India is a complex country and governing it calls for
sagacity, wisdom, experience, and control. I have always maintained that the
Indian leader who leads this country must have experience over youth, wisdom
over dynamism and take everyone in his ambit and stride and deliberately keep a
consciously low profile.
He must create heroes out of ordinary members of his
team and be the decision-making force from behind the scenes. Modi’s and the
BJP’s strategy need to be considerably tweaked if they desire to form the
government at the Centre post the 2014 elections. Two reasons can be cited for
this. In the assembly elections in the capital, the BJP despite having the
maximum number of seats in the assembly was still not able to form the
government because AAP with a lesser number of seats was able to form the
government with the support of the Congress.
You can no longer say that you
don’t seek power but want to work in an altruistic way because it is power
which ensures that you will be able to provide good governance and a strong
government. Therefore you must use all means possible, legitimately, to gain
power. AAP is a parody because the very government it opposed, the Congress,
and the very reason for its existence, it has defied it and is running haywire on
the back of Congress support. Even now, the BJP in Delhi must muster the
support of disgruntled elements in other parties and must try its best to form
the government in the Capital (Delhi). Single-party rule era is over in India
for quite some time and the BJP must be a past master and learn the tricky game
of pulling together a coalition and working in its ambit.
The BJP must eagerly
reach out to other parties who are disheartened by the ruling dispensation and
must stitch together a pre-poll alliance to get the necessary seats and if not
then after elections it must focus on a post-poll alliance. You must seek power
if you want to get it and no other party signifies this better than the
Congress. They wanted to rule this country and they made sure for 60 years that
they got power. The BJP too must exhibit this killer instinct. The bottomline
is: you will get power only if you want it for the good of the country. It will
be a pity and indeed the people will not forgive the BJP if it does a repeat of
the Delhi performance in the Centre. If despite winning over 225 seats in 2014
elections it is still unable to stitch an alliance to form the government in
the Centre and if the Congress with 70-80 seats and AAP with 30-40 seats and
other parties come together it is very likely that a Congress led government
with the support of the third front or with tacit Congress backing could once
again form the government at the Centre and this could leave the BJP out in the
cold, yet again.
This is the hot gossip and stories doing the rounds in the
drawing rooms of the country’s homes. So Mr Modi should learn the art of
coalition politics and keep his alliance partners in good humour if he seeks to
lead the government post-2014 elections. Second, the BJP has to learn how to work
in unison and work in tandem. It can take a lesson from the Congress. They are
experts in doing this. The entire BJP leadership, the second, third and fourth
rung leaders must back Modi strongly and must counter all negative jibes which
the opposition takes at Modi and the BJP. Modi in turn must create a rapport
and strong relationships with the nearly 20-30 prominent leaders of the BJP at
the national level and must extend respect, courtesy and importance to them. At
every Modi rally, he must be backed by 5-6 state level BJP leaders and 7-8
national level BJP leaders.
The state leaders must talk about district, state
and regional issues in that order while the national leaders must talk about
state, regional and national issues in that order and Mr Modi and a couple of
prominent BJP leaders must also talk about international issues apart from
state, regional and national issues. Before every rally, deep research by
roping in local experts and research on newspapers/magazines and internet must
be done on local, state and regional issues which are dear to the local people
and which they relate to. The protégé (Modi) must have the backing of the
mentor (Advaniji) as no shishya can ever aspire to complete his task without
the blessings of his guru. Modi must mellow down a bit, he must learn to endear
himself to others, especially his own party members, the people of this country
and even to the Opposition.
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