Learning RIGHT lessons from Delhi results

First of all, my heartfelt congratulations to Sri Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Admi Party for winning an unprecedented mandate in Delhi! I truly hope they will deliver a corruption-free, stable and progressive government to people of Delhi.

Many have analyzed this election in detail to understand how AAP was able to get this stupendous mandate and most importantly how all the pundits missed this tsunami. Here is my analysis.

I will start with 2013 Delhi State Elections.

The background of this election was (1) public anger against corrupt Congress government (2) a highly successful movement by Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev’s India Against Corruption (IAC) and Congress government’s high-handed response to it. At that time Narendra Modi was far away as CM of Gujarat who stayed away from these elections.

It was obvious that Delhi voters were going to punish Sheila Dikshit’s Congress government and they had two choices in the form of BJP and AAP. In those elections BJP secured 33% votes, AAP got 29.5% votes and Congress 24.6% votes. Together these three parties got 87% of votes. At this point of time AAP’s core vote base had two components. The Leftists+NGO groups and the Hindu vote base that was genuinely smitten by Anna Hazare, Aravind Kejriwal and the youthfulness of Aam Admi Party. I would put this Hindu voter base at 14% of AAP’s voters.

It resulted in a Hung Assembly and subsequent resignation of Arvind Kejriwal as CM of Delhi.

Then came 2014 General Elections.

The background of this election was Modi’s call for a “Congress Mukth Bharat” and a decisive mandate for his “Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas” agenda. In these elections Modi entered Delhi seeking votes while Arvind Kejriwal left to Varanasi to fight Modi for Lok Sabha. Another fact is that majority of AAP Delhi leadership also moved out of Delhi to contest/campaign Lok Sabha elections.

So the 14% Hindu voters who voted for AAP in 2013 Delhi elections went to BJP for they preferred Modi than Arvind Kejriwal. This increased BJP vote share to 46% in Delhi. On the other hand AAP got its vote share supplemented by two vote banks. First one is the Muslim vote bank. Muslims are well known to strategically vote as a block to any candidate who has a chance to defeat BJP candidate. In 2014 elections it became obvious that Modi is riding a wave and the Muslim vote bank in Delhi realized that Congress has little chance of winning. So they chose their next best option based on 2013 election results, hence went with AAP. Congress lost 9.5% of its votes in 2014 elections compared to 2013 Delhi elections. In 2014, these three parties together got 94% of votes, 7% more votes than 2013 elections.

That brings us to 2015 Delhi State Elections.

The electoral  landscape of Delhi changed again for these elections. Modi is acting Prime Minister of India and Arvind Kejriwal came back to Delhi as CM candidate. As observed in 2013 elections the 14% Hindu voters prefer Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP to a non-Modi led BJP, so they went back to AAP. Given the utter defeat of Congress in 2014 general elections, the Muslim vote back stayed with AAP for they have the best chances to defeat BJP candidates. We can see Asaduddin Owaisi MIM’s efforts from this perspective. Congress party on the other hand continued to lose its core vote back and transferred another 7% votes to AAP. I think this is the Christian vote bank, given the Church-vandalism incidents and Obama’s comments to that extent. Congress is left with hardly 8% votes in these elections. Together these three parties secured 93% of votes in these elections indicating the overall electoral space of Delhi did not change between 2014 and 2015 elections.

Wrong lessons for BJP

The media and secular intelligentsia is trying to portray AAP’s victory over BJP as a failure of Modi and is a warning by the nation to him vis.a.vis Hindutva. They are trying to impose the lessons they want on Modi Sarkar because they know that Narendra Modi is steering the nation towards an independent Bharat, free from colonial hangover. Some of these wrong lessons making rounds in TV studios and Social Media are

·         Curtail Hindu resurgence and stop reminding the nation of its Hindu identity.

·         Stop reconversions into Hinduism while ignoring/facilitating Christian Evangelical organizations.

·         Go slow on Islamic Terror and make peace with Pakistan

All these are wrong lessons for Modi Sarkar and the nation, for these are mere continuation of colonial rule of India. If BJP goes this path it will lose its differentiation and becomes Congress party without Gandhi/Nehru family.

It is important for BJP to learn right lessons from these elections because it is not only in the interests of BJP the political party but in the larger interests of the whole nation, especially 900 million Hindus who are suffering from the triple colonization of India by Islam, Christianity and Secularism.

Learning RIGHT lessons

• Modi Sarkar is on right path and must continue with its plan to remove colonial hangover in policy, law and justice, police, planning and economic agenda.
• Modi Sarkar must perform better than AAP especially in areas like fight against corruption, good governance and inclusive development. Not just that, it must be able to pass the message as well as benefits to the common man. When this becomes visible on the ground, the floating Hindu vote base (14% which is with AAP now) will come back to BJP. If Modi were to be the candidate of BJP, it would have gotten 46% vote share compared to AAP’s 39% (53-14%).
• BJP must reorganize itself to become a youthful party. This need not mean it will have to get rid of all these party workers who are 40+ years old. It will have to push the youth leaders into public and legislative arena while the seniors contribute in party and policy roles/matters.
• BJP must plan to get majority vote (51%) moving forward. Now that Congress is decimated, all anti-Hindu vote banks will unite to fight BJP. There will be attempts to splinter Hindu votes on caste/creed lines but all non-Hindu votes will be focused to defeat BJP candidates.

