Numerology is often sought by individuals, organizations and even nations to enhance their fortunes. In the upcoming General Elections 2024, the ruling BJP party under the dynamic leadership of Shri. Narendra Modi, seeks a grand mandate of 400+ to bolster India into the exclusive league of superpower nations.
When rockets ascend to space, the engines need enormous power to overcome gravitational pull, and is known as escape velocity. Similarly, nations, especially democracies, need overwhelming brute majority to steer themselves, into achieving new milestones and land marks. Resistance comes in multifarious forms and guises funded and propped up by inimical nations, jealous nations and problematic neighbouring nations. Bharat is besieged by all these forces internally and externally, operating as NGO’s, philanthropists, foreign religious institutions, media houses, student- organizations, advocates and opposition parties. The strategy is always to create roadblocks in the form of judicial intervention, citing human rights, environmental, corruption, religion, transparency, and accountability issues. A weak leader at the helm of affairs, guarantees, subservience to Western dominance, which is always scouting for weak stooges, who will willingly serve their interests. Ukraine is a typical example of Western selfish interests, sinking an entire nation into misery and an unwanted humanitarian crisis, by merely propping up a comedian as the leader. A similar trap is being designed for India, as Westerners want to thrust a buffoon of a political family, as the sole challenger to Narendra Modi. Just as individuals resent the success of another person, nations also keep plotting the downfall of countries that are on a growth trajectory.
Despite touting advanced universities, schools of public policy, political leadership and economics, Western nations are suddenly facing the grim scenario of total lack of political leadership. USA is a concrete example of a leaderless nation going to the polls. Voters are having Hobson’s choice, in the upcoming presidential polls, two aged personalities, struggling to grab the President’s post. Most European nations are sharing a similar plight, economies on the downslide, spectre of hyperinflation, unemployment and tensions caused by alien immigrants bent on destroying European culture. Countries that produced galaxies of stalwarts like Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Bismarck, and Churchill, are unable to decipher why they are unable to find a leader?
On the contrary, Asia is seeing the rise of strong leaders – Narendra Modi in India, Xi Jinping in China, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in Dubai, Kim Jong Un of North Korea and Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia. However, in this cluster, it is only Narendra Modi, who is having to face the ordeal of a democratic election, seeking the mandate to continue his development agenda. How easy it is for forces wanting to halt Bharat’s progress!
Pitched against Narendra Modi are a formidable collection of rapaciously greedy political families, extending from Kashmir to Tamilnadu and Maharashtra to Assam. For innumerable decades, most of these political families have been thriving on brazen embezzlement of public funds, as T.S. Eliot puts it “Public policy is a private profit”. Engaging such entities by inimical foreign powers is a relatively simple task. The electorate itself stands deeply fractured on the basis of religion, denominations, castes, languages, and religions which specialize in bulk trading of votes. It is a battle between communities for political supremacy, based on numerical strength in a region. Elections become just a game of numbers. Sadly, the agenda of development of the nation is not prioritized. The nation’s borders are highly volatile and can get escalated into an internecine war at short notice. Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan are all live examples happening around us. If the electorate swings in the wrong direction, the development agenda will go for a toss, and foreigners will celebrate.
Instead of pitching in to boost the earnings of political families, the electorate needs to spare a thought about the future prospects of their progeny. Development should not be measured using the yardstick of students going abroad for higher studies, availing bank loans, seeking employment and ultimately foreign citizenship. Happenings in Europe, Canada and USA portend uneasy times for immigrants in the future. Developing one’s own motherland is the best option, this is what Narendra Modi is focusing on.
Educating the youth, empowering women, industrialization, upgrading the defence forces, national security, and food security, are paramount areas, that has engaged Narendra Modi’s initiatives. But many roadblocks need to be removed to go into full gear for the nation’s development. The critical need is for an overwhelming mandate of 400+ seats in the upcoming elections. The population of the Southern States of Bharat and Bengal have been assiduously clinging on to a few political leaders, their families, enriching them beyond imagination, by nonchalance, at their corruption, chicanery, involvement in massive drug-trafficking, money laundering, facilitating entry of infiltrators, arranging secluded enclaves for them in exchange for bulk votes, and other fissiparous activities including terrorism. This does not forebode well for the nation.
The Chinese in the past used to call Bharat as ‘Tianzhu’ (the Center of Heaven), for the Japanese it was ‘Tenjiku’ (Heaven), the Arabs thrived on the plunder from Bharat, and European nations were vying and fighting with each other to share the Indian pie (it is a different story that those who came to trade, donned the mantle of conqueror). In the ancient world and in the medieval period, Bharat was numero uno among the comity of nations. The British plundered us in every possible way, and they left, messing up every inch of land border, geography, and identities, which even after 77 years of Independence, continues to create wars, conflicts and skirmishes. The enemy is alert, watching and awaiting the electoral verdict. A fractured mandate, an insufficient mandate, will give the enemy an upper hand, a mandate of 400+ will send shivers down the spine of every detractor. Narendra Modi will be the uncaged lion. Bharat will be once again ‘Tianzhu’.
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