Mere sloganeering will not make our country great

Our media is in habit of showing and discussing the speeches of politicians. Browse any news channel and you will find news channel showing what Politicians said. Just try to recall any of the speech and you will realize that Politician spoke just about future plans as well as what is needed to be done but nobody talks about the task in hand and accomplishments.

9 out of 10 time media informs us what is in pipeline i.e future dream.  “Plan” doesn’t change our life, its “actual” which changes our life”.

Most unfortunate thing is that maximum TRP is recorded for controversy and allegations. How indifferences and controversies of Politian is going to help our country to fight with numerous challenges?News channels have changed into entertainment channel because people don't care for actual news.

Mere sloganeering will not make our country great. Execution is key of success.

Attention to the execution will bring desired changes. We have no dearth of schemes, policies and ideas but these things doesn't changes in due to absence of proper executions.

It would be great service to the nation if media focuses more on informing about jobs done by Politicians rather than broadcasting their hollow promises.

Let's raise the question on non fulfilled promises made by Politicians so that in future they must think thrice before doing hollow promises.

Appraisal of politicians must be based on improvements done by him but not on his speech.

"One gram of action is better than tons of talk"

Jai Hind!!

Manoj Tripathi

(Views are personal)

Missing of Bigger picture is good or bad?

“One gram of action is better than tons of talking”.

I read this quote recently and saluted the person who wrote this beautiful line.

In our life, we spend majority of time and energy in suggesting others how to improve and do better. We enjoy and feel patriotic in giving zillion suggestions to Modi and Dhoni that too while sipping tea at corner shop of neighborhood. The best part is that we become petitioner, advocate as well judge. Usual conclusion is “system is bad”.

There is nothing wrong in fault finding and giving suggestions but it is futile if the recipient is not present in front of you. No doubt that we feel frustrated and suffocated when things don’t go the way we expect.

Unfortunately our country is facing much more challenges than any other part of the world. Cribbing, cursing and feeling dejected are not going to change anything. Yes, those will draw attention but mere drawing attention is not going to bring solution.

Yesterday during the lunch in office canteen, my colleague showed concern about Brexit and also gave his opinion that Union and State Govt elections should be carried out together. When he asked my opinion, I simply said what’s point in discussing something which is not in our hand.

He said, “Manoj, the problem is that you don’t see bigger picture”.

I responded nonchalantly, “its pixels those join together in millions while making bigger HD picture. Unless we join the pixels by our little efforts, it is always difficult to get the bigger picture. It is imperative that if everybody does his bit then there is no reason why we can’t excel in every walk of life.

Like every responsible and patriotic citizen I also expect our top leaders to deliver on numerous issues. In the weekend I did a small experiment, I went to municipality office and offered my voluntarily service of training clerical staff about how to use advance excel tools. I guaranteed that efficiency of staff will go up drastically. It took only half an hour to teach them how to use VLOOKUP and how to apply Pivot table. It was nothing less than miracle for them to know that what it used to take hours can be done in minutes. They were very happy and I was also happy to contribute in their efficiency improvement. I also offered Municipal commissioner my expertise of call center set-up to record public grievances (again on purely voluntarily basis). He was visibly happy to take my help.

While coming from Municipality office I saw few kids playing cricket in a small ground. I stopped for a while and enjoyed watching their game. They were of the age of approx. 10-12 years. One boy in red shirt was batting well but was struggling to play over pitched balls. I realized that he had kept his both hands very close on the handle of bat. I went to him and suggested to make gap between both hands so that he can have flexibility as well as control while playing.

One day that boy suddenly met me in the market and thanked me for my suggestion which helped him a lot to negotiate good length deliveries. I felt happy that my little effort has brought some result.

“We may not be able to change the world but certainly we can change somebody’s world”.

I have pledged that weekly at least one good thing (however insignificant it may be) I will do which will help my country to move one baby step ahead. 

Are you willing to do the same or you want to focus on bigger picture?

Choice is up to you!!

 

Jai hind!!

Manoj Tripathi

(The article is my personal view and there is no intention to hurt sentiment of any person /cast / community/party)

9 Ideas for elimination of corruption and increasing efficiency

9 Ideas for elimination of corruption and increasing efficiency

 Even after 70 years of Independence, more than 20 crore Indians are living below poverty line ( BPL). The kind of abject poverty that poor of our country are facing is even worse than sub-Sahara African countries. The condition of those who are above poverty line is not very good either. Isn’t it shameful for us?  Not that efforts are not being made, but corruption has punctured all the efforts.

