Democracy, Cho and Narendra Modi

Ironically, "For the people, by the people and of the people" somehow works better in paper and media than in reality! One genius who realized this way back in the 1960s and 1970s is Cho Ramasamy usually called Cho. His film Mohammed Bin Thuglak literally slandered the basic attitude of politicians and how the concept of collective responsibility could end up in a deep disaster was practically shown in the movie. Dialogs like "A person who thinks about the next election is a politician... A person who thinks about the next generation is a leader... I don't think about both and so I'm a democrat" were testimonies to his foresight and revolutionary thoughts.

When he supported Narendra Modi in an interview and wanted him to be the next Prime Minister, I was quite surprised despite the soft corner I had for Narendra Modi. Slowly, I came to know the bigger picture and as usual Cho wasn't wrong in his choice. Winning an election purely on the developmental front despite the lack of support from media and the pseudo secularists is nothing less than an day dream and Modi turned the dream into a reality. Industrial growth, agro revolution, complete usage of technology in improving the state, delivering fast and accurate justice to people, corruption free governance, focusing on the youngsters, their education and development and so many other credits backed him like guardian angels and gave him a landslide victory in Gujarat. Perhaps he made people visualize that even democracy needs an excellent and responsible leader to make it work and India no doubt needs more Modis for a collective progress and an entry into the G8.