By Praveen Patil on
On July 28, 1954, 115 Rashtriya Swayam Sevaks took over Naroli police station of Dadra and Nagar Haveli as a part of direct action against the Portuguese occupation of Goa. This was a wake-up call to the bickering Government of Jawaharlal Nehru, which had not freed Goa even after 7 years of Indian independence. Finally on August 11, 1954, the Portuguese surrendered Nagar Haveli due to the relentless onslaught of RSS and other affiliated organisations.
It took another painful seven years for the Central Government to initiate armed action for the total liberation of Goa. On December 19, 1961, Lt. General Jayonto Nath Chaudhuri led the 17th Infantry Division and the 50th Parachute Brigade (commanded by Major General KP Candeth) in ‘Operation Vijay’ which lasted 36 hours. Goa was finally liberated from Portuguese aggression after more than 450 years.
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Left to Nehru, Goa would have been a Portuguese colony forever and we would still be requiring a visa to travel to this beautiful State of serene beaches. It took the courage of those 115 Swayam Sevaks to initiate action and wake up the Congress Government from its slumber. Between 1954 and 1961, Swayam Sevaks kept the underground movement going in Goa and many of them even paid with their lives. Yet, the Left-infested Indian history textbooks have been unkind to RSS’s contribution to Goa’s liberation and those 115 men are almost forgotten today.
This is a typical malaise of the Left-Liberal intellectual class of India. They always misinterpret the reality in order to perpetuate their inherent biases. Thus Nehru’s 14-year delay in integrating Goa with India has remained unquestioned and the relentless struggle of RSS to liberate Goa has been forgotten. Instead, Indian history is obsessed with Nehru’s dams and five-year plans while it questions the purported links of a Godse to the RSS.
Nothing much has changed in 50 years, for today news channels are hyper obsessed about an 86-year-old man’s upset tummy but maintain total secrecy on a 67-year-old woman’s jaunts abroad for treatment. This, despite the fact that the said woman controls the destiny of 1.25 billion Indians. All that matters to the intellectual class is to stop one man’s march to Dilli.
India’s liberation from Goa
While Goa was liberated in 1961, India remains in chains — the chains of a dynasty that encompasses all the corrupt nincompoops of the land. Thus it is apt for the BJP to have its most important national executive in almost a decade in the serene surroundings of Goa. After all it was here in 2002 that history took a decisive turn – of not letting the pseudo-secularists dictats the fate of a Chief Minister.
The ‘secular’ statesman of BJP, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was surprised on that occasion in 2002, when one of his closest aides, the late Pramod Mahajan led the voice of support in favour of the Gujarat CM. It is said that the entire rank and file of the BJP including the eternal number two LK Advani, was solidly behind the new ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat’ on that day.
In 12 years, the clamour and support for Narendra bhai among the BJP cadre has been unwavering. In fact, the bond has only grown stronger with time. It is rare indeed, in Indian history, that a non-Dynastic leader, especially one belonging to a so-called backward caste, should have such unquestionable support so consistently for such a length of time. What is even more intriguing is that both his original plank of perceived Hindutva and his original mentor have turned against him and yet his support base has grown exponentially.
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Destiny has a strange sense of humour. The patriarch had to fall ill on a historic occasion for a party that he built. It is perhaps a befitting coincidence that for the first time, both the stalwarts Advani and Vajpayee missed the national executive in Goa due to health reasons. It is time now for the party to move on to new realities of India with new leaders. Narendra Modi’s politics of governance and development is the new reality of the BJP and Advani’s acceptability is just a mirage.
Modi is a destiny’s child who has never had it easy. Born to a poor tea stall vendor, he has had to struggle for every inch of the space that he occupies today. His has been a relentless fight against every known adversary of the land – right from the intellectual class, the news media, the Dilli elite, the NGOs and even assorted film stars. Now Modi is also fighting his own – the hardliner Hindutvawaadis, sections of the RSS and BJP and even his own mentor for whom he had once played the role of a charioteer in the Ram Rath Yatra. Yet, he has never given up on his struggle. India needs a relentless fighter to lead her towards her karma.
India has become a nation of mediocrity in the last decade, for rights-based polity has taken precedence over development and good governance. We discuss humungous amounts of corruption scams involving trillions of rupees without addressing the crux of the issue – the Dynasty. Policy paralysis and the Prime Minister’s weaknesses are debated but what is conveniently forgotten is the Dynasty. Total annihilation of institutions and systems is rued upon but what is not blamed is the Dynasty. The Dynasty is imagined to be the benefactor of the rights-based polity and everything else is simply forgotten.
Only one man in India seriously stands against the dynasty politically, economically, socially and metaphorically. He is the antithesis of the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty and he is Narendra Modi, the only man who can liberate India in the truest sense. BJP cadres have already made their choice and India will affirm that choice in 2014, whether BJP itself makes that choice today is just a minor detail.
Narendra Modi is the only choice
Epilogue: Once the Vijayanagara Kingdom crumbled in 1469, Goa went through a tumultuous period for 40 years. It was first annexed by the Bahamanis and it later fell into the hands of the Adil Shah Kings, but none of them were serious about their rule and thus it was finally captured by the Portuguese in 1510. It took more than four centuries for India to recapture Goa from the foreign rule of Portuguese. This is what meek leadership brings to the polity. For 10 years, BJP has been struggling to recapture India from the clutches of Congress and it has finally found a strong leader to achieve its goal. Instead of falling into media traps of NDA expansion, acceptability criteria and the new found love of the Left-libbers towards the patriarch, BJP should (and am sure, will) go towards the path of a strong leadership to rejuvenate India.
