Modi displays
his marketing genius in Kuala Lumpur
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to
Kuala Lumpur to attend the ASEAN-India summit was interesting. Modi pitched India as an investment destination
to the East Asian countries. He
rightly took credit for turning the Indian economy around since his government
“took office 18 months ago”, and outlined
his plans for economic reform. He
also offered specific opportunities to ASEAN countries on investing in
infrastructure in India, particularly in Metro Rail systems, housing, road,
rail and waterways.
This typical Gujarati is trying to change
things from the decadent time of the Congress allied ruling of India. His way
of dealing brought lot of respect to Indians and the world looks at India very
well now. His marketing strategy well served the purpose, now the delivery
time. Congress and allied forces, hope, take a pragmatic and positive approach
so that the nation makes its march past to the challenging world around.
The transformation that India needs
requires trillions of dollars in investment and the involvement of masses of
specialised personnel in varying disciplines. We can't do this transformation
alone and will need help from whoever is willing to pitch in. The Prime
Minister has understood this very clearly and his peripatetic wanderings around
the globe are evidence of this. This is true also with our defence
capabilities. Our external threats from Pakistan, backed by China, and indifference
from the West, requires that we form alliances with nations facing similar
threats. The PM's visit to Japan and Asean is proof that this threat has been
visualised. More than the external threat, our adversaries hope that this
country will implode due to its great diversity and unprincipled political
debate. India is perceived very poorly by foreign media due to this. It looks
as if we are our own worst enemies.
A country is not great only for its
leaders but rather for its people. Modi's efforts to market India is praise
worthy. It is a joint responsibility of current government, the opposition,
state governments, private businesses and common people to work together in the
delivery.
As swayam sevak Modi did visit every part
of India he does understand the pain of rural India and only way to solve the
problems of poor is to provide opportunities through investments in alternate
sectors apart from agriculture which are heavily dependent on Climate. Last
20-30 years Indian politicians have always thought of dole outs and freebies as
ways of alleviating poverty in this country. All it has done is only increase
our woes and also create a huge mass of people with semi or no skill. Freebies
have been tried for 20 years. Now give a chance to alternate economics at least
for 10 years.
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