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 | India supports Modinomics – Haryana, Maharashtra are proof | | published on : 10-21-2014 | | Category : All India Council for Technical Education | | It is generally believed that good economics is bad politics. It’s time economists learnt a lesson or two from the BJP’s star campaigner Narendra Modi in ways to sell their subject. Since he was made his party’s head of election campaign committee, he has been speaking of nothing but development aka sound economics. In fact, barring a few occasions when he had to respond to the barbs of rivals, he spoke of nothing but development of 6 crore Gujaratis when he was their Chief Minister, too. And now as the nation’s Prime Minister, he continues to speak that language.
And Modi doesn’t merely speak, contrary to what the Congress and other competitors of the BJP in the political market would have us believe. When he brought in all top rung industrialists to the event of launch of the ‘Make in India’ campaign, and each one of them pledged to create lakhs of jobs over the next few years, people heard them out and understood it would be stupid to expect those jobs with the bat of an eyelid; setting up manufacturing units is a process, and the people are ready to give Modi time to see it through.
The development mantra struck the right chord in the small fraction of the 378 Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly constituencies that went to poll and returned with a sweep for the BJP in the first State and the status of single largest party in the second. This, even as the party was barely present in half of each State, ceding ground to its erstwhile allies Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Shiv Sena respectively till 2009. The Maharashtra challenge was bigger, as the ties with the partner snapped just 24 hours before the last day of filing nomination papers. Overnight, the BJP had to scamper for Vidhan Sabha level candidates in seats where even karyakartas were difficult to find. The policy was right and so was the face that led the campaign; logistics hence became secondary. The party impressively crossed the 100 mark, scoring more than the number of seats Shiv Sena was ready to offer it whereas the last best score by a party in Maharashtra’s coalition politics was 88 by Bal Thackeray’s party. | | Related Keywords : | | technical education education nall |
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