I.N.D.I Alliance losing Its Warranty
Er. P.L. Khushu
Modi ki Guarantee means a steadfast commitment to the welfare of the people of India. As against this the I.N.D.I Alliance, posing to be the well-wishers of the people of India, is battling for its survival and a warranty from its own allies within themselves to retain itself as a parallel political conglomerate against Modi and his government. What a myth of surprise, shock and a mock. This dotted alliance which was created with a bang and a flag, some time back, with a big warranty of being a force to be reckoned with as a strong opposition to Modi, giving an impression that it will do wonders in the political arena of India, but it has fallen under its own weight. This was predicted by the political pundits of India, looking to the past deeds of its constituent members, who are allegedly dynasty based.
As against it Modi ki Guarantee means a Viksit Bharat, Ek Shrestha Bharat and an ” Ujawala” Bharat. It is a guarantee for the development of the youth, empowerment of the women, welfare of the farmers, and all those marginalized and vulnerable who have been ignored for decades. It started with his strong slogan ” Sab-Ka-Sath”, “Sab-Ka-Vishwas” , ” Sab-Ka- Vikas” and Sab-Ka- Priyas” , when today India is proud to acclaim enough of prominence in every field of development in this country. Day in and day out we are watching that huge developmental projects are being taken up for developing India to make it more recognized within the advanced countries of the world, when India is now recognized as a honored 5th economic force of the world. It is now attaining a 3rd such a place as per Modi Ki Guarantee.
India’s economy achieved a historic milestone recently, when it’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) crossed the $4 trillion-mark in nominal terms for the first time ever, according to several media reports. This shows that India has achieved a strong mile stone by crossing $4 trillion-mark in DGP, making it a strong moment for India’s presence in the global presence apart from gaining an international pride. Such a situation for India has a direct link with the traumatic leadership of our Prime Minister Modi, who has taken India to unprecedented heights. It is said and speculated that it will take just two years more for India to become the third largest economy in the world.
As on date India’s boasts about its economy and swift growth fuelled by enormous developments in the key sectors such as information technology, services, agriculture, and manufacturing. The nation capitalizes on its broad domestic market, a youthful and technologically adept labor force with an expanding middle class. Modi is probably the first Indian prime minister to uplift the technology structure of India so much through his welfare programmes for India. His government’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) has revolutionized India’s economy by facilitating digital payments even in villages. What a fantastic growth.
Building the infrastructure for a resurgent India was NDA Government’s push to infrastructure is evident. Be it Railways, Roads, or Shipping, the government is focusing on augmenting the infrastructure to aid in connectivity. For the first time, Railways budget focused on structural reforms and infrastructure changes. Announcement of new trains, which used to be an annual political gimmick, has now become a routine activity. Numerous passenger-friendly amenities like Wi-fi on railway stations, paperless unreserved ticketing, e-catering, mobile security app and CCTV cameras for safety of women, etc have been launched in the railways.
There are other multiple reforms taken recourse to by the Modi government for the welfare of the people of India. NDA Government embarking on ushering in game-changing reforms through the use of Jan Dhan, Aadhar and Mobile (JAM), a unique combination of three to implement direct transfer of benefits. This innovative methodology has been able to allow transfer of benefits in a leakage-proof, well-targeted and cashless manner. There have been cut in subsidy leakages but not in subsidy themselves. NDA Government built a national consensus and introduced a Bill to amend the Constitution to implement the Goods and Services Tax (GST). The GST has put in place a state-of-the-art indirect tax system. On 2nd October 2014, Swachh Bharat Mission was launched throughout length and breadth of the country as a national movement. While leading the mass movement for cleanliness, the Prime Minister exhorted people to fulfill Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a clean and hygienic India. NDA Government gave massive push to education & skill development Various unique measures were taken to augment the quality and reach of education. A fully IT based Financial Aid Authority to administer & monitor all education loans and scholarships through Pradhan Mantri Vidyalakshmi Karyakram, was introduced for this purpose.
