By
Amarnath Pandey
Let's have a brief look at 'sneaking in Prime Ministers' who have been forgotten by us long long ago and more or less,
they were opportunist and nuisance unworthy dirty men. A backbone-less person can't make a powerful PM and a
PM should never be a backbone-less person at all. Desai, Charan Singh, VP Singh, Chandrashekhar, Gowda, Gujral.
..maybe many of them are still known for their honesty, transparency and bizarre doctrines, but most of them were
in a hurry to assume the chair and register their names in history forever.
Sadly, most of them had had no idea of good governance at all. They didn't have any vision or agenda to at least
give a 5 yr stable government. They somehow managed to make deceptive alliances on no ground, played treason
with 'A'; betrayed people and finally thrown out by 'B' or 'C'.
What is most tragic that they killed the time of nation, revealing holes and fault lines in Indian democracy when compared
to USA or UK where is no possibility of ruling for 2 months or 11 months or having mid-term elections.
We still aren't out of that danger as we have some dangerous and shrewd leaders around us with the ambitions of
occupying PMO.
MORE OR LESS, PMs LIKE VP SINGH DID LESS GOOD AND HARMED MORE, AS HE, FOR THE GREED OF VOTES AND
HISTORICAL IMMORTALITY, PUSHED INDIA BACK IN THE DARK AGE OF CAST-ISM FROM WHICH SHE HAD TO STRUGGLE
FOR CENTURIES TO FREE HERSELF.
MORE OR LESS, THESE DUMMY AND 'ANTI' PMs DESTROYED THE SOCIO-POLITICAL STRUCTURE AND DISTURBED
CONTEMPORARY AGE.
THEY WERE LIKE A CURSE, A NEMESIS, A BLOT WHICH RE-OCCUR ITSELF AGAIN AND AGAIN ONLY TO REVEAL HOW
FAULTY OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM IS.
No one else become a PM and connected with the people, the party, the opposition and the world,
like Atal Behari Vajpayee did. He earned the respect of his partymen, the general, world leaders,
even opposition in the same breath and same Godlike reverence. He made INDIA important in the
world, Clinton had to come and embrace INDIA, and realize his mistake of undervaluing the largest
democrcy in the world.
While the jury still out on the topic who's the best PM yet, a point is often overlooked: INDIA is too
big of a country in the geographical context and probably the biggest in the diversity of culture, ethnicity,
language, population and issues as well as problems related to development and governance.
No king can be greater than Akbar and Ashok, or Shah Jehan and Chandra Gupt. Bibmbisar,
Harsh Vardahan, Prithvi Raj Chouhan, many many glorious names come in mind.
But to rule the 21st century 120 crore strong INDIA was really tedious. So Vajpayee was no different.
INDIA is a country where problems grow triple the rate you solve them. So the India of Atalji was not
the ideal one, but she was definitely better then ever. His Bus-Yatra to Pakistan, his Golden-Quadrangle
Project, his Nuclear ordeal, his Single-Vote defeat in Lok Sabha, his re-emergence in the subsequent massive
electoral victory and his Ultra Super Image against contemporary opposition leader's Mega Nano Dwarf Image
all the time are some memorable timelines that rewrites his stature larger than life. His personal Charisma alone
was larger than his party. He somewhat stands like a Heroic figure who is known for his galore and sacrifices and
not his personal achievements like Sachin's 100th ton which has become more important than Team India' victory;
and not for his tyranny like Narendra Modi's or like Nehru-Gandhi [family] Dynasty's whose interests weigh larger
than the interests of party or people. Besides, whether successful or not successful, Vajpayeeji will be remembered
as a person who really thought for the people and the country. At least, we, the people, remember the Vajpayee era
when we were not being convicted/sacrificed for the interests of the government, especially a family. And there was
always a hope. A strong INDIA, under an honest but boldest Prime Minister, on the way of winning the world, inevitably,
eventually...
