The first thing that caught my attention was the debilitating Ideological Politics,i wonder whether it ever existed after the introduction of coalition system, in the wake of Opportunistic politics.Machiavellianism is a rife but all for personal gains.Its not that i am cynical about everyone involved with the Indian polity.Save few and your hand is full of all those Machiavellies.
Anyways, most prominent parties campaigning vigorously are Centrists' congress, with there 'jai ho', rightists' BJP playing ideal opposition with their "Bhay Ho" and the brand new Third Front led by Leftists, which i thing is an excellent impetus for the other parties to "keep their all options open".
Lets comes to congress first - Its a party led by the Mrs. Sonia Gandhi with Mr. Manmohan Singh as the prime ministerial candidate.Panab Mukherjee is one more name i would like to mention that is associated with the party. Mr. Singh and Mr. Mukherjee seem to be the most learned and cleanest personalities on the whole stage. Hence, acc. to me these are the most important names that are keeping party afloat inspite of not-so-good performance.
Talking about BJP - the party boasts of having the Iron Men like Mr. L.K Advani,Mr. Narendra Modi, 'true politicians' like Arun Jaitley. Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the name associated with the party who have got it most of the respect.
I would spare Third Front this time because i think it deserves a whole new space in my notes.
But Narendra Modi is the person that deserves more space than just his name per se. He is the person who gave birth to a whole new phenomenon called as "Moditva" which even outweighed the popularity of his party's ideology of 'Hindutva. A dynamic person credited for transforming Gujrat, not just economically, not just politically and not just socially, in span of mere 6 years.In 2007 Mr. Modi had a landslide Victory with a clean sweep and therefore people ensuring that Gujrat is truely flourishing under his leadership.He is also known for his fiery oratory skills which has helped him to have virtually every community in Gujrat on his side.Seeing the reaction of the people of Gujrat sometimes i think i should bow for that person.But there are some things that predominantly stops me from doing so.
The name has some grey shades attached to it too. Narendra Modi was accused that he was aware beforehand about the Gujrat 2002 communal riots which led to lynching and killing of hundreds and vagrancy of thousands. His reaction in the Karan Thapar's Devils' advocate left many mouths openand many minds boggling.(you can watch the video here - Devil's Avocate with Narendra Modi ).
I also said that he is known for his fiery orator ship but personally i cannot buy that point.Hate speeches cannot be termed as fiery oratorship(it is the only path that our respected politicians follow). Censuring or Blaming others can never form a rehtoric & this was the only thing,inspite of ignoring hard, made me ears.
Or is this the other way round? This is the only way to assuage people of India to vote for a party,by making them look at the shortcoming of the other party, from a different angle, about which they already know. This is the thing that has perplexed me for quite a time now and i am desperately looking the answer for the a question:
What is actually Moditva - the transformation of Gujrat to a Vibrant Gujrat or the highly radical and extreme attitude that have always led to destruction, be it in Fascism, Nazism, etc?
