I was taught since childhood that
voting is the fundamental right and one must exercise. As I grew I always realized
that choosing right candidate is at-most importance. So I make sure to vote,
and vote for the right candidate. There was a question also, should we vote for
right candidate or right party? It’s a wrong question. If party is correct,
candidate has to be right, and vice a versa.
BJP has been a party with difference,
during the era of L.K.Advani and Atalji. I do not think that status is any more
valid as on today. It is said that during corporation election there have been
huge money transactions for purchasing the votes, and promotion. Here onward
money will play very vital role while fighting elections. Its no more on
ideology, character, value system & efficiency of the candidates. Also BJP
is accepting any corrupt or leaders with criminal background without any
due-diligence.
There has been a big voice, planned
propaganda for NaMo and BJP during 2014. There have been havoc about virtual
corruption numbers like 2-G, Coal, Vadra, etc. against Congress. (If those
cases vere valid, should anyone get punished?). I never believed that it was a
corruption and it was surely not. However BJP could succeed to impress the voters
with anti-incumbency voting. NaMo comes with creditability of development of
Gujrat. So majority people of India including myself believed and voted him to
the highest position of power, the prime minister of India; choosing maximum
number of seats for BJP. Hon. Manmohan Singh said history would be kind to
judge him. Its unfortunate, we did not judge him and voted him out.
Since NaMo came to the power,
there have been flood of many schemes and policies declaration. Most of the
policies & schemes already existed however with new name. Credit for many
events like visit to Mars was taken by BJP Government while most was done by
Congress. The change at ground level for these schemes has not been observed.
Strong points:
1. No
one ever doubt about intentions of NaMo
2. NaMo
is determined and hard working
3. He
is Non-corrupt, and would not encourage corruption; there is no financial scam
in his tenure. I do not consider Raffle deal as a scam.
Challenges:
1. His
style and image is of autocratic
2. Not
experienced at center
Positive points of NaMo Government
1.
Reduction of High level corruption
2. GST
– It was well thought by Congress while NaMo had resisted it to implement in
Gujrat. Government implemented much in hurry. Its getting smoother now.
3.
Surgical strike
4.
Foreign policy, efficiency & services of
external affair ministry
5.
Abolishing 3 Talaq rites among Muslim community
6.
Transparency – There has been attempt to bring
transparency
7.
Inflation is well managed & controlled
8.
Fiscal deficit is easing from 4.8 to 3.5 % of
GDP
9.
Long way to go to improve eaze of doing
business, though we moved from 142 to 100 ranking
10.
Acknowledged conflicting ministries and
streamlined those like steel & mines, coal & power, etc
11.
Punishment to hang the rapist, however need to
extend irrespective of the age of the girl
12.
Peaceful Exchange of land and population with
Bangla Desh
13.
Stand with Pakistan and with terrorists about
Kashmir; or migrant to Asaam & West Bangal
14.
Could avoid terrorist attacks, bomb-blasts,
tightening security except few cases in Kashmir
Blunders
1. Demonetization
–
a.
It burdened the nation.
b.
Except the names of top depositors Government
did not get anything. Those include all party leaders including BJP, Congress,
NCP, etc; May be if 2019 NaMo again succeed to form a government, this list
shall be used.
c.
Many businesses were shut down forever, small
businessmen were wiped out;
2. Bullet
train – Toe cost of project is huge, budget includes higher interest rates, and
most important is it was never the priority
3. Building
the airports – We have sufficient airports now, and % travelers (beneficiaries)
is too small and not poor. Building few more airports can be of secondary
priority
4. Building
sky-drive : Just for Luxury and for rich people; Government should not spend
any money thus collected through the taxation
5. Unnecessary
expenses on un-prioritized highways
6. Protection
against import from China should have dealt with highest priority. Looking at
USA at least Government should wake up. There are so many businesses are dying
say in textile industry in Surat
7. Politics
of revenge – Like P Chidambaram being harassed by CBI
8. Politics
of no respect – Veterans like L K Advani and
Yashwant Sinha, etc have been side lined. He can not extract the output
taking advantages of the talent. That’s the reason NaMo could let Raghuram
Rajan to go; who found difficult to work with NaMo and mainly with finance
minister Arun Jaitley.
Failures:
1. Growth
rate deteriorated
2. Export
did not rise
3. Industrial
production is stagnant from 4 to 3.3 to 4.4 and there has not been rise in
employment
4. There
is no governance exists, except Sushamaji, no minister acknowledges letter or
tweet or comments/acknowledges to SNS and/or respond
5. Many
opportunities were lost to bring the innovative changes in taxation and their
reforms
6. Many
schemes declared however not implemented on ground floor
7. Electricity
supply – 18,000 villages have been powered, is it a joke? We have 6 lacs
villages in India, what is a quantum?