Amarnath Pandey
Let's have a brief look at 'sneaking in Prime Ministers' who have been forgotten by us long long ago and more or less,
they were opportunist and nuisance unworthy dirty men. A backbone-less person can't make a powerful PM and a
PM should never be a backbone-less person at all. Desai, Charan Singh, VP Singh, Chandrashekhar, Gowda, Gujral.
..maybe many of them are still known for their honesty, transparency and bizarre doctrines, but most of them were
in a hurry to assume the chair and register their names in history forever.
Sadly, most of them had had no idea of good governance at all. They didn't have any vision or agenda to at least
give a 5 yr stable government. They somehow managed to make deceptive alliances on no ground, played treason
with 'A'; betrayed people and finally thrown out by 'B' or 'C'.
What is most tragic that they killed the time of nation, revealing holes and fault lines in Indian democracy when compared
to USA or UK where is no possibility of ruling for 2 months or 11 months or having mid-term elections.
We still aren't out of that danger as we have some dangerous and shrewd leaders around us with the ambitions of
occupying PMO.
MORE OR LESS, PMs LIKE VP SINGH DID LESS GOOD AND HARMED MORE, AS HE, FOR THE GREED OF VOTES AND
HISTORICAL IMMORTALITY, PUSHED INDIA BACK IN THE DARK AGE OF CAST-ISM FROM WHICH SHE HAD TO STRUGGLE
FOR CENTURIES TO FREE HERSELF.
MORE OR LESS, THESE DUMMY AND 'ANTI' PMs DESTROYED THE SOCIO-POLITICAL STRUCTURE AND DISTURBED
CONTEMPORARY AGE.
THEY WERE LIKE A CURSE, A NEMESIS, A BLOT WHICH RE-OCCUR ITSELF AGAIN AND AGAIN ONLY TO REVEAL HOW
FAULTY OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM IS.
No one else become a PM and connected with the people, the party, the opposition and the world,
like Atal Behari Vajpayee did. He earned the respect of his partymen, the general, world leaders,
even opposition in the same breath and same Godlike reverence. He made INDIA important in the
world, Clinton had to come and embrace INDIA, and realize his mistake of undervaluing the largest
democrcy in the world.
While the jury still out on the topic who's the best PM yet, a point is often overlooked: INDIA is too
big of a country in the geographical context and probably the biggest in the diversity of culture, ethnicity,
language, population and issues as well as problems related to development and governance.
No king can be greater than Akbar and Ashok, or Shah Jehan and Chandra Gupt. Bibmbisar,
Harsh Vardahan, Prithvi Raj Chouhan, many many glorious names come in mind.
But to rule the 21st century 120 crore strong INDIA was really tedious. So Vajpayee was no different.
INDIA is a country where problems grow triple the rate you solve them. So the India of Atalji was not
the ideal one, but she was definitely better then ever. His Bus-Yatra to Pakistan, his Golden-Quadrangle
Project, his Nuclear ordeal, his Single-Vote defeat in Lok Sabha, his re-emergence in the subsequent massive
electoral victory and his Ultra Super Image against contemporary opposition leader's Mega Nano Dwarf Image
all the time are some memorable timelines that rewrites his stature larger than life. His personal Charisma alone
was larger than his party. He somewhat stands like a Heroic figure who is known for his galore and sacrifices and
not his personal achievements like Sachin's 100th ton which has become more important than Team India' victory;
and not for his tyranny like Narendra Modi's or like Nehru-Gandhi [family] Dynasty's whose interests weigh larger
than the interests of party or people. Besides, whether successful or not successful, Vajpayeeji will be remembered
as a person who really thought for the people and the country. At least, we, the people, remember the Vajpayee era
when we were not being convicted/sacrificed for the interests of the government, especially a family. And there was
always a hope. A strong INDIA, under an honest but boldest Prime Minister, on the way of winning the world, inevitably,
eventually...