like Teesta Svetalvad,who had been so vocal that angered even the most liberal Gujrati people.Those people who switched their loyalty from the BJP and joined the Congress were given tickets also and this was something which did not go well with the average people.The congress was also unable to portray its vision of prosperous Gujrat that the average citizen is craving for now.
Congress need to change with time otherwise all these years of carefully crafted policy and planning to hand over the crown to Rahul Gandhi will go haywire.The best way is to showcase the achievement of its ruling state.In absence of any major achievement to sell, the general people would go for the party which would promise to deliver.Leaders like Digvijay Singh will never stop politicking congress style and the party would be shrunked further and further.The best way forward would be to unleash the young Turks and the people will respond favourably.
There is an under current flowing across the country and that is the yearning for development.Those seem following aggressive developmental zeal would attract the voters.The impression by and large now is that the economy is on auto pilot and had this government not succumbed to the Left's threat and pursued economic reform than the result would have been far better.Will it now pursue developmental politics or keep politicking traditional ways is the moot question now.Hopefully the congress will introspect and effect the course correction.The country needs stronger congress otherwise all those parties would come to power which have no other policies than spreading the caste hatred in the name of social or equitable justice.
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