PM Modi invokes Kazi Nazrul Islam's song on Lord Ram ::::::: Destiny's son ! Narendra Damodardas Modi -- which Hindu can now forget him ??

“The people of West Bengal have immense reverence towards Prabhu Shri Ram. Here is the iconic Nazrul Geeti Mono Jopo Naam. #ShriRamBhajan,” Modi wrote on his X handle and shared a YouTube link of the Nazrulgeeti sung by Payel Kar.

The first stanza of the Bengali lyrics says: “Mono jopo naam/Shri Raghupati Ram, nava doorbadalshyam nayanaviram/Moo jopo naam/Shri Raghupati Ram. (My heart chants the name of Raghupati Ram/ His eye-catching look is pleasant like newly grown verdant grass).”

Destiny's son !!! Narendra Damodardas Modi 

-- even till 2001 he was almost barred from entering Gujarat 

Keshubhaibhai Patel as Gujarat Chief Minister had put a pre-condition before high command that for political matters, Narendra Modi should be barred from entering the state. Thus, Modi was assigned in Delhi and other places with party organisational works and that he did diligently. 

Then came the killer quake in Bhuj region and Patel was found 'unable' to respond effectively to the massive crisis. Namo was nominated by the duo of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani to be chief minister. The Hindutva laboratory was slipping out of BJP's grip ! He landed there -- still a mofusil leader. 

First he struggled to win a by-election from Rajkot and then again there was inferno at the Sabarmati train compartment S-6. Date Feb 27, 2002. Many thought Modi did not know ABC of administration, others said he was 'conniving' with Hindu rioters. 

But he survived politically and gradually strengthened his grip over party, politics and also over fate. The saffron party kept winning elections. First 2002; the 'Sickular' world was skeptical about 2007. 

Over enthusiastic Sonia Gandhi was given a wrong script and she said 'Maut Ka Saudagar' (Merchant of Death)'. It may sound acceptable phrase in English but in a state known as a trader's paradise where perhaps every fourth-man could be a Saudagar (trader), Modi said Sonia has insulted six crore Gujaratis. 

The electoral table turned in his favour. He has not looked behind. For 2002 mayhem, he was grilled by CBI for hours. He did not have the 'guts' (sic) of leaders like Arvind Kejriwal to defy any summon. He thought he was doing his duties. He came out clean. 

In December 2013, he got first major clean chit. And now as India's Prime Minister, the stage is set -- date with civilisational history. No Hindu can ever forget him.

Modi will now represent 140 crore Indians and pray before Ram Lalla - Jan 22, 2024, as Ram Lalla gets back home. 

Ma ka Ladla !! 

Brand Moditva: A Turning point in India's political history

The main apprehension among religious minority leaders and a section of left-liberals has been that the BJP could change the constitution to discard the parliamentary system.This fear is not new. But today, he has certainly changed the history of Hindus !!

There is an acceptable phrase -- Political Hinduism. It probably means Indian version of distorted Secularism will not force Hindus into 'push back' mode. If they had to be apologetic about their religion and rituals; he has changed the game for all time. 

"A new battle for the idea of India begins today," wrote Shiv Visvanathan in 'The Hindu' on May 24, 2019 when the election results were declared. 

To some the 'battle' is one picked by a BJP leadership that seeks to subvert the secular principles of the Indian constitution, a foundation that allows religious and ethnic plurality to breathe in the country.

Minorities' concerns about India's future are not without reason. In the run-up to the polls, the BJP made its pro-Hindu stance clear when it fielded Sadhvi Pragya Thakur who is accused of terrorism over a deadly bomb blast targeting Muslims in 2008.Another hardliner BJP lawmaker Sakshi Maharaj, who has been re-elected from Uttar Pradesh, triggered a row when he said after this election was done he believed there would be no elections in 2024.

Earlier, BJP national president Amit Shah, a trusted lieutenant of Modi, said if the party returned to power in 2019, it would be in power for next 50 years.

Some took these as threats while BJP leaders said such statements were only a reflection of confidence in the party's leadership.The 2019 elections India also marks a significant drop in communist influence, mainly in the form of ideology.

The communists lost miserably in their so-called bastions in Kerala and West Bengal. Left parties did not win any of the 42 seats in West Bengal, where they ruled for 34 years until 2011. Although communists continue to run the state government in Kerala, they only won one of 20 seats in the state. 

But the communists had hardly any role in an election fought on the planks of God and religion. 

The BJP leaders, of course, included temple visits and public prayers in their campaigns while accusing their opposition of being anti-Hindu. 

That resulted in Congress and other opposition leaders visiting temples to put on a show for the media.

BJP's political growth is also linked to a surge of nationalism which reached great heights after Modi hardened his stance against arch-rival Pakistan in February 2019 when the countries' two militaries traded blows over Kashmir.

The election results have likewise been seen as an approval of Modi's muscular brand of nationalism. 

Speaking after the elections, another BJP leader had said in 2019 that his party won because "people admired our sincerity and the last-man-delivery".

2024- Jan 22, even God is set to get his house !!

In 1970s and 1980s, the Congress politics was centrist. It also revolved around families and the system passed on to dynasties in other parties.

 

But this status quo 'collapsed' in 2019. Hence, there is an unleashing of 'new politics' and the forces will in future perhaps have to toe the new line as being already articulated by the BJP --- a high rate of delivery in good governance.

PM Modi and his team have said free delivery of gas cylinders for poor women also did the trick.

There was also successful implementation of housing for poor in rural areas.

Articulating yet another facet of this year's polls, the pro-BJP analysts say since 2014 the electorate -- especially the younger generation -- seemed to have lauded the saffron party's and Narendra Modi's 'image' of a fighter against the existing system.

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