Man With Mission

Kumar Pankaj

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The book 'A Man with A Mission' is a comprehensive product of media reports on Modi and his charismatic popularity. He indeed influenced the media the most. People would of course love to know the aspects of his personality and his charismatic life of action. This book therefore focuses more on what and how did Modi perform in public service than on his personal life. It's because I always believed that more than one's personal life, people are interested to know an individual's professional style of functioning. I, therefore, have tried to assimilate in this book Modi's style of professional functioning and experience while throwing light onto his personality. I have taken for reference all those aspects which media focused on Modi's political life.

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• Lettres et linguistique

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• Publié par: Diamond Books
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 0001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789352615667
• Langue: English

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A Man With Mission
NARENDRA MODI
 

 
eISBN: 978-93-5261-566-7
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A M AN W ITH A M ISSION N ARENDRA M ODI
By - Kumar Pankaj
The Quote of All Times
“I was not made the Chief Minister of this state (Gujarat) with effect from October 2001. Indeed I am the CM right from the beginning (of my life). I am the CM today, so will I remain the CM tomorrow, because by the acronym ‘CM’, I mean the ‘Common Man’.”
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi or the Common Man
After he won the elections in the year 2001, Narendra Modi made a witty comment : “I was not made the Chief Minister of this state of Gujarat with effect from October 2001. Indeed I am the CM right from the beginning (of my life). I am the CM today, so will I remain the CM tomorrow, because by the acronym ‘CM’, I mean the ‘Common Man’.”
He was always in the news, everywhere, right from the media circle to the common people’s domain. Narendra Modi has proved himself as a common man and asserted that he shall work just like a common man. In 2001, when he was made the Chief Minister of the state, his was an image of an orthodox Hindu, but by his rule through the term he proved that the image was not true.
After the Godhra incident Narendra Modi was projected not as the hero of the state but a villain in disguise. However, the political pundits were proved wrong when he completed the full term setting an example of brilliant leadership. Indeed, rarely can one see the level of prosperity which Gujarat achieved through his development works during these five years. Consequently, Modi’s supporters base in the state expanded, even as the media projected his image different from the real.
Narendra Modi became the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the third time in a row. He wants to work just as common people do, and this can be said by evaluating the development works he did for the state. Often wittily he says, “If development works are being carried out in Gujarat, if the villages are provided with drinking water facilities, if each village gets a pukka road will one write on them that those are made for the Hindus or Muslims?” Development is for everybody in the state. Narendra Modi speaks of brotherhood and not of Hindutva. Media played up much of his Hindutva image, even as the reality about his is different.
All were eagerly following the results of elections in Gujarat Legislative Assembly Everybody was wondering whether Narendra Modi would again be returned to power? People of all faiths, be they Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs or Christians, were seen discussing this. Some said that looking at the popular outbursts against Narendra Modi, he would not be able to come back to power again. On one hand his supporters were selling his development works and on the other his opponents were building vote bank by playing up his Hindutva. None of the sides were able to understand the ground realities. There were gossips all around that the Congress would master more advantage this time than before. But none was able to gauze how much would that advantage be ahead of Modi’s party. They were only making wild guesses.
Similar points were being hotly discussed in offices of both parties, the Congress and the BJP. The strategists in both parties were busy at making people aware of what they thought the best. All it’s because the electoral battle in Gujarat had turned to be a battle between the Congress versus Narendra Modi and not against the BJP. All were of the opinion that within the BJP there were many disputes.
Narendra Modi declined to issue tickets to his party’s sitting MLAs. By doing that he did not refuse tickets to those who might turn up as his opponents within the party but to those who, he sensed, would be opposed to aspirations of people of the state. The Congress High Command had been watching these MLAs. The Congress believed that it would gain on the BJP seats in Gujarat if the BJP rebels joined the Congress. How this gain would indeed shape up in future was being wildly guessed however.
