The observation is based on country's democratic framework coupled with a working free market economy of more than a billion people with a large proportion of young workforce and fast expanding middle class. What people fail or ignore to observe are the threats and associated risk that country face, primarily associated with poor quality of governance and absence of political leadership. The political class in India is a miserable lot whoes rank is filled with short sighted individuals, crooks, criminals, in-ept and incompetent people. No wonder the political debate in India is devoid of any substance and policy issues and primarily focuses on phantom issues that have no relevance in India's socio-economic landscape.
Modi comes as a breath of fresh air, who had the courage and conviction to push the agenda that resonates with the needs of billion Indians, namely good governance focusing on
- people empowerment that leverages democracy rather than abuse it
- development and growth resulting in economic properity
- security and safety of all
He not only talks about these fundamental building blocks of society but has demonstrated what he can achieve by executing his vision - no wonder there is no other state like Gujrat today in whole of India.
This blog in intended to connect to people who believe that Modi's leadership or leaders like him should come to the helm of Indian politics and change the landacape. Leaders like Modi are needed for India to become a significant player in next 20 years. It will be wishful to think that political class and governance can be ignored in country's quest to grow or that private businessness in India will catalyze any radical political transformation.
On the contrary it is the shift in political discourse and vision that has defined the course that India and its businesses take. If it was not for Narshimha Rao we would never have witnessed mushrooming of free market in India that gave impetus to private businesses. Were it not for Vajpayee who provided stable leadership and built upon what Narsimharao had done by breaking the ground and intensified pace of reforms, infrastructure development; India would never have witnessed the GDP growth rate, FII and FDI touching record levels that we witnessed in last 5 years. Moreover had it not been for dysfunctional govt at center for last 5 yrs, which effectively under left support abandoned all reforms and development projects, profilgated money on populist schemes, economist world over would not have seen recessionary trends that we are seeing today, slowdown in industrial growth rate etc.
Hence it is imperative that educated and enlightened Indians realize the importance of governance and a healthy and strong political structure that is transparent, honest and led by people with vision for us to gorw or even survive as a nation
1 comment:
Very true we need leaders like him.
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