Prime Minister Modi is considering all Indians as his family members. PM Modi responded sharply to Lalu Prasad’s jibe that he has ‘no family’ with ‘Mera Bharat, Mera Parivar’. RJD leader Lalu Prasad had made the remark against PM Narendra Modi after BJP ministers and leaders added ‘Modi Ka Parivar’ to their profiles in the media both print and electronic. . Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad’s jibe that he had no family. Addressing a rally at Adilabad in Telangana, PM Modi said, people of the nation consider me as their own. They love me like a member of their family. It is that making me to say that the 140 crore people of this country are my family. The youth, they are my family. Crores of daughters, mothers and sisters in the country, they are my family. All poor people in the country, they are my family. The millions of children and elderly people in the country, they are Modi’s family. Those who have no one belong to Modi and Modi belongs to them. My Bharat, my family,” he added.
The identical update in the profiles of BJP leaders are reminiscent of a similar change before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls when Union ministers prefixed ‘Chowkidar’ to their profiles on Twitter. “It was at a rally of the I.N.D.I.A bloc in Patna a day earlier that Lalu Prasad directed the jibe against PM Modi. “What can we do if Narendra Modi does not have a family of his own? He keeps bragging about the Ram temple. He is not even a true Hindu. In Hindu tradition, a son must shave his head and beard upon the demise of his parents. Modi did not do so when his mother died,” the RJD leader said. The prime minister responded by saying that he had left home at an early age to serve people as a “Sevak”, and attacked “dynastic parties” for their “jhooth and loot (lies and loot)”, in effect turning Lalu Prasad’s attack into an opportunity to showcase his commitment to the country’s citizens. It is also in line with PM Modi’s emphasis on calling people “mere parivarjano (my family members)” in all his recent rallies. At his Adilabad rally, Modi also took a dig at the Opposition, saying that while Opposition parties were obsessed with the upcoming elections, when he is busy with to discussing the details of the roadmap for Viksit Bharat (Developed India).
Recalling his earlier remarks on the importance of the current decade for India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently said that even today, the world is recognizing that the current decade belongs to India. The Prime Minister further stated that Bharat proved that with good economics, and good politics it can be possible. There is constant global curiosity about how Bharat could achieve the same. In 2014, looking back at the first decade of the 21st century – 2000-2010, we strongly believe that this decade indeed can be called – India’s Decade of Development. India is facing new enormous challenges in the areas of rural development, urban sustainability, national infrastructure, and human capital and population. India will add hundreds of millions of people to the urban economy in the years and decades ahead. India’s cities need to be safe, efficient, pleasant to live in, supported by infrastructure (water, sewerage, electricity, transport, etc.), able to create jobs which are globally competitive, etc. Briefly put, India needs a revolution in sustainable urban planning. Sustainable cities mean durable and sustainable public transport system, urban planning, public health and other services, and climate resilient developmental schemes, especially in coastal cities and belts. India has to create large scale job opportunities which will mean solid systems of education-apprenticeship, vocational training, etc.
On the national infrastructure front, inter-city rail upgrading, sustainable and secure energy, watershed management (river-linking to the extent that this is a sound and safe concept), dams policy, fiber connectivity nationally, ports and airports, etc. India will also need an integrated, life cycle, population scale vision of human capital accumulation. This includes population stabilization and early childhood development, especially to overcome the scars of under nutrition, which may be India’s greatest plague. On the education front, education for all with improvements in quality of education (to improve teaching and learning outcomes) and education-to-job linkages will be critical. Manpower for skill and occupational needs in the next twenty years will be high as the economy urbanizes, modernizes, and becomes more service-sector oriented. The priority now must be not only on growth, but on the triple bottom line of growth, equity/inclusion, and environmental sustainability. The sustainability challenge will occupy India and the world for decades, not just for years. All countries face the challenge of adapting to ongoing climate change, managing growing water scarcity, protecting endangered ecosystems and species, etc. As one of the worlds’s most crowded country, India faces this challenge more urgently than others. India is already on the path of its growth under Modi’s leadership, who has planned to grow India fully during the ensuing decade, when the last decade has already observed enough of development in India, particularly in the basic infrastructural areas of development for the country. India is in safe hands on this account. “Modi hai Too Mumkin hai”.
