Is Modi the only way out?.....Yes.

Before the left-leaning intellectuals and the pseudo-secular fools sharpen their knives, i confess i am usually on the Right side of the political spectrum.

Right wing politics has always been judged unfairly in India. The Nehru-charisma meant that stalwarts like Shyama Prasad Mukherjee were overshadowed. Not many know that it was Mr. Mukherjee who so daringly and staunchly championed India's sovereignty over Kashmir and lost his life when he entered Kashmir against orders in 1953. Rumors say that he was poisoned by Nehru!! Who knows there might be some truth in that! There was no post mortem after all. I smell a rat.

Decades later the Janta Party emerged as the political alternative to the post-Emergency Congress, it was an amalgam of people of all hues and colours. One such shade was the Bharatiya Jan Sangha. It mothered the present day Bharatiya Janta Party - the only right-of-centre political formation we have had. With an orator like Vajpayee and an ideological stalwart Advani, it went from strength to strength. Today, the best lines on the political spectrum come from this party. For anyone who doubts, i request you watch this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RgjT4-lewM - it will show you how wide is the gulf in calibre between even the Gandhis of the two parties,Congress and BJP.

However, like a team studded with stars that is always likely to implode, the BJP seems to be on the verge of imploding. And that's pretty bad news for the country. There are "camps" - Advani camp, Sushma camp, Rajnath camp, Gadkari is alone one bloody big camp! Yes there is a NaMo Camp too. So what we have is a worse than mediocre government and a super-capable but immature opposition. The Left is still licking its wounds it suffered in the Sundarbans! It is a state of political rot.

However there is one person who has not yet dirtied his hands in these muddy waters. Narendra Modi. A man who polarises public opinion like no one else ever did in India. A man who makes no secret of "being a Hindu ". Thankfully so, because it is ironic that in this country while everyone else - Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Parsi -can thump his chest and claim and proclaim and profess and promote his religion, a Hindu who does so is seen as a "fanatic". If i say "Yes, I am a Hindu" , it does not mean "You Hindu? No.Wait, I'l show you life". It only means that I am a Hindu. And i love my religion. As much as you may love yours. 

But even today, no one asks why were the Kar Sevaks burnt alive. All one asks is why were Muslims killed in Gujarat! Well there is an answer to that which Mr. Raghavan in his SIT report highlighted - because the previous night, at mosques across Godhra ,petrol was pooled, provocative speeches were made and then the next day kar sevaks - Hindus- were burnt alive in a train. And people expect a community that makes up for more than 4/5th of this country to stay calm. Violent retaliation may not be what any of us would want to be the case, but sadly, through out history, retaliation has been violent and it has been severe. More so when a majority is attacked, more so when history reads a "Direct Action Day", a bloody partition, and a Pakistan. This can be a long debate for another day.

People ask why did Modi allow it to happen! Because he possibly could not have stopped it. And because he possibly did not want to stop it. Because possibly the hurt sentiments were too strong to enslave. Because every action does have a reaction. Collateral damage is a reality. Anyway, where is the proof that he "allowed" it to happen! Is it ever possible to reign in mob that has been engulfed in fires of religious violence! He asked the neighbouring states of M.P.( under Digvijay Singh then) and Rajasthan (under Ashok Gehlot then) for police force reinforcement. Both declined. Why? No one asks that. 

To shut the Congress-wallahs up, we know for sure that Modi did not give people the "Big-tree-falls-earth-shakes" shit ( Rajiv Gandhi @ 1984 Anti-Sikh riots). 

The Left is the only truly non-religious political formation. They have earned their right to hate the 
Right. The Congress, the SP, RJD etc are dirty bastions of pseudo-secular hypocrites. Maulana Mulayam has been the fiercest advocate of SIMI - the organised production line of Indian terror saplings. Lohia ji left a totally unworthy legacy. Another of his chelas - Lalu - spared not even the poor cattle. Shame.

