After the Delhi Debacle for the Bharatiya Janata Party on February 10th, even the most insignificant of analysts and commentators of all hues have come out in the open to have their share of relevance into the unfurling public narrative. However, the interesting and disturbing part of their grand narrative remains their diabolical and dastardly attempt to perpetrate sophism & obscurantism.
The author of a popular anthology carrying neo-youth motifs in its write-ups, too participated in this ordeal and issued a list of 17 Commandments to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a Valentine's Day Gift to his followers. The very shallowness & superficiality of his arguments somewhere showcase one of the root causes of the Delhi Debacle for the agenda of Good Governance & Development.
These 17 Commandments somewhere need a befitting response as they are based on half-baked facts and display a severe lack of even the basic understanding of the machinations of Governance & Geo-Politics. If this is the state of observation of a non-political celebrated youth writer, the destabilizing state of affairs can certainly be ascertained.
#CBCommandments - 1 :: Realise the Delhi election loss was a pure, unmitigated disaster. It has ended the halo around Modi, or the Modi wave. It has also shown the top leadership has no clue about the feelings of people on the street or their own party workers. It also casts doubt on Modi’s actual execution ability.
The high octane electoral battle of a pure urban centre which receives extra ordinary dosages of public doles by dint of being the seat of Central Government of India, and which is straddled by a conglomeration of immigrants from various parts of the country for better economic opportunity who eventually are much more privileged in terms of public benefits, can always be swayed and affected by a differential discourse.
#CBCommandments - 2 :: The PM, with all due respect, is floating too high. Come back to earth. Don’t try to present an image of a global statesman. You have won an anti-incumbency election when Congress was weak, by increasing BJP’s vote share by a few percentage points. You have not transformed India yet. Don’t go to Fiji. (Sorry Fiji, just that we have more important issues here.)
Seems like the respected author having the prestigious IITD & IIMA tags is unfortunately oblivious of the economic realities of this century. His primary credentials of evoking the habit of reading amongst the younger generation, by simplifying the linguistic constructs somewhere make him ignore the fundamentals of Globalized world order which has got accentuated in the last two and a half decades.
#CBCommandment - 4 :: Get the Lokpal. Have a good, independent CBI and CVC office. Clean up corruption systemically. Don’t say if Modi is there, nobody can be corrupt. What if Modi isn’t there tomorrow?
It's really interesting to note this dichotomous stand. On one go there is a complaint about the multiplicity of agencies in the semi-state of Delhi and an integrated set of institutions to better govern the national capital is advocated for. On the other hand, the demand to create yet another guzzler of public money in the name of a Jan Lokpal just to satisfy some of the octogenarian career aspirations and to rally a neo-political movement.
#CBCommandment
- 5 :: Don’t bully the media or juniors in the party. Inspire respect,
not fear. Don’t be smug. Don’t kill talent in the party because it could
be a threat to you one day. It’s not in BJP’s DNA to be a one-man
party.
Well, in a democratic polity, a strong man is the strongest alone when this strength emanates from the entire power pyramid which has chosen him/her in the first place. Decisive Democracy surpasses the dilapidated demagoguery in the name of democracy. You can't dilute the power of democracy every now and then by retorting to theatrics of plebiscites and public polls as the complex business of governance is inter-connected having far reaching implications.
Every society has got its fringe elements who would continue having their extreme viewpoints. Whether, they are absolutely right or wrong is again a matter of larger societal discourse. The role of the government of the day is simply to safeguard the constitutional liberties guaranteed to all citizens under its supervision & governance. The law should take its own course objectively and in a non-partisan manner. The Hindu Fanatics have their right to expression, on a similar footing as that of the Zombie Zealots.
A civilized intellectual discourse has to be prevented from sheer name calling and monopolizing the narrative. Let the societal issues be left to the society itself without poking in undue political interventions. The youth of the country are sensitive & intelligent enough to make their informed choices. They would also bat for equality & freedom to express, profess and practice the views & convictions of even the Hindu Fanatics. A singular worldview on multifaceted societal issues has never been the Indian way.
#CBCommandment - 7 :: Don’t be overconfident in your speeches. Keep a circle of critics around you, not just those who keep singing ‘Modiji is awesome’. Everything you utter in public must be pre-checked. If you did that, the Naxal and Bazaru comments would have been edited out. A PM cannot be a rabble rouser.
