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| Omar Abdullah acknowledges the truth | | Modi effect | | Rustam
JAMMU, Nov 5: The political scene of the country has been fast-changing since May. It was this month that the BJP high command appointed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as chairman of the central election campaign committee. It happened at Goa amid great applause. His appointment as the chairman of election campaign committee had electrified the country's political scene with the BJP cadres and supporters pulsating with renewed vigour. The political scene further changed dramatically on September 13, when the Central Parliament Board of the BJP presented to the nation Narendra Modi as the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 general election. It was this decision of the party high command that completely changed the country's political scenario, with almost all the political pundits and even bitter critics of Narendra Modi openly acknowledging that the BJP's political masterstroke will help it perform exceedingly well not only in the Lok Sabha election but also in the five poll-bound states of MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Mizoram.
The fact is that the Modi effect across the nation is quite visible. Lakhs and lakhs of people are turning up to listen to Narendra Modi and all the pre-poll surveys, without any exception, clearly suggesting that the Modi phenomenon has gripped the nation and "uninspiring and inarticulate Rahul Gandhi is nowhere in the game".
The nature of the Modi effect can be gauged from what the critics of Narendra Modi in the UPA and other non-BJP formations have started saying about Narendra Modi. Take, for example, what Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah said on Monday during his press conference on the occasion of the opening of the biannual Durbar at Jammu. "As far as Modi wave is concerned, it is a little bit of an exaggeration also but it would also be wrong on our part to deny any influence of Modi in the elections." "Modi effect is visible on the BJP cadre, but it may not trickle down to the average voter. If that happens, we will have to see," he said. What he said was an unambiguous admission that the Modi factor has rattled him.
Omar Abdullah was not the only one who admitted that the Modi factor is a new factor in the country's political situation. Two other leaders - one (Shivanand Tiwari) belonging to the Janata Dal United of Nitish Kumar and the other (Tariq Anwar) belonging to the Nationalist Congress Party - said almost the same thing. They said that it would be foolish to ignore Narendra Modi and his impact on the country's political scene. |
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