It was being seen that almost at all places in Gujarat there were people opposed to Narendra Modi. It is necessary to investigate where exactly such opposition was shaping up. The reality is, those disputes were not in Gujarat, but with those leaders in Delhi, whom Narendra Modi would not pay any attention, on whose dictates he was not willing to rule. Those leaders were indeed feeling bad about his stance. Why? Because they wanted that Narendra Modi work as their ‘special’ representative. That is why he wants to remain a ‘Common Man’.
His personal ambition is to remain a common man to all people and never become a ‘special’ to anybody. The leaders in Gujarat who love to play political games ensconced in air-conditioned recluses was feeling outraged by Modi’s stance. There was no term as ‘Common Man” for them. They were only looking for some entry points to power. Unlike them, Modi understood the common people’s nerve. He concentrated only on development works in Gujarat. That tells why to him always the primary concern was to create opportunities for the common people.
In the year 2002, the Chief Minister of the state took up development works in 18,000 villages in Gujarat as his primary duty. It was also the time for the panchayat polls in the state. Modi cleverly declared that a village which would elect its sanpanch unanimously would be allocated additional Rs One lakh for its development works. The result was, the conscientious polity in most villages in Gujarat accepted Modi’s terms and Modi, the Chief Minister, became successful in his mission to give a direction to his development projects.
In his personal life Modi is a simple man. Even after becoming the Chief Minister, his official residence seldom gets the rush of people of types similar to those usually seen at residence of all other Chief Ministers of the country. People have easy access to his residence because he is a common man to all and not ‘special’ to anybody.
Some however call him an adamant politician, though they fail to prove it. His nature is, he tells only what he wants to, and tells them in fewer terms.
Those who call him adamant say that because of his tone and tenor which ooze out of his personality.
Personally I never got the chance to have a long discussion with Narendra Modi. Nevertheless, twice or thrice I got the luck to speak to him, that too at Press Conferences. Every time I met him it was a simple meeting. He replied to scribes’ questions in precise expression. Never once was there an attempt to exaggerate on any issue. Always he spoke in the common man’s tongue and never he failed to impress upon us that he was with his people and, therefore, there were no qualms about disputes.
Many news items have been written on Narendra Modi. I also got an opportunity to visit Gujarat after the Godhra carnage. Never among people in Gujarat had I come across opposition to Narendra Modi, much as I found in Delhi. I found that people there were very happy with Modi owing to his development works, and in Delhi people were unhappy simply because why common people were happy with him there.
As of now, Narendra Modi has become the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the third time. Before and after his swearing- in, the media persons had expressed many kinds of apprehension about him. I received an SMS on the very day of Gujarat polls which said “Modi is out’, meaning that ‘Modi is on the verge of defeat and the Congress was all set to form the next government’. Similar messages were received by many of my colleagues from other organisations. The media was emphatically debating that probably Modi would lose elections this time, and that the Congress would be able to form the government in Gujarat. The argument which was advanced to support this hypothesis was the belief that there was no important leader with Modi in Gujarat and all heavyweights were opposed to him.
However, Modi was confident that people were with him and that he only would come out victorious in the elections. Even during the polls, he avidly exuded undaunted confidence that surprised his opponents. One thing was very much clear that the man who struggles all his life and reaches the pinnacle of success, always vibrates with confidence, because this confidence is the truth churned out of all his struggles in life. This is the reason why he is widely discussed all over the length and breadth of the country, and also in the world political diaspora.
It is people who inspired Modi to work with a vision and today he is aptly called ‘a man with a mission’. What will he do in the coming five years, lies in the womb of the future, but whatever he did during his last two terms are but charismatic. It’s because Gujaratis are wealthy and they have a leader who constantly thinks about how to make them wealthier. The level of development, which Gujarat could not achieve during over 50 years after Independence, has been achieved in five years last. This has been made possible due to his foresight. His charismatic personality accomplished those successes in public service which ordinarily every public servant should have tried and achieved.
The book ‘A Man with A Mission’ is a comprehensive product of media reports on Modi and his charismatic popularity. He indeed influenced the media the most. People would of course love to know the aspects of his personality and his charismatic life of action. This book therefore focuses more on what and how did Modi perform in public service than on his personal life. It’s because I always believed that more than one’s personal life, people are interested to know an individual’s professional style of functioning. I, therefore, have tried to assimilate in this book Modi’s style of professional functioning an