Let Modi win, most of us want him to WIN .... but here's a thought process and sharing of some points - What Modi should be careful about and avoid committing the Mistakes

 What Narendra Damodardas Modi should be careful about and avoid committing the Mistakes ? 

Well, let Modi win, most of us want him to WIN .... but here's a thought process and sharing of some points - he should stay away from: 

--- Indira Gandhi, according to the book 'Beyond You and Me - Flight to Societal Moksha', took the competitive and the tactical route in politics far more than what was needed. ... She got lost in the detail of trying to not just control the party but to be the party". 

(** This Narendra Modi needs to be careful about) 

Result for the polling 2024 is coming on June 4 --- we are just three weeks away from June 25. In 1975, it was June 25th when Emergency was imposed by Indira Gandhi. 

History often repeats and importantly -- it can be a big tool/episode of learning too. 

Comparison is an easy art in journalism. But it also has pitfalls and a few tales of its paradoxes.

On 25th June, 1975, Indira Gandhi had suspended the fundamental rights of citizens and restricted the powers of parliament as well as the judiciary. 

Indira Gandhi was none other than the paternal grandmother of 

former Congress president and ex-MP Rahul Gandhi. 

In the last nine years, the Congress leaders might not have missed a day calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a dictator. 

The 21-month “national emergency” between 25 June, 1975 and 21 March, 1977 also took Opposition leaders behind bars. Politics have taken a full circle. Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar, jailed by Indira during Emergency, rubbed shoulders with Indira's grand son Rahul on June 23, 2023 --- for what they 

say to 'save' India from an 'autocrat Narendra Modi'. 

Indira Gandhi had been compared with Hitler. Now, Modi’s regime has often been likened to the Nazi Party. This was largely driven by their perceived anti-Muslim and anti-Christian bias.

The BJP leaders are accused of supporting the calls to ban the consumption of beef  and also the official 'refusal' to crack down on vigilante squads and mobs who allegedly lynch people for engaging in the cow-slaughter trade. Christians have issues with funding and anti-conversion measures. 

In 2018, Modi's trusted colleague and now powerful Home Minister, Amit Shah had said,

“On this day back in 1975, democracy was murdered by the Congress merely to meet its political agenda so it could continue in power". 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, known for his anti-Congress rhetoric, has in the past attacked the Emergency and even had called it a “black night that cannot be forgotten". 

Do leaders in present day politics irrespective of party affiliations tend to forget that Indira Gandhi was 

defeated in the elections following the emergency. The argument being the Indian public could not accept 

her authoritarian rule despite her popularity. 

Like Inidra Gandhi was more popular than the Congress, today, Narendra Modi is certainly much more popular

than his party. In 2019 itself within months of losing key state polls in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and

Rajasthan; the BJP candidates returned with flying colours in parliamentary polls. In some states, Congress

could not open an account. 

Indira Gandhi’s Emergency rule was particularly unpopular with Muslims as the regime imposed family planning. 

In order to popularize a two-child-per-family trend, the administration coined the slogan 

'Hum Do, Hamare Do' and imposed measures such as surgically sterilizing young husbands and wives in 

households that already had two or more children. 

Rahul Gandhi's uncle and ironically two sitting BJP MP's close kin Sanjay Gandhi was at the forefront of 

this crusade.

Legend has it Indira once declined to meet a Catholic leader on learning he only represented 2,000 voters. 

Indira was extremely populist. In Assam, her party’s electoral policy in the 1970s was reportedly aimed at “winning over Alis (Muslims) and Coolis (tea garden workers)”.

But on another plane, with regard Muslims, she was so eager to win their widespread support she pushed to promote Urdu among Muslims in Kerala and West Bengal — the two states where local Muslims 

prefer to use their mother tongues of Malayalam and Bengali respectively. 

Many Congress leaders who basked in the glory of her party's success year after year, would never agree that she was an autocrat by temperament. They all believe that Inidra had a very inspiring and an attractive personality. Old timers also recall that many years later she told Marxist Jyoti Basu

that Emergency was necessary because the situation demanded a "shock treatment".