The credit for cresting a bi-polar polity in India should go to Lal Krishna Advani. He exposed the slogan of secularism that Congress proclaimed with his thesis of 'pseudo-secularism' and 'cultural nationalism' which touched heart of the vast silent majority of India. He succeeded in building a strong opposition which Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan could not do, as pointed out by Ashutosh Varshney ( IE,June 18). Lohia and Narayan had seen the growing corruption in the country which the Congress spawned with its monopoly of power. The Congress had clothed itself in the false garment of socialism and secularism, and weakened both the Communists and the Socialists. Vote-bank politics is the politics of division and diversion from good governance.
Today India has the youngest population in the world and it is yearning for opportunities which only good governance can provide, and Narendra Modi by providing 24-hour power, and water (extension of Narmada canal and thousands of check-dams & bunds) which boosted agriculture while inviting industry to create employment, has caught the imagination of people everywhere. It is a part of the vision of Advani who has been promoting the cause of suraj, good governance. Modi is a true follower of Advani, and Modi has the experience of good governance which could be replicated all over India.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/advani-moment-nation/1130187/
June 19,2013.
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