A Prime Minister is the Prime Leader of the country and has all the authority and freedom to express his very own way depending on the time, place and circumstances. Public leaders have the onerous responsibility to inform, education and shape the public opinion of the day. It can't be at its appeasing best, all the time unlike that of entertainers who simply look for commercial success. Any attempt to censor or control the sovereign right of expression of a Public Leader would be the death of democratic traditions. Victory or defeat, politics is largely a business of convictions and not of momentary opportunism.
#CBCommandment - 8 :: Dress down. Charisma comes from integrity, competence and compassion. Not from expensive clothes.
Hold on. It's really going overboard in dressing down. Democratic Decency warrants for some restraint. If it was not integrity, the man under preaching would not have survived the long haul of opposition from all quarters for 12 long years. If it was not competence, the course of India's future would not have been catapulted towards long term prosperity and peace. If it would not have been for compassion, over 10 crore families would not have been brought into the formal financial fold.
The choice of clothes as well as its frequency of change is a personal choice. Do we really need to peep into the same and comment? If at all, the imagery which the Prime Minister intends to present to the whole world is of opulence and prosperity which is innately Indian. How this got stolen or robbed, is yet another elaborate topic. There is a lot of symbolism which a supreme leader carries with himself, it probably matches up with the direction in which he wants to lead his country towards.
#CBCommandment - 9 :: Stay connected to and do something visible for the youth. They screamed for you in the Lok Sabha election, filled their twitter and FB walls in your praise. What have you done for them? You went to SRCC to give a speech before election. Have you visited any college after that? Why not? Is Fiji more important (sorry again Fiji)?
The United States of America required some 250 odd years of uninterrupted interference from alien powers to come up to this stage. A Modern Indian Nation empowering and enabling its youth need some foundational steps before the edifice starts visible. Instead of provocative insinuations and pointless propaganda the youth need to be educated about these steps as a mark of responsible commentary. The future of youth just cannot be shaped by cosmetic phoney promises or superficial actions.
The author of a popular anthology carrying neo-youth motifs in its write-ups, too participated in this ordeal and issued a list of 17 Commandments to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a Valentine's Day Gift to his followers. The very shallowness & superficiality of his arguments somewhere showcase one of the root causes of the Delhi Debacle for the agenda of Good Governance & Development.
These 17 Commandments somewhere need a befitting response as they are based on half-baked facts and display a severe lack of even the basic understanding of the machinations of Governance & Geo-Politics. If this is the state of observation of a non-political celebrated youth writer, the destabilizing state of affairs can certainly be ascertained.
#CBCommandments - 1 :: Realise the Delhi election loss was a pure, unmitigated disaster. It has ended the halo around Modi, or the Modi wave. It has also shown the top leadership has no clue about the feelings of people on the street or their own party workers. It also casts doubt on Modi’s actual execution ability.
The high octane electoral battle of a pure urban centre which receives extra ordinary dosages of public doles by dint of being the seat of Central Government of India, and which is straddled by a conglomeration of immigrants from various parts of the country for better economic opportunity who eventually are much more privileged in terms of public benefits, can always be swayed and affected by a differential discourse.
The motley mix of electoral arithmetic which accentuated this so-called
"disaster" partly emerging out of an unforeseen chemistry between the
perpetrators of a degenerating political discourse.
The very counterparts of this specialized electorate would thereby have much more rooted and rounded opinion.
Shifting the very coordinate axis for winning a spree of arguments is the very basis of sophism. How come the halo of a national leader be compared out of the outcomes of an electoral warfare of a single theater. The multilevel political organization of the country has been conceived and put into force to prevent political plagues like the ones which got heralded in the National Capital of Delhi.
India has just crossed the cusp of being a young democracy which has its own set of aspirations and value systems. Swaying the opinion of such a innocuous generation on phoney propositions and inconsistent set of political offerings can always be masqueraded as "the public opinion" by adventurist political entrepreneurs.
Doubting the actual execution ability of Mr. Modi, would be a far fetched assertion. People with such limited agenda and comprehension of state of affairs can be great entertainers in their right earnest. Commenting on complex matters of public policy and governance, need some corresponding credentials.
The very counterparts of this specialized electorate would thereby have much more rooted and rounded opinion.