 Government as well as we have to take many honest steps to tackle problem of corruption. I have managed to put across some ideas:

 1. There are hundreds of Government policies going on like Skill India, Jan Dhan Yojana, Mudra Yojna, MNREGA, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna,UDAY,PAHAL, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Start up India, Digital India, NRHM, Sarv Shikha Abhiyan, Namami Gange, Atal pension Yojna, Mid-day meal etc. First of all, most of citizen doesn't know if such schemes exist. If some of us  have heard about such schemes, then we don’t know how to take advantage of these schemes. Therefore lets make people aware of their rights. Government must use print/electronic/digital media to spread awareness level (currently it’s happening but in bits & pieces) . RTI is an excellent medium of curbing corruption. How many of us utilize RTI? Word of mouth publicity is cheapest and most effective. For getting word of mouth publicity, WOW factor must be there in the scheme. For example currently maximum return (9.2% ROI) is available in “Beti Bacho Beti Padhao scheme”. We Indians love boosting ourselves by showing our knowledge, let us share the knowledge about this scheme. Awareness will lead to push the system for better facilities.

 2. Government must start taking people’s feedback more extensively. Recently Indian Railway has started taking telephonic feedback about its facilities. This is excellent initiative to know real time problem. Similarly I would request Government to implement the feedback system for all Government related services like feedback of Govt hospital facilities, Govt School’s education quality, RTO related services, feedback about municipal corporation, electricity department, water supply, police department etc. This will give a fair idea of systemic inefficiencies. The fear of adverse feedback will keep Government servants on their toes.

 3. How many times do we ask for receipt of our purchase from shopkeeper? Currently people don’t know importance of taking purchase receipt. Culture of taking receipt can help our country to curb  tax avoidance by businessmen. How we can develop this culture? Two things are required, 1st is awareness of importance of receipt and 2nd is rewarding people who take receipt. Recently Delhi Govt has started unique scheme. In the scheme, consumer only needs to upload the receipt through mobile application and then in lucky draw he can get 5 times refund. Why can’t similar ideas be rolled across India?

 4. Getting work done by Government department is  herculean task. Many times, delay is deliberately done by Government servants as tactics to take bribe. Sitting on the file is big disease in our country, this is source of corruption and also delays the progress of country. Why can’t the Government start using Barcode technology to know the status of file and exact time taken at each stage of file clearance?


 5. Any idea what your Member of Parliament is doing? You will fail to recollect his top 5 contribution in last 2-3 years.  They represent on an average 30 Lac population. There are thousands of problem on which they are supposed to work. You may have some clue of his work through his social media presence or some big achievements but what about rest of things. How a common man will come to know contribution of his MP? Just imagine, he might be leading a delegation of MSMEs to finance ministry, he might have given representation to pollution department about growing river pollution complaints, and he might be reviewing implementation of various Govt schemes with District Collector. He might be listening complaints of his citizen inconvenience and apathy of Govt departments.  These are the things which are not covered in media. Don’t you think there should be individual website to track each and every action of MP where he should submit list of issues, his proposals, action and his achievements in excel format? Is there any sort of Key Result Areas ( KRA) defined for MPs? Let him submit plan vs actual or in other words plan vs status. Currently politicians do divert the attention of people through raising non issues. Let’s don’t allow them to divert attention. If they know that public is closely monitoring his working then MPs would have to pay deeper attention on their working style.



6. Corruption is nothing but taking advantage of systemic loopholes. Today in running train, TTE gives confirm birth to general ticket holder by taking bribe while RAC/Waitlisted passengers in same bogie doesn't get. Just imagine if there is digital tracking i.e TTE has to update PNR number of passenger in the portable device whom he has given seat, the central control room will get to know that TTE has bypassed 4 RAC/Waitlisted passengers and given seat to unreserved ticket holder. TTE would not like to lose his job hence he would not bypass the system (Because he would be caught). Similarly my sincere advice to Govt is to plug loopholes like IT exemption to farmers, incentive to exporters where Govt servant does compliance audit (why to give opportunity to rich exporter to bribe Govt Babus for undue favour?)




