Narendra Modi - the guiding light of India’s future!

MARGINS:

In his article, Chetan Bhagat is honest enough to admit that the limitations of a poll such as his in terms of sample size and method of voting but he also adds that to take the results lightly would be a foolish mistake. In any survey, a result of 82%-5% is nothing less than a tsunami. To rub salt into Rahul Gandhi's wounds, one can't miss the fact that even the 'neither' category leads him by 8 points.

Likewise, in the Lens on News poll, Modi has outsmarted boy this national and regional rivals by rather comfortable margins. His lead over Rahul Gandhi in Bihar is over 21 points and his lead over Nitish Kumar is a whooping 3 times. This is quite surprising as incumbent Chief Ministers are expected to perform well on their home turfs. Take a similar poll in Gujarat and Narendra Modi will sweep it with more than 80% of the votes polled while Nitish may not even qualify as a candidate to be polled. Even in individual comparisons, Nitish stands demolished.

ACCEPTABILITY:

For a decade, sections of the mainstream media would love to make us believe that a pan-India appeal is something Narendra Modi lacks. But these 2 distinctly independent surveys are only the beginning of the smashing of this myth. If acceptability was an issue then what explains Modi's popularity from the streets of Bihar to the echelons of the Cyber world?

GOVERNANCE vs CASTEISM:

"It is Modi's personality, a sense of urgency, his seeking of prosperity and decisiveness that is in sync with the disgruntled youth of today. Good colleges don't have seats and good companies do not have enough jobs. The youth wants this addressed and Modi looks like the guy who can. Yes, call it selfish, but the youth doesn't care about a controversial piece of history."

These are powerful and true words from Chetan Bhagat! It is absolutely correct that in Narendra Modi people see opportunity and aspiration. They want better schools, colleges and hospitals and not stale recipes of caste combinations served with a dose of pseudo secularism. Lets also not forget the colossal mismanagement of Nitish's Maha Dalit card that the media so beautifully exposed.

As for Rahul Gandhi, one cannot but agree with Salma Khurshid's "misquoted" statement that he is a leader who we have only seen in cameo appearances. One is yet to see anything concrete come out of him either on policy or politics.

COMBINING DEVELOPMENT WITH OUR INHERENT SPIRITUAL STRENGTH:

Along with the younger generation's thirst for development, there is equally a search of a leader who can combine both the nation's development and at the same time preserve the spiritual fabric of the country. Here is a leader who can take India to the peaks of success in the 21st century and at the same time preserve its inherent spiritual strengths that define us. Today, there is no other leader who combines these 2 virtues putting Narendra Modi in great demand.

CONCLUSION:

In conclusion, I would reaffirm that there is a greater subtext beneath these two otherwise isolated opinion polls taken around the same time but with different respondents than taking their results at face value. We knew that Narendra Modi was popular but we never knew this was the margin. We knew of social media support for him but again but not we can see a solid, almost concrete like support for Modi from groups that are outside the BJP's core base of RSS full timers.

Similarly, Narendra Modi towers not only "national" leaders but also so-called state satraps in their own home turfs if these Opinion polls are anything to go by. This is unprecedented and finally it exposes just how big is the slip between the cup (what news channels serve us) and the lip (what we do read)! It is, in short exactly the piece of stone we require to shatter the glass houses our bankrupt media and the propagandists on their payrolls find themselves in.

On a larger context, these two polls are only tiny drops in a large ocean- an ocean of intellectuals, common people, farmers, women, youngsters almost every section of society that sees in Narendra Modi a man who will finally rise to the occasion and take India to greater heights without any traces of casteist or votebank politics that have destroyed the fabric of this nation for a majority of time since 1947.