A Portrait of PM
The
people don’t want any Lame duck, Accidental PM, ‘Pappu’ PM or any ‘Family’ PM;
they want a peerless leader of democracy – a true PM of India who can make both
nation and its people happy; he must be spotless like star
By Mukesh Sharma
Democracy begins with
the ‘votes’ and ends with the ‘numbers’ in India. Anyone with numbers in
his/her favour can be anointed as Prime Minister/ Pradhan Mantri even without
contesting or winning a single Lok Sabha election. Not the common wish of the
people but the coveted numbers cobbled up by hook or crook make one PM. And that
is why India has witnessed with awe and rues many sitting duck PMs - Indra Kumar Gujral, H.D. Deve Gowda, Chandra
Shekhar, Charan Singh, Morarji Desai, Guljarilal Nanda who couldn’t last
even their full term. Before the incumbent government, India had a PM who never
won any Lok Sabha election and remained allegedly a “PROXY” PM for 10 years.
Keeping in view the recent Kolkata jamboree and if media reports are to be
believed, India may be foisted with a “pappu” PM in future. It is vain to look
for silver and gold in the mine of iron and lead. However, the majority of Indian
populace cherishes an ideal portrait of an Indian PM.
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Charismatic
personality
With charm and
charisma, PM must be blessed with charismatic personality. Standing tallest
among the leaders, his gait must exude confidence of a disciplined soldier.
With elated chest and head in high-esteem, he must be able to see the world
leaders straight in their face and command a respect; grey in experience but
with a young heart of gold.
Man
of soil
The people ideate a PM
who must be the man of soil; he must look at the rivers and mountains of land
with the reverence; he must be very well acquainted with all the ‘seasons’ and ‘crops’;
he must have the knowledge of all the flora and fauna of the land; he must know
how to make the ‘marigold’ bloom and flourish even in the roughest weather, and
hold it with all care and caress. To him, Bharat must not just be a piece of
land with geographical boundaries but a motherland and her honour dearer than
life.
Man
of masses
As a man of masses,
would-be PM must be able to interact with the people in their simple tongue; he
must understand not only their requirement of hours but also the demand of the
future; he must know their wants and wishes; he must feel their pain and
pleasure.
A
good salesman
Under the steermanship
of PM, Indian soil must produce more than the people can consume; factories
must manufacture more than the people need to enable India to have a sizable
share in foreign trade. China has made remarkable progress due to its manufacturing
units ever churning out everything from needle to rocket for the world market.
It is a fact that all the big and prosperous nations owe their prosperity to
small and poor nations. All the heads of rich countries also look after the
political and commercial interest of their respective countries while maintaining the
relations with developing or underdeveloped nations. To rich nations, the poor
nations are just customers. Indian PM must also be a good ‘salesman’; he must
be able to generate orders in international market for Indian products. PM must
see that national debt must be paid through the prosperity of the people; he
must see that the money must be made not by law but by labour. PM’s entire team
must be engaged in earning wealth for the country and spend it for the welfare
of the people.
A
man of courage
The people wish to see
their PM as a man of superb moral courage who prefers reformations to radicalism;
a man of intelligence; a man of integrity above suspicion; he should not be
just a good leader but also a good statesman; he should be a diplomat of par excellence
who knows well how to maintain relations of his government with the government
of other nations, keeping the interest of own country at top.
A
Commander
During war time, God
forbids, if war is imposed on India, PM must be able to act like a commander; a
silver tongue orator like Demonsthene leading the people and army from the front;
must be able to goad the armed forces to achieve even impossibilities, and make
the countrymen stand-by the army like bedrock.
The hapless Indian
populace has already suffered a lot. The Britisher ravaged and plundered for
200 years. And now the people allege that ‘netas’ have been looting and booting
the poor populace since independence. The people are sick of ‘POLITICS’ of
crimination, recrimination, name-calling, self-preservation, self-aggrandizement
and ‘gang-fight’ in the august House of the Parliament. The people wish to live
as a respectable member of public rather than as beggars living off government
doles.
Needless to say,the people don’t want any lame duck PM, accidental PM, “Pappu” PM or any “Family” PM; they want a peerless leader of democracy – a true PM of India who can make both nation and its people happy; he must be spotless like star.
