General elections are just few weeks away, and in current
situation we have chaotic environment of accusation, development models,
policies and issues. Various political parties are pushing their ideologies in
front of us in order to get our votes. There are three people are around the
core of this election and they are Mr. Narendra Modi, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal and
Mr. Rahul Gandhi and there several other options which I don’t find laudable
enough to put any views on them not because they limited in various regions and
it is very hard to put them all in under one coalition which can form a stable
government. But I must admit there are several very highly honest and competent
leaders in various regional parties. I am writing this article to put my view in
the public domain, it may please some, and may bite others.
Let’s take the man of the hour first “Arvind Sir” to whom I
admired most, till the day he didn't resign from the post of CM of Delhi. His
decision outraged and disappointed me.
Sir, you promised us change, we trusted you and then with a small hurdle you
just give up, you are absolutely right about yourself you are a common man not
a leader and I will cast my vote a person who can lead this nation. You give
the reason that you had a minority government therefore your hands were tied
up, but I think you are unaware of the fact that P.V. Narsimha Rao led congress
government was the first minority government to complete its tenure and they
did which the country has never witnessed in its history, they pushed the first
series of economic reforms and I should remind the people that in 1991 it was
almost impossible for the government to advocate the idea liberalization,
privatization and globalization as we were living in the socialist and license
raaj mindset from last 4 decades. But Mr. Rao had the courage to unshackle the stagnant economy from its barriers irrespective of minority government which many parties furiously
opposes the move.
You wanted to push for lokpal which has been passed by
parliament, certainly you don’t like but you could have given you own lokyutta
more powers and independence and you could have observe how things are taking
shape on corruption. After all you are CM of a state and your jurisdiction is
on a state only, if you had fail once you could have pushed for other rounds
but no, you gave up sating minority reasons, if Mr. Rao has done the same thing
then we have been more backward then what we are today, plus you have the
luxury of support from everybody including common man to fight against
corruption but for Mr. Rao it was never a case.
You suddenly perform an audit of Gujarat and highlighted
loop holes and told development in Gujarat is exaggerated but sir can you please let me know what you have
done in your 49 days tenure. No single fly-over, road, sewage system and even a
public toilet has been sanctioned. I wouldn't say that it was an ample time to
do so but I certainly wanted at-least one single step towards development, but you
were most of the time indulge in politics of freebies. Sir, with due respect I
want to quote as IT guy “It is easier to find defects and raise bugs in a
system than to go and fix them and it is worse when it is designed or coded by
other person”. In political terms what you are doing is the politics of
opposition, just to oppose and criticize everything, but in the long run you would
not be able to survive with this tactics. This only suits to activist.
You are making accusation against corporate houses for irregularities. I agree with you that there may be some people who might be using loop holes in the system for their personal benefits and may be indulge in corrupt practices too. But what is the possible solution for this? Playing with accusation,echoing and sensitization of economic disparity, is exactly what naxalite group does, the only difference is that they are armed. Take Vodafone tax dispute as an example, in spite of full efforts government lost the tax liability claim to Vodafone in honorable Supreme Court of India and later government passed an amendment to fix the situation which was applicable from a retrospective date, just to get tax claimed by IT department from Vodafone. Due to an ambiguous law government lost the case, now when they fix it, still they are in talks with Vodafone to crack a deal which is acceptable to both parties (government and Vodafone). Why they are not simply give notice and if they fail to comply shut them down as per the law.
Taking a note on the second option i.e. Congress, I surely
don’t want. Mr. Gandhi although you are not part of the current government so legally
you should not be blamed for their miss-deeds, but seeing your aura and
position in your party I am not going to buy this story. You once express your
views on an ordinance and the government takes you turn. How can you say that
you were not part of the government? If you are ill-informed or unaware about
the government machinery. It was your responsibility to know, to check and to
be a vigilante. Congress is all about your family, sir you should have been
more proactive. I will say “It is better to be guilty than being idle”.
In your recent interview you were emphasizing that you were
busy with party activities which include opening up and improving the
democratic process within your party. It was a appreciable job but you forgot
that people has given you a mandate to run this nation as well. There were some
congressmen doing this job with dedication but they failed. Didn't you see that
public perception was getting adverse for the government? If yes you should
have pitched in and have taken some responsibility and if the answer is no then
I believe the whole discussion is of no use. After all the primary task should
be governance not the party activities.But now it is good to see you taking the
challenges head on, wish you good luck in future but please forgive for this
time.
While considering the third and last option Mr. Modi, a man
under whose government innocent peoples were killed and he fails to protect that
misfortune but he has one advantage over the others in my eyes. i.e. he got really nerves of steel , a mandatory
requirement for a leader. From 2002 to till date every institutional mechanism
was use at its full throttle to make him guilty in 2002 riots cases but failed.
He not only holds the ground but also now making a pitch for country’s top job.
A best examples one one give one rise all gains all odds. In my eyes there can
be only two reasons. One he is really innocent, two he is much smarter than his
peers which in turn forced me to acknowledge his capabilities. Nowadays people
are getting outburst by few months media bashing. He is dealing with it from
last decade.
One very profound allegation is made on him that he may be
honest but his party is not. It is full of tainted people and when he comes to
power he will not be able to take action against him or stop them. I find this
allegation baseless because not only his few ministers go to jail in riots
cases but also he super ceded his own mentor in terms of career. He cannot be
blackmailed. Strong people never respond to threats. If he is vulnerable enough
to be restricted, people would have done it long back. He has that caliber to
take job head on and lead the people till its accomplishment. Good or bad I
can’t comment on that.
Now coming to the conclusion what should I do. It will be
never be a case that AAP will form government in center with a clean majority even
they do they can’t even pass a single bill in parliament since they are not
present in any state therefore no representation in Rajya Sabha, their all bills will be stalled and it means no governance, a
possible case scenario worse than UPA-II, and given his track record in
minority position and I don’t want him either. Definitely I don’t want congress
and third front was never ever in my mind. So in last considering all the good
and best option I have, If Mr. Modi could persuade minorities community that he will work for there development and security also then I think he is the only option as if now.
