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From a tea vendor to the Prime Minister is certainly a matter
of pride. Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi is such a person. From such a
person, the upper-middle classes to lower middle classes and the lower strata
of society naturally expects many favours when he is catapulted to the chair at
helm. Even while he and his party won three times and he was unanimously elected
Chief Minister of his home State, Gujarat. The erstwhile - tea vendor after
assuming Chief Ministership turned pro-corporate by inviting ‘big cats’ like
Ambani, Adani, Tata and many other billionaires, millionaires and crorepatis to
invest in Gujarat. While they turned more and more fatter and those at the
bottom of the ladder turned more and more leaner.
His trade-secret always is whenever elections are round the
corner he turns pro-poor and offers them promises galore and takes a pledge to
lift them from the ditch of hunger, poverty and under nourishment and
unemployment at the earliest.
The poor always take the promises for granted and cast their
valuable votes for the ‘Lotus’ and ensure his victory at the hustings.
After winning the elections and becoming (Chief Minister of
Gujarat) and Prime Minister of the nation he suffers from ‘selective amnesia’
and instead corporates, both Indians and multinationals abroad visit India and
plead with them to invest in various areas offering attractive ‘packages’.
Like during the Assembly elections in Gujarat, 16th
General Elections Mr.Modi was entrusted with the duty of campaigning for the
party by conducting whirlwind tours across the country by the BJP leaders (if
not all) and Sangh Parivar Heads at Nagpur and subsequently at their behest he
was selected for the post of Prime Minister in case Bharatiya Janata Party
emerges victorious.
Bharatiya Janata Party under Narendra Modi chose to canvass
votes about six months in advance which attracted lakhs of electorate to listen
to the oratorical skills of Mr.Modi and got attracted to him. In addition to
that he chose to begin his canvassing by shedding crocodile tears over the
plight of poor and took the pledge to better their future if he was elected as
the Prime Minister.
Believing his words they voted en masse for him to ensure his victory.
Thus Mr.Modi assumed power at the helm of the nation.
Soon came Assembly elections for five States and there too
he took out his trump card of talking about the hunger and poverty of those at
the low strata of society.
Now that Delhi is caught in election fever and it is going
to be a bitter fight between BJP and Aam Admi Party.
Mr.Modi the other day jumped into the election campaign
along with his supporters. Though he chose not to name AAP on reading between
the lines, we can very well come to the conclusion that he was making a reference
to the AAP. In a scathing attack he pointed his finger to the treachery by the
bitter enemy by resigning after 49 days in power and for not implementing
virtually nothing for the poor and middle-class .
Modi’s trade secret of shedding tears for the poor men, women,
children and middle class and his promises to wipe away their hunger, poverty,
unemployment and assurances to them that all roofless people of Delhi would be provided
with accommodation.
How come we take his
words for granted?