7. Awareness among common people about of Government welfare fund utilization will help to curb corruption immensely. Currently the unholy nexus converts Kuccha road of village into paved road on the paper and money is distributed among all stakeholders (Govt Servant, Village Sarpanch , local politicians and even with cross checking Govt auditors). Villagers doesn't know this entire thing hence don’t question or raise voice. Imagine if after completion of any development work there would be feedback SMS/Call to all residents of that village and same would be updated on the website, people would come to know that their village road is still Kuccha while as per Govt record it’s paved. People will come to know about such large scale corruption has happened and will question Sarpanch and stage protest.




8.There is CIBIL to know loan repayment score i.e credit worthiness. If a person defaults any loan repayment, in future he won’t be given loan by other banks. Loan taker afraid that in case of any default his name will reflect in CIBIL hence ensures smooth repayment history. This is beauty of seamless flow of information. Similarly let Govt  Babu’s honesty score should be freely available on the website. Any corruption case/record should reduce his score.



9. Do you know what are achievements of “Bal Sudhar Grih”, agriculture extension education office, basic Shikha Adhikari office, soil testing lab, housing board, pollution board, employment office, police department, jal board, food & supplies department etc ?. I bet you don’t know. Isn’t important that we must know what they are doing and with what efficiency? After all they are running on our taxes. They must be accountable to public. Let them inform their monthly/quarterly/yearly achievements. Let them come out with plan vs actual and success measurement. Let’s make them to work and put them on toes.

  

It’s not that these are easy to implement. Let’s give honest try. Transparency, accountability, use of IT, awareness and desire to achieve will help us to get our endeavor.

 “Jai Hind”

Manoj Tripathi

(Views are personal )

Real success of democracy.

 

Real success of democracy.

Difference of opinion, debate, opposition and criticism doesn’t makes democracy weak but makes it strong.

Off lately I have observed that people do take stand or make opinion on the issues/polices not on the basis of its merit or demerit but on the basis of party to which they support. Such people feel proud of being called as blind supporters.

Whatever ruling party takes decision, it’s blind supports do support that and it’s opposition party’s blind supports oppose that. This blind support or opposition can’t do well to us.

There is trend that when ruling party wants to bring any new bill in the parliament then opposition creates such an atmosphere that bill is anti-poor. (Opposition tries to get brownie points). The issue drags long and once after election the ruling party loses the election and erstwhile opposition forms Govt the stand of both the parties gets swapped. Ironically erstwhile opposition (now in Govt) starts supporting the old bill and erstwhile Govt (now in opposition) suddenly starts opposing the bill. This is clear cut example how parties keep their electoral benefits overs national interest in the mind.

All these will stop only when citizens are vigilant and aware of merits and demerits of issues/policies.

Unfortunately we are so occupied/divided in religious sentiments, cast equations, regionalism and in non-issues that we don’t evaluate our parties on the basis of consistent stand.

No person and no party can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong every time.

The day ruling party blind supports will start questioning Govt’s policies, Govt will think twice before any such policy. Similarly the day opposition party blind supporters will ask opposition party to stop crocodile tear, that will be real success of democracy.

Let’s ensure that every time India wins even if it means that some time your party has to loose.

 

“Jai Hind”

Manoj Tripathi

( Views are personal and articulated to make people understand the point well)

Golden opportunity for India to raise living standard of millions.

Golden opportunity for India to raise living standard of millions.

Our per capita income is meager $1820 vs approx. $36000 of developed countries. Simply it’s 20 times less than developed countries. As per IMF our per capita Income ranking is 139 among 184 countries.

How it impacts us?

An average Indian faces challenge of Inferior/congested roads, slow/delayed/filthy and overcrowded trains,  lack of public transport, lack of hospitals, lack of jobs, lack of justice, low life expectancy, week intelligence system, lack of sports facilities, lack of electricity, lack of sewerage/waste disposal system, lack of safe drinking water, lack of school/teachers, lack of social security coverage, lack of arms and ammunitions for armed forces, lack of insurance penetration, lack of policing and encounter with mass scale corruption.

Why so many multi challenges we do face? Obviously various reasons are there but most important reason is shortage of fund with Govt. Do you agree that Govt needs money to provide above all facilities? Off course the answer is yes. Govt gets money mainly from taxes paid by its citizens. If by & large, citizens are poor then it’s very difficult for Govt to collect huge tax. So challenge for relatively poor countries multiply manifold in absence of large fund basket.

