Article on current mood of the nation polls

Solute, Solvent and the Solution: Modi-Sol

Narendra Modi is seen today as a Charismatic leader and a ray of hope for the billion plus denizens of the country cutting across all the classes, uniting all the shades of grasses and is jubilation for the masses.

Let me add some vivacity to this write-up as the chemistry between the mood of the nation polls and the people themselves was never so romantic. Needless to say, he is the cynosure of all the eyes that now see a silver lining in his silhouette.

Today almost every opinion poll suggests that the current Chief Minister of Gujarat is the most popular choice for the Premier of India. Well the reasons are obvious and well-known. Development model of Gujarat has taken the centre stage in any forum that forays into the issues that confront our nation. Like a knife through butter, the examples of good governance and development in Gujarat keep reverberating in these discussions.

Narendra Modi’s personality traits make up for an ideal solute that can dissolve totally in the solvent (read Indian elections) and create a solution that will be a panacea for our country. I have given this solution the name ‘Modi-sol’ which I feel will act as both anti-pyretic as well as analgesic to calm the anger and soothe the agony respectively of Indian citizens. 

The principal contribution of Narendra Modi is the attitude change he has brought about in the Indian Psyche hitting all the 3 major components of Psychology that I call the ABC expanded as Affective, Behavioural and Cognitive areas. I will briefly explain what attitude change in all the 3 components has resulted into. The affective according to me is that the people especially the newly enfranchised have started taking more interest in our national and cultural heritage thereby developing a deeper sense of patriotism. The behavioural according to me is that today the digerati and the twitterati who propagate all ideas, emotions and thoughts bringing about changes in voting behaviour and miscellaneous opinions. The cognitive is that the citizens are now taking keen interest in thinking on issues of development, good governance and law. It is not that these things weren’t there before; only that these attitudes were overshadowed by the clouds of cynicism. ‘That’s the way the cookie used to crumble’. Not anymore. The winds of change are now sailing the yacht of Indian democracy. So maybe the disappearance of the clouds of cynicism has revealed what constitute the ‘attitude change’ in the preceding lines.

There is a definite class of leaders for whom the hustings are a bought-out show of strength to fool ‘the hoi-polloi’ and their only motive is to harvest votes by smearing mud on any opposition in public and afterwards exuding shrieks of fiendish laughter at the multitudes when sitting with their egotist coterie in private that smacks of schadenfreude on their part.

Mr. Narendra Modi belongs to the different species of leaders who are naturally hostile to the type aforementioned. His policy of “appeasement to none, development for all” has endeared the citizens. The undisguised admiration from the masses is nothing but a natural response to the candour in his stellar oratorical pieces. The plenitude of this quality along with a constellation of benevolent traits makes him a cult figure. The huge groundswell of support for Mr. Narendra Modi for the Prime Minister of India has started coming from all quarters now.

Meeting this level of expectation may seem to be an onerous task but for Mr. Modi it is a long cherished work in his vision of nation building. There’s more than one way to skin a cat and I am sure that with his eclectic approach and dogged pertinacity he can fulfil the expectations of Honourable Indians whom the corrupt leaders refused to honour and kept terming them ‘the hoi-polloi’.

                                Ved Srinivas