My take on the whole Modi issue

My take on the whole Modi issue:

Congress says that BJP is communal, specially Modi who is pro Hindutva and anti Muslim and that he will target minorities. So, they keep bringing up the Godhra issue again and again. Somehow their leaders suffer from short term memory loss when it comes to the 84 Sikh riots and the 93 Bombay riots where they were in power in Maharashtra. Also, they never talk about how BJP fielded Muslims in municipal and panchayat elections and won in Gujarat.

The Advani camp believes that Modi does not know anything outside Gujarat and that the Godhra riots were the main reason why BJP suffered in 2004 and then suffered even more in 2009 with their vote bank reducing to less than 20% at the national level. One thing that we feel went totally against the BJP in 2004 was that they didn't have a face of the party, Advani was not approved by the public as a Prime Ministerial candidate just like how the Advani camp and Congress feel about Modi, which might be true.

With Modi's portrayal as the PM candidate, the JD(U) split from NDA is almost obvious, Patnaik will follow as well. But the Bypoll elections also suggest Nitish Kumar's image going down, a Naxal attack today and he's busy discussing Federal front with Mamta instead of dealing with state security.

Now the federal / 3rd front is happening mainly because it's so uncertain who will get more votes among Congress / BJP, otherwise you would see strong UPA / NDA coalitions right from now. Mayawati, Lalu, Mulayam, Mamta - all these are power hungry politicians will prime ministerial dreams. They will sway where their chances are better. Arvind Kejriwal has added a brand new twist to this whole story and might be a defining force in the overall scope of things.

Modi might not be the answer for BJP, they might lose just like in 2004, I am sure they will better the 2009 numbers, but Advani as a PM candidate won't make it any better nor will someone like Chauhan, Swaraj, Rajnath Singh or Gadkari. In any case, Modi will be taken seriously, so I am hoping we would at least see some development in the Congress led states in the next 9 months which they will do to try and erase the memory of crapping on the nation's face for the last 9 years.

The fundamental difference between communal and secular parties is that communal parties might target minorities, but secular parties are no better. They let them do so, sit and watch the fun and then come on media to show their sympathies to the minorities. They are two sides of the same coin, just that minorities somehow believe the pseudo secular portrayal and vote for a bunch of goons who project fake development to increase their vote banks.

We are at a critical juncture right now. Rupee is falling, inflation and petrol prices are rising like rapes in the capital. We are a young nation and 5 years of good governance can really help in changing our fortunes. We need a system that discourages outsourcing and BPOs and encourages start ups and need to create better jobs, specially in the manufacturing sector. We need to be self sufficient.

We need to show the world that we can be a developed country.....

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