He never attempted to disprove or deny it for 13 years as the Gujarat chief minister though his actions for promoting education to the Muslim girls spoke of a different character. For a decade every year at the start of the academic year, he stood at the door steps of the Muslim House hold to take young girls for admission to schools. He also made his ministers and senior bureaucrats to do same in different districts but without bragging. The mass media failed to comprehend its significance but the media of masses carried the story across to other parts of India.

His relieving his minister of state for home Amit Shah and consenting to his prosecution is undeniable evidence of his credentials and his approach. But media men tend to overlook significance of such actions. He was then the Sangh trainee as he is today though he concentrated his attention on the economy. He attended to betterment of life of deprived classes, an action that does not find a place in the Sangh book of political and social philosophy. He had not differentiated any class, caste or denomination following group in his rule of Gujarat in 13 years. Nor did he exposed his aspirations for a role in national political arena till the Supreme Court did not exonerate him of any role in instigating the communal carnage, based on findings by its own Special Team of Investigators.

He abided by the party interest and did not step into Bihar to campaign for the party in the 2010 assembly polls as demanded by the state chief minister Nitish Kumar though it did not refrain him from imposing his only condition to attend the party executive meeting in Mumbai in 2011 of removal of and return to the Sangh fold of the party functionary Sharad Joshi. It demanded immense courage to challenge the Sangh. He had his way and Sharad Joshi had to leave. Most media men take him to be hard core disciple and not one who was challenging the mentor.

In 2011 he was merely the chief minister who could be easily discarded. He knew it then that it could come in the way of realisation of his ambitions. His defence of the Indian economy at the World Economic Forum in 2012 was also unusual move. He did not withhold his tongue for fear of the possible consequences. He earned certificates from top industrialists needed to convince educated young of his ability. Immediately after his was chosen to lead the party in the 2014 election, he revealed that he Sangh agenda was not his priorities. He gave his preference for construction of toilets before he would attend to temple.

He revealed in January 2014 his determination to campaign not for old agenda but on the economic issues as the main focus. The party agenda was announced only after the first round of voting in 79 constituencies. The placement on three controversial issues highlighted by the party in five of seven previous elections since 1989, the end page of the agenda suggested a compromise as NaMO relented to have them included. Yet in entire intense campaign NaMo did not mention even once any of them.

The politician of average intelligence and seeped neck deep in routines of politics could not have been able to give kind of twist he had in forming his government. He converted it to be a single man rule from thriving democracy with liberty to all to express their mind. In the NaMo regime, even senior ministers refrained from public utterances or accepting programmes lest their actions annoy the boss. His innovative ideas in his three encounters with school kids in first year, his holding out high hopes for youth with potential employment for them due to aging of working hands in most countries could not have emerged from a mediocre mind nor would ordinary Sangh mind would dare to speak out.

He was silenced on the economic issues only through manipulation of his electoral defeats in Delhi and Bihar. He may have been made aware that he did not have a majority support even in the parliamentary wing though he had not sought vote for the party. The opposition did not have strength to sustain him in his throne. Though he thought of and gave social security measure to unorganized sections of population through his bank account scheme linked to personal accidental death. He measure lacuna was in not providing to banks the measures or methods for meeting the maintenance expenditures for such bank account to public sector banks.

He ceased talking publicly of the rapid economic growth over two draw back he suffered. One and major cause was the Sangh Parivar did not want it. Th Sangh standing in his path and erecting road barriers did not entice the foreign capital to park in India. As the Canadian Researcher John Ralston Saul surmised in his book ‘In Equilibrium’ the big capital began fleeing America and Europe not 0nly search for chip labour but also lands without true democratic system. The democratic form of governance with universal franchise could not and would not refrain from providing social security to the voters. SO they would soon face similar difficulties that made them to flee lands of their origins.

NaMo has a habit of ignoring his opponent or bypassing opinions differing from his. But he did not and could not do same to the Sangh Parivar that came in his ambitions of becoming a leader of thriving economic power. His two economic measures the demonetization and the cessation of all economic activities under the Lock down are his hit backs. Neither can be justified as both reversed the growth trends. Severity of the corona virus in India was not as severe as in America or Europe. Their total population is not even half of Indian population but affects are ten times in terms of infections and deaths. Eight million Indians of poor classes walked few thousand miles in groups and without necessary precautionary measures to reach their villages in East without any soul succumbing to the most dreaded pandemic virus infection though few lost their lives due to hunger or fatigue or caught in road accidents.

The Prime Minister NaMo has never hesitated to move forward. His talk may appear to be of mediocre quality as some friends point out. The Sangh chief risked to expose his bare chest to show blow marks he received in last seven years and publicly exposed the feuds with a person whom many of us take as nothing but a small fry in the Sangh web. No spider would allow the small fry to exist and constitute a danger to the web. When the spider tells the world of disassociating with it means it is not.