Narendra Modi must call manmohan's bluff move to delhi

Narendra Modi must call manmohan's bluff move to delhi

Finally I will tell you the interesting way in which Lao Tzu the great Chinese sage looked at Good governance. There is an old saying of Lao Tzu. It goes like this:

“If there is a king and people get things done and don’t know that they have a king it is the best type of government. If there is a king and if people get their things done and if they know that there is a king it is a good government. If there is a king and if people have to complain to the king to get things done then it is a bad government. If there is a king and things don’t get done even if complaints are made to him then, it is the worst type of government.”

Nobody has said better than this. Our aim is make people partners in the development process so that they don’t feel that they are subjects but they feel that they are citizens.

After 7 long years the central debate has finally shifted to one over who has the greater political will to pursue Economic Reforms. The Indian Express in its lead editorial attempted some clever deflection pn this debate. But these two pieces in the Wall Street Journal and in the Indian Express by Niranjan Rajyadhyaksha and Bibek Debroy have nailed the issue on

#1 Dr. Manmohan Singh’s capitulation to the Left Liberals in the Sonia Gandhi lead National Advisory Council

#2 Dr. Manmohan Singh’s failure to show political will in pursuing economic reforms

That the Prime Minister should have blundered in his press conference on this issue dragging Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi into the debate, is perhaps something the Congress will regret in the days to come.

For long the debate around Narendra Modi has centered on reinforcing negative stereotypes from 2002. For the first time the debate on Modi is where he exactly needs it to be on the central question of which political leader in India has demonstrated the will and the spine to pursue economic reforms.

While Mr. Modi is on the record having articulated a philosophy on the role of Government in economic affairs through “Minimum Government Maximum Governance” and through his speech at the BJP’s Governance Summit, he had not made it the central debating point of his political rhetoric. This blunder by Manmohan Singh offers the opening Narendra Modi has long needed.

While the next Lok Sabha election is some time away, Delhi could do with this central debate inside and outside Parliament. In fact the BJP could do even more with fewer distractions and sideshows. Mr. Advani’s out of turn pursuit and comments on issues like Black Money continue to contribute to this distraction. It is high time Mr. Advani retired gracefully and vacated the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat.

It would not be a bad idea at all for Narendra Modi to take to the Lok Sabha the debate on Manmohan Singh’s lack of political will and on Sonia Gandhi’s Left Liberalism.

Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi




The first slogan that he coined to capture the voters` imagination was "Apnu Gujarat, Agavun Gujarat or Our Gujarat, Unique Gujarat". Since 7th October 2001 has been the chief minister of the Indian state of Gujrat. He was promoted to the office following the defeat of the BJP in the elections. In December 2002, he won re-election as chief minister with 126 seats in the 182-member assembly. In the early 1990s, as elections organiser he participated in the rise to political dominance of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat.

Mr Narendra Modi was born on 17th September 1950, to a middle class family in the Mehsana district of Gujarat. During his student life, he displayed influential leadership qualities, and this was clearly seen when he successfully set up a new chapter of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, at that time it was a powerful national student body. This post-graduate in political science, Modi entered social life right at the beginning of his career, in the early seventies. He joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh as a young man in the year 1974. After that he became a full-time worker and organiser for it. During his engagement with RSS, he plunged into the anti-corruption movement. In the early 1980s, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the brigde between the RSS and the BJP.

Modi was recognized as the master planner between 1988 and 1995, who had successfully carried out the necessary groundwork for making BJP the ruling party of the state. The responsibility of organizing two crucial national events were entrusted to Narendra Modi during this period - the Somnath to Ayodhya Rath Yatra (a very long march) of Mr Advani and a similar march from Kanyakumari (the southern most part of India) to the troubled Kashmir in north.

To note a statement of Lal Krishna Advani, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party about Modi "a leader who, after being subjected to a malicious and prolonged campaign of vilification, has been able to impress even his critics with his determination, single-minded focus, integrity and a wide array of achievements in a relatively short time".

In the beginning, he was believed to be a back-room operator for the political party. He was made the National Secretary of the party in the year 1995, in charge of five major states in India. He was asked to head the government of Gujrat in the turmoil period (2001) of Gujrat, as the state was undergoing problems because of several natural calamities including the massive Gujarat Earthquake in January 2001.

In order to compensate for economic losses, Modi re-organised the government`s administrative structure. It was during his headship Gujarat registered the highest growth rate among all the states in India with a GDP growth rate of over 10%. Narendra Modi was credited by the Gujrat Government for reducing the fiscal deficiency of the state treasury by fifty percent and reducing the losses of the Gujarat State Electricity Board. It is his initiative with which the availability of electricity in many parts of rural Gujarat was increased in over 5,000 villages.

Successful raising of the height of the Narmada Dam from 95 to 110.64 metres is one of the most substantial accomplishments of his government that has been resulted in increased irrigation, water supplies and hydroelectric power. The increased height has resulted in waters finally flowing to practically all parts of the state. Several drinking water schemes, in addition, have been accomplished and the problem of water scarcity is nearly on its way to extermination. By over one hundred per cent, value of the agricultural production of Gujarat has grown during the first three years of the Narendra Modi`s government.

