“Either you love me or you hate me but you simply can’t ignore me”, this is Narendra Modi for you. Last two decades have witnessed a rise of a political superpower
of India in term of Narendra Modi who often is credited as political “Superstar”
within the political spectrum. Even a tenacious resistance by his critics hasn't led to any sort of hindrance to his plans to move towards 7RCR, Delhi. And with
an official announcement of him as NDA’s Prime ministerial candidate by BJP
Party president on 13th of Sep has ended all speculations on his plans
for 2014 elections. Seeing the personality cult of Modi it seems like in 2014 it won’t be
BJP vs Congress but rather it would be Modi vs Congress. From social media to
youth following he is far ahead from any other leader in India at present. The
whole Industrial fraternity openly backs him and he is the front page news of
every newspaper today. But what all led to the sudden rise of fortunes of Narendra
Modi?
From a simple RSS worker to being named Gujarat’s CM in 2001 replacing
Keshubhai Patel, he came a long way in his political journey where he saw many
ups and downs. But it actually was 2002 where he hogged the limelight post
Godhra riots. Political analysts usually term the innings of Modi in two
versions – Modi version 1.0 pre Godhra and Version 2.0 post Godhra. He became
RSS’s favorite man to carry their ideology when he came back to power with
whopping 2/3rd majority in 2003 Gujarat’s assembly elections. In
2004 NDA lost the national elections and BJP’s strongman Atal Bihari Vajpayee
declared to end his political career citing ill health and then L.K Advani was
passed the baton to lead the BJP. In 2005 when he went to Pakistan, he praised
Jinnah in order to make BJP’s acceptability to minority communities, which even
backfired him and he had to resign from his party president post and the cracks
within RSS and Advani were quite visible. At the same time Modi had established
himself as an able administrator and a person with zero tolerance towards
corruption and terrorism (with a series of encounters) and his 2007 win in
elections strengthened his position further. In 2009, before the national
elections many people within NDA argued that Modi might be the best PM choice
but RSS backed Advani and NDA lost in 2009 as well which was their second
successive defeat. With the defeat of 2009 the stars of Advani started fading
and the cult of Modi was on rise. Modi further cemented his position within NDA
after a hat-trick of win in Gujarat in Dec 2012 and his Prime ministerial
ambitions got a boost with his declaration of NDA’s face for 2014. The credit
to “Rise of Modi” somehow goes to the ruling congress party as well. It was
their impotency to take upon corrupt system, series of scandals, mishandling of
economy and incompetence that led to a demand of strong political face that could
take some harsh decisions and take India back to the path of economic
development and prosperity. It is a strong Anti congress vibe which is further enhancing
the prospects of Narendra Modi in 2014.
As for Modi haters, he has eclipsed the man who once strongly backed him
post Godhra when Vajpayee wasn’t keen to support him. But it only shows their
frustration simply because they were not able to topple him and they were
thinking of firing their guns through Advani’s shoulders. For pseudo secular
forces like Nitish Kumar, Advani has now become secular leader. Hope we need
not remind them that it was Advani who led the Hindutva agenda post 1991. As
for Modi followers and lovers this is the time to cheer since their leader has
been cleared to take as a face of next assembly elections. But he has numerous
challenges to take on before 2014 general elections.
Though it needs to be seen what happens in 2014 elections and whether Modi's slogans "Sabka saath sabka vikas" and "India first" make a pan India appeal but it seems to be cracker of contest between Modi and
Congress. Upcoming days promise of some big surprises and fireworks from both sides .Even a drastic change in
political scenario is on the cards but we hope that people of this country get the best out of it.
Jai hind !!
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