What were the positive plans of the dotted I. N. D. I. Alliance, which came into existence a few months back with an illusory strong arm making a fuss about the ” Warranty” these political persons have from the people of India to replace Modi and his government. In fact none.
With the creating of this new assumptive nomenclature of India, I.N.D.I Alliance, by some opposition political parties, led and sponsored by the congress party, with dots in between, as a referral idiom, for exhibiting their unity, creating the name of India as I.N..D.I.A, conveying enough doubts about their unity of purpose for which these political parties have ventured to come under one banner as an alternative not to NDA , but to Modi. It is showing the dilemma of dots are existing between these various political parties, pretending to be one, for Modi fear. It equally shows that all these political parties are fully knowing that they cannot represent a unified India. Their dynastic bases, churned tongues and abundant corruption charges against most of them are haunting them to run from pillar to post as they did in the present case, while hobnobbing at Patna and then going for an excursion at Bangalore, followed by a similar marine drive in Maharashtra, as a sequel to drink, dine and dance, to satisfy their myopic illusion of being together for political sale amongst the people of India. Is there any buyer? This dotted alliance has already fallen on its own weight.
This conglomerate group of opportunist dynasty based people calling themselves as a I.N.D.I.A while trying to projecting themselves as replacements to Modi and his NDA flock, have almost vanished under its own weight, particularly refusing the congress party its monarchial leadership over this dotted conglomerate. So congress and its Raj Kumars etc, have lost this hope as well due to its high headedness of sorts. No cognizable political party accommodated the congress party with seat sharing for the coming general elections. The congress party now again stands almost alone. They are all afraid of NDA coming back to power under the honest stewardship of Narindar Modi, who has pledged to act very strictly against the corrupt and corruption. They are already identified by the masses of India about their intentions by gathering together under a rough banner of false and distorted unity.
The plight of this dotted alliance is now visible with viable jokes that they have not been able to carry through with each other. The reason being their seat sharing indices for the coming general elections, when they could not accommodate each other and even became irritable enemies of each other while posing to be together. Trinimol Congress has already closed its doors for congress in Bengal for a coalition. In fact these two political parties are now die hard opponents of each other in Bengal. What they started with and what is their fate now. This Dotted Alliance should feel shameful about it and ask for a national apology for miss leading the people of India. The aboriginal preceptor of this dotted alliance Nitish Kumar the CM face of Bihar gave them a slip mid way and abandoned this dotted I. N. D. I Alliance by joining NDA. It should serve as a big slap on the face of the remaining partners of this dotted alliance, particularly the congress party. Under utter frustration the Samajwadi Party has made some unbalanced adjustments with the congress party when just a handful of parliamentary seats have been earmarked for congress in UP, the onetime giant political party of India. Should congress party feel shy about it, not to speak of its coming back to power to rule India again. Some prominent constituents of Smajwadi party have ceremoniously left this party and have joined NDA. AAP is dictating congress party for its seat sharing in Delhi, with a refusal for Punjab. These are some of the pathetic scenes of this conglomerate corporation of dynasty based political leaders, which is named captioned as I. N.D.I Alliance, when it has outnumbered its Warranty for its existence. God save the king, the king is dead.
As against this position of this dotted alliance the NDA is flourishing due to its honest commitment to the nation and its people, under the leadership of Modi. The slogan of Modi for the coming national elections is ” Ab – Ki – Bar – 400 – Par”. Let us make it on ground. ” Modi-Hai-Too-Mumkin – Hai”.
(The author is a chartered consultant civil engineer, passionately attached and devoted to his mother land – Jammu & Kashmir).