Narendra Modi is considered to be one of the most easily reachable political leaders in India. He is popular and progressive, tech-savvy and a true democrat, a poet and author of three books. For the 500,000 government employees in Gujarat, Modi has launched a motivated training programme. He is a leader who believes in teamwork. This initiative of him is being watched in admiration by every other state and is in for replication through out the nation. A true Karmayogi (doer), as he has been named Mr Modi refuses to be intimidated by catastrophes and turmoil and is effectively leading Gujrat to be one of the top states of India.. His trail-blasting efforts have afforded rich dividends for the economy of the state.

Narendra Modi has been awarded by `India Today` as the best chief minister twice in three years. Modi is considered front-runner in party`s leadership among the next generation of politicians. A section of society calls him "Chhotte Sardar" the next Sardar Patel who is most distinguished politician from Gujarat-State who is the architect of India with immeccable contribution to India`s freedom movement.

Narendra Modi is widely esteemed as a youthful and vigorous leader with innovative thoughts. Modi has communicated his vision successfully to the people of Gujarat and has been able to impart faith, trust and hope among the 50 million people of Gujarat. Image of the state as a preferred investment destination with the successful conclusion of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in January 2005, among global investors has taken a quantum leap. Mr Narendra Modi is adored as an able and visionary leader, wide cross section of the people of Gujarat, cutting across religions, income groups and even political affiliations. He is also admired as one who is successfully, significantly, extensively, transparently and persuasively uplifting the quality of their lives. A skilled narrator and an adroit negotiator, Mr Narendra Modi has earned the love and affection of people from villages and cities.

Sanjay Dutt meets Narendra Modi to discuss setting up of film studio in Gujarat

Sanjay Dutt meets Narendra Modi to discuss setting up of film studio in Gujarat

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had a special guest on Monday and it was none other than our very own 'Munnabhai' Sanjay Dutt. Before you start wondering whether this was some high prolife political meeting, let us assure you that it was not. Sanjay had in fact gone to meet Modi to discuss the prospect of setting up a film studio in the state of Gujarat.

Sanju Baba apparently has been mighty impressed with the way Gujarat has developed as a state over the last couple of years. He has also been toying with this idea of starting a state-of-the-art film studio for a while now. However with escalating costs and lack of spaces in Mumbai being a problem, Sanju thought of discussing the possibility of setting up the studio in the neighbouring state of Gujarat.

If this dream turns into a reality, you will suddenly see a host of Bollywood bigwigs making a dash to Gujarat every now and then.

Narendra Modi defines secularism at PBD meet

"A lot of people in this country have given different definitions of secularism. I too have a right to give my own definition," Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi [ Images ] said at a session of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Delhi [ Images ] on Sunday, while replying to a query by New Yorker Sanjay Sinha.

"For me the definition of secularism is very simple: India [ Images ] first. That's it," Modi said, getting a huge round of applause from the NRIs, mostly Gujaratis, while addressing the state session at the 9th edition of the PBD that ended on Sunday.

The Gujarat CM was in a pretty laudatory mood when it came to his style of governance but was at his acerbic best while rebuking the media for ignoring the good work that the state is doing and highlighting negative issues.

"I'm very happy that you asked me this question," he told Sinha while replying to his query seeking the CM's thoughts on secularism.

"The media people want some masala (sensation) and I think they will get it now. Till now they were sleeping (while he spoke about various good governance schemes started by his state). Now, see how they have woken up from their sleep," he said leading to a round of applause and laughter from the assembled NRIs.

Earlier, in his address, he said that Gujarat has focused its attention on good governance. It was because of good governance, Modi said, that Gujarat has managed to steal the development march over other states despite the destructive earthquake that struck Bhuj on January 26, 2001.

"The real test of good governance is its grievance redressal system," he said. "That should be at the root any democratic system that people should not only be able to voice their problems freely but also get their problems solved quickly."

Praising his administration, he charted out three initiatives that has led to a sharp decrease in pendency of legal cases in various Gujarat court.

"Before starting this initiative, Gujarat had a pendency of 45 lakh (4.5 million cases). Had we let that continue, by now it would have ballooned to 1.5 crore cases. But because of the efforts of the state government and judiciary it has now come down to 18 lakh cases (1.8 million). We are running 100 evening courts and the entire judiciary too is working for extra hours," he said.

To solve the legal issues of the people of Gujarat his government took three initiatives, he said.

"One, we requested our courts to increase their working hours by 30 minutes to which they agreed. Secondly, we asked them if our courts could reduce the duration of their vacation by a week; that too was accepted happily.

"The third thing was our courts' infrastructure would lie idle after 5 pm. In a poor nation like ours, idling of such infrastructure is a huge waste of resources. So we started evening court sessions from 6 pm to 10 pm where people who work through the day but still have to appear before various courts for their cases could easily appear after completing their office hours. Thus poor people in Gujarat earn their livelihood in the daytime and appear in the court in the evening," he said.