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‘Modi is our unanimous choice’ cries India
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In a recently conducted online poll by The Times of India (April 23, 2009) on which leaders would people pick to run the country, right from independence till the present, Narendra Modi’s name cropped up no lesser than 4 times. It is a mark of the great esteem and honour that the country holds him in that he is the only leader whose name makes it not only as the man
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3rd in line for the Prime Minister’s office as well as into the top 5 in 3 key portfolios. As the nation’s choice for Prime Minister he comes in right after India’s Iron Man Sardar Patel and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. For the home ministry his name is second to that only of Sardar Patel and the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani, as the Commerce & Industry Minister he’s been voted in as No. 2 and as Defence Minister, at no. 1, he is the undisputed choice.
Judging from these results, the attributes citizens seek in leaders are integrity, impartiality and the ability to take tough decisions. What one can infer about Modi’s reputation and image from these polls is interesting too. People clearly view him as a leader who carries the courage of his convictions, whose position on terrorism is tough and unyielding, who will take a strong line against Pakistan and the Taliban, will zealously defend India’s borders, someone who is assiduously fair and does not play vote bank politics or appease any community or caste.
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People’s preference for him as Commerce & Industry Minister shows that he’s pro-development, someone who can create jobs and growth and put the economy back on track as well as a man who is a performer and can get the better of our Sir Humphrey Appleby’s. At the recent Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor’s Summit many of India’s leading industrialists too batted for him right on from Reliance’s Anil Ambani to Sunil Mittal, from Ratan Tata to Kumar Mangalam Birla, many paying him the ultimate compliment by saying that he ought to be our Prime Minister.
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Reflecting the measure of inadequacy of our current PM, Manmohan Singh did not make it to anywhere near the top of the PMs list. Although if one considers that he landed the top job thanks to the inner voice of Madame Sonia and ironically, for the world’s largest democracy, is a nominated head, these results are not surprising. As for Sonia Gandhi, it is a patent indictment of the Congress President that her name does not figure in any of the lists at all. It serves as a testimony to the lack of confidence that the nation has in her and her bungling government. It is evident that winds of change are blowing through the nation and India’s voters have plainly had enough of the weak and incompetent UPA government. |
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