Reigning champion Apollo Creed is scheduled for a fight on the 200th anniversary of
American Independence (1976) and his challenger withdraws with injury or
illness. He seeks to make a spectacle by offering a local Philadelphia boxer a
surprise title fight. Rocky Balboa
is not a very brainy man. He’s the local boxing aspirant who works for the
mafia loan-shark as a money-collector. As fate would have it Rocky is picked by
Creed for the fight. It ends in a points-victory for Creed. Afraid the public
thought the fight was a draw Creed challenges Rocky to another bout. Doctors
find Rocky with head damage and his wife doesn’t want him to fight anymore. Sometime
later she delivers a baby and, unfortunately, goes into a coma. The dumb Rocky reads
his wife stories and does the only other thing he can; pray. He wants to be a fighter but his wife doesn’t want him to risk more brain damage. Rocky promises to
be a family man and not fight anymore. Days later his wife wakes up from coma.
She knows what Rocky wants in his heart and says just one word. Watch the video
(0.47 mins):
WIN!
Rocky regains his spirits and finally
wins. The media and some parties have been fooling people with the idea that
ours is a British-type parliamentary system and not a US presidential election,
therefore MPs elect the PM. That is procedurally true but not electorally. Take
the Congress; except for one particular election (which got them a sympathy
ride) it has always been a Chinese Gandhi
who has been the PM candidate. It is just that SoniaG installed MMS as the PM.
This country cannot afford puppets anymore; we have paid a heavy price for it.
Real PMs must be at least elected by public vote. Other than that whether it’s
AIADMK, DMK, SP, JDU, RJD, TMC, BSP or any such party, their default PM
candidate is already known. Smaller outfits like SS, MNS, AAP, Akalis or BJD
also have their “owner” as the
default PM candidate. The dictator and “owner” of that party is automatically
their PM candidate. The only two major political parties who do not have an “owner”
who is a default PM candidate are BJP
and CPM. In the new economic order I
would choose to discount CPM playing a major role. Therefore, the only party
with a national presence that does not automatically have a default PM is BJP.
It is in the above context that the rise
of Narendra Modi from a party worker
to BJP’s PM nominee is nothing short of phenomenal. He had to fight hard to
succeed and be where he is today. It may not be easily replicated in India’s
future quite soon. Remember, he was never even meant to be a CM or electoral
candidate at one time. He was parachuted into Gujarat at a time of crisis after
the 2001 earthquake. I cannot forget
that earthquake that occurred at 8am on Republic Day 2001. The BJP govt then
was slammed for poor relief work and that’s how a grassroots worker like NaMo
was flown in. Since then the story has been the media and his political opponents
(and some within his own party) hounding him over the 2002 riots and all other
manufactured allegations. Even today a pathetic Congress couldn’t come up with anything other than this from a man
who talks about “escape velocity”:
It is pretty dumb of RahulG or those who feed him these
lines to once again start the 2002 song. It doesn’t occur to the man or his
sycophants that it’s the hounding of Modi over the 2002 riots that actually
brought him more prominence. Otherwise, he would have been just another CM as
many others. It also helped that Modi gained reputation as a performer and
known to be uncorruptible. It also helped that he happens to be a great orator
who holds large numbers of people in thrall when he speaks. But the most
important thing that also endears Modi as new hope is the pathetic lack of performance by the Congress and other parties who
are still seeped in corruption, appeasement and vote-bank politics. The
Johny-come-lately Arvind Kejriwal who acted like a corruption-fighter turned
out as corrupt and as much a non-performer as the Congress. In fact, it is now
publicly acknowledged that AK is a foot-soldier of SoniaG and nothing more.
The Congress and its jokers keep talking
nonsense about Modi and the nation itself. Recently, Salman Khurshid their minister went to London and trashed our Supreme
Court and Election Commission. The Congress members seem to have completely
become senile. They rant against Modi but can’t motivate their own team as this
report on a Google Hangout of Rahul Gandhi indicates:
It was a miserable flop with not even
regular Congress members participating in the programme. Worse, the image of
empty chairs at the hall where members were to have interacted with RahulG has
been seen by almost everybody who tracks news and events. It is tragic. People who support their own political preferences
and leaders will do so. They may support Jaya, Maya, Mamata, Mulayam, Rahul or
Kejriwal as they passionately should. A political contest is bound to generate
a lot of heat but there are some in this list of names who are totally unfit to
be deciding the course of this nation. Most of them are Congress clones and I
strongly believe for India to progress Congress must die. It was Mahatma Gandhi's dream too. The Congress has no ideology except “Gandhi family” and the
same ideology has been adopted by many other parties too. Indians must refuse to be slaves to individuals and families and
recognise performers and parties with internal democracy. Indians should choose
leaders who have performed, who have risen from the ranks through merit and
public approval. That’s where the future of a large, diverse country lies.
The Anti-Modi army in the media and
assorted NGOs and corrupt individuals will continue to support the rise of the
corrupt to protect their own vested interests. Some in the media and public domain
that I had listed earlier in a post as in the pic below will be active again:
In the long term, all of us are dead. “Que sera sera,
whatever will be will be, the future’s not ours to see”. But it is
well within our hands to get rid of the corrupt ideology that the Congress has
come to represent for many decades. There is a bunch with a similar ideology
and there is one that stands with a different ideology. But the one I do
strongly support is a “Congress Mukt
Bharat”. I will back anyone who
works for this. That being so, I too have only word for Narendra Modi: WIN!
