Quote"Shri Narendra Modi addresses rallies in West Bengal"
Quote"Kolkata mein kushti, Delhi mein Dosti: Shri Modi on the strategies of the Congress, Left and TMC"
Quote"Shri Modi spoke of how the TMC Chief’s deep concern for the people had been now replaced by her liking for the ‘chair’"
Quote"Shri Modi stated how mass infiltration had robbed the localites of their opportunities to work and prosper"
Quote"Shri Modi condemned the efforts of the Congress and its allies to defame Shri Modi, and spoke of how they should instead direct their efforts at serving the people"

Watch : Shri Narendra Modi addressing a massive rally in Krishnanagar, West Bengal

A stern stand at tackling infiltrators and a supportive stance at addressing the concerns of the people in West Bengal was conveyed by Shri Narendra Modi, during his address at rallies in Krishnanagar, Barasat and Kolkata on the afternoon of 7th May. Sharing deep concern for the sorry-state-of-development in the State, Shri Modi expressed keenness in developing every section of the society and bringing the State at par with the rest in the Nation. He also called upon the people to understand the games played by the ruling governments and shun them to ensure the State’s progress.

‘Kolkata mein kushti, Delhi mein Dosti’, said Shri Modi, while talking about the deceiving strategies of the Congress, Left and the TMC, whereby they acted as adversaries in Bengal but were, in fact, good friends in Delhi. He stated how despite taking turns to rule the State for the past 40 years, the Congress, Left or the TMC, had done nothing for the welfare of its people. From atrocities on women to the pitiable condition of the farmers and rising number of unemployed youth, Shri Modi spoke of grave concerns that had never been addressed by any of the ruling governments in the State. He condemned the efforts of the Congress and its allies to defame Shri Modi, and spoke of how they should instead direct their efforts at serving the people.

Shri Modi also spoke of the TMC Chief’s deep concern for the people of West Bengal in the past, and asked her as to why her liking for the ‘chair’ reigned supreme now. He also condemned her approach of targeting Shri Modi, instead of focusing on empowering the Machua community in the region. Highlighting the significance of empowering every person for the Nation’s development, Shri Modi affirmed his commitment to serve every section of the society and develop the Nation by uniting all.

Watch : Shri Narendra Modi addressing a public meeting in Kolkata, West Bengal

The need to take a tough stand on infiltrators was conveyed by Shri Modi, who reminded the TMC chief of the Supreme Court’s stance on intruders being an aggression on India, and questioned her if she could tackle the concern appropriately. He stated that the mass infiltration had robbed the localites of their opportunities to work and prosper. Shri Modi also spoke of how the tackling of infiltrators required a more channelled approach which provided refuge to the needy, and punished those who were involved in votebank politics.

Hitting back at the Congress’ reluctance to be accountable to the people for their work, Shri Modi said that this arrogance of theirs would ring in their ruin. He said that this was already evident in Amethi, where, despite being in power for over 30 years, the Congress had to plead to the people to vote for them in these Elections.

Affirming his focus on creating a ‘Skilled India’ and getting rid of the ‘Scam India’, Shri Modi urged the people to vote for the BJP and assured them that good and happy days were awaiting them.

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An Epochal Mandate
May 22, 2014

Narendra Modi has reshaped the National Political Space

Political Movements at the National Level in India have broadly four schools of origin. The foremost historically was the Indian National Congress and its offshoots which include the present day Congress Party. The Communist movement that owes its origins to the erstwhile USSR and to some extent present day China has practically become irrelevant in India. The Socialist movement that traces its origins to Ram ManoharLohia and Jayprakash Narayan has since splintered into narrow regional or caste based parties with little national weight. Assorted regional parties and recent political upstarts can barely lay claim to any national space. At the national level the political space before India went polls in 2014 was largely dominated by the Congress Party with the BJP mostly looking like a Super Regional Party.

To fully understand the magnitude of the 2014 Lok Sabha results in favor of the Narendra Modi led BJP one needs to recognize how the National picture stands flipped with the BJP occupying the dominant National Political Space stretching all the way across the North and the West while recovering ground down South and making heavy inroads into the East. In stark contrast lies the Congress which is not only down to its all-time historic low tally but has also now been reduced to a super-regional party with practically no presence in the large heartland states.

Congress has been reduced to a super-regional party with no heartland presence

Consider the extent of the Congress wipe-out –

An Epochal Mandate

Starting from Jammu & Kashmir it has no representatives in the Lok Sabha in the Northern States of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the National Capital Region of Delhi. It has been reduced to single digits in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana. To the west it has zero MPs from Rajasthan, Gujarat and Goa while Maharashtra its erstwhile bastion managing only single digits presence. In the South the Congress has zero MPs from Tamil Nadu and Seemandhra it has been reduced to single digit presence in Karnataka and Telangana. The Congress has no presence in Lok Sabha from Jharkhand, Nagaland, Odisha, Tripura and Sikkim to the east. Even most Union Territories turned their back on the Congress. The Congress today suffers the ignominy of having no state with double digit MPs in the Lok Sabha even as it is being challenged by Jayalalitha’s ADMK and Mamata Banerjee’s TMC for the principal Opposition space in the Lok Sabha.

This is the magnitude of the damage inflicted by Narendra Modi’s campaign on the Congress Party.This however does not even begin to tell the story of how Narendra Modi has reshaped the BJP’s electoral landscape perhaps irreversibly so.

Narendra Modi has stitched a new Social Coalition

With a record 282 Lok Sabha seats out of the 543 Narendra Modi is the first non-Congress leader to have led his party to a simple majority in the Lok Sabha. This is a national feat that has so far been the exclusive preserve of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

If the magnitude of the win tells the story of the BJP’s national spread today it is the demographic complexion of the win that tells the real story of the BJP’s national depth.

An Epochal Mandate

The BJP won 40 out of the 84 Lok Sabha seats reserved for the SC community, almost 47% of seats with many dalit Women MPs winning from these seats as well. The BJP also won 27 out of the 47 Lok Sabha seats reserved for the ST community, almost 69%. The NDA alliance between the different parties garnered a staggering 62% of all SC seats and 70% of all ST seats. With 28 women Lok Sabha MPs the BJP also hit a new benchmark of 10% of its tally going to women.

Narendra Modi has not just led the BJP to victory on terms unimagined but has done so riding on the back of wave a demographic wave of aspirations unlike anything the BJP had ever managed in the past. Narendra Modi’s BJP has shattered all previous political stereotypes traditionally associated with the Vajpayee/Advani era BJP of the 1980s-190s and the erstwhile Jan Sangh. The social coalition that Narendra Modi has stitched is unique in its demographic complexion, its geographic spread, its gender mix and its mandate.

This Mandate of Hope and Aspirations must shape Narendra Modi’s Team

This is a mandate for Narendra Modi to realize the neo-aspirations of a large swathe of the population cutting across caste, regional and religious fault-lines. It has empowered him to take India in a new direction without bowing to any kind of parochial pressures, without giving into any kind of petty piques and without indulging anybody’s sense of entitlement to pelf or privilege in the next Government.

This mandate also marks the beginning of a new epoch in the broad political movement that gave birth to the Jan Sangh in the 1950s and the BJP in the 1980s. If its first generation was the Dr. SP Mookerjee, Pt. DeendayalUpadhyay era and its second generation was the Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani era, we now mark its third generation under Narendra Modi. Apart from the national mandate to govern India he now also has the political mandate to remake this movement to reflect his philosophy of Governance.

A billion dreams and aspirations now look up to Narendra Modi. As he goes about the process of forming his government it is these dreams and aspirations that must shape and influence the composition of his team and nothing else.