So it’s vicious circle. Poor citizen leads to low tax collection and low tax collection leads to less money in hand of Govt and less money with Govt leads to inadequate facilities and inadequate facilities leads to poor national wealth creation and poor wealth creation keeps it’s citizen remain poor.

Only solution to this problem in injection of money in the system  hence Govt takes loan from IMF/World Bank/Asian development Bank etc and also promotes Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). With this additional money in hand Govt tries to strengthen country’s  fundamental  economic boosters like Electricity production, road & rail infrastructure development, research, healthcare and education so that these things supports rest wealth creating industries.

Currently economy in most parts of the world is in crisis. India has emerged has bright spot.  China is losing its’ grip over mass scale production on account of raising wages. India can become manufacturing hub while will create mass scale employment. If we are able to fix our problems then there is huge scope of FDI in India.

Let’s for the sake of more than 20 crore Indians who are living below poverty line, push ourselves little more. We must support GST bill, Land bill, labor reform, pension reform and insist on removal of red tapism.

This is golden opportunity for our country to raise living standard of millions.

Let’s debate, criticize, correct ourselves but move ahead.

Let’s do it!!

 

“Jai Hind”

Manoj Tripathi

(Views are personal)

Who is stopping development of economically backward districts of India?

Through the article, I tried to explain how corruption and ignorance leads to economic backwardness of some of districts in India.


The article appeared in business world online edition and it was received well


http://businessworld.in/article/Who-Is-Stopping-Development-Of-Economically-Backward-Districts-Of-India-/17-08-2017-124237/


Jai Hind !!
Manoj Tripathi

Politics as money making machine for corrupt businessmen

 

Politics as money making machine for corrupt businessmen

I recently heard that a businessman has spent approx. Rs 100 Cr for becoming Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha. Is he doing so much of sacrifice for welfare of society? The answer is off-course NO. He is doing this as business of making Rs 1000 Crore from mere investment of Rs 100 crore in next 3-4 years.

I am not against businessmen coming into politics but I am against them if they are coming in politics through bribing politicians.

How this businessman who spends Rs 100 Crore will make so much of money i.e how such high return is possible?

Let me tell you how he will do this miracle:

1. Becoming MP will give him opportunity to enter the politics through back door. All parties needs huge sum of money to fight election and doing marketing. This MP coming from business background will become star fund raiser from those businessmen who want favour from government ( favour means land allocation at through away prices, withdrawal of tax evasion charges, withdrawal of  income tax notices etc).
2. This MP will become liasoning agent between greedy businessmen and corrupt politicians. He will put pressure on PSUs for risky loans for his near & dear.
3. He will pass on vital future policy information to big corporates and in return he will get suitcase full of money.
4. He will influence appointment of top brass i.e Managing Director of PSUs, Vice Chancellor in Universities, Secretary in ministries etc.
5. He will get some success in appointing corrupt Babus in creamy postings. These Babus will twist and tweak system to return favour.
6. He will facilitate tender allocation with fix cut to him.
7. He will send clear signal to police and authorities to stay away from him so that he can continue his illegal activity of tax evasion, grain hoarding, illegal construction etc.
8. Lot many foreign companies wants to enter into Indian market but restriction in FDI makes it difficult for them. These companies target such businessmen turned Politician for intense lobbying. In return of lobbying politicians gets huge money.
9. Our country is growing very fast and urbanization is further increasing thus real estate sector grows rapidly. In cities the connectivity (Road/Metro/Flyover/Bridge) plays very important role in increase land prices of specific areas. These people know master plan of city much in advance, they purchase properties in those areas and after connectivity they sell those properties at multiple rates.

As common citizen of India, you might think that how all these things affect you. My simple answer to you is that corruption done by anybody is attempted to stop facilities reaching to you. Government is supposed to provide infrastructure, electricity, education, jobs, security, justice and healthcare etc. Are you getting them in letter & spirit? If No then who is eating away your share?

His every penny earned by corrupt ways will push our country backward.

“Know to say NO to corrupt system”

Awareness is biggest tool to fight corruption.

Jai Hind.

 

(Written by Manoj Tripathi)

Disclaimer : The views are personal and are not related to any specific person, organization or party.

