Sir,
Amidst hope of a new era, Narendra Modi has been sworn as the Prime Minister of India. The focus in the media has shifted from the mandate to the challenges and Do’s and Donot’s for the new dispensation. It is, however, imperative to analyse the mandate in the right perspective.
Notwithstanding how the opponents or the sulking leaders within the BJP define the mandate, it needs to be viewed with the focus on the leadership of Modi. The populace has given clear mandate to a party to govern and it has happened after three decades.
An unbiased and realistic analysis of the mandate suggests that the verdict that gave Modi led NDA right to govern and decimated the opposition transcended all the barriers of region, religion and caste. The verdict is pan Indian verdict in which BJP got votes from Kashmir to Kanya Kumari and Kutch to Kohima. Veteran Journalist and BJP leader M J Akbar was right in claiming that BJP would not have managed unprecedented 73 in UP without the support of Muslims.
Coming to the factor that proved to be the turning point in these elections. It is unequivocally the “Modi Factor” and as such it shall be viewed as the mandate for Modi. In 1984, Congress achieved the landslide victory and the turning point was the “sympathy wave” generated by the assassination of Smt. Indra Gandhi. In 1977, Congress was routed and Janta Party came to power. The turning point was the emergency. In today’s elections Modi was the turning point as the masses believed him as an Ideal Leader amongst the contemporaries. People see him as a leader who has a vision for India, courage to take decisions, nationalist to core, ideologically committed and having focus on development.
I would like to conclude with the remarks of Official Chinese Media: “Modi has positioned himself as a pragmatic technocrat, focusing his election campaign on reviving India’s stagnant economy, cleaning up a corrupt government, and a tough stance on national security, Domestic front will be his touchstone for reviving and furthering Indian momentum on the international stage.” Let hopes of the masses come true.
Yours etc…
S.M. Pandit
Jammu
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