The Modi's charisma is on the wane for now and cracks of his
personality is being seen . The initial euphoria that he created during the electioneering
as a strong and formidable leader with no nonsense approach and keeping in
lines with that of a pariah is not there anymore. In the times to come we will
see more of real MODI and we can derive our own conclusion about his ability to
govern.
I must admit I too was charmed by Mode’s personality and
thought for once that he is the one stop solution for problems at are ailing
the free India but not anymore as I can see that rhetoric has died down since
the election and when it comes to his performance, which in terms means the
performance of his entire government including himself we could find nothing
much has ever happened so far and it is almost over 2 years now. There is no
clarity in thoughts between him and his ministerial colleagues as such they put
him on mat time and again leading to unwanted embracement.
This aspect of the government is not limited to domestic
subject alone we find the foreign policy of the MODI government clearly lacks
vision and he drifts from the stated position of the earlier government. I can
agree drifting on one or two but the paradigm shift means you lose the entire
legacy that the free India has in terms of foreign policy. The elderly
statesman like Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru
and others has struggled hard for the Non Alignment movement and that legacy
was carried forwarded by the others
Prime Minister including BJP’s starwort
Attala Bihar Vajpayee but now Mr.Modi and his team who has no formal
experience of running the country have
undid whatever these statesmen have collective achieved so far.
While saying so I would like to mention the recently concluded
Nuclear submit in Washington where he did not address the two crucial issues of
nuclear disarmament and to move towards nuclear weapon free world. The threat
for nuclear weapon is to the whole humanity and the United States is the first country
ever to stock piles such huge volume of these weapon that could threaten to
wipe the whole human race away from this planet. It must be noted that their
stock yards are not just in USA but they have it in other parts of the world
through their friendly allies. India’s stated position is that of non alignment
and this status has been put to winds and our Medici as openly allied with the
United States which is against the interest of India especially when it is
aspiring to be in a super league of its own.
MODI Government has done irreparable damage to India by
accepting to sign these three deadly agreements with the United States. One is CISMOA
(Communication interoperability and security memorandum agreement and basic
exchange and operations agreement (BECA & LEMOA) which when happens it will
make our own armed forces a part of the command and control structure of United
State’s armed forces by doing this BJP party government will be marking a
significant shift from what the Government of India has been following since
Independence and will be making India a strategic military ally of the United States.
This will means that we will be surrendering the Indian government to the United
States demand and pressure in the times to come.
Even on issue of national interest there has been no
substantial discussion in the parliament nor has the MODI Starker taken the
opposition parties opinions on this and the way these happens give us a feeling
that there is no transparency in what MODI & Company are doing so far even
in matter of defense agreements and military collaborations with others
countries. Whenever Mr.Modi visits any country , he only determine's what is
right according to him and commits there
and then, as part of his instant decisions.
There are no deliberation at all
even if it is of high national importance such as defense or foreign policy. A
sort of pseudo democratic approach which could be compared to that of a HUF –Head
or Karta taking instant decision which others have to fall in line with which
does not augur well with the federal system of democracy that we are Late Jawaharlal
Nehru or Indira Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi and Mr. Attal Bihari Vajpee ji ,who too had majority in both the houses of the parliament used
parliament as a forum to discuss and deliberate and Nehru would seek
oppositions views on majority of the issues before he took decisions. He really
is a true statesman and a democrat. Whereas the present dispensation does not
gives the impression that they are truly democratic. I remember during the
period of Late Narashima Roa,
it was Atalji who was asked to front head the delegation for a overseas
deliberation and congressmen just followed him as part of the entourage . In
this we must understand that the role of the opposition is equally important
and they must be consulted when it comes for decision of national importance,
especially, which will have long term impact on countries future foreign
policy.. Meaning- some decision which is irreversible.
It is time that Modi seeks to the advice of senior BJP
leaders like Jaswant Singh, L.K Advani, Murali Manohar Joshi and others
as they are men with immense experience who can guide this government
which has more of immature leader who are not capable of handling their
portfolio independently. It will be advisable that Mr. Modi shuns his alter ego
& Know all attitude, seeks their guidance and run the country effectively for
the remaining terms available.
Finally we are happy with his Michael Jackson image that he
created with the support of Indian Diaspora in the United States but on a stated subject like Defense, Foreign
policy let him not affect paradigm shift
from the existing policies which are
well deliberated ones by his predecessors who were well experienced .
It Time for
Introspection.
Ramesh.V.Naivaruni
21 st April 2016