Shifting the very coordinate axis for winning a spree of arguments is the very basis of sophism. How come the halo of a national leader be compared out of the outcomes of an electoral warfare of a single theater. The multilevel political organization of the country has been conceived and put into force to prevent political plagues like the ones which got heralded in the National Capital of Delhi.
India has just crossed the cusp of being a young democracy which has its own set of aspirations and value systems. Swaying the opinion of such a innocuous generation on phoney propositions and inconsistent set of political offerings can always be masqueraded as "the public opinion" by adventurist political entrepreneurs.
Doubting the actual execution ability of Mr. Modi, would be a far fetched assertion. People with such limited agenda and comprehension of state of affairs can be great entertainers in their right earnest. Commenting on complex matters of public policy and governance, need some corresponding credentials.
#CBCommandments - 2 :: The PM, with all due respect, is floating too high. Come back to earth. Don’t try to present an image of a global statesman. You have won an anti-incumbency election when Congress was weak, by increasing BJP’s vote share by a few percentage points. You have not transformed India yet. Don’t go to Fiji. (Sorry Fiji, just that we have more important issues here.)
Seems like the respected author having the prestigious IITD & IIMA tags is unfortunately oblivious of the economic realities of this century. His primary credentials of evoking the habit of reading amongst the younger generation, by simplifying the linguistic constructs somewhere make him ignore the fundamentals of Globalized world order which has got accentuated in the last two and a half decades.
The well laid out and duly practiced
relation of geo-politics with economics has been completely sidelined when the author discounts that the Indian Premiere should not even try to present an image of a global statesman.
Indian transformation needs a set of harmonious global positioning with respect to India. Modi has been extremely successful in creating a resounding multi-polar world by asserting the right of the Indian Public in the comity of nations to progress and that too on its own chosen terms. India, which was seen as a mere market of 100 crore plus consumers, out of which a majority of which qualify as the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Guys & Gals) Generation, somewhere emerged as a economic behemoth at least in terms of potential rather than as a high-end TALENT POOL which can bring about the requisite transformation in a technology driven knowledge economy. For this to happen, we do need a high dosage of aspiration which if can motivate and inspire even a handful of competent, capable and committed youngsters can certainly disrupt the course of history. Even if a significant section of the Indian Graduates finishing off their doctoral studies in one or the other foreign universities can choose to return to India to contribute to her growth story, such an aspirational index is most warranted for.
Fiji is the last island, far off in the Pacific. The Prime Minister's visit to this island nation symbolically asserted India emergence as a global power. It was a message back home as well to the Indian Youth, that India has it in her and together with, Indian Resurgence is not a far fetched proposition. The idea was also to invoke the footprints of the Indian power spread all across the globe.
The impending clash is probably between the two warring narratives, whereby one sees India as a consumerist market, the other which intends to make it a dominating society & economy through a different kind of political & governance interventions.
#CBCommandments - 3 :: Don’t just get claps from NRIs. If they love you so much, ask them to pay. If one lakh NRIs commit to paying BJP $1,000 a year, that is a hundred million dollars of clean money annually. Use that to clean up BJP’s funding. When are you going to do that anyway?
If facts are to be believed, in the last 9 years Indian Families living abroad have contributed to the tune of $335 billion in foreign exchange thereby financing India's whopping Current Account Deficit (including the Rs 35000 crore worth of mobile phone which we import annually) which is much larger than the paltry $100 million.
Indian transformation needs a set of harmonious global positioning with respect to India. Modi has been extremely successful in creating a resounding multi-polar world by asserting the right of the Indian Public in the comity of nations to progress and that too on its own chosen terms. India, which was seen as a mere market of 100 crore plus consumers, out of which a majority of which qualify as the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Guys & Gals) Generation, somewhere emerged as a economic behemoth at least in terms of potential rather than as a high-end TALENT POOL which can bring about the requisite transformation in a technology driven knowledge economy. For this to happen, we do need a high dosage of aspiration which if can motivate and inspire even a handful of competent, capable and committed youngsters can certainly disrupt the course of history. Even if a significant section of the Indian Graduates finishing off their doctoral studies in one or the other foreign universities can choose to return to India to contribute to her growth story, such an aspirational index is most warranted for.
Fiji is the last island, far off in the Pacific. The Prime Minister's visit to this island nation symbolically asserted India emergence as a global power. It was a message back home as well to the Indian Youth, that India has it in her and together with, Indian Resurgence is not a far fetched proposition. The idea was also to invoke the footprints of the Indian power spread all across the globe.
