Respected Namo ji, the scale of your success made it obvious that there is a big gang who want you to fail !! :::: But now PM Modi has to deliver on Reform !!

Contradictions often give good leadership. 

Swami Vivekananda was not a Brahmin; and he became India's best known religious head. Vishwamitra gave the Gayatri Mantra - something identified with Vedic Brahmanism. 

He was a Kshatriya. Modi is an OBC and is today the favourite son of Hindutva school priests at Nagpur.

Importantly, background do not matter. Performance does.

People of India and especially those who dislike 'Sickular gang', prefer Namo not for anything else - but for his decisiveness! He should live up to that.  

His image has been that of a macho Hindu leader and a 'saviour' standing up to arch-rival Pakistan, radical Muslims and even against corruption.

His Govt's "Na Khauanga ...." is a good phrase/line; but all that somehow fell like a pack of cards at Ayodhya. A necessary corrective step must come quickly. 

 

Therefore, it is time for him to act firmly! 

Several 'difficult' states like West Bengal now have a Double Engine Govt. This is the best time to change the course in Bengal in more ways than one. West Bengal has seen so much of work-shirking and misgovernance that people are still skeptical.  A keen observer of things in West Bengal wrote to me lately --  

"Long spell of CPI (M), followed by TMC and now BJP. Only the party has changed, otherwise majority of leaders and cadres are same. Bengal with its 'extreme resistance' mentality will remain far behind other progressive states." 

Only Narendra Modi can solve multiple problems in this country, we suppose.

  

'Urban Naxals' in West Bengal, hardcore opportunists in Maharashtra and muffler man and team rejoicing all 'hangamas' of an anarchist in Delhi are out. In other words, there is no major hurdle at the state level to implement developmental agenda and reform packages whenever things are decided at the central level.  

Of course, this is a tough mission. But when the going gets tough, it is Modi who gets going and has to get going. So we know pretty well - "Modi Hae toh Mumkin hae".   

Respected Prime Minister, the scale of your success in last few years has made it obvious that there is a big gang who want you to fail. 

Nothing else matter to them. 

For them the favourite hashtag is #ModiFailed !  

Modi's challenges are manifold and also complex. Different stakeholders have focus on different things.

 

PM has hijacked the agenda or space of communists and brought in the slogan 'Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas'. His demonetsation policy was to clean up the system and was seen anti-rich and anti-upper middle class. Faceless - commoner - Indians latched on to it despite hardships and days and nights of long queues. 

Politically, he has almost made Rahul Gandhi and his style of politics irrelevant and to an extent laughable. 

But now he has to deliver on Reform.

This time the challenge is more than opening bank accounts of poor Indians or making toilets.  

Hence, it is time - Modi must reshuffle his cabinet and bring in some 'performing talents'. 

Some of his Rajya Sabha colleagues can be sent back to BJP headquarters or as Governors.

In more ways than one, Amit Shah is his effective deputy. Let that be formalised. 

Along with reform; he should focus on delivering in north east. In terms of priorities; I will seek Solution to Naga problem first. Manipur unrest on twin fronts - Naga-Kuki clashes and internal turmoil in NSCN-IM and even Meitei-Kuki ethnic conflicts can be handled next. 

The state governments and chief ministers if are not delivering; they must be replaced by a better lot. 

Blogger with Naga friends 

  

My history teacher in Kohima used to say that Jawaharlal Nehru's major weakness as a leader was that he lacked Sardar Patel's image - that of a mythic hero. In Patel, Indians still wish a 'first Prime Minister' who could have made all the difference.

The same frame - mythic and heroic matrix fitted Netaji Subhash Bose also.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was at his best 'a mini-Nehru of BJP'.  Advani floundered with his Jinnah-secular remarks.

So, we come back to Narendra Modi and his 'Moditva' phenomenon. 

He should look for both short-term measures and long-term gains. 

Paper boats are 'sad' these days : Kids no longer play with them 

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