With the Left refusing to notice the tide of changing times, we are left with a polity that seems to be static, stagnant and servile.

It is in such times that a country needs to get its act together and think like a "nation". And needs a hard taskmaster at the helm. Not a "yes-man" who bleeds responsibility through all sides without enjoying an iota of authority. We need some one who can and will take tough decisions. Someone who can say 'no' to his own party if that is in the nation's interest ; Who would not cite "coalition compulsions" to take cover under for his failures ;Who would keep the administration on its toes ; Who would be a powerful Pradhan Mantri and not a mere smiling buddha !!! We need some one who could tell Pakistan in no uncertain terms that act or face the music. Some one who could identify the illegal immigrants in Assam and send them home or send them to jail. We need someone who can act, and not merely mumbles sher-o-shayari.

In the name of 'secularism', the Congress Party has been building ghettos of the Muslim community, segregating them, isolating them, provoking them with an anti-Hindu anti- BJP stance that could spell doom for India. Secularism has come to mean "Appease the minority, Forget others".  From a religio-neutral dictat of the Constitution, the Congress has taken us to a Decidedly-Pro-Muslim State kind of status. We were a secular state. We no more are. We are now a minority-appeasement state.

Communalism is another much raped term in our country. Originally,it means "related to an ehnic community". It has nothing to do with religion, and absolutely nothing to do with religious orthodoxy and fanaticism. In India, it is a term coined by hollow intellectuals to take on the Hindu revival movement. And it raises its head only when the sufferer is the Muslim community. Never the other way round. It becomes self-defence then! So much for the secular farts. 

That apart, we need who can move beyond doles. We need to provide productive aid to our people. Not doles. UPA 1 & 2 has perfected the art of 'doles-for-votes' strategy. It only makes the people more and more dependent on the state. Not productively dependent i mean. There has to be out of the box thinking like installing solar panels along and over rivers and canals - as Modi has done in Gujarat. Rivers have to be cleaned. The system has to be cleaned as well.

AB Vajpayee's mission of high-density rural and urban connectivity has to be resumed. Sadak, pani & bijli - these have to be massively pushed towards the hinterland. Our guns and tanks and ships and air crafts have to be refitted and re-organised. People have to be forced out of their slumber and into action.

On every front, there is an urgent need for ACTION. The longer this urge for action is responded to with inaction, the faster we deteriorate and disintegrate. 

Narendra Modi does not and will not think in terms of hindu-musalman. Agreed that we need universities in Murshidabad and in Mallapuram, but why the hell do we need to label them as " Centres of Aligarh Muslim University "? Because we are hypocrites.  If religion of the majority of the targeted population of an area is the criteria , we need to open at least 12 Centres of Banaras Hindu University as well !!! 

Why do we need to give huge amounts of funds for Madarasa education? Why not try and get our muslim children to the non-religious Primary Schools. Why do we have to make them feel segregated? Should we not a Uniform Civil Code ? To Nehru's credit, he gave us a reformed Hindu Code Bill, against heavy opposition.Why did we not reform the Sharia ? If national integration was the reason given for Hindu reforms by Nehru, he would have served us better with a Uniform Civil Code. Even today we need one. Urgently. Modi may be the only one today who has the guts to do that. No one else even in the BJP can.

Modi's arrival would leave the Lalu-Mulayam-Karunanidhi-Congress axis-of-evil a lot less relevant than it is today. It would bode well for strong and efficient Chief Ministers willing to work and develop with the Nation as a whole. It would also spare us the doomsday scenario of Rahul Ji being crowned as the head of the government- damn even the thought of it is so scary! 

Crucially, Modi does not have a family to protect and promote. He does not have a son wanting to be PM and a damaad wanting to take the country for granted. And the best part is that he does not take his dictation from Nagpur -the RSS head quarters- which the rest of the BJP tends to do. 


He is fiercely independent and a workaholic (contrast that with what we have today ).

He would serve the NATION well.