The impending clash is probably between the two warring narratives, whereby one sees India as a consumerist market, the other which intends to make it a dominating society & economy through a different kind of political & governance interventions.
#CBCommandments - 3 :: Don’t just get claps from NRIs. If they love you so much, ask them to pay. If one lakh NRIs commit to paying BJP $1,000 a year, that is a hundred million dollars of clean money annually. Use that to clean up BJP’s funding. When are you going to do that anyway?
If facts are to be believed, in the last 9 years Indian Families living abroad have contributed to the tune of $335 billion in foreign exchange thereby financing India's whopping Current Account Deficit (including the Rs 35000 crore worth of mobile phone which we import annually) which is much larger than the paltry $100 million.
I think,
the rationale of the Prime Minister to visit Fiji was there quite well
justified. It was to resonate the commitment of the Indian People with
the People of Indian Origin residing even in a far fetched island as
that of Fiji, and not just limited to some limited popular precincts on the globe.
#CBCommandment - 4 :: Get the Lokpal. Have a good, independent CBI and CVC office. Clean up corruption systemically. Don’t say if Modi is there, nobody can be corrupt. What if Modi isn’t there tomorrow?
It's really interesting to note this dichotomous stand. On one go there is a complaint about the multiplicity of agencies in the semi-state of Delhi and an integrated set of institutions to better govern the national capital is advocated for. On the other hand, the demand to create yet another guzzler of public money in the name of a Jan Lokpal just to satisfy some of the octogenarian career aspirations and to rally a neo-political movement.
Constitutional Democratic Governance, rallies on an adequate balance of
power for a stable equilibrium. There cannot be one single hinge or
pivot around which the entire set of probity or propriety can rest.
The very argument of having an all encompassing Lokpal is quite overwhelming. What's can immediately help is to empower the existing set of institutions and make them effective?
A T N Sheshan got the Election Commission its teeth; a Vinod Rai could unleash the power of the CAG. Reforms in the CBI & CVC were also be accentuated by the noted journalist Vineet Narain, out of his singular crusade under corruption by making the CVC and CBI further accountable. In a vast and diverse nation like India, we just can't have disruptive propositions. We have to better our existing institutions incrementally.
The very argument of having an all encompassing Lokpal is quite overwhelming. What's can immediately help is to empower the existing set of institutions and make them effective?
A T N Sheshan got the Election Commission its teeth; a Vinod Rai could unleash the power of the CAG. Reforms in the CBI & CVC were also be accentuated by the noted journalist Vineet Narain, out of his singular crusade under corruption by making the CVC and CBI further accountable. In a vast and diverse nation like India, we just can't have disruptive propositions. We have to better our existing institutions incrementally.
Well, in a democratic polity, a strong man is the strongest alone when this strength emanates from the entire power pyramid which has chosen him/her in the first place. Decisive Democracy surpasses the dilapidated demagoguery in the name of democracy. You can't dilute the power of democracy every now and then by retorting to theatrics of plebiscites and public polls as the complex business of governance is inter-connected having far reaching implications.
A section of Indian Media motivated from diverse interests, has somehow
retorted to the lowest ebb of intellectual insinuations with no
objectivity and interestingly in the era of research & analytics,
retorting to sheer sensationalism. This tabloid media whose protagonists
are fighting their lone ego escapades have become the primary agents of
anarchy and not of good governance. The former, makes it powerful, the
latter forces them to become responsible and accountable. And who needs
responsibility & accountability in a consumerist economy perpetrated
by marketing mojos.
A Government is different from a Political Party and it needs to run professionally with the singular principle of Unity of Command.
#CBCommandment
- 6 :: Shut up regressive Hindutva fanatics. They talk. You ignore. They are
your supporters. You have to tell them loud and clear this is not OK.
The young generation doesn’t find it cool to support a leader who
doesn’t believe in a free and equal society. Send some of your
old-fashioned partymen abroad to learn about gender issues and minority
rights. They will make you sink otherwise.A Government is different from a Political Party and it needs to run professionally with the singular principle of Unity of Command.
