Readers and our
editor may feel anything written on the above as pure politics of right wing as
labeled by the left and the so called elite of our country, LIC pensioners not
excluded. In this context, I recall exhortation by the TU bigwigs in LIC, not
in distant past, to the members to not merely confine to their wages, bonus and
other fringe benefits but participate in the politics for bettering the lives
of less fortunate unorganized masses without whose support, even a militant TU
movement also can't achieve the most justifiable demands for its workers. They
went on to incite their members to take to political movement initially in
activists meeting subsequently have not hesitated to publicly egging on
members by saying politics was not untouchable and on the other hand, DA,
BASIC, HRA, ALLOWANCES and FRINGE BENEFITS are got or lost only by politics
whether liked by members or not. Today's situation is not different that even
for pensioners, that whether they like or not the political decisions taken by
GOVT. to demonetize or relax Income Tax rules affect the community. And I
recently came across a mention in the chat column that militant struggle by
employees of LIC, in service, for realizing upgraded pensions if the legal
battle still drags, as the remedy. It is increasingly becoming difficult to
mobilize employees into struggles by TUs across India for realization of their
own domestic demands. I feel it is just impossible to even propose the same to
the employees, forget, roping them into any struggle of pensioners. On the
contrary our pensioners out of old loyalties continue to participate in their
struggles.
Be that as it may,
coming to the magic of MODI, I am, as an astute follower of Indian politics in
some detail for quite some time, simply overawed by Modi. I believe so do
many millions across the planet earth. Modi is several years younger than most
of our pensioners, less educated in terms of academics, less richer than
perhaps all of us before he was spotted and catapulted to become CM of Gujarat
by another charismatic leader of India, Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, now acclaimed
as one of the best world leaders of current times. Amazing, is the advancement
by a person drawn from such modest/poor background with in a very short span of
15 years from 2002. Everyone wonders at this rapid growth of a person in any
field much less in cutthroat politics.
What, many of
us fail to connect Modi with, is that India is a country of spirituality
and renunciation is the highest peak in the path, to which belongs Modi, the
indefatigable. His energy levels both physically and emotionally are beyond the
comprehension of onlookers to undertake such huge ground covering in elections
and globe tottering afterwards. The entire opposition in India, though not
united always on all issues or in all elections but is one hundred per cent
united to criticize or personally abuse mostly uncharitable and unmindful of
the minimum culture expected of them to at least respect the post of Prime
Minister of India. Modi singlehandedly takes on the venomous and vicious
propaganda against him and against his party. Hounded by brand Modi as mouth ka
saudagar and butcher by almost all political outfits in the country, to
steadily replaced it with his political style, a pro poor Brand Modi, is
incredible and beyond description. To rewrite a new record of performance in UP
and yet advise cadre to shed any arrogance and own all people who voted, not
voted and opposed him or his party is only possible only with a statesman. But
his gait belies outwardly the statesmanship and we do not know what his inner
being is?
To come to grips
with the complex problems of multi lingual, multi cultured and divided millions
of people on cast creed and religion, of India and to actually deliver or
convince about impending deliverance and win their confidence to galvanize vote
for his party, without his direct role play in the set up, in such
mammoth size, is not only mind boggling but an effort of superhuman proportions
and unprecedented. He finally said in the victory address that he or his
party may do wrong out of ignorance but never with wrong intentions, a plain
talk that endears every citizen to him. If intentions of the leader are good
wellbeing to people follows automatically. Going by the trend of the elections
in our country, MODI looks unstoppable for some time to come, which is why he
is talking about 75 years of independence of India in 2022 already, leaving or
taking for granted electoral battle in 2019.
With greetings,
G K VISWANATHAM