Integrating development plans with purgatives to detoxify and formalise the Indian economy reflected the Modi government’s long term vision. But neither could have been possible without the other. And, both would have been impossible without bold leadership.
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Nothing would have been possible had Modi not won absolute majority for the second time. Forbes was wrong in faulting democracy. As the dynasty-led Congress declined, Indian democracy was in distress for a quarter century.
Narration of what an absolute majority rule with bold leadership could do cannot be complete without saying how India handled the Covid challenge.
Modi’s greatest challenge came within months of winning the 2019 elections. The mysterious Covid-19 hit India. With no textbook model to counter it, Modi had to innovate, experiment with risky, unorthodox, unpopular ways to stop it, but failed.
That disturbed the people, crashed the economy, inviting the Opposition to go ballistic. Seeing a golden chance to cow him down and India, China began spilling blood on the borders.
Facing the worst challenge from within and outside, which was exploited every minute by the Opposition, he focussed on his Indradhanush Mission to produce Made in India vaccines for Indians. In the past, foreign made vaccines took as long as 17 to 60 years to reach India.
Had we depended on foreign-made Covid vaccines, we would have become bankrupt paying for it, never ever think of relief from Covid. Millions would have died. Modi doggedly rooted for Made in India vaccines, Opposition cast doubts on its efficacy, causing vaccine hesitancy.
India, one of the earliest, now the largest, producers of Covid vaccines, has vaccinated the greatest number of people fully and partially. India has confronted Covid better than the best of the world. If Indian economy is looking up today, credit goes to Made in India vaccine.
This is where post-2014 India stands Imagine a rickety, compromising coalition in its place with some proxy prime minister. Where would India have been with the Covid devastation from within and China firing at the border? This is the difference between India of 1989-2014 & after
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