On July 28, 1954, 115 Rashtriya Swayam Sevaks took over Naroli police station of Dadra and Nagar Haveli as a part of direct action against the Portuguese occupation of Goa. This was a wake-up call to the bickering Government of Jawaharlal Nehru, which had not freed Goa even after 7 years of Indian independence. Finally on August 11, 1954, the Portuguese surrendered Nagar Haveli due to the relentless onslaught of RSS and other affiliated organisations.
It took another painful seven years for the Central Government to initiate armed action for the total liberation of Goa. On December 19, 1961, Lt. General Jayonto Nath Chaudhuri led the 17th Infantry Division and the 50th Parachute Brigade (commanded by Major General KP Candeth) in ‘Operation Vijay’ which lasted 36 hours. Goa was finally liberated from Portuguese aggression after more than 450 years.
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Left to Nehru, Goa would have been a Portuguese colony forever and we would still be requiring a visa to travel to this beautiful State of serene beaches. It took the courage of those 115 Swayam Sevaks to initiate action and wake up the Congress Government from its slumber. Between 1954 and 1961, Swayam Sevaks kept the underground movement going in Goa and many of them even paid with their lives. Yet, the Left-infested Indian history textbooks have been unkind to RSS’s contribution to Goa’s liberation and those 115 men are almost forgotten today.
This is a typical malaise of the Left-Liberal intellectual class of India. They always misinterpret the reality in order to perpetuate their inherent biases. Thus Nehru’s 14-year delay in integrating Goa with India has remained unquestioned and the relentless struggle of RSS to liberate Goa has been forgotten. Instead, Indian history is obsessed with Nehru’s dams and five-year plans while it questions the purported links of a Godse to the RSS.
Nothing much has changed in 50 years, for today news channels are hyper obsessed about an 86-year-old man’s upset tummy but maintain total secrecy on a 67-year-old woman’s jaunts abroad for treatment. This, despite the fact that the said woman controls the destiny of 1.25 billion Indians. All that matters to the intellectual class is to stop one man’s march to Dilli.
India’s liberation from Goa
While Goa was liberated in 1961, India remains in chains — the chains of a dynasty that encompasses all the corrupt nincompoops of the land. Thus it is apt for the BJP to have its most important national executive in almost a decade in the serene surroundings of Goa. After all it was here in 2002 that history took a decisive turn – of not letting the pseudo-secularists dictats the fate of a Chief Minister.
The ‘secular’ statesman of BJP, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was surprised on that occasion in 2002, when one of his closest aides, the late Pramod Mahajan led the voice of support in favour of the Gujarat CM. It is said that the entire rank and file of the BJP including the eternal number two LK Advani, was solidly behind the new ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat’ on that day.
In 12 years, the clamour and support for Narendra bhai among the BJP cadre has been unwavering. In fact, the bond has only grown stronger with time. It is rare indeed, in Indian history, that a non-Dynastic leader, especially one belonging to a so-called backward caste, should have such unquestionable support so consistently for such a length of time. What is even more intriguing is that both his original plank of perceived Hindutva and his original mentor have turned against him and yet his support base has grown exponentially.
The NaMo Mantra: Why we respond to it
Destiny has a strange sense of humour. The patriarch had to fall ill on a historic occasion for a party that he built. It is perhaps a befitting coincidence that for the first time, both the stalwarts Advani and Vajpayee missed the national executive in Goa due to health reasons. It is time now for the party to move on to new realities of India with new leaders. Narendra Modi’s politics of governance and development is the new reality of the BJP and Advani’s acceptability is just a mirage.
Modi is a destiny’s child who has never had it easy. Born to a poor tea stall vendor, he has had to struggle for every inch of the space that he occupies today. His has been a relentless fight against every known adversary of the land – right from the intellectual class, the news media, the Dilli elite, the NGOs and even assorted film stars. Now Modi is also fighting his own – the hardliner Hindutvawaadis, sections of the RSS and BJP and even his own mentor for whom he had once played the role of a charioteer in the Ram Rath Yatra. Yet, he has never given up on his struggle. India needs a relentless fighter to lead her towards her karma.
India has become a nation of mediocrity in the last decade, for rights-based polity has taken precedence over development and good governance. We discuss humungous amounts of corruption scams involving trillions of rupees without addressing the crux of the issue – the Dynasty. Policy paralysis and the Prime Minister’s weaknesses are debated but what is conveniently forgotten is the Dynasty. Total annihilation of institutions and systems is rued upon but what is not blamed is the Dynasty. The Dynasty is imagined to be the benefactor of the rights-based polity and everything else is simply forgotten.
Only one man in India seriously stands against the dynasty politically, economically, socially and metaphorically. He is the antithesis of the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty and he is Narendra Modi, the only man who can liberate India in the truest sense. BJP cadres have already made their choice and India will affirm that choice in 2014, whether BJP itself makes that choice today is just a minor detail.
Narendra Modi is the only choice
Epilogue: Once the Vijayanagara Kingdom crumbled in 1469, Goa went through a tumultuous period for 40 years. It was first annexed by the Bahamanis and it later fell into the hands of the Adil Shah Kings, but none of them were serious about their rule and thus it was finally captured by the Portuguese in 1510. It took more than four centuries for India to recapture Goa from the foreign rule of Portuguese. This is what meek leadership brings to the polity. For 10 years, BJP has been struggling to recapture India from the clutches of Congress and it has finally found a strong leader to achieve its goal. Instead of falling into media traps of NDA expansion, acceptability criteria and the new found love of the Left-libbers towards the patriarch, BJP should (and am sure, will) go towards the path of a strong leadership to rejuvenate India.
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