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Modi Strikes Jaish; JeM

/ isoodlee / 1 Comment

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India has struck 80 KMs inside Pakistan with a precision air strikes in response to the Pulwama attack. It is inappropriate for me to title this opine as Modi strikes; it is more of the Indian Armed Forces that has carried out with vigor. A little credit is due to Prime Minister Modi for taking a call on this strike for being the first Air Strike of India into Pakistan since 1971. Googled the number of terrorist attacks since 1971… I fainted looking at the chart, once I recovered, composed myself to eliminate the ones that were home grown. There are scores that were conducted during Congress rule; more deadlier than Pulwama and couple in one term BJP; PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee administration. But this is the first time a sitting Prime Minister has taken a decisive action against the terrorist in their home ground. So that’s there; Modi Strikes!

Modi was elected in part due his strong hand and 56 inch chest that was needed to address the cross border terrorism from the past which Congress had failed miserably time and again. It would have been apt to strike the terrorist cells upon his swearing in, in 2014. But he chose to give a hug to the then PM of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif to mend a better relationship with our neighbors. The opposition cried that the 56 inch had deflated. Then the URI response happened, the first surgical strike in Indian history on Pakistan soil, opposition called it foul. And here we are after a Pulwama attack, within 10 days the Modi administration has stuck with military might within Pakistan eliminating the terrorist cells successfully. This time around there is no confusion among opposition that the administration has failed.

Now playing the devil’s advocate, what took Modi government to give such a decisive outcome around this time? it’s been almost five years that India elected him with absolute majority for this outcome. Is it that in 2018 the people said that they are turning back to Congress with the election results in Hindi heartland? In conclusion it is the good opposition (Mahagathbandhan) that has compelled Modi to display his 56. It is not mission accomplished yet until JeM‘s Massod Azhar is eliminated. So I urge the opposition to get even stronger and the citizens of India make an educated decision to elect Modi for second term, which he rightly deserves. You have given ten terms to Congress to expect the same failed outcomes hoping for the next one to be better.

Delhi Democracy

/ isoodlee / 1 Comment

Delhi Elections

What Delhi did on Feb 10th 2015 is historic as one of the best days in Indian democracy. Critics across the world had written the obituary of Arvind Kejriwal and his party after he quit as Chief Minister for barely 49 days. The current prime minister Mr. Modi branded him as AK49 akin to AK47. That was the low ball to use as a sitting PM – which would cost him on 10th. Later AAP dug their grave when they ran for Lok Sabha elections especially Kejriwal contesting against the then most popular figure across  India Mr. Modi himself. AAP was decimated in the elections, even Delhi their strong hold had lost all the Lok Sabha seats. It was a loud and clear message from Delhi – don’t mess with us.

Fast forward few months or so, AAP is back campaigning for Delhi. Critics and opponents branded Kejriwal as ‘Bagoda’. In the beginning when AAP went door to door, people slammed their doors on APP’s face, rightly so; they ware hurt. Then the biggest thing happened in Politics, Kejriwal openly apologized to Delhiites for quitting. He held various small discussions and attended all media interviews and said, “I made a mistake by quitting as Delhi CM, I should not have done that”, the media repeatedly asked the same question over and over and his answer was a humble “sorry”. Kejriwal had committed a political suicide. Even Congress jumped into the elections claiming absolute majority now. It is seen as a weakness of a leader to admit his mistakes. Politicians in the past have committed grave mistakes, but when media confronts them, they have either thrown fits or always talked around it, never really addressing the question.

Political pundits might attribute the AAPs landslide victory to the failures of BJP, the negative campaigning  – top leaders including the sitting union minster denigrated the opponent as “chor”, a weak man who coughs all the time, para-trooping Ms Bedi at the last moment. None of this would have mattered. At the end it was the Delhiites that had decided that they wanted to give a second chance to this young and humble party, which looked and acted like a common man. Kejriwal’s apologies seemed sincere and rest is history.