Big Lok Sabha mandate vanity amid changelessness
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Modi aims at 400 Lok Sabha seats after 2-term at Centre
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, May 17: She was a bright young girl. She took part in all cultural activities in her housing society, and also at the school where she studied. She was the life force of her family.
Daughter of a professor, she was also an attraction for neighbours. They all looked at her with pride. In a flash decision, she left behind only memories for the people to talk about and chat in WhatsApp.
She got “just” 80 percentile in the 10th CBSE Board examination. This was way below the new normal of 99.8 percentile. The celebrations of 99.8 per centile are now new normal.
The WhatsApp status also boasts of sons and daughters scoring the near hundred percentile. The newspapers were full of advertisements. The schools came out with their own leaflets to boast of above 90 percentile school average in the board examination.
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The girl had “just” 80 percentile. She went to the 16th floor of her housing society tower, and from there jumped off. She died by suicide.
Six months into the first term of the Narendra Modi government, a secretary in a Central government ministry said: “He has squandered the mandate. After almost three decades, Modi became the prime minister with full majority of the ruling party. But he is what all others before had been – just status quoist.”
Modi now is seeking a mandate of 400 Lok Sabha seats for the ruling alliance, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). His fellow candidates in the Lok Sabha elections from the ranks of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have gone viral in the social media platforms by thinking loud on the possible “big things” that Modi may do with 400 MPs under his command in the Lok Sabha.
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Modi will complete his two full terms at the Centre as the prime minister in the next few days. He has been a priest of “full-majority” government.
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Ten years after the “full-majority” Modi government, the education sector remains the fiefdom of shopkeepers. The health sector is lorded by the predatory pharma sharks and insurance companies. China pipped the US to become the largest trading partner of India, accounting for $101.6 billion in trade surplus.
Despite celebrations of 99.7 percentile score chart in the schools, India imports substandard Chinese goods. The gentle wind of innovation blows in the US, not India. Under the nose of the “reformist” government, the Kota coaching factory remains killing field of the children.
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The “big things” that the Modi government did in the first two terms not necessarily needed full-majority dispensation. Demonetisation and national lockdown with four-hour notice could be announced by any dispensation, irrespective of the strength in parliament. The spate of legislations pushed through parliament and returning back with several amendment after facing teething practical challenges in the Modi government can also be done by any dispensation.
Emergency was also imposed by a government which was without the strength of 400 MPs in the Lok Sabha. When society and schools celebrate the rat race of percentile, political actors may not be exception in aiming at a big score sheet.
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