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It is four years since the Modi government had come to power and already the next general election is on the horizon. People will have to judge in whom to put their confidence in the forthcoming election. Stock taking is in order.

In these weeks Germany, like the world, is on a tight rope where the walker seems to be teetering above Niagara Falls or, worse yet, the fiery crater of the Kilauea volcano. A Trump-Netanyahu drama is being staged; each is playing his part on cue. Only days after Netanyahu’s press conference attack on Iran, Trump tore up the U.S. copy of the Iran nuclear agreement. Only hours after that Israel launched its heaviest missile strike in Syria since 1973, with a reported 28 warplanes hitting Iranian sites south, north and east of Damascus, including a munitions warehouse at the capital’s international airport.

Ten Lakh bank employees are to go on 48-hour continued strike on May 30 and 31, 2018, against the meagre offer of wage hike for the bank employees.

Sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s #HumFitTohIndiaFit challenge to cricketer Virat Kohli has landed Prime Minister Narendra Modi looking remarkably unfit! Rathore tagged Kohli to the challenge and Anushka Sharma’s husband promptly tagged PM Modi to #HumFitTohIndiaFit. Within the hour, Modi was target of a 101 challenges thrown at him by political rivals and commoners alike. His silence on #ThoothukudiKillings was challenged. And he was challenged to #ProduceDegrees.

Who are the bad guys in Thoothukudi? There must be an underworld of sorts in the port city, which was called Tuticorin by the Brits when they ruled India. Today, Thoothukudi is a favourite location for Tamil cinema. In many of them, scenes ofaruva-waving villains chasing the hero up and down Thoothukudi streets are a feature. But we are talking of real-life villains. A dozen protesters were shot dead in Thoothukudi a couple of days ago and there’s a gallery of villains galore.

Prime minister Narendra Modi has travelled to the Russian resort of Sochi to meet Russian President Putin. He is not alone. A galaxy of world leaders is heading towards Russia and its annual economic platform at St Petersburg.

It is really sad that India had taken 70 years after Independence to provide electricity to all its villages. It is not that the previous governments had not done anything and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had come with a magic wand to accomplish this great task. There are six lakh villages in India and majority of the population still lived in rural areas. What Modi government has done in the last four years is to provide electricity to nearly 19,000 villages which still did not have power. Electricity was provided to other 5.8 lakh villages by the previous governments and of course the pace could have been better. Modi, however, took this task on a mission mode and completed ahead of the schedule.

The night before B S Yeddyurappa was to take oath as the BJP chief minister of Karnataka, reopening the gate to southern India for his party, some senior RSS ideologues and leaders called the RSS chief and expressed their serious reservation on the means resorted to by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to get majority and protect the government.

After the formation of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka on May 23 defeating all the machinations of the BJP, the way has opened up for forming a solid platform of the non-BJP parties who do not want the saffrons to take over power again in the coming Lok Sabha poll. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a leader with determination and he is committed to the transformation of India to a Hindurasthra by 2022 from its present secular character under the Constitution and for that he as also the Sangh Parivar will be doing all what is necessary to stage a come back to power at the centre through the coming general elections.

On completion of four years of the NDA Union Government that came to power on May 26, 2014 following massive negative sentiments generated among people by free media against the previous UPA Union Government, on promises of inclusive development, corruption free good governance, eradication of black money, bringing black money stashed abroad, putting Rs.15 lakh each in every citizen’s bank account, looking back one finds that nothing has changed on the ground. People are now sick of empty words and hollow political rhetorics. Fed up of false promises, disillusioned with the change that never came, angry about the state of economy, ever rising costs of living, frustrated by the flat job market, enraged by the stepped up violence and rapes against women/children, targeted bashing of and violence against Dalits and minorities are making people to go whole hog for change if the very idea of India with Justice, Equality and Fraternity as postulated by the Constitution of India has to be saved. This cannot go on further. It’s now clear that all such hollow promises were a ruse for serving the larger RSS agenda.