Thread by @DeviPrasadRao8

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Today, apart from the birthday, two monumentous events have occurred
1 Over 2 crore Indians vaccinated
2 State-of-the-art office for Indian Army inaugurated

Till the actual events occurred, the thresholds crossed, the targets achieved, they was little or no talk
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Till yesterday, we were proud of vaccinating a crore, didn't imagine we'd do two today

Till yesterday, we were celebrating new bullet-proof vests & OROP for our Jawans, with no idea that the Army hired trained monkeys to chase away wild monkeys from their offices

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Whether for a construction or vaccination, the planning, tendering, procurement, execution happened quietly, smoothly, away from the public gaze

To administer 2 crore vaccines, staffing, their tea & lunch breaks, vaccines & their cold chains, staff morale & updating COWIN

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were planned & executed with a precision that is not associated with Bharat Sarkar

Hell, COWIN made a sarkari dashboard as captivating as a Bloomberg terminal on a bull run!

We often tend to forget that it is incompetence, negligence or corruption that draws attention.

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In reality, a flawlessly run business, project or Govt scheme is actually boring. It efficiently delivers intended results without causing debates, scandals or outrage! Hence, quickly forgotten!

That's the new India Narendra Damodardas Modi has accustomed us to 🙏🏻

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Lest we forget how it was, we just have to compare it to 1985, which was the Congress centenary

India's Grand Old Party planned a Grand Party celebration at Azad Maidan, then called Bombay, where it had all started a century ago, led by A O Hume, a British civil servant

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There was a new 40-yo Prime Minister with his imported wife. Promises of computerisation & his statement, a few weeks earlier, that only 15 paise of every development ₹ reaches the poor, created huge expectations. Despite the Sikh genocide, he had won an unprecedented 414 seats

on a sympathy wave stoked up by the use of gory images. He was also riding a wave of hope & a promise of ushering in change

Till the day & a lakh delegates arrived. The Maharashtra Govt literally whitewashed the town. Not the whole town, just the routes taken by the PM.

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Building facades, private & public, were given new colours. The sides that may be visible to visiting dignitaries were painted too. It was a strange sight to see the inner halves of buildings painted but it was a sign that facades were more important than inner substance!

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Stories of mismanagement, hooliganism, rioting for food & politicians, with their minions, cavorting through the night at Kamathipura, Bombay's red light district, filtered though to our homes. The new dispensation was the same as the old dispensation, just more photogenic

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The jamboree marked the end of the honeymoon & the beginning of the decline & the continued decline of Rajiv Gandhi

Here's an article that succinctly captures the event, the exasperation & disgust of the day. Please do read it:
indiatoday.in/magazine/speci…

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Contrast this with how Modi & @yogiadityanath conducted the Kumbh Mela!

It is essential that we remember how we were, under the @INCIndia
While we celebrate how we are today, under @narendramodi
Coz, if we forget, those terrible days are a single electoral defeat away

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@narendramodi
On behalf of a grateful nation
Thank you
For constantly being a source of pride
For your all-encompassing & futuristic planning
For a scandal-free administration
For flawless execution

And, once again, #HappyBirthdayModiji
May you live to be a hundred 🙏🏻❤

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