Enraged with the humiliation by the Nanda’s(Emperor of
Magadha), Chanakya walking hurriedly in a forest and stumbled as he stepped on the
kusa grass which tripped him over. Since the grass is extremely difficult to
uproot, people let it grow without destroying it. Chanakya the great scholar
had his own style of handling things. Though he was angry, he never let his
anger get out of his control. He directed the anger in the right direction. He
looked at the roots of the grass and poured bowl of sugar syrup at roots of the
grass and calmly sat by the side.
While Chanakya engrossed in this act, a young man was
closely watching whole thing and politely asked him about the surprise act.
Chanakya replied that he was making the root of the grass sweet which will
attract ants and ants will destroy the grass. Within no time that did
happen. That young man was Chandragupta,
estranged step brother of Nanda king, further asked why a simple grass was
being destroyed for vengeance. Chanakya replied that everyone owes a duty to
the society by removing noxious things, and he would remove even a king if the
king adopted adharma. Chandragupta was
already disgruntled with his brother ruling methods, people’s suffering, and seeing Chanakya’s intelligence,
Chandragupta asked to be accepted a disciple.
Chanakya trained Chandragupta well, and gathered group
of people disconnected with King’s rule and then formed an alliance with
Parvataka to defeat the Nanda king. The
initial attempts at conquering Magadha were unsuccessful. Chanakya then came up with a path breaking
change in attacking strategy:
“Once, Chanakya came across a mother scolding her child for
burning his mouth by eating from middle of bowl of porridge(a hot food item)
rather than the cooler edge”
Chanakya immediately realized his initial strategic
error; first he was attacking the core of the city, he then changed strategy
and focused on capturing the areas located at the peripheries of Magadha Empire. Again there were mistakes. The troops were
not stationed in the areas conquered. So when the troops marched forward, the
people of the conquered areas joined together again and circled their army.
Thus those who had been defeated had to be fought again and again.
Chandragupta and Chanakya learnt lessons from these mistakes
and stationed troops in the conquered regions.
With right strategies, allies, devising unconventional plans i.e. planting
spies and infiltrating enemy camp, and waited until Nanda’s weakness visible, they
defeated last king and established new empire with Chandragupta Maurya as
emperor. Chanakya always wanted kingdom should be secure and so as the smooth
administration, bring happiness to the people. They established following Rajya Dharma:
"The
secret task of a king is to strive for the welfare of his people incessantly.
The administration of the kingdom is his religious duty. His greatest gift
would be to treat all as equals." A
king should never think of his personal interest or welfare, but should try to
find the joy in the joy of his subjects
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Mr. Narendra Modi seem to have taken huge inspiration
from Chanakya’s Niti Shastra (collection
of aphorisms) and Arthashastra (about
Monetary, fiscal policies, welfare, international relations, and war strategies);
since taking office as Prime Minister, his administration has focused on inflation
control, reforming and modernizing infrastructure, financial inclusion (Jan Dhan yojana, Bhima yojana, MUDRA bank),
welfare schemes aiming to reach last person in the queue (anthyodaya –benefits cash transfer scheme), reducing bureaucracy, securing
borders, liberalizing FDI policies, encourage manufacturing (Make In India, Ease of doing business), improving
nation’s health, living and sanitation standards (swacch bharat abhiyan, yoga, universal health care, expansion of AIIMS,
AMRUT, SMART villages/cities), gender equality (Beti bachao andolan), education reforms (expand the base of IIT, IIM’s and collaborate rural education with
universities, various skill initiatives),
improving foreign relations, direct connect with masses (Mann ki Baat, social platforms), Defense
reforms (OROP, Naga peace accord), enhanced
state-central co-ordination aiming faster service delivery (NITI Aayog, Digital India).
Though Mr. Modi has impeccable administrative
experience, transition from Gandhi Nagar to Delhi has come up with a new set of
challenges and treatment applied to a state cannot be applied to nation due to in-varied size of geo-political space, expectations, external/internal affairs, economy etc...
An able ruler will choose
his assistants (counsel) wisely. The ruler should have Discrimination and the
wisdom of identifying and choosing trustworthy and suitable persons of ability
to assist him. This is possible only when he himself is an able person. These
assistants are specialists in their own fields. The ruler before taking any
decision must consult his assistants so as to reach a correct and proper
decision.
Mr. Narendra Modi made a smart choices by appointing
Advisors, Mr. Nripendra Misra (Principle Secetary), Mr. Ajit Doval (NSA), Mr.
Jayashankar(Foreign Secretary) Council
of ministers Ms. Sushma Swaraj, Mr. Arun Jaitley, Mr. RajNath Singh, Mr. Mahohar
Paarikar, Mr. Nitin Gadkari, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, Mr. Dharmenda Pradhan who has
plenty of organizational experience with domestic politics and administration,
technocrats like Mr. Suresh Prabhu, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, Mr. Piyush Goyal
and political commander Mr. Amit Shah to run the party.
May
2014: Set the priorities right: (People
& Nation Welfare top most priority)
The
foremost duty of the ruler is to keep his people, happy and contented. The
people are his biggest asset as well as the source of peril. If they are
Unhappy and dissatisfied, they will revolt against him and overthrow him. The
people expect solace and sympathy from the ruler. But then instead, they see
the insolence and ostentation life style of the ruler who displays unconcern
for their welfare they become unhappy. The people would manage the affairs of
the state much better if such a ruler were not there.