A Telugu patriotic poet Gurajada Apparao said thus “DEsamantE Matti KAdOy, DEsamantE ManushulOy” which means “It is the people who make the nation, not the soil/land”. So the people must be made to feel proud of their Hindu identity before this nation becomes a Hindu nation again. This pride comes only when there are ample real-life examples of successful Indians who live and assert their Hinduness. 

When Modi Sarkar gets rid of corruption, poverty, filth, unemployment without compromising on its core values; Hindutva will become cool for hundreds of millions of (now) secularized Hindus. THAT will be the day India achieves true independence.

Tathastu!

Playing Obama's game

He came, he hugged, he saw, he said and he left!

Modi's government left no stone unturned to make this unprecedented visit by Barack Obama a grand success. Protocols were set aside (Obama in his Ghost on Rajpath), legal hurdles (nuclear deal) smoothened and strategic-relationship turned into personal friendship. All this ended with Obama's unsolicited advice on India's unity and religious tolerance or lack thereof.

Social media went crazy over Obama's lack of Atidhi-Maryada (guest's  etiquette). World-media ensured that intolerant nature of Hindu majority is well understood by colonial west and dictatorial middle eastern kingdoms. Indian intellectuals subtly advised Modi govt to get rid of RSS and those assertive saffron BJP MPs, if he were to become the darling of leftist, Islamist and evangelical power-network. Some Indian media divas like Shekhar Gupta went to the extent of attributing BJP's rout in Delhi city-state elections to this issue alone.

Why this message and why now?

To get a complete picture of the value proposition of India to the world, please read my earlier blog-post The Prize – That is India. As many studies (every notable strategic/economic/consulting firm has a study on this) indicate India is poised to spend at least $1 trillion on infrastructure development over next decade, in addition to more than $100B on defense acquisitions. On top of this, if Modi’s call of “Make in India” were to succeed, India will need another $2 trillion to train and employ 150+million labor force that currently employed in Agricultural sector [see table below]. This is the rationale behind Modi’s FDI (Foreign Direct Investment to First Develop India) slogan. These numbers may sound astounding to some but over 10 years all these investments amount to hardly 10% of India’s GDP.

Modi, as soon as his election as Prime Minister of India, went on a world-wide tour seeking investments and transfer of technology selling India’s growth story.

Modi had to politely set aside China’s offer of up to $100B investments for this offer came with caveats that require India compromising on its territorial integrity, national security and absorbing Chinese manufactured products undermining the ‘Make In India’ initiative.

Russia’s Putin visited India in December 2014 and signed 20 bilateral agreements estimated at $100B over next decade or so.

Japan, Australia, Singapore and EU wanted to partner with Modi’s “Make In India” vision for they see Indian economy as a stable and profitable opportunity for their aging economies and inefficient pension funds. But all these nations needed their big brother, USA’s, approval before they can make any financial or technology commitments. 

If Modi’s meeting with Obama in USA set the stage for strategic alignment of India with USA, then Obama’s India visit was supposed to be the culmination of that partnership.

This is why Modi's government left no stone unturned to make this unprecedented visit by Barack Obama a grand success. But there is one important thing that USA (and Europe) needed from Modi’s India before they can trust India and start investments; Modi's compromise on the civilizational identity of India. To understand this equation, please read my blog-post The Fight – 2014 Elections.

The essence of that article is simple. A resurgent Hindu Bharat is a civilizational threat to Abrahamic USA and Europe. USA and Europe (along with their Asian partners) cannot and will not invest in and empower India unless it severs its ties with Bharat, the civilizational India.

This is why decades old #Gharwapasi is brought into media glare, few cases of Church arson were presented as harassment of religious minorities in India (forgotten are the continuous attacks of Christian missionaries on Hindu temples and culture) culminating in Obama’s unsolicited advice on religious tolerance as precondition for India’s territorial integrity. The secular Media started spinning the electoral victory of Aam Admi Party (which got more votes from those very Hindus who overwhelmingly voted for Modi just 9 months ago than all the minorities in Delhi combined) as a warning shot to Modi to denounce his Hindutva identity and politics.

Is Bharat worth it?

The next logical question is “Is Bharat Worth It?”. Do we need to protect Bharat at the cost of leaving India poor, weak and unworthy?

Let’s look at the alternatives first!

Should India convert amass into Islam and evolve into world’s largest Islamic nation? Will this make Pakistan and Bangladesh redundant and lead to unification of Indian sub-continent. Then why did Bangladesh separate from Pakistan to begin with? Did Pakistan/Bangladesh’s Islamic identity lead to wealth, strength and international stature that India is seeking? The reality is right in-front of us staring into our eyes thru the mirror of Islamic State!