Why we must oppose idea of Odd Even in Delhi?

I had written article on reason for opposing odd even in Delhi and suggested some solutions also.
The article appeared in business world online edition.


http://businessworld.in/article/Why-We-Must-Oppose-Idea-Of-Odd-Even-In-Delhi-/25-04-2016-97228/


Jai Hind!!
Manoj Tripathi

Punjab's slowing economy.

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To know why Punjab's economy is in trouble I did extensive research and written article on it.

The article appeared in Business World. 

http://businessworld.in/article/Punjab-s-Slowing-Economy/03-02-2017-112433/


Jai Hind!!
Manoj Tripathi

Freedom of speech and it's boundary: JNU row.

Freedom of speech and it's boundary: JNU row.

 

JNU row has 9 episodes.

 

1. Protest & resentment program on execution of Afzal Guru.

2. Anti-India slogans.

3. Expectation of Boundary-less Freedom of speech.

4. Sedition charge on Kanhaiya (Without proof).

5. Manhandling of Kanhaiya by lawyers.

6. Brushing entire JNU as anti-national institute.

7. Visit of Rahul to JNU.

8. Making Kanhaiya hero by media.

9. Consolidation of votes by Political parties.

 

Whatever happened in JNU is unfortunate.

Under no circumstances anti-India slogans and protest of Supreme Court verdict against terrorist ( Afzal Guru) can be ignored by hiding under umbrella of freedom of speech.

 

Looking at intensity of debate people have divided themselves in two groups.

 

Those who wants boundary-less freedom of speech and those who want boundary of freedom of speech. The problem is who will define boundary. First group (supporters of boundary less freedom of speech) also believe that there should be some boundary but they fear that BJP/RSS will forcefully make tighter boundary hence let's fight for limitless freedom of speech. They don't want to lose their point to that extent that they haven't criticized anti-India slogans. They have clubbed first 3 points together hence things have become further complicated.

 

Those who are opposed to first 3 points supports next 3 points and those who support first 3 points do oppose next 3 points. ( Just check the points for better clarity)

 

Two wrongs can't make one right. Let there be consensus that initial both episodes are totally wrong.

 

Here freedom of speech is main weapon for those who are supporting JNU students who were involved in the act.

 

Do you know that entire rules and regulations are there to define your boundary? IPC,CrPC and Motor vehicle act do tell what you must not do i.e they are there defining rules & boundary that you can't breach. Therefore entire police and judiciary is there to curb your so called "freedom". This is done so that to others can enjoy freedom ( by the way you are also part of that other). Let me make you understand. If you don't like anybody, can you hurt him? Can you publish currency? Can you over speed and drive on right side of road? Can you evade tax? The answer of all the points are no. These points shows that you are not free to do whatever you want. These kind of curbs are there so that society/nation can exist. Law is nothing but list of restrictions. We must respect them as they are there for greater benefit.

There is saying that "Your freedom ceases where my nose begins".

 

Therefore freedom of speech or expression must have boundaries otherwise it will become "Bhasmasur".

 

I know with this kind of view, proponent of free speech will get hurt. Their biggest problem is that how and who will define boundary. Their argument will be that today in the name of nationalism something has been stopped and tomorrow in the name of religion or in the name of hurting sentiments there will be slew of restrictions on free speech. I also have the same unforeseen fear but that doesn't means that today what wrong is happening should be supported to fight tomorrow's unforeseen fear.

 

To make things simple let me try to figure out some similarity between Traffic signal and boundary of freedom of speech.

 

Is traffic signal is good or bad? Obviously it's for good then why most of time when you are getting late, curse the traffic signal (because you feel that it's stop you).Traffic signals ensures nobody collides, it lets pass car from 1 direction at a time. Same works well for conflicting ideologies, ideas where all ideas are welcome but with restriction on speed ( read intensity) and direction ( read subject).The reality is that traffic signal stops you for good.

 

Hence having boundary of freedom of speech looks bad but it's actually for good.

 

When it comes about nation, let not divide ourselves. We have already paid for this for more than 700 years.

 

Let condemn all 9 episodes so that people who love country should win.

 

"Jai Hind"

Manoj Tripathi

 

Are you doing enough for those who are banking on you?

(This was written in May'15)

Are we doing enough for those who are banking on you?

