Oh Voters !!
M Chuba Ao
BJP National Vice President
Most of your attention must have been drawn to a special election-related interview given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a leading Hindi TV news channel.I was really touched and also felt a bit excited when our respected leader Shri Modi ji said,
"Main Kyun Nahin Ja Sakta, Woh (Lahore in Pakistan) Mera Desh Tha Kisi Zamaane Mein (Why can't I go to Lahore, Pakistan was part of my country at one time)".
Is it not a significant statement? What is more noteworthy is perhaps because no one expecteda Prime Minister in office to make such a statement. The statement as such is a matter of factand showed once again that our Prime Minister can call 'spade a spade'.
This is election season in India and people are talking about so-called 'poorer turnout' as compared to 2019. One reason is intense heatwave that blew in most parts of India especially states such as Rajasthan and Bihar.
Of course, 'poor turnout' in voting has a few other stories from the pages of modern history that ought to be shared here.
Sialkot - a key commercial and industrial township - of grand united India or Aakhand Bharat - is todayin Pakistan. There is a gory chapter vis-a-vis Hindus of Sialkot.
On the eve of Partition, during the voting to decide about which side of borders (in two new nations India and Pakistan), Sialkot would fall -- sadly, Hindus did not take part in the voting with much enthusiasm.
Sialkot was a Hindu-majority place and Muslims participated in the voting much enthusiastically.Hindus took it lightly.
I am not a Hindu myself but compared to Muslims; I know of my personal Hindu friends and associates who are lazy and take these matters very casually. Hence, the Hindu-majority Sialkot was lost.
To tell the truth as a BJP karyakarta, I feel the pain when I write these lines today in circa 2024.In 2017, Sialkot showed Hindu population at mere 500. In 1951 - the Hindu population nosedived tomodest 10,000. Just in five-six years the decline in Hindu population was so sharp.
In 1946, Hindu population in Sialkot was 2.31 lakh (that is Two Lakh and Thirty One Thousand). Over 1 lakh Hindus did not vote and by 55,000 Muslims had the larger say and Sialkot became part of Pakistan. How painful and paradoxical?
Such things have been reported from certain pockets in now Bangladesh - like Sylhet also. Here too,Hindus were in large numbers and they were stunned to see that their beloved land has been handedover to Pakistan. The other name for such 'generosity' can be called minority appeasement.
And in 2024 our Prime Minister is right when he says the Congress party has displayed their pro-MuslimLeague stance. We are not being ant-Christian or anti-Muslim. The point we are laying emphasis hereis how the Congress and Left parties have used and abused Muslim community and reduced them asmere vote getting machines.
On the other hand, the Prime Minister Modi ji has laid out the vision of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. Imaginethe state of India, that is Bharat, if long back in the early fifties someone had given this slogan as a nationalmission.
The politics of Hindu-Muslim could not have thrived in India nor there would have been a dirty polityof caste divisions. The Congress party will be shown their place on June 4th.
We all are confident and so are national and international observers of repute that the BJP wllreturn to power for a third term under Shri Modi ji.
The NDA government has eliminated extreme poverty in India and learned scholars like Surjit Bhalla rightly say: “I don’t think there’s ever been a period of economic growth of the Indian economy which was as robust as it is today”.
M Chuba Ao
As a BJP karyakarta, finally I can assert, we are eyeing towards a staggering win that will beconvincing.
We have set a practical target of 400 seats for BJP and NDA partners put together. This is not apipe-dream. But voters ought to do their part and exercise their solemn right in the greatest festival of democracy.
ends
Mind Your own Business Delhi’s “Jailed Chief Minister”
M Chuba Ao
BJP National Vice President
My attention was drawn to the statement made by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. He is trying to suggest that our esteemed leader and Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji should retire next year. Firstly, it is none of his business.
Secondly, it is not expected from a learned and educated young man like Shri Kejriwal’s calibre. Thirdly and perhaps more importantly, Shri Kejriwal is showing some kind of mental depression and utter frustration as he has just come out of the jail after 50-day stay in Tihar. AAP convener and Delhi Chief Minister will have to surrender before agencies and law enforcing agencies on June 2.
Whether he deserved such a special treatment to be released on an interim bail is a legal issue and I need not comment on that. The Lordships know how to decide on the merit of a case. But what has struck is the utter irresponsibility he is showing about a popular mass leader – that is Shri Modi ji – who is not in his party.
Shri Modi ji belongs to BJP and every BJP karyakarta like the undersigned look upon him as one of the superb Prime Ministers and world leaders produced in the recent past. Our Prime Minister is providing the leadership and given India a new prestige in the comity of nations.
Thus, a man like Kejriwal – who will be back behind bars on June 2 – should focus on his mental statement of mind and the right dosage of his insulin. I do not want to sound more bitter about a young man who otherwise has some qualities otherwise.
Modi ji and his government deserve all credit for guiding India towards greater glories. We are now the fifth largest economy and this has happened despite the Covid crisis of 2020 and 2021. Now India, that is Bharat, is poised to be only behind the US and China by 2030.
This would not have been possible without Narendra Modi at the helm of affairs.
Notwithstanding all the challenges, Modi has kept the mood of the nation positive and highly optimistic. This is possible only with a leader who is there day in and day out concerned about his people round the clock. A phrase often used for a sporting skipped – is a man who leads the team from the front. Well, that is Narendra Modi.
Hence the age factor should not matter and it should never bother a ‘jailed and bailed’ leader like Arvind Kejriwal.
Strategically and on economic front, the challenge before the nation is to seize the opportunity. The BJP is confident of winning the ongoing elections and 400 plus is our joint target for the BJP-led NDA.
The broad message our developmental journey is sustained improvement in infrastructures and good roads. It is also in the true spirt of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas – that is Development for All with the participation of all.
In the changing global order, there are ample opportunities for India to strive hard for newer heights. The ongoing elections will give a renewed and enhanced mandate to Shri Modi ji. It will give a boost to India’s overall national confidence.
Before one concludes, I am reminded of two Prime Ministers – Atal Bihari Vajpayee and P V Narasimha Rao.
Born in 1924, Vajpayee first became Prime Minister at the age of 74 in 1996. And he made India proud. During his tenure as prime minister, India carried out the Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998. Vajpayee sought to improve diplomatic relations with Pakistan, travelling to Lahore by bus to meet with Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif.
Mr Kejriwal will do well to read some old books or surf internet to understand that Congress stalwart P V Narasimha Rao had almost sought retirement in 1991. But he came back as his fate had decided so. Born in 1021, Rao became Prime Minister in 1991 on the 21st June and he was in office till May 16, 1991.
Hence, the final appeal to AAP leader Delhi Chief Minister is trying something else to confuse genuine BJP Karyakarta. In BJP, personal ambition does not matter like in Kejriwal’s party.
I would also take this opportunity and urge him to think yet again, whether he should continue as a jailed Chief Minister. Instead of indulging in silly talks, he should resign and he can take a page out of Lalu Prasad’s life and make his wife Chief Minister.
We will welcome that because that will expose him and other opposition parties that propriety does not matter to them all. We need not make any reference to the Congress party at this juncture.
We have also taken a jaundiced view of a section of Indian intellectuals and media who are not protesting why a ‘jailed’ man should continue as Chief Minister.
So, an elderly advice, Mind Your own Business and step down first as Chief Minister and only after that when you are back in jail, Mr Kejriwal, you can think of other people’s retirement.
Ends
(Views are Personal)
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