Demonetization, dry ATMs, queues, etc…

The day demonetization was announced by the PM (actually it should have been done by RBI) opposition has constantly targeted the PM. At each stage, opposition targeted the PM for mismanagement, long queues and inconvenience to people. The bigger agony for the opposition was the drying up of over 2.25 lakh ATMs across the country. ATM was the only means to withdraw cash (even if in small amounts) without much of hassle of paper work. Therefore it was inevitable for all of us to see long queues in front of ATMs and that’s what opposition and media was busy in propagating.

Then it was noted that the ` 2000 notes were small and a re-calibration of ATMs was necessary. Although the calibration of ATMs were undertaken on a war footing and after a month almost all the ATMs are now re-calibrated, why is it that the notes are still not available and ATMs are still running dry?

The opposition have missed a golden opportunity to corner the government on this point. They kept on speaking irrelevant things and completely missed the relevant point. When government is busy saying that ample currency notes are available, why the ATMs are running dry?

The re-calibration of machines was undertaken immediately. Many ATMs were done in a short span of time. Yet what is the reason that the notes were not reaching them? It is interesting to note that neither RBI nor the government loads the ATMs with cash. It is done by banks. Maximum cash which is available with banks is normally loaded on to ATMs to avoid any rush at its internal counters and further the delays. It was in banks interest to load maximum cash available with them on to ATMs. Yet what is the reason why banks have resorted to keep maximum cash with them and load very less cash on to ATMs?

The recent raids conducted by government agencies on hoarders of old and new cash provides the answer for that. Arrested officials of various banks proves the point. These very officials were hand in glove to provide huge amount of cash to their “favourites” and deprive the common man of his minimum requirements of the cash. The seizures of large amounts of cash from various parts of the country is a proof of such illegal hoardings of cash. One of my friend did write on facebook about the maximum amount of cash a person can hold. Legally, there is no limit till you can prove the legal source of such funds. However such hoarders are the prime culprits in depriving the common man his legitimate right.

The opposition could have researched this thoroughly and asked relevant questions in parliament and cornered the government on this mismanagement. Finmin, Arun Jaitley would have to accept on record about this mismanagement and failure in curbing black money and would have to give assurance to curb such illegal activities by bank officials. Now the government has started action against such officials, few of them will reach their fate. However the opposition kept on talking irrelevant points and gave a chance to government to escape. The opposition has lost a golden opportunity of taking credit of unearthing such illegal activities and compelling the government to act. That way the mismanagement could have been completely bought down long back and opposition could have also taken these actions to public and how their actions compelled the government to act. This was not done as opposition was busy in projecting inconvenience (which was there but people were ok with that!!) The longer delays, mismanagement was “convenient” to opposition. In fact their behavior suggests that they are more interested in keeping status quo than resolving the problems of common people.

The opposition does not seem to learn from their mistakes, keep on doing same mistakes of opposing Modi and talking about Modi. The government on other hand has gathered all the sympathy by unearthing the cash hoarders and are successful in projecting that they did their job but few bad people in system failed the government.

Surgical Strikes And Proofs....

A note journalist named Shahid Siddiqui said this around 4 years back “Stop criticizing Narendra Modi. Modi will make use of each and every criticism and become more and more powerful.” Nobody, absolutely nobody had paid any heed to him at that time and nobody who is today criticising Modi, is willing to learn the lesson. Modi in turn has not only become more and more and more powerful in past 14 years but has used all the stones thrown at him to build a bridge from Gujarat to Delhi to become the Prime Minister of India. He did not stop there and now is on his way to become one of the prominent leaders of world whose words carry importance. 

The way “International Solar Alliance” was formed and the way Modi gathered support for that can be a small proof of Narendra Modi being considered a good leader of international stature. Anyone who is interested can click on the link and read for themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_countries

On the other hand, his political opponents in other parties are busy asking for proofs of surgical strikes. They have very conveniently (Modi’s convenience) fallen into the trap which Modi laid very cleverly.

Let’s put things in chronological order.

• Uri happens
• Modi goes to Kerala and passes some political comments
• Everyone is dejected, even his supporters. No action, only words?
• Sudden “Surgical Strike”
• Entire country is euphoric. Media, people, are happy.
• Modi gathers all kind of goodwill again.
• Opponents don’t know what to do, so they do the easiest, praise army (not Modi)
• Suddenly there is a clip from CNN about POK and each and every opponent of Modi is up with a demand of proofs of surgical strikes.

There are a few missing links in above points.

• The announcement of Surgical strike was made by Lt. Gen. Ranbir Singh. He himself said that the proofs are there with the army.
• Announcement was not made by political establishment.
• Modi has not said a word about surgical strikes.

Had the announcement been made by any of minister or the PM himself, it would have been termed as a political statement. If proofs were given immediately, it would have been said that they were provided for gaining political mileage. Hence, Modi cleverly left it to army to do the talk and himself kept out of all the controversy.

Neither Modi nor any of his ministers took any credit or extract any political mileage of these strikes till the point opposition demanded proofs. Now since the announcement was done by army, a demand of proof should be deemed to be demanded from army not political establishment or the government. Since the rhetoric of asking proofs is growing by the day, such proofs may be made public and guess who will benefit out of that? Ofcourse Modi, who else? Hence I say, whatever Modi does, he has politics in it and his opponents don’t understand him.

Now in between all this rhetoric of demands of proof, Congress is claiming of such strikes in past. Here an important point is to be noted that nobody has yet asked a proof of earlier surgical strikes. Congress even doesn’t know whether the proof of such strikes exists or not. If the proof of recent strikes are provided, there will surely be a demand of proofs of earlier strikes and Congress or any opposition are not in a position today to provide them!!! That clearly means, Congress and other opposition will fall flat on their face if proofs of recent strikes are provided. Congress will have a new stamp on their face, “liars” apart from various tags such as corrupt, dynastic political party.

This is called a calculated effort. Work is done by army but by providing proofs, beneficiary is Modi and BJP. If today sudden elections are held in Gujarat, BJP will be winning with a landslide majority.

Modi is not only a workaholic PM but a very clever politician. His smallest actions has politics. He cleverly anticipates the consequences of his each action and has mostly a plan ready for each and every possible outcome and reactions from his opponents. Now also it is not impossible that he has put a calculated trap for opposition. He may have told army to claim surgical strikes, but cleverly exclude giving proofs. When time comes and rhetoric grows, slap opposition by throwing those proofs on their face. 

This man is not only different, but completely eligible to rule India for next 15 years at least.

"Acche Din", Modi Bhakt, etc... Brief translation from Bhau Torsekar's blog....

In the recent past since May 2014, a clear trend has been seen among the people of India. Some Indian people are clearly divided into 3 categories. I said some Indians because a major section of Indian society, much bigger than the total of these three categories, has clearly stayed away from these three categories. They are busy with their day to day work and are least bothered about what all things and infighting is happening between these categories of people. However they still enjoy all the fighting as that has probably become their day to day dose of entertainment on social media, television news channels.

The first category of people are those who think quite rationally, analyze the policies of government, praise wherever required and wherever required criticize too. This category of people are called “Modi Bhakt”. At the exact opposite end are people who are either completely biased “for” Modi or “anti” Modi. Their opinions are made by only one word, Modi. Such people are called “Modi Bhrasht”. Their daily opinions are completely based on only one point. Either they support Modi or they bash Modi. The third category of people are “Modi Trast”. Such kind of people are still (after 2 years) unable to digest that Modi has defeated them, their ego and became the Prime Minister of India.

MODI BHAKT

“Modi Bhakt” are not necessarily the BJP members or supporters. They may not even have their own political opinion. However these Bhakts are made by people who have seen all the bad things said for Modi by his bashers. They don’t blindly support Modi, but from their heart they believe that Modi should succeed in his mission. They have seen all the rhetoric against Modi for past 15 years. And a strong belief that Modi has done no wrong (which eventually was proven later in 2015) made these people support and be supportive of Modi in his mission. These people are not also supporters of BJP. The situation in which Modi has emerged as a contestant for position of Prime Ministers, has made them believe that today there is no one else who is fit for the job. And Modi was clever enough to recognize this group to take a plunge into the race of becoming PM. There were and are many in BJP even today who don’t want Modi as PM. People have not forgotten Advani’s reaction when Modi was made the PM candidate. This group does not have any personal expectations from Modi. But they have a firm belief that Modi will take this country forward. And therefore this group of people is not ashamed to call themselves as a “Modi Bhakt”. This was proven when at a request of Modi, 1.25cr people gave up their gas subsidy. These are the real “Modi Bhakts”. These people are least interested in bull shit of other people’s comments which triggered the intolerance debate. They are bothered only with what Modi is doing. And hence when there are Modi bashers, these Bhakts are at the forefront to defend Modi.

MODI BHRASHT

The second category is called “Modi Bhrasht”. This category consists of people who are extreme likers of Modi and extreme haters of Modi. The likers think that Modi is an Avtari Purush who is born to make India a 1^st world country. They are so much in liking of Modi that they feel that their day to day problems such as trains getting late, water logging in heavy rains will be solved just by doing Modi Jaap. These people believe whatever Modi does is the last word and it is as good as “Akashwani”. Such people then also start supporting even wrong actions of Modi government. The Anti Modi in this category are people who don’t want to understand, accept that Modi is a democratically elected Prime Minister and has to be accepted that way. For these people whatever Modi says even if it correct, will be wrong. Their day starts and ends with only one word. Modi. If we analyse in detail, it would be amply clear that both Pro Modi and Anti Modi are of the same category. People who cannot think rationally. One is hell bent on making Modi a god and other is hell bent on making Modi a devil.

MODI TRAST

The third category of people are “Modi Trast”. These people are the ones who are unable to digest the fact that Modi became PM even after 12 years of hate, bad publicity, wrong accusations, etc… They keep wondering how this guy has turn tides and made fool out of us!!! These people are not necessarily against Modi from today, 2014, or even 2002. They were “trast” even before that. Because Modi is a member of RSS and has grown up with RSS ideology. And therefore once he has relationship with RSS, it becomes unnecessary to further say anything. They even are not interested in what was the subject on which discussion was going on. Being sarcastic is the primary qualification of being Modi Trast. When the American Congressman give a standing ovation or clap several times for Modi, these people go on to say, “so what? people clap when a clown shows his art”. While saying that, these people completely forget that they too clap for somebody, sometime!!! These people can’t sleep properly as they cannot digest that even after they doing almost anything on earth to block Modi from going to USA, he is given a red carpet welcome, Obama shares a good cordial relation with him, etc… And therefore such people whenever see something good for Modi, Modi being praised somewhere, start immediately bashing Modi. And in that effort even if they do a complete U turn on their own old opinion, that does not shame them. Excellent example is GST. These people then question the perfect legitimate statements of Modi!!! Tomorrow if Modi says, Sun rises in East, these people will question even that, just because it is said by Modi.

Even as the Islamic countries celebrate International Yog Day, many Muslims from India participate in the celebrations, this category is busy labelling Yog as a “Hindutva conspiracy”. Till such time Modi remains active in Indian politics, this category of people will have a rog, called being “Modi Trast”.

The nation is fortunate that there are Millions of Indians who are neither Trast not Bhrasht. But simple Bhakts who think rationally and support and criticize Modi wherever required. Narendra Modi is in turn fully aware about such Bhrasht and Trast people and recognises that he cannot go behind these foolish people and hence can do something good for this country. Therefore for the past two years, he was able to provide a corruption free governance at the Centre. Finally I again reiterate. Not having “bure din” is having “ACCHE DIN”.

Absolute Power and Hitler

For the past 2 months there has been a discussion over the Congress rebellion in 2 states namely Arunachal Pradesh and now Uttarakhand. I am not an expert on this subject however some who proclaim to be experts in this subject have started a debate.

And the debate being “Is the Modi government in search for absolute power?”

That inspired me to write this short article. People may agree or disagree with my views and I will agree to disagree with some counter views. Without being a Hitler of course.

It all started when I responded to one tweet of a well “renowned” journalist when he tweeted whether Modi government want to gain absolute power. I responded back saying, absolute power is sometimes necessary, I like Hitler and there is a Hitler in every person, even the very journalist. Wow…. Like it always happens to that journalist, I am being trolled for my comments. There are people from different segments. Some gave me examples of Auschwitz and told me visit there. How I would not have born had my parents been there during those times. Some liked my tweet and some blasted me. 

All of them are right in their own thinking. But I agree to disagree with their thoughts. A simple reason for that is they did not understand me before they could tweet their reactions. Hitler has become a bad word in the world. And that is not wrong if the many bad qualities this person had, are considered. 

However, I have a strong objection to equating “Absolute power” to Hitler, the man who is mostly known for. Because there is an assumption that absolute power is always wrong.

The prime question is not whether Hitler is bad or not. He was a bad man and will remain so for centuries to come. Even if he had some good qualities they are forgotten due to his many bad qualities.

The prime question today is whether absolute power is bad. And if aspiring for absolute power is bad.

I believe in Hindu philosophy so I will try to explain what I believe. Each human being has good and bad qualities in him. A human who gathers more and more good qualities within him slowly becomes a saint and further becomes god and vice versa. Hindu philosophy thus believes that there were such good people in this history as Lord Ram, Lord Krishna, etc… who became exceptionally good human beings in their one life they lived that common people like us made them gods. Did these people have bad qualities in them? Of course yes. But then the bad qualities were to be searched with an electron microscope.

On the other hand there are many figures in the history who were bad. We all know them. They were the people who got killed by the good people Lord Ram and Krishna. Now a question arises were the bad people really bad? They were bad in the sense that they did whole lot of wrong things in life. Ravan was a well learned scholar, a wise king of Lanka. Yet we call him a bad man because he did something unforgivable. And so on there are many so called bad men in history of world. Hitler is one of them. And when I say, I like Hitler or for that matter even Ravan, I want to say that these so called bad men too had good qualities. And I like to take the good qualities from even a bad man.

Those qualities may be their leadership skills, their ability to unite their country against external threats.

I don’t see anything wrong Narendra Modi in aspiring for absolute power as long as he does it within the limits of constitution. Absolute power outside the constitution was by Ms. Indira Gandhi in 1975. Now that’s the so called bad man we all talk about. Does that mean she was an absolutely bad human being? No.

Having absolute power is not bad, aspiring for that is not bad. 

How you use the absolute power decides whether you become a Lord Krishna or a Ravan or for that matter Hitler. 

I Hope people who want me to visit Auschwitz have understood what I wanted to say. If not, please carry on with your trolls.