I am worried that on the occasion of Modi led Government’s first anniversary, there will be so much of noise that real issues and solutions will take back seat.

Lip service will be at best. BJP will try to prove that tons of schemes are going to bring result in comings times while congress led opposition will try to prove Government’s all-round failure. Media will invite so called experts and they will give mix opinion over Government’s 1 year of work. Media will be busy in TRP race. Amidst of total chaos, citizens will feel dejected and frustrated.

Now lot of us who want to be called intellectuals will blame reckless media, corrupt politicians, insensitive judiciary and crony capitalism for all our problems.

They say “Literature is mirror of society”. Similarly what media is showing is what entertains people. If people give more weightage to Bollywood gossips and cricket discussion over news of people welfare schemes then who should be blamed?

A country which is home of 1/6th of humans on planet, with GDP per capital income of meagre $1808 with 131st rank, needs economic growth at much faster pace than rest of world. For last 4 years, the growth has come down drastically because of lack of economic activity in country. Question is why economic activity is low.  The answer is that in order to curb inflation, RBI tightens the monetary policy i.e increased rate of interest. Higher Interest rate discouraged credit hence domestic investors refrained from new investment. Entire economic cycle slowed down. Now who is responsible for drop in GDP growth? Is it RBI or inflation or investors? The answer is Inflation.

What is primary reason of inflation? The inflation is because of higher demand and low supply. While RBI’s fiscal policy tackles with demand side but who is tackling supply side? Ideally Government is responsible for increasing supply. Have you heard anything about Government’s efforts for increasing supply? Except few cosmetic efforts nothing is visible on the ground. This is really scary situation. We are on mercy of God (“Bhagwan Bharose”). Currently inflation has come down to CPI 4.87% but that’s because of lowering of demand. This is sign of weakness.

My appeal to spokesperson of various political parties, experts, journalists that everything can wait but just think of 280 million fellow countrymen who cannot afford to spend just Rs 20 on their medicine. For them sitting in autorikshaw is luxury. For them rain, summer and cold are much close to national calamity because they don’t have roof to protect them.

Remember we all are visitor to this planet with max life span of 90-100 years. Don’t fall in love with materialistic things.

Read somewhere these beautiful lines “People were created to be loved, things were created to be used; the reason why the world is in chaos right now is because things are being loved, and people are being used.”

Let’s do “something” for the sake of humanity.

Manoj Tripathi

50 Reasons behind Sri Narendra Modi’s emphatic win in 2014 union election in India

50 Reasons behind Sri Narendra Modi’s emphatic win in 2014 union election in India:
( This was written in May'14)

Modi channelized anti-incumbency votes of UPA Government’s 10 years of rule. People were disappointed with

UPA Government. The reason of disappointment:

1. Inflation: Inflation is something which bothers the citizen most. The worst part is that maximum inflation

noticed in Food and vegetable (Onion prices reached Rs 100) which affects poor and lower middle class

most. There was total failure of central govt to curb inflation which agitated people and hence people

wanted to teach a lesson to congress led govt in center.

2. Corruption: Corruption in UPA part II was major issue. This time corruption charges were levied by

constitutional bodies like CAG hence credibility of charges were quite high. It was not only one scam that

surfaced but series of scam like 2G, CWG, Coal Gate, Augusta Westland etc. The scale of scam was 1.76

lakh crore plus which made people to think if country is in right hand or not.

3. Economy slow down: When world economy started showing recovery then India’s economy started slowing

down. In order to curb inflation, RBI tried to tighten fiscal policy by increasing rate of borrowing which led

to lower investment and slowing down of economy. Lot of intellectual started saying that it’s policy

paralysis of central govt which led to no decision on more than Rs 6 lakh crore worth of project. Slowdown

in economy was visible through unemployment also.

4. Weakening of Rupee: Rupee is associated with nation’s pride. The way Rupee devalued in Aug’13 and reach

to Rs 68 per dollar made citizen’s to feel that Central Govt is ineffective.

5. Remote controlled PM: When country was facing challenges like inflation, corruption, economy slowdown

then PM was silent. The silence made people to think if PM is capable or not. The rumor of PM’s inability to

act on his own and his loyalty towards Ms. Sonia Gandhi termed as Puppet PM in the hand of Sonia Gandhi.

