Narendra Modi shuld be the next PM of india

I thank my esteemed opponent for his arguments. I extend all my arguments from the previous round. During the closure of his arguments, Pro stated that “Since the UPA govt is not doing any good for the people why not give a chance to Mr. Modi.” I would like to point out that the statement is obviously wrong. UPA has been doing a lot of good for India. Apart from seeing the National Rural Employment Guarantee act to its present form, apart from introducing the centralized Identity system (AADHAR) in order to address the targeting problem in subsidies provision, from the various expenditure programmes to boost the economy appropriately, roads, railways, Metro (thank god for metro!), to say that UPA is doing NO good for the people would be a gross factual error. The Right to Information Act was passed under its governance, that was an important leap in addressing the transparency problem in governance, the Right to education act- that ensure compulsory and free education to all children between 8-14 years of age (the right to an a booming 93.4% of children enrolling in primary schools), apart from impressive advances in the energy sector, agriculture, telecom, health and much much more. India is developing, and has a positive outlook towards its potential future BECAUSE of the progressive policies by UPA. India today is the only country who hasn’t signed the NPT and STILL engages in Nuclear trade because of the immense diplomatic efforts of Manmohan singh. People often contend that India was on a ‘wave of euphoria’ when it was under the BJP rule in 1999-2004. They fail to point out that BJP merely continued the policies already implemented by the Congress. There was no revolutionary change in policy environment, and it did finally lose elections in 2004, to be succeeded by Congress. There was a reason for that. Also, we don’t need to look that far back to ascertain the performance of BJP. Karnataka, recently, for example recently chose Congress over the previously ruling BJP, making it very clear which one was the better party. Now, rebutting the claims of my opponent, I think the audience can very well view the propaganda instilled in Modi supporters, the first important thing mentioned was his carefully maintain and media propogated ‘personality’, not his achievements. There is no basis to the claims of Modi being frugal and achieving the rare feet of being introvert and ‘crowd puller as a speaker’ at the same time. I think we should also note that my opponent accepts that Modi is a hindu nationalist, when he talks about how he has tried to change his image to that of an ‘able administrator’. We don’t know what the ‘lifestyle of Modi’ is. He did spend extravagantly in his 3D campaign, when his speech was telecasted on specially erected screens in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Surat, with the help of 3D holographic technologu and satellite link ups. His swearing in ceremony back in 2001, was ‘moderately extravagant’, in the words of his own party members. Modi is an extravagant man. Now, let us talk about the oft repeated sentiment of the ‘Gujarat model’. What IS the Gujarat model? Can it be exported to other states, like Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh, with weak entrepreneurial spirit too?Modi’s achievements can hardly be characterized as a model. They are a continuation of momentous policy that has a history of about two centuries. Gujarat is one of the few regions of the world which has an unbroken history of entrpreneurship, botrh in production and trade. The societal incentive structure had estabilished a less iniquitous society in Gujarat where artisans, traders and industrialists enjoyed due recognition, unlike in many other parts of India. In post independence period, there was a succession of committed chief ministers, like Morarji Desai, Madhav Rao Solanki, Keshubhai Patel and others, who have all scripted continuous development. Modi was a continuation of the trend, not its initiatiator. If you project Modi to the national stage, you need to recognize the diversity of India. His supposed ‘Modi solution’ will not work everywhere. For every entrepreneurial heaven, there are states like Bihar, and Rajasthan, and communal hotspots like Karnataka. One needs to take the cultural diversity of a country as big as India into account, when looking for development of that state. Something that works in Bihar might not work in Rajasthan. And when Modi says things like, “All India needs is the Gujarat model”, he fails to take that into account. He is taking a myopic view of the fate of the country, which would be catastrophic for Indian development. This is apart from the fact that electing an radical hindu nationalist like Modi as the prime minister would alienate myriad of the religious groups, something that spells doom for a large diverse country like India.