It is not sour grapes any more. It is a reality and it is for every one to see. Modi has won with a thumping majority. I say Modi because it is only Modi who won the election and not the BJP. In fact Modi swallowed BJP the same way as asthma patients swallow fish somewhere in South India.No movement, no organization, no opposition, no anti-incumbency, no dissidents or no one could make any dent on Modi who is riding a charisma of a self made warrior out to protect the Hindus in India from an invisible devilish power. Blame this power on Muslims, Congress or any one but he has shown decisively that only one policy can make or break the voters.
It is the policy of religion. Gujaratis are peace loving people and they have only one god. You can call this god Lakshmi (Money) or any other synonyms but this remains the ultimate dream of any Gujarati. In fact there is no religious ideology here. The ideology is that of earning and accumulating wealth. Their temple of growth is the stock market. So Nilatpal Basu’s statement that Modi cannot be defeated electorally and should be defeated ideologically stands no chance. He has no idea the ideology that people here keep under the garb of religion. In a battle field, there can be only one winner. There is no room for a second winner. In Gujarat Modi is the ultimate winner because he has successfully projected everything that he planned to do but he couldn’t. Jyotigram yojana is one of them. He had a vision to make every village a model village by providing every facility right from drinking water to sewage. And he has done that with aplomb. His detractors say Muslims have been left out this plan. How can this happen? When facilities are provided to a village, everyone is included, a common phrase Prakash Javdekar, BJP spokesperson uses in all the television channels. What his detractors have failed to project is that the Muslims no longer live in harmony with their erstwhile Hindu neighbours any more. They live separately – either at a corner of the village or makeshift ghettos which have turned into large scale and separate but unofficial villages since 2002. They stay in a village within a village but with no official status of being a village. Being out of the village, they have no way to reap the dividends of the government scheme and they are not in a position to come back and stay where they stayed pre-2001. So his detractors are absolutely right but Modi’s rhetoric and charisma has hidden this naked truth. And in Gujarat no body wants to know what is happening behind the scenes. It is the surface that people scratch, beneath that is not important to them.
Modi’s thunders about development is also farce. Gujaratis are entrepreneurs number one and even with a presidents rule in the state, the development would have been the same if not better. There are developments in urban areas which can be seen from dugged roads for building bridges, laying pipelines etc. But the villages remain what is was in 2002. But the people have no choice but to elect Modi. I heard many people saying that if Modi is not returned to power, Muslim terrorism will be back on the streets. Some others say a Congress government can only offer riots and instability to the business in Gujarat and the best bet is to keep them away from Gujarat and retain them in Central government. They nurture bad experiences of a BJP government at the centre saying only a Congress government can put business in proper manner. BJP in states are good not at the centre. So there are double edged hypocritical norms that rule the DNA of a Gujarati. This DNA is called wealth creation. So stay away from Gujarat at least for another ten years. Unless people gets bored from Modi’s ‘only me’ speech, it will be very difficult to dislodge him.