6. Pakistan beheaded 4 soldiers: In J&K, 4 Indian Soldiers were beheaded by Pakistan Army. Indian defense

minister could not get courage to allege that it was Pakistan Army who did this. He said in Parliament that

“Few men in Pakistan Army uniform did this condemnable act”. This incident gave a message to citizen

that current Govt is weak to defend India’s interest.

7. Rahul Gandhi’s inconsistency in news: Congress supporters wanted to project Mr. Rahul Gandhi as PM

candidate but inconsistency in news made people to think if Rahul Gandhi is capable or not. Also people

could not get to know his views on corruption, inflation, economy etc.

8. Corruption charges against Robert Vadra: Corruption charges against Robert Vadhra was first indicated by

Mr.Ashok Khemka,IAS in which Mr.Khemka made suspicion that there is fishy land deal of Mr.Vadra with

DLF. Media highlighted the news that Mr.Vadra made 300 crore from investment of just 1 lakh. Such news

and revelation given impression that Gandhi family is also involved in corruption hence there was question

mark on credibility of Gandhi Family and Govt.

9. FDI in retail: Central Govt allowed 100% FDI in retail. Though this step was taken quite positively by

economists but small traders and businessmen were afraid of losing employment. Still in rural India there is

notion that foreign companies do come to India to exploit India’s capital hence any move by Govt to

promote foreign players is seen at anti national activity.

10. Nirbhaya rape case in Delhi: Shiela Dixit and Suhil Kumar Shinde was main target for the unfortunate

incidence. Congress was in power in Delhi as well as in center hence faced the ire of people. People

wanted to teach lesson to congress for not able to provide security to women.

11. Congress’s inability to tell their good work: Though in last 10 years lot of good works done by UPA like RTI,

RTE, MNREGA etc. but they could not amplify their work.

Modi and BJP’s strength and strategy:

12. Modi was only nominated PM candidate in 2014 Election. Congress had lost credibility of providing

efficient govt and there was no 3rd alternative hence Modi got an edge over others.

13. Modi took advantage of Gujrat’s growth story. Gujrat’s agricultural growth, Industrial growth, better

infrastructure and 24 hours electricity was praised by many renowned economists. Amitabh Bachchan was

roped in as Gurjat’s tourism ambassador but people took it as his Gurjat Govt endorsement.

14. Modi had experience of more than 12 years as Chief Minister. Country was going through tough times

hence there was need for experienced and seasoned prime minister.

15. Modi’s nationalist, Hindutvavadi, pro-development, strong and aggressive leader image made him perfect

choice for PM.

16. Modi called Mr.Rahul Gandhi as as “Shahjada” and Ms.Sonia Gandhi as “Madam Sonia”. Shahjada means

prince i.e someone who becomes king automatically. Madam is word associated with British ladies of

before independence i.e someone who is outsider and far from ground reality. Both these nomenclature

left deep impression in the mind of general public.

17. Modi is known as very hard working person. This was evident through his more than 400 rallies across

country.

18. BJP is known as party of elite class and middle class. To overcome this, BJP roped-in Dalit leaders like

Ramvilas Paswan and Udit raj. This attracted dalit voters towards BJP.

19. There are lot of migrant labourers from UP and Bihar who do work in Gujrat. Usually they belong to

backward cast which is not known as pro BJP. They were quite happy to see Gujrat’s progress and they

became brand ambassadors of Modi in their own village in UP/Bihar. Obviously villagers will believe their

fellow men who praised Modi as Chief Minister and this given confidence that Modi will work for

development. UP and Bihar is looking desperately for development hence this thing worked for Modi.

20. Media support to Modi was incredible. The unprecedented media support helped Modi Wave to turn into

Sunami.

21. AAP played crucial role to sensitize people that it’s time for change but just before election the failure of

AAP left no other alternative other than to vote for Modi.

22. Election commission and media tried their best to increase Vote %. Such campaign brought lot of middle

class voters to polling booth who were not so participative in electoral process. Middle class is known as

supporter of BJP hence Modi got advantage of EC and Media’s efforts.

23. Modi utilized Social media very well. Through social media he connected with youth and also given

message that he is new generation politician.

24. Youth associated with Modi in 2014 election. The reason was relatively younger age of Modi and Modi’s

image of aggressive and decisive leader.

