Dawn of New Era
The unprecedented electoral victory garnered by the BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi in the just announced results for the Lok Sabha is a moment of reckoning for the party as well as Modi. This is for the first time that the BJP has been able to get a majority of its own to form the government at the Centre and it is for the first time for the past three decades that any political party has managed to command a majority of its own at the centre. Modi’s style of campaigning, his promises to the people and his new techniques of campaigning, especially by harnessing the potential of social media have gone well with the masses who have voted en bloc for the Modi’s BJP.
Modi’s splendid electoral triumph brings with it additional responsibilities enshrined in campaign slogans of growth, new opportunities, prosperity and all-round progress. It devolves on the incumbent Prime Minister and his ministerial and party team to translate those promises into fruitful actions. In this age of ‘Perform or Perish’, new dispensation should fulfill the promises it made by keeping in mind as to what happened to ‘Shinning India’ campaign at the hustings in 2004.
