Retro 2014 .... when skeptics did not believe Modi will make it and will be in power for so long .... Biggest puzzle of 2024 is -- Why there is no anti incumbency ??

Biggest puzzle of 2024 is -- Why there is no anti incumbency ??

In 2014 .... skeptics did not believe Narendra Modi will make it, humble the crown prince and Left liberals will be left leaking the wounds. Prophets of doom have been proved wrong and Modi has been in power.

-- 2014 ... For the first time, social networking sites were in play. The elections, therefore, marked a watershed in the history of free India. One question often debated has been why and how did Narendra Modi click across the country including in states where BJP hardly existed. 

Actually, Narendra Modi represented different aspirations to different sets of people. That’s the yardstick of a mass appeal of a leader. Call it a ‘wave’ or something else. To middle class and educated lot, Modi’s appeal was more fundamental to economy. He was seen as the economic reformer the middle class Indian and the army of netizens smitten by social networking bug were looking for.

2014: Sonia taking oath as MP in presence of Namo 

Modi in Diwali Milan for journalists : 2014 

His Deepawali Milan at BJP headquarter and interaction with journalists and senior editors on October 25, 2014 would stand out as an important day of the calendar. But as usual it stood as a mere cosmetic yet again where Modi cleverly avoided fielding questions.  Prime Minister Modi, who has often disapproved of uncomfortable questions from journalists and television anchors, in his first media interaction however did not field any question from the invited galaxy of editors and news reporters. 

Instead he sprang a surprise when in a unique friendly gesture, he took the camera of a BJP’s official photographer and clicked the cameraman’s photo instead.