For months before the elections Narendra Modi was branded, described
and demonised as the most polarizing politician that India has ever had. The
results proved all the pseudo-intellectuals totally wrong. In three decades –
30 years – Modi is the only person to have got a clear, unqualified mandate
from the people of India substantially establishing himself as the most
unifying personality in the country.
2014 proved to be historic on many fronts:
- This is the first time that people voted for a person – Narendra Modi – and not for a Party. All BJP advertising only said, “Ab ki baar Modi sarkaar”.
- This is the first time a non-Congress Party has won so decisively.
- In an age when India thought that coalition governments were here to stay, Modi changed the trend completely – making the impossible happen.
- This is the first time in 30 years that India will have a government that is not held hostage by regional Parties as their last minute allies.
- This is the first time that a ruling Party had the Prime Ministerial candidate of their opposing counterpart as their only campaign agenda.
- This election saw the highest voter turnout ever. From apathetic spectators of a sport called “elections” more people (in terms of both numbers and percentages) went into the voting booths to exercise their franchise and establish their claim to being responsible participants in a democracy.
The Demonization of
Narendra Modi
- Pseudo-seculars (sickular, really) in the media and elsewhere played the judge and the jury with Modi labelling him as communal and branding him as “Hindu” (seriously, why should this be an insult? Any person of any other religion can take pride in their religious status and be “secular” because of it, but if you are a proud Hindu, you are automatically “communal” and “intolerant”!) because he was in RSS and is in BJP – both termed as upper-caste Hindu organisations.
- Where various courts and investigative committees have found Modi innocent of any pogroms, the anti-Modi brigade howled like hyenas for his blood over what happened in Gujarat in 2002. No facts or figures impacted the prejudices.
- Giving him a hashtag of Feku on the social media, the Gujarat model of development was rubbished as mere rumours. The model was called a myth and spurious figures trotted out to prove that there was no development in Gujarat while Modi was the Chief Minister.
Transformation Into the
Most Unifying Leader In India
First, Gujarat has repeatedly voted Modi into power in the
Assembly elections. This cannot be chance. Certainly not a co-incidence for
almost 12 to 13 years. This is only choice of the people of Gujarat. If indeed
their conditions were so abysmal, can the Modi-slayers explain how he got 26
out of 26 seats in the Lok Sabha elections winning by over 5, 70,000 votes in
the beleaguered Vadodara alone (where he is supposed to have engineered a
bloody pogrom)?
BJP, which had no presence in Assam, has become the cause
for the CM Gogoi to resign. UP and Bihar, two States supposed to be mired in
caste politics and voting got together to reject all those practising votebank
politics (including Congress, Samajwadi Party, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samajwadi
Party – which had a tally of zero) and Nitish Kumar’s – the man who thought he
would stop Modi – JDU).
With so much scare-mongering amongst “minorities” –
especially Muslims and Dalits, a vote as decisive as this was not only
improbable but nigh impossible. However, India united as one abandoning caste,
religion, language, geography, age and gender to choose development and
resoundingly establish itself as a true democracy. Bringing political awareness
and drawing so many crores of people into the voting booths has been one of
Modi’s greatest successes. Proving that all people across all votebanks truly
want the same thing – safety, security and prosperity – has been his other
major success.
Report Cards Don’t
Lie
The true endorsement of Modi’s unifying achievement shows up
in the most important facts of the results of the election – which were stunning
to everybody and exhilarating to most:
- BJP has clear and utterly comprehensive majority – people want Modi as PM. No pussy-footing around with any alliances et al. About 30 crores of people have effectively insisted to turning a deaf ear to eh Cassandra’s and reposed their faith in Modi.
- Congress got just 44 seats – This is a total rejection of Congress. J Jayalalitha managed 37 seats (just seven short of Congress’ all India tally) from just one single State.
- Mayawati, Mulayam Singh and Nitish Kumar have been wiped out – all of these are either politicking on minorities (with efforts to keep the society divided) and/or have been anti-Modi.
- BJP swept States that were hitherto inaccessible to them including North-Eastern States and those in the Hindi heartland.
- Even in Kerala – a staunchly Communist State that had no truck to BJP in the past – BJP managed to get votes (though not seats) in every constituency.
- BJP allies like Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Shiv Sena got practically resurrected because of their association.
Achche Din Aanewale
Hai
From being a campaign song, to a victory call achche din aanewale hai has become a
firm belief in every person in the country.
The belief shows in the optimistic expectation in the common man. It
shows by the rising share market. It shows in the strengthening dollar.
Not one to rest on past achievements and laurels of the
election results, the man who describes himself as Mazdoor No. 1 won greater faith from the electorate when he said he
would return in 2019 with a report card – thus proving his resolve and
confidence.
India awaits.