Once again, Modi has shown his gusto that he
means results in the political state of affairs and the ultimate outcome must
be positive. In his recent reshuffle of his ministers, indirectly he has
conveyed the signal that either you perform or perish. On the 9th instant, Modi
has expanded his ministry by inducting 21 new ministers and three others as minister of
states with independent charges. From these changes, it is evident that he is keen to induct
his own men and then groom them with his thoughtful ventures to steer past the downturn
of the country’s economical situation. In the past little less than six months,
he has taken some crucial decisions and give the skeleton of India’s dishevel
condition of governance a encouraging and right direction and to follow the
correct path of ruling a country. Needless to say, the thumping victory with an
absolute majority in the last parliament election has made him not to face any
obstruction whatsoever in bringing these changes in the ministerial portfolios.
In fact, his firm and confident demeanor and attitudinal posture has stooped
even his own party to put any resistance to effect this alteration of various
portfolios.
After the jubilation of victories in the state elections,
both in Maharashtra and Haryana recently, he is exuding a more toughness for
which he is well known. In all realities the Prime Minister of a country must
hear, listen, speak, but when it comes to taking a decision, he has to be
ruthless for the purpose of a noble cause. Modi is performing and carrying out
the same thing.
The two major portfolios, namely the railway
and the health have been divested from the present incumbents, which in earlier
government was not possible at all
because of the steep resistance, both from the outside and inside. In fact, our
country was not that tuned to see these types of bold decisions in the past ten
years. By downgrading Gowda from the railway ministry, he has given the signal
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all his other ministers that good governance
means you should not only be amicable
and lovable, but you must possess the guts and courage to get your decisions Implemented
through the tough minded and sometimes obstinate bureaucrats. He was failing in
his this mission and lost the vital ministry. The same is the case with Harsh
Vardhan. The otherwise very upright and honest person as he is, has stepped on
toes with his anti-tobacco campaign. Though he has been allocated an important
portfolio, like science & technology, he has been identified as a reserve
for the chief ministership of Delhi, if party wins the election going to be
held shortly. By bringing people like Suresh Prabhu, Manohar Parrikar and Jagat
Nanda, he has not only brought his own confidants, but ensure they possess a clean image, loyalty, technocratic
credentials, energy and vigor to work relentlessly and more importantly has a
maturity to connect with the masses. One of the reasons of inducting Babul
Supriyo is because of his ability to connect with the people through his
singing.
Only one change, is a bit surprising to
juxtapose the portfolio of already overloaded Jetley with information and
broadcasting. Since, he is mostly occupied with the ministry of finance, which
is the nerve center of a country’s growth; he is relieved from the
responsibility of the defence portfolio. Perhaps, Modi wants to strengthen this
ministry of I &B by bringing him. The corridor buzzing is that Modi is not
so happy the way black money retrieval campaign has been handled through the
different channels of media. The argument on which Jetley has been divested and
then given an additional portfolio of this important ministry does not fully
justify. As per me, he could have been allocated this to a seniormost MP in
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Rajasthan like Dushyant Singh, the son of veteran leader
of the BJP, Jaswant Singh.
It is true that BJP is not having so many
talented MPs from the inner circle and so Modi has to depend to induct
outsiders for qualitative output of good governance, but he cannot induct
outsiders and then make them elected in the Rajya Sabha at this stage. That is
the reason, he has to compromise and strengthen the I &B ministry with Jetley
only.
Modi is determined to enlarge his party’s base
to kill the opponents with his decisive forces and also considering the ensuing elections in
various states, namely Bihar, West Bengal, UP and Punjab within another three
years. With this political scenario in his mind, he has given a berth as number
of ministers to various MPs of the
states like UP, Bihar. In this process, he ignores the demand of other states.
One thing is very distinct that Modi is
fundamentally clear that he will be monitoring the performance of all his
ministers periodically and any lapse will not be tolerated by him and that is
his final dictum on last Sunday’s oath ceremony of the new group of ministers. By bringing these changes and showing his tough
posture to focus and concentrate only on results, he is able to exert his able
leadership as a prime minister to provide a culture of good governance, which
was not there in the past ten years.
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