There is a trend of sorts in Indian families to celebrate milestone birthdays, anniversaries, and occasions. The 25th straight year in public life as an administrator is something certainly worth celebrating for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But sometimes these milestone moments are also an occasion for us to trace back the journey to where it started from.
Jyotigram Yojana was one of the many successful moves he made as Chief Minister. It was a fairly simple move. How do you uncouple agriculture power from politics? Narendra Bhai would have none of this. Why just talk about doing something during elections? Why not actually go ahead and do it? But in spite of all this dominance, there is a challenge as well for the Prime Minister. How does he repackage himself for that generation which hasn’t really seen the process how he changed the entire character of national politics. For that young generation, formulating its views on Instagram reels and AI videos, a leader must be seen to be constantly getting subjected to scrutiny. A leader who is accessible but also someone who can answer in unscripted environments. Given the fact that PM Modi has displayed his ability to identify the problems and take course-correction steps immediately, it is just a matter of time before he moves forward on this front too.
There were the shenanigans of state electricity boards, rampant corruption at the local level, and a general belief that ” promise of electricity” was better than ” actual supply of electricity. Many old-timers in Gujarat BJP have told me that the basic change Narendra Modi brought in political thinking was that “real delivery” could be converted into “election-winning” mechanism too.