Or should India convert amass into Christianity and evolve into world’s largest Christian nation? Will this alone turn India into a wealthy, strong and world-power? What happened to all those African nations which converted into Christianity? Why are they still reeling in filth, poverty and sickness?

What do we do now? Perhaps our ancestors realized this question a long time ago. How else can we fathom the untold sufferings of hundred+ generations of our ancestors who fought and withstood the double colonization of Bharat by Islam and Christianity just to save our Bharatiya identity? 

Studies indicate that India pulled more than 200 million Indians out of poverty in the past 20 years (since 1991). That means we can get the remaining 350m poor out of poverty and can grow wealthy, strong and powerful on our own in next 20-30 years. What glory there is on earth than we becoming rich, healthy and powerful in our own identity?

Does it mean we have to make enemies out of the Obama’s of this world and get into a prolonged friction with western society?

Not necessarily. There is a Bharatiya way out of this conundrum. It is …

Playing Obama’s Game

Before we play this game, we need to understand the game. Please read my blogpost USA – A Vedic Civilization on Abrahamic Foundations to understand the rules of the game. In the USA, the state enforces the rules of the game while Christianity remains the foundation of that society. Similarly India too can realign itself in such a way that Govt of India enforces the rules of the game while Hinduism remains the foundation of our society.

How would such a game play out?

Modi welcomes Obama’s comments while subtly reminding the world about India’s painful past under Islamic and Christian colonizations. Then Modi changes India’s laws & governance structures to closely reflect the systems of USA/West.

·      Define Ashrama-Vyavastha as it is how in the USA and enforce it by rule of law.

·      Define Varna-Vyavastha as it is how in the USA and enforce it by rule of law.

·      Equip the justice system to process cases within reasonable timeline.

·      Thoroughly desensitize Law and Order apparatus of religious sensitivities and prosecute Church/Temple/Mosque attacks as per the law. Give multi-life sentences to the culprits.

·      Redefine Educational and National Policy institutions based on Hindu foundations of India. Shun out Leftist intellectuals from educational and national policy institutions following the footsteps of Joseph McCarthy.

·      Ban foreign funded NGOs on national security grounds. Or at least tax them at the highest rate possible.

·      Ban public and religious slaughter of animals on health and civic sense grounds. Establish and enforce strict animal rights laws.

·      Release Hindu temples out of government control and a put all these properties under a private national fund for Hindu temples & organizations. Most conservative estimates put the value of these properties at $100B. Pay this Hindu fund $5B/Year as reparations for next 10 years. Allow Hindus to run private religious educational and medical institutions.

·      Enforce absolute freedom of speech. Allow Indian media to run various investigative and historical shows on Abrahamic faiths like The Borgias, The Tudors, Secrets of Vatican etc.,

·      Enforce absolute freedom of propagation of faith. Allow Hindu #Gharwapasi while allowing Christian/Muslim conversions (minus foreign funds).

·      Build huge museums for Islamic genocide of Hindus and Christian genocide of Hindus and dedicate them to the world.

In doing the above, Modi should be able find favorable support base both within and without India for they are congruent with American laws. Modi and his media team should present each of these measures comparing them with corresponding US laws so there is little confusion within and without. Simply put "Bharat is Hindu America!"

Once this debate is resolved, the Obamas of West will have nothing to complain about Bharat’s pluralism for the state is thoroughly separated from religion and is governed by nothing but rule of law and pursuit of liberty and (individual as well as national) happiness. 

Table: Cost of India's transformation from Agricultural economy to Industrial economy:

Why do Muslims kill people?

The other day my niece asked me "Why do Muslims kill people?".

How to explain it to a 15 year old about how Muslims are come to be and behave they way they do? This is how that dialogue went.

Me: Imagine when you wake up tomorrow morning, your sister reaches out to you and says, hey I gave you 100 bucks last night and you promised to give them back today. Can you please give my money back? You would be like what$ at first, then ask her when and where she gave you 100 bucks. Imagine she tells you that she gave you the money in her dream last night and you promised to give it back in the morning.

What will you do? At first you laugh at her. If she keeps insisting you call her crazy. As you debate with her she starts getting abusive and that’s when you call your parents. Imagine she insists you return the money or she will hurt you and you know she is serious. As time passes and you resist to succumb, your sister gets more and more abusive.

My niece: That's crazy!

Me: May be for you. But your sister sincerely believes that she is right and is throwing rage fits, throwing stuff at you and your parents.

My niece: Perhaps we give her Rs.100 and get over it?

Me: Yes, that is one option. In such scenario she is happy and will calm down for today, but tomorrow is a new day and asks for 200 and the cycle continues.

My niece: If she does this again, I will slap her.

Me: What if she gets increasingly abusive, irrespective of your response for she not only believes that she did give you money in her dream, but also believes that you are always wrong and are born liar?

My niece: I don't know.

Me: This is called Drishti-Srishti vada in Hindu Vedanta. You claim something to be true because you perceived something; be it in awaken state or dream state or schizophrenic state. This is what exactly happened with Islam. Muhammed claimed that Allah spