Raj Keshav's blogs: HINDU IS FOR HINDUTVA, LET’S LEAVE BENARAS FOR MODITVA

AND THE BATTLE GROUND IS SET FOR. JUST THE THREE WORDS – READY, STEADY, GO

Kurukshetra ground for the 2014 general election has been set for and surely after the finalization of Narendra Damodardas Modi name from the holiest city of Benaras. Maybe, the most historical and prominent city for the Hindus is going to get its first ever Prime Minister from Varanasi only. Whatever you want to call it – the land of Baba Vishwanath, the land of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb, or the land of Hindu’s most religious place on Earth, or the land of Lord Shiva, but today the place has surely become a gamble for Mr. Modi, whose final result is scheduled on 16^th May, this year.

Going into the legendary talk, Varanasi was founded by the God Shiva. The oldest inhabitant city on Earth or, on mythological context, the city which rests on the tip of Lord Shiva’s Trishul, is going to witness the ‘Kurukshetra’ battle of 2014. It has both the historical and the present importance. Gautama Buddha gave his first sermon at Sarnath located near Varanasi only. Scholarly books have been written in the city, including the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas. It is the holiest of the seven sacred cities (Sapta Puri) in Hinduism and Jainism, and played an important role in the development of Buddhism. Some Hindus believe that death at Varanasi brings salvation. A single night has made Kashi prominent and it’s not because of Mr. Kejriwal challenge, who out of his sheer over excited ambition going to fight an invincible war at the 80 Ghats of Kashi. You can say it the strategy, compulsion, or the love for Kashi but Mr. Modi’s choosing Kashi as the battleground has made it to acquire prominence on the world political map within a night. It has caused other parties to form the Chakravyuh against him. It simply seems that Kashi knows Modi and Modi know Kashi. The first Narendra had visited Kashi in the year 1884, and Kashi had returned then ‘Vivekananda’ to the world. The second Narendra is set again to visit the place in 2014. Let’s see what Kashi is up to for the world this time.

Any calculative and descriptive answer will only talk about the strategic and compulsive importance of Varanasi – because the land of Kashi holds the key for around 40 odd seats in the area around ‘Poorvanchal’ comprising Eastern U.P and Western Bihar. He has a mission to fulfil today – a mission of development, a mission of futuristic approach and obviously, the mission of 272+ and a proper schema for it, which is knowingly knowable only to the troika i.e. Mr. Modi, Mr. Amit Shah, and Mr. Rajnath Singh, with a very silent and strategic backing of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for whom he has become the ‘Blue-eyed’ child and the most-disciplined student of RSS today. Their plan are so absolute and fine-tuned that the media houses and the psephologists are only taking out the predictions, but deep inside their conscience, they just get stumbled upon in admiration. From Gujarat development, to the land of Benaras for its validity, will only lead him to the fulcrum of power at Delhi. It’s not easy to put oneself in centre front after 2002 pogrom, after so much hullaballoo. He was always under the lens for the scrutiny. He had been defeated and blamed by almost all the media houses, for his alleged involvement in 2002 pogrom. But as we say, the more opposition you have, the more followers you get. Today, he has a backing of millions people behind him. It’s a sheer belief of one in oneself only. It’s really need a great courage or you can say the dedication of around 15 years in Gujarat, or the dedication of around 50 years for RSS, or the dedication for the country which has made him vanquished today.

If anything which matters today is, then it’s his ambition for 272+, what matters today is the number of votes which go in his favour, and number of MPs going to parliament under the saffron brigade, and not the place from which he is going to contest. The country of India with around a population of 1.23 billion (officially) needs an aggression of development. It has walked the path of libertarian and mixed economy for around 50 years. What people and most of the younger generation today had forgotten is religion and caste-based politics, and what they want to remember is a security, a security of job, well-being, and future prospects. What they don’t want to remember is 2002, and what they want to remember is GIFT - Gujarat International Finance Tec-City - a brainchild project of MR. MODI and described as his pet project.

His national appeal and charisma can be confirmed today by the ’ Rainbow Alliance’ in Tamil Nadu, the backing of dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan in Bihar, and as a consolation in the name of Mufti Muhammad Syed of PDP- People’s Democratic Party, in Kashmir, which all has given him the added advantage for his coronation.

And I confer and conclude, whole heartedly, anybody who has visited the land of India’s most western state can’t deny the impression of Moditva effect there. They can deny it only in the presence of biasness, or they have simply blind folded their eyes and ears. Today Modi has a reason to show confidence. He is the promise for India, a mirage in the middle of desert, providing life to the millions. He is not a new personality in the land of Ashoka and Akbar. He is no more and a bigger dictator and despotic than even the two personality mentioned here. If Independent India could confer the tag of ‘Ashoka the Great’ and ‘Akbar the Great’, then he is not a way behind from getting it with his aspiring dream of 272+. Even destiny has written his fate from Kashi and for his ambitious plans. From my side, both ‘Varanasi’ and ‘Vadodara’ has a start with the alphabet ‘V’ – a sign symbol for ‘Victory’. ‘EVEN LORD SHIVA HAS TO THINK TWICE BEFORE MAKING HIM DEFEATED THERE.’