25. There was full backing of RSS to Modi. RSS has got deep routes inside the rural India and RSS pracharak

becoming PM was big motivation for RSS members.

26. Modi didn’t remorse on the Gujrat riot. This made his image as man of strong determination. Lot of

fundamentalist voters especially in rural area liked this image.

27. Modi encashed image of tea seller very well. The poor and lower middle class started feeling connected

with him.

28. Modi belong to OBC. Though he was not very vocal about his cast but in last phase of election he used OBC

card and that worked for him in UP upto some extent.

29. Modi kept very good strategist with him. There was team of around 30 people who kept him informed

about the updates and made strategy for him like where to do rally and which issue to raise and when.

30. Modi spoke very relevant topics during his rallies like he raised issue of electricity in UP. Such burning

topics helped him to establish himself as leader from grass root who knows the common problem.

31. Modi’s decision of fighting election from Varanasi worked well. People of UP started connecting with him

also Varanasi is known as centre of Hindutva so without emphasizing much of Ayodhya temple issue he

was able to retain his hindutvadi image, also eastern UP is under developed hence people of eastern UP

got motivated to make him India’s PM for their better future.

32. Slogans like “Abki baar modi Sarkar”, “Acche din aane wale hain” and “Sabka saath sabka vikas” and

promotion of Statue of unity worked well.

33. Clean image of Modi helped him. No allegation of corruption on him.

34. Muzzafarnagar riot and transfer of Durga Shakti Nagpal labelled SP govt as anti-Hindu and over

interference of Mr.Azam Khan in UP’s law and order also made lot of hindu voters pro BJP.

35. Too much focus of opposition parties to attract minority vote did reverse polarization in favour of Modi.

36. Vajpayee’s infrastructural work especially Golden Quadrilateral has being received well among citizen.

Modi got benefit of NDA’s earlier stint work.

37. Opinion polls gave NDA an edge over others. People were fed-up with coalition govt hence they wanted to

have strong govt. once opinion polls projected BJP as single largest party then lot of local politicians

decided to support BJP so that they can enjoy the privilege of being part of ruling govt. Also fence seater

voters also decided to vote for BJP because they don’t want to waste their precious vote.

38. Anna and AAP movement had made ground for non-congress Govt. Lot of people who were not

participating in election process were inspired by the movement and realized the importance of their vote.

Most of such people ended up voting in favour of BJP.

39. The support from Kiran Bedi, Baba Ramdev, Retd Gen V.K Singh ,Ex-Mumbai commissioner Satyapal and

ex-home secretary Mr.R.K Sinha helped BJP to project as choice of intellectual.

40. Failure of regional parties i.e people were not happy with regional parties performance in their own state i.e

Samajvadi party lost ground, National conference failure in J&K. Actually people were fed-up with coalition

govt hence this they wanted clear majority. BJP was front runner hence got advantage of anit coalition

mood of nation.

41. BJP was backed by corporate world. Corporate world’s support was taken positively by urban youth.

42. Cable TV reach and mobile communication has increased in rural areas hence rural people were much

more informed about poor performance of central govt.

43. Supreme Court appointed SIT given clean chit to Modi just before the election and this left opposition

speechless and Modi supporters enchased this opportunity.

44. Minority i.e Muslim support slightly increased towards BJP , also this time vote consolidation of Muslim

vote didn’t happened so much which helped BJP.

45. BJP has got strong leadership in big states like MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh which is very popular.

46. Program like “Satyamev Jayate” anchored by Amir Khan exposed systemic failure of Govt. This added fuel

to anti-incumbency mood of people.

47. Ground level work by leaders like Amit Shah who focused on booth level to motivate his party members

and voters to bring change in country.

48. Modi did Politics of hope and politics of change which depressed people of this country wanted.

49. Young generation is coming out of cast based politics because they are now watching the world on bigger

canvas hence they are not limiting themselves to cast. This thing weakens the regional parties and BJP got

benefit out of this.

50. The last but not least, there is technically no family baggage of Mr.Modi hence there is general perception

that there will be no motive of him for doing corruption which is burning issue of nation.

Written by Manoj Tripathi

Manoj_273@yahoo.com

Disclaimer:

The views written in the article are individual. The purpose is not to hurt sentiment of any person/cast/religion.

No inference or conclusion to be drawn out of this article.