Assuming the legacy of 10 years misrule, and seeing
arrogance of earlier political bosses, rampant corruption (top down) and
crippled bureaucracy, he focused on the act of restoring the faith in the system
by instilling much needed transparency and introduced new set of policies
slowly but cautiously. His administration took measures to control inflation,
focused on filling treasury(almost empty at the time of office) with
transparent auctioning of coal & telecom spectrums, tapping of leakages in
subsidies (INR 20,000 crores saved in an year), financial inclusion schemes (~
5.5 crore people brought into banking stream for very first time), expansions
of Insurance schemes (aiming mainly farmers, daily laborers etc..), people welfare scheme (tightening NREGA,
timely compensation during natural calamities), Visible governance (people
connect programs, Mann Ki Baat, Social reforms), demonstrating leadership
(Yemen evacuation, Nepal earthquake, J&K floods, North East cross border
covert operation avenging army killings, Rafael flight negotiation etc…), Education reforms (slow so far but in
motion), Sansad Grameen yojana (aiming to build model villages), SMART & AMRUT initiatives (better urban
living), Ganga rejuvenation (40% of country population depend on Ganga’s water)
and skill India etc.. To mention, Mr.
Modi leads most of the initiatives from front thus by inspiring the masses:
If the king is virtuous,
then the subjects are also virtuous. If
the king is sinful, then the subjects also become sinful. If he is mediocre,
then the subjects are mediocre. The subjects follow the example of the king. In
short, as is the king so are the subjects.
Instead of focusing mad populism, opportunistic
schemes, crushing political opponents, heeding to crony intellectuals (eco
system developed by congress for long), Mr. Modi chose to focus on winning
people’s Trust and confidence (only thing matters in Democracy) by various
development measures and enabling them to earn the bread (instead of handing
the bread) & enhance quality of life (acche din). As anticipated people
reposed their faith and responded positively from time to time in various
elections (definition of democracy).
Even after winning general election with a massive
people mandate, he never let any complacency eclipse the party’s performance
and catapulting the party cadres to install his troops at various states, local
bodies (Maharashtra, Jharkand, Haryana, J&K, Bihar??) and
having them push the reforms smoothly and efficiently as per local needs. Thus
by consolidating political gains across the nation, and will help strengthening
the nation and will also help him for a longer haul. This was the hard lesson
learnt from NDA-1 rule, Mr. Vajpayee & L.K. Advani could not repeat the ’99
general election success which let opposition occupy the political vacuum by
2004 General election.
Handling
opposition, most corrupt family of the nation, and MSM with set agenda &
vested interest:
There
are two ways to get rid of thorns and wicked persons; using footwear in the
first case and in the second shaming them so that they cannot raise their faces
again thus keeping them at a distance.
Mr. Modi is a man of word & action, chose the
neutral(Tactical) way and let his work speak instead of planting stories or
winning them over corrupt methods (which was the norm in prior regime). He
wanted to remove status-quo, and did not heed to self-declared liberals, intellectuals,
and instead his administration begun systematic clampdown of NGO’s system
(eliminated thousands of NGO’s till date) which were crippling the economy and obstructing
numerous development initiatives (i.e Kundakalam nuclear project, Narmada dam
etc...). Obviously this sent shocking waves across bad-state actors, beneficiaries
whose actions went unchecked over the years due to their political nexus, thus
by attracting much more criticism and bad press with a manufactured stories.
He was also first to realize and recognize that people have
grown up and do understand MSM agendas, and any of their lies will be countered
by SM. This is painfully a slow process
but very effective as these vested parties loose the credibility in the long
run. After all Mr. Modi promised Acche
Din for all Indians (they make their bread from manufacturing & selling news)
Though this would set bad notion among-st people
(depressive, nostalgic, news of negativity and turning blind to any positive news
etc..), this would allow Mr. Modi
administration to focus on development and will be enforced to communicate with
people directly (which is their strength, as seen during 2014 General
election).
I sincerely hope BJP will ramp up their communication
team by bringing some of their best communicators by 2017-2018, who are currently
in the government.
Mr. Modi also does not want to make Martyr out of
Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi (sic) by acting them against in haste, this should
be his least priority item as country needs his administration for other
pressing matters. We any way have patriots like Mr. Subramanian Swamy, who
already fighting them lawfully (NH case).
I am confident justice prevails, may be it will be delayed a bit.
Delhi
Election – Debacle and criticism with OROP delays:
Nation is far more
important than the ruler. Interests of
nation are more important than aspiration of rulers. Hence if political power
needs to be sacrificed in the interest of nation, then too teacher shouldn’t
hesitate. History is witness that
politics of power and selfishness has always harmed this nation.
Despite of being advised by party leadership to
announce populist schemes (to counter impractical & foolish schemes promised
by AAP) and risk of adverse results in the horizon, yet Mr. Modi chose not to
derail the development agenda. He prepared
his party cadres (also nation) to get ready for losses in the short run which
will only help nation and his party in the long run (he did not open hatchet of
mad populist schemes). In the end, his party had to bite the dust with
humiliating loss. Now, looking back it sure seem to be good and bravest call
that party made.
OROP –
As he admitted in Red-fort speech, OROP process took longer than anticipated
time/budget (INR 8000 crores as against initial promise of INR500 crores) due
to the issue complexity and he does not want to score political points by announcing
immaturely.
Recent/On-going
MSM dramas (Dadri, Ghar Wapsi, modibiri
and on-going #awardwapsi drama)
Kings speak for once, men of learning once, and the daughter is
given in marriage once. All these things happen once and only once.
Modi himself seems to have learnt lessons from English
Media Mafia strategy, which ran stories of "church attack" incidents
(run up to Delhi election). He went out of his way to assure church leaders and
even personally attended an event to celebrate the canonization of a Keralite
Catholic. Later, all those events turned out to be petty events or random
events. Instead of making strong statements,
he chose to maintain silence and talk only at right time and at a right place.
“If there is
unrest among intellectuals & criminals, assume that King is doing right”