Every society has got its fringe elements who would continue having their extreme viewpoints. Whether, they are absolutely right or wrong is again a matter of larger societal discourse. The role of the government of the day is simply to safeguard the constitutional liberties guaranteed to all citizens under its supervision & governance. The law should take its own course objectively and in a non-partisan manner. The Hindu Fanatics have their right to expression, on a similar footing as that of the Zombie Zealots.
A civilized intellectual discourse has to be prevented from sheer name calling and monopolizing the narrative. Let the societal issues be left to the society itself without poking in undue political interventions. The youth of the country are sensitive & intelligent enough to make their informed choices. They would also bat for equality & freedom to express, profess and practice the views & convictions of even the Hindu Fanatics. A singular worldview on multifaceted societal issues has never been the Indian way.
#CBCommandment - 7 :: Don’t be overconfident in your speeches. Keep a circle of critics around you, not just those who keep singing ‘Modiji is awesome’. Everything you utter in public must be pre-checked. If you did that, the Naxal and Bazaru comments would have been edited out. A PM cannot be a rabble rouser.
A Prime Minister is the Prime Leader of the country and has all the authority and freedom to express his very own way depending on the time, place and circumstances. Public leaders have the onerous responsibility to inform, education and shape the public opinion of the day. It can't be at its appeasing best, all the time unlike that of entertainers who simply look for commercial success. Any attempt to censor or control the sovereign right of expression of a Public Leader would be the death of democratic traditions. Victory or defeat, politics is largely a business of convictions and not of momentary opportunism.
#CBCommandment - 8 :: Dress down. Charisma comes from integrity, competence and compassion. Not from expensive clothes.
Hold on. It's really going overboard in dressing down. Democratic Decency warrants for some restraint. If it was not integrity, the man under preaching would not have survived the long haul of opposition from all quarters for 12 long years. If it was not competence, the course of India's future would not have been catapulted towards long term prosperity and peace. If it would not have been for compassion, over 10 crore families would not have been brought into the formal financial fold.
The choice of clothes as well as its frequency of change is a personal choice. Do we really need to peep into the same and comment? If at all, the imagery which the Prime Minister intends to present to the whole world is of opulence and prosperity which is innately Indian. How this got stolen or robbed, is yet another elaborate topic. There is a lot of symbolism which a supreme leader carries with himself, it probably matches up with the direction in which he wants to lead his country towards.
#CBCommandment - 9 :: Stay connected to and do something visible for the youth. They screamed for you in the Lok Sabha election, filled their twitter and FB walls in your praise. What have you done for them? You went to SRCC to give a speech before election. Have you visited any college after that? Why not? Is Fiji more important (sorry again Fiji)?
The United States of America required some 250 odd years of uninterrupted interference from alien powers to come up to this stage. A Modern Indian Nation empowering and enabling its youth need some foundational steps before the edifice starts visible. Instead of provocative insinuations and pointless propaganda the youth need to be educated about these steps as a mark of responsible commentary. The future of youth just cannot be shaped by cosmetic phoney promises or superficial actions.
#CBCommandment - 10 :: The party president may be really clever.
But sometimes it isn’t about who is most clever but who genuinely cares.
Chess moves don’t win elections all the time. A connect with people
does. The party president, given his perceived persona (which may be at
variance with who he really is), doesn’t inspire confidence. You standing next to him is Amitabh Bachchan standing next to Amar Singh. Did it help Mr Bachchan?
Quite appalling comparisons with no relevance or co-relation with the context under consideration. If trivialization of the narrative to this extent is called popular writing and if this determines the popular mood, I would certainly like to work on this first before advancing ahead. But incidentally, at times the comprehension of the people is not that poor as is made to be believed by connoisseurs of cheap clamor. You reflect what you already are at times.
The Modi-Shah combo is one of the finest which has ever happened in India's polity for a long long time. One is steering through the reigns of Government to unimaginable & unprecedented heights demanding accountability and performance; the other is taking care of the political machinery in due consonance & coordination. Never before such a delicate thread of trust and competence has been seen, at least on the political turf. This intricate resonance can only be accentuated when you are driven by higher motives of self-less service and are united in some well & widely cherished goal.
The relentless spirit and spree of work in which the combo has been working has a great possibility to usher the country to glorious heights. Trivializing the political conversation beyond a point sucks.
#CBCommandment - 11 :: Don’t talk down to people. Talk to people.
Don’t address people if you never want to take questions. Don’t give
monologues on radio. It reminds one of Indira Gandhi and North Korea.
