Modi Jeeta, Tho Wohi Sikandar

An important / significant message that all political pundits and the secular media have deliberately or inadvertently ignored about Modi’s victory is the “JO JEETA WHOI SIKANDAR” maxim. A victory, which was not once, not twice but sort of record setting third time and that too after a decade long, sustained attack of negative campaign and mud slinging. To make these attacks formidable and overwhelming, senior officials of the government machinery were used alongside loyal secular English language media journalist and NGO’s. At the end, the Modi baiters were a frustrated lot because nothing stuck. It did not stick because of Modi’s innocence rather than legal wrangling.

What is now obvious is that Narendra Modi must be the most thoroughly VETTED leader in the whole world subjected to such vicious and vigorous “agni-pareeksha”. Yet, despite overwhelming odds stacked against him, he has endured and WON. Again and again and again. So Bhai Narendra Modi is the undisputed SIKANDAR.

The exposés have become particularly vicious during the election years. The attached 2007 video of Hindustan Times & CNN IBN Leadership Summit is relevant even today and clearly demonstrates the deep rooted anti Modi bias of famous media personalities who have since fallen from grace and continue to question and attack Mr. Modi. Rajdeep Sardesai continues his relentless attack questioning Modi’s morality in his election victory. In the video Modi rightly counter questions Rajdeep’s deep rooted negativity that does not allow him to acknowledge the greater good in Modi’s economic reforms and only look to highlight the small percentage of flaws in Gujarat’s development. Slandering Modi has become a habit and a hobby for many so-called liberal and secular political pundits. After the Supreme Court appointed SIT cleared Modi’s name in the 2002 Godhra riots, journalists like Vir Sanghvi and Barkha Dutt continued their hateful rhetoric, calling Modi a mass murderer. Of course one should ask what credibility and moral right do Vir Sanghvi (mentioned in this video) and Barkha Dutt have to do so when they themselves have been exposed to involvement in the Nira Radia tapes of the 2G scam. The hypocrisy of these media mavens knows no bounds.

Louise Khurshid the wife of the Congress external affairs minister Salman Khurshid can be seen questioning Modi on the percentage of vote that he won with during 2002 only to get a smart and logical rebut from Modi. Per Modi, what this woman conveniently ignored was that the corrupt Congress regime that her husband is part of, is ruling the entire country with far less vote percent than Modi has ruled Gujarat.

Now that he has been exonerated for atrocities and marginalizing the minorities, the media has found new rhetoric against Modi which is malnutrition in Gujarat and his “exaggerated development” achievements.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta in his article title “A Modi-fied politics” in The Indian Express writes: “If the Central government had been subjected to the kind of scrutiny Gujarat has been subjected to, our economic history would have been entirely different.

I would like to point out that the people who have used the term Hindutva to vilify Modi, stand exposed as charlatans and poseurs who do not understand the term at all. As Modi explains in the video, the entire Hindutva philosophy is based on the important Rig Veda verse “Ekam Sat, Viprah Bahudha Vadanti” i.e. “Truth is one but men describe it differently” or “That which exists is ONE sages call it by various names “or “God is one but there are different way to attain Him”. Now what can be more secular and inclusive than this? Compare this with the “Holier-than-thou or “Kafir the Non-believer” attitude. It’s an unfortunate irony that Hindutva has been branded as being communal while the organized religions are celebrated as secular.
It is expected that with Modi’s move to the center becoming imminent, the pseudo secularist will try to dig out more dirt and become even more vicious in their attacks.

Here is another post from early this year by one Vinod K Jose titled “The Emperor Uncrowned” detailing Modi’s rise can be read at: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/emperor-uncrowned

Finally all I have to say to the Modi baiter is “When you point one finger, there are three fingers pointing back at you”. Also wish to add an improvised Ghalib’s sher:

Chalta hoon thodi door har ek Tez rau ke saath, 
Pahchanta hoon abhi Raahbar ko main

(I join everyone who is ahead in the caravan, /I have recognized the leader who will show me the way).

It is TIME we accept Narendra Modi is the undisputed Sikandar.