The nation is going gaga over RAGA and hypo over NAMO.
There is a strong premise that a BJP led coalition will form the next Government at the
centre.
But this is a long
shot, the hagiographic attempts on both sides ( the two so called national
parties) not withstanding.
My own analysis,
merely from the English language press and media inputs (and you will agree
with me, that this really does not account for much in our country) is that
both these parties will barely touch the one third mark - 181 seats.
So who will get the
remaining 181 seats?
It is a no brainer -
the likes of Amma, Didi. Behenji , Netaji, and the rest of the regional
satraps, the Thakres, the Badals, et al, and the comrades thrown in for good
measure
So are we going to see
another sanctimonious effort at keeping the "communalists" at bay ,
and the "dynasty" out, with disastrous consequence for the country?
My wishful thinking is
that the BJP, (and incidentally, I am totally apolitical) along with its two remaining allies of the NDA, the Shiv Sena and
the Akali Dal will edge past the Congress and its cohorts and emerge as the
largest 'pre-poll coalition'.This will give the Revered Pranabda no other
option but to invite the NDA ( and if still led by Narendra Bhai - as you know
there are whispers that the daggers within the saffron family have only been
hidden away for the present, and will be brought out with a flourish when
within smelling distance of power, to stab you know whom) to form the next
government.
And then,
automatically, the horse trading will begin in real earnest, and we will land
up with a UPA 2 Redux, only this time called NDA 2!!
So my wish list is not
for an action plan for what to do when ( really speaking, if) the BJP comes to
power, but to ensure that it does.
My action plan is for
Narendra Bhai to ensure that not only the BJP comes to power, but with a moral
and physical authority to activate the action plan which you and others have
designed, re-designed and calibrated.
And this is:
a) Understand
internally that there is no way that the BJP by itself , or with its two
existing allies of the NDA, can from a stable government for the next five
years
b) Identify, through a
psephologist's support, (and there is no dearth of them), the ground realities
as to how many seats each of the regional parties will bring to the table
c) Analyse,
ideological similarities with each of these
d) Conduct serious in
camera discussions with each of the leaders identified as possible stable partners for a ruling coalition
e) Conduct the horse
trading now, rather than after the poll results have come in
f) Boldly announce the
constituents of the new pre poll alliance - and for God's sake discard the
appellation NDA ( you and I would agree that they have disgraced the acronym
which actually belongs to the cradle of leadership of the Armed Forces - the National Defence
Academy) !
g) Call it by a name
which symbolises the hopes and aspirations of today's India -governance, accountability, transparency, and inclusiveness -
why not GATI ,which invokes both progress and
direction? And just to catch the attention of the electorate, prefix it with National Alliance for Value Addition?
Incidentally the
modern word "navigation" is said to be derived from the Sanskrit wordNavagati
- or new direction!!! And that should keep the Sangh Parivar also happy!
See you all at the
"swearing in" and not at the "swearing at"!
Cheers!
Commodore (Retd) S
Shekhar
XXII NDA
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