Live chain’s life, eat bread; Warna is high with my bullet. “(Live peacefully, eat your bread; otherwise you face my bullets). Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words, live live from Seema district, went viral globally.
Was it a coincidence that this was the day when Modi completed 11 years as the PM of India? He completes the first year of his third term next week.
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On 9 June last year, when Modi assumed office, his opponents felt that there was a golden opportunity around the corner to snatch power from the BJP as that party itself lacked an absolute majority. A year later, this idea seems hollow and away. Consider the Waqf Bill. Despite reluctance from NDA colleagues, the Janata Dal-Yonted (JD (U)) and Telugu Desmim Party, BJP neither supported nor touched their aggressive stance. Modi has loudly designed his communication and administrative style.
In all his years in power since 2001, he has used a language that establishes him as a direct-performance, strong leader among his voters. Traditionists can drown on their style, but in a democracy, voters decide whether it is acceptable or not. What can be a major seal of approval that Modi has not lost a single election till date?
But Modi does not succeed only through self-projection. As a Prime Minister, he has assured the citizens that he is committed to his welfare, which is committed to the watch by launching landmark tricks as the world’s largest food distribution scheme, an unprecedented extended road and railway network, armament production, dawn power and indigening of Ayushman schemes.
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Modi has his own “principle” to cut the dull in governance. Acting as an executive of RSS Pracharak and later as an executive of the BJP, he always felt that there was a serious lack of coordination between the organization, the government and the bureaucracy. In view of the Bhuj earthquake of 26 January 2001, there was widespread destruction and chaos. Feeling that things are getting out of hand, the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the then Home Minister LK Advani, Modi, a party veteran, who worked in the state, was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
Till then, Modi was not even an MLA and he had no experience of governance. Nevertheless, his priorities and attention were clear. He dedicated his energy to the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the devastated areas. Resources were called, the distracted and disintegrated energies of the state bureaucracy were channels, and the victims of the tragedy were taken on the board. If you visit Dholvira, 136 km from the district headquarters of Bhuj, you will get the tard roads between the desert white sand, water supply, schools and tanks for electric poles. Even in remote desert areas of Kutch, tap water is provided to soldiers.
Once it was considered impossible.
He brought the same work culture to the central government seat in South and Northern Blocks. Prior to them, regional leaders will try to mold themselves for the standards of urbanity and etiquette by the Delhi Elite of the British-Elastic Lutyens. Modi was an opposite opposite, who presented himself as a symbol of Indianness and has been stable in his perspective.
Modi’s style connects with Indians and creates a unique personality internationally.
Here, a question arises: didn’t the former Prime Ministers do anything good? He certainly did, but the country was never enamored for a leader for so long. The Region? Modi knows that it is mandatory for citizens to show a report card from time to time to maintain their morale. Many of his promises and initiatives have criticized a lot. He has also accused many other things, but in democracy, there is no harm in the co -existence of development and debate.
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Recently a news appeared that India became the fourth largest economy in the world, overtaking Japan; Now to become the third largest economy, you have to go from Germany. Some experts feel that it will take us some more time before going through Japan’s economy, but is it a nightpicking? Publishing in a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) report shows that we will remain one of the fastest growing big economies in the world.
It is clear that India’s development story is despite many challenges, and we cannot deny Narendra Modi’s role in it.
Shashi Shekhar is Editor-in-Chief, Hindustan. Views are personal.