Yesterday, the main opposition party of the Indian Parliament, Bharatiya Janata Party announced their Prime Minister Candidate and he is non-other than Shri Narendra Modi, Current Chief Minister of Gujarat and master of his speeches. Let me highlight about his journey from being a chaiwala to generation next Prime Minister.This journey has many ups and downs but it throws a lot of inspirations.
Narendra Modi born in Vadnagar village of North Gujarat’s Mehsana district. This is the timeline of his political career:
1950s: 17th September, 1950, on this day, Narendra Modi was born to Damodardas and Hiraben Modi. They were six brother and sister in total. Due to poor financial situation Narendra started working at a tea stall at the age of 14. Then he joined Akhil Bharatiya Vidhtarthi Parishad (ABVP) and then he joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
1989: He joined BJP when the heatwave of Hinduism hit to all over the nation and that is the reason why he is saying in his speeches that, he is proud of being Hindu and Hinduism is the core element of the Indian Constitution because the name of the nation is nothing but “Hindustan”.
1990: During L K Advani’s journey of Ram Mandir (Ayodhya) to Somnath, Modi played important role in managing the whole journey for Advani. That journey is known as Ram Rathyatra.
1995: Modi announced as National Minister for BJP and responsibilities of five states had been given to him. In 1998, he declared as Mahamantri of BJP. In his leadership skills, BJP won with majority in Gujarat and his status touches the sky.
2001: As a Chief Minister of Gujarat Modi replaced Keshubhai Patel. This is true starting for his political career.
2002: In February, Sabarmati Express’s one boggy had been burnt and around 59 people died. Due to this, in all over Gujarat, communal riots started. In that scenario, around 1,000 people lost their lives, in that majority people came from minority. People alleged Narendra Modi for mismanagement and UPA government also put allegation on him about this. Narendra Modi denied all the allegation and in Special Investigation Team’s leader ship he got clean chit from this case.
2005: United States of America rejected his Visa by saying Modi is creating communal partiality.
2007: Modi chosen as CM for third time consecutively in Assembly elections in Gujarat.
2012: Modi again won in the election and chosen for CM for the fourth time. This is best example of leadership where a person serves four supersuccessful terms with only aim of development. BJP won on 115 seats from 182.
2013: People are waiting to see him as Prime Minister because of his aggressive leadership, although he never said that he is doing well in Gujarat for that position. Today because of infrastructural development Gujarat became international icon in the globe. On 9th June, Modi announced BJP’s Chairman of Campaigning Committee. Because of this promotion to Modi, 17 year old alliance between Janta Dal (United) broke the note with NDA. After that Modi attended 4 public meets mainly in Hyderabad, Jodhpur and Bharuch with lacs of people in the stadium. He declared a statement that, “people ruined their life because they dream about being on some position, and dream about doing, position will cherish the hardwork and effort.” He proved this statement right and on 13th September, 2013 Modi announced candidate for Prime Minister from BJP.
Some people may blame him for being communal, but he has a very good quality that can overshadow all the allegations, after every success he always touch the feet of his Gurus. After winning in Gujarat Election 2013, he went to Keshubhai Patel who was his opponent in Gujarat. After announcement of PM candidate, he went to L K Advani's home for conversations. This makes him real genNext PM.
Congratulations to him.
~ Bhavin Pathak
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