8. No
newer IIT or IIM started
9. No
aggressive or normal strategy to plug holes in systems at various places, No
eagerness to have smallest possible improvements in the processes making those
more efficient except Passport office. Just to name few
a.
Food distribution
b.
Police
c.
Banking
d.
RTO and many more
e.
Educational reforms
f.
Health and medicine related reforms
10. Corruption
is not reduced at the root level, there are no special schemes implemented so
as to curb the grass root corruption
11. Leakage
in banking – Few top industrialists looted the banks in billions of rupee and
ran away. Allowing those to fly out of country is a huge failure of government.
12. Restlessness
among society – There have been rising agitation of Patel, Farmers, Maratha,
etc across nation
13. Food
grain insurance – Rs 12 /- paid against the insurance! The policies without
checking its sustenance were declared and hence failed
14. Importing
good from China – 80 B$ worth of good being ordered, majority by Government
itself. We import 68.06 B$ goods where as export only 16.3 B$ during 2017-18;
no action to protect ourselves
E.g. BSNL orders
huge amount of instruments from China. How can we strengthen the Make in India
policy? How can we protect ourselves? And increase the employment?
15. No
innovative or simple improvements in the processes using technologies
16. Swachhata
Abhiyan – Only people participation would not lead to success of the scheme.
Tax is collected by center must be used for the purpose. Government officials
should be made responsible. Technologies should have been used to improve the
cleanliness. It became a joke that leaders for the sake of photos and videos,
do it yearly once for 5-30 minutes.
17. Cleanliness
of Ganga and large rivers– Everyone is aware the status, its waste of money and
nothing are achieved. A person agitating to expedite this drive died on
fasting. Government proved to be deaf, insensitive and indecisive.
18. Representation
on Rafael deal – Explanation was not transparent, straight and complete
19. Rupee
has been falling to newer lower levels , now at 74 Rs per USD
20. Fuel
prices rising sky high
21. No
change or improvement in the processes & systems, like getting justice and treatment
at Police station, or closure of the cases, and overall system efficiency
22. Inflation
and cost of living has been rising
23. Could
not sustain critics within party, does not have ability to take most of the
parties along
24. No
innovative ideas implemented like Mass Rapid Transport at free of cost so as to
save fuel or auto- deduction of toll using EMAS
25. I
have not seen a single toilet build by government in the village areas I had
moved
26. Gas
cylinder price has increased
27. No
protection against free fall of stock market or rupee
28. There
is no realization what people expect. There has been Man ki baat being
broadcast fortnightly where as people want him to listen them and their
expectations
29. Governance
– Simple points like websites of various ministry contact us pages or login
work flow do not work, its an eye wash of the people
30. No
black money brought back from Switzerland or any other countries
31. Not
enough additional treaty signed to hand over criminals taking shelter in those
countries
32. Foreign
investment has been dipping. In any case if it comes without creating
employment, is not of great help to the country. FI brings and invest money and
take away huge dollar outflow as profits (its naturally); no strong condition
defining ratio of employment to investment. We just offer them huge consumer
market and bring competition to our own manufacturers like Tata.
33. There
have been atmosphere of hate within society and was not controlled to the extent
needed.
34. Curbing
anti-nationalist activities – There have been activities of deeply rooted
terrorists institutes like SIMI, etc; have not been dealt effectively.
35. Many
unwanted actions were initiated
a.
The Budget date was changed to February 1
b.
The Railway Budget was done away with
c.
Planning Commission was replaced with NITI Aayog
36. Rapes
have not been reduced; need to expedite process to book the culprit and do
justice
37.
Increase in Minimum support price for farmers;
however it would burden the common men
38. Managing
Kashmir issue
39. He
said one hour of air travel would cost maximum 2500 Rs; he should try to book
the ticket on travel portal, 1-2 days in advance to know the rates; its not
about he could not do; its about creditability of prime minister’s position!
Propaganda
1. Foreign
visits – NaMo visited most of the countries as a customer of trade (weapons or
goods). Obviously he would be treated like a customer only.
2. Beating
drums – Major schemes or events were declared/implemented/planned by Congress.
Those were either continued or renamed. Lot of beating of the drums happens
seeking the credits. As examples
a.
Right to information
b.
Mid-day meal
c.
Right to education
d.
Right to food
e.
What happed to these?
1. Make
in India – How many contract signed to manufacture in India while buying the good
from overseas countries?
2. Develop
teachers and send those to other countries
3. Develop
the soldiers and send those to other countries
4.
Financial burden: There have been
burden of Taxes on people. Moreover an opportunity to rationalize taxes has
been lost. There are no innovative proposals to reform the taxes
1. Tax
on long term gain on shares
2. Subsidiary
for gas is suggested to withdraw voluntarily
3. Swachhata
Abhiyan tax
4. Gain
was not passed on to the consumer while oil cost of lesser
5. Lower
crud cost benefits was not passed on to the people
Why few might vote for BJP
1. There
seems to be lack of leadership in Congress house
2. There
seems to be no strong alternative
3. Dr.
Manmohan Singh would not be able to lead due to his old age
4. Mr.
Chidambaram may get occupied in CBI and Legal battle
5. Leaders
of remaining parties are most selfish and corrupt except few like may be
Chandrababu Naidu; will not accept the leadership of Congress
6. There
might be fight for PM’s position within opposition parties
7. Congress
has been dividing the society
What is the model we need? Arvind
Kejriwal is one of the most dynamic leaders country has seen so far. He has
surely different models and guts to implement those successfully.
1. Improving
education and making it free
2. Free
health and medicine
3. Curbing
corruption by uploading audio/video files
15.
Connecting rivers and conserving water – To
offer clean water
Schemes declared, numbers published however not visible on
the ground
1.
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala – 5.61 Crore gas
connections have been given
2.
Ujwal discom assurance yojana
3.
Bachat lamp yojana – 31 Crore LED bulb
distribution
4.
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
5.
Atal Pension Yojana
6.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – 1 cr houses
completed
7.
Housing for all
8.
Beto Bachao, Beti padhao
9.
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal vikas
10.
Pradhan Mantri Mudra
11.
TB Mission – 2020
12.
Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana
13.
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana –
Generation from 967 BU to 1212 BU
14.
DigiLocker – 2 Crore documents uploaded
15.
Mission IndraDhanush
16.
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan – 9.2 Crore toilet
constructed
17.
Smart cities mission
18.
Accessible India Campaign
19.
Sagar mala Project
20.
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana
21.
Soil Health Card scheme
22.
Sansad Adarsh gram yojana
23.
Direct benefit transfer
24.
Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana
25.
Heritage City development and augmentation
Yojana
26.
Make in India
27.
National health Mission
28.
Skill India
29.
Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
30.
Digital India
Tall claims are being shared by
Government, its really doubtful since ground reality is not observed.
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#
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Description
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Numbers
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Remark
|
|
1
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Household electrified
|
16,295,197
|
|
|
2
|
Subscriber of Atal pension Yojana
|
11,100,000
|
|
|
3
|
Pensioner benefited by Jeevan Pramaan
|
17,337,999
|
|
|
4
|
Gram Panchayat connected by optical Fibre
|
119,737
|
|
|
5
|
Number of access points for Indian Post Banks
|
3,250
|
|
|
6
|
Household Toilets Constructed Under swachh bharat
|
92,253,612
|
|
|
7
|
Direct benefit transfer since 2014-15
|
4,588,273,000,000
|
|
|
8
|
LED distribution under Ujala scheme
|
310,158,745
|
|
Road constructed – 179,000 km
since 2013-14
Why I am in none of the few
crores, not as a beneficiary but even not as a witness or observer!!
Appraisal :
|
Attribute
|
My Views
|
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Energy
|
5/5, extremely high; hardworking, sincere; no
tiring! Have travelled domestic and internationally in so many countries,
fully dedicated
|
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Energize
|
2/5, Able to energize masses; involve those
during public speeches however there is no governance increased at Government
level, no great relationship among colleagues, no respect for the elders, have
not been able to utilize talent
|
|
Edge
|
3/5, understands overall issues, and likely
solution; and may succeed collectively; however failed at single handed
decision like demonetization; should work collectively
|
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Execution
|
2/5, There were huge opportunities to bring the
change at grass root level; however did not do much except to continue the
initiatives started by earlier government; few initiatives have been started
however taking huge time for smoother implementation
|
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Etiquette
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5/5 , well organized No impact due to age,
hardworking, etc
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Ethics
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5/5, There is no doubt including opposition;
highest standard of etics, look at his family members and their lives
continues as is!
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Other parameters
|
|
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Communication
|
2.5/5 ; able to communicate with connect however missing to win the
audience; lost the charm created during initial phase, no one wants to listen
Man ki baat anymore; there is no acknowledgement on the same
Actions and communication do not match; hundreds of promises remain
unfilled; people may term this as Bol-bachhan
There were many wrong reference quoted particularly historical events
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IQ
|
4/5; able to understand quickly, very sharp (has to be),
|
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Attitude
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2/5 ; missing on Atalji’s style; tremendous ego; autocratic way of
working; power centered;
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India first
|
5/5 ; undoubtedly ; things/execution/decision may go wrong but strong
intentions to take the country ahead
|
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I am convinced, Atal era of BJP is
a history! Even Congress is moving in the same direction. So I would vote for
BJP though it is not doing as expected. – Rajendra Rakhecha
Email : rrakhecha@hotmail.com
Dated – 12th Oct 2018
