Modi has a right to dream big

Narendra Modi is the voice of Gujarat. His speech is an event of campaign. He skillfully plays on the emotions of the audience pushing the level of excitements to the peak until the mass end up wide-eyed, screaming, frenzied and surrender to his will and look up to him with Hindu-religious adoration. He knows how to protect the soil of Hindutva. Certainly, Modi is one of the most divisive figures in Indian politics.

Can Narendra Modi be the first regional politician to find followers across India? The youngsters love his personality and doesn’t care which party he belongs to. People also respect him as an author and poet. The talented politician is also the author of three books. He writes in Gujarati and his works are never get translated. I do think that his books are worth translating into English for the non-Gujaratis. This is because a man like Modi can be well known through his writings. People will try to understand his activities and goal in his field.

That he is a great speaker has been proved several times where he made an impact on thousands of youngsters. They are impressed with his emphasis on the youth being an agent of change. But, fact is that we often can’t depend on our politicians’ words alone and what we need most is their work for the nation. It has been noticed that most of our leaders gave a course of public lectures on various issues but sadly, they failed to do something on the issues and broke their promises.

A couple of other chief ministers like Jyoti Basu and Mohanlal Sukhadia should have led the nation. Every minister or politician should have an aim to become the prime minister of the country. And Modi has the right to do so but the past isn’t kind enough to motivate chief ministers who try to find regional eminence into nationwide status.

Modi’s state tops the list of 20 states with regard to economic power in 2012, a report explains. Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh are jointly second. In 2011, Gujarat was also the top state with economic freedom. But, Gujarat is still suffering from lack of IT sectors as well as lack of proficiency in English. In contemporary India, thanks to the growing aspirations of the youth to learn English, the Chief Minister of Gujarat must realize that English should be learnt and spoken in any case.

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