It’s not cool. Do you really think a kid in Delhi University will tell
his friends, hey, can’t miss that Mann Ki Baat on radio?
I think that the first portal Mr. Modi got created was the www.mygov.in. How much of it has been used to communicate? A thinking and pro-active kid of Delhi University along with his horde of friends would certainly log in and express his innumerable ideas pertaining to various socio-economic-political issues and would not be mired in self-delusion & deceit which paragons of passive transformation would make him/her believe.
#CBCommandment - 12 :: Open more colleges. Open up tourism.
Reduce taxes on high employment sectors. Give tax breaks for companies
that move headquarters to smaller cities. Do anything to take skills and jobs to the interiors. Fix the primary schools. They have to teach well. Half our school kids can’t read properly.
The author seemed to have missed out the interim Union Budget in July. A simple hash tag analysis of Modi speeches would herald a new reality. The very purpose of Swacch Bharat Abhiyan is to boost tourism in the first place. Simply wait for the first full fledged Union Budget. Moving the headquarters to Smaller Cities need an augmentation of basic infrastructure. When the inner city precincts of the national capital have been stagnating for decades, what to talk of other cities per se. Doing anything in desperation won't help the skills and the jobs cause. I think there is a very strong foundation laid out in the form of Make in India. Just get a brief from the insiders who attended the day long super-intense workshop on Make in India. A much celebrated intellectual Nassim Nicholas Taleb has sung praises for the focus of the Modi Government on primary education. Don't miss out the reforms in the B.ED programme heralded by the MHRD.
#CBCommandment - 13 The cities need extensions with very low
cost housing solutions, with good water, electricity and transport
infrastructure. That is the only way the urban poor can live a life with
dignity. Give them dignity. They didn’t vote for you in Delhi,
remember? Win them back.
The stagnant Indian cities are being augmented under the vision of SMART CITIES. If you follow the real estate market, there has been an average drop of 30% in the prices. There is nothing new in this demand and ample work is happening on this forefront. The kind of approach & professional assistance which is being sought on each such schemes is mind-boggling. May be, you might like to go through some of the approach papers on Ministry of Urban Development Portal, you would find unprecedented bold steps going on. And this whopping work has been done is less than 9 months.
#CBCommandment - 14 :: Be real. Have work life balance. Why can’t
the PM catch a movie sometimes? Or eat chaat in Delhi somewhere? A
humanised PM works better than a glorified PM.
Quite a mixed bag of mutually contradictory commandments indeed. May be you may help produce a flick of substance worthy for the Prime Minister to take out his 2.5 hours in his next term. People of substance who inspire and drive the real word have no time to indulge, at least when there is so much to be accomplished and set straight.
#CBCommandment - 15 :: No statues, please. School or statue? Hospital or statue? No need to explain further.
Both have their due importance & relevance. Schools & Hospitals go hand in hand with statutes. Let's not get into a ruptured fragmented worldview.
#CBCommandment - 16 :: No personal attacks on opponents no matter
how punchy the joke or the temptation to say it. Again, run it past
those critical advisers first.
The public discourse has got extremely vicious and biased towards a singular set of sensibilities, while ignoring the other. The increasing lack of comprehension of the motifs and meanings of native languages is one of the predominant cause of the same. India's public life has to be stubborn and all encompassing.
#CBCommandment - 17 :: No hanging out with rich industrialists.
Of course, you may need to officially. But that doesn’t have to be a
media event. Hang out with the billion people, not billionaires.
Deriding wealth & prosperity has been an hypocritical proposition for long which has somewhere condemned people to rise out of poverty. It doesn't serve any purpose whereby state remains the sole arbiter for people's energies. The creative entrepreneurial and business energy of the nation has its own value and importance. No sensible and visionary Prime Minister can draw daggers with the thriving business community of the country. This very fact proves the substance & vision of the Prime Minister.
Epilogue
Mr. Bhagat, a very noble and well hearted individual having genuine concerns for the well-being of the nation has somewhere got hay wire in issuing these commandments to the Prime Minister. Being in the public space and commanding a sizable youth following, he ought to be extremely responsible in bringing out facts and not just advance his writings as a mere piece of fiction. Criticism and Comments are very central for a thriving democracy, but when Sophism (A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone) & Obscurantism (A policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge) get supplanted, the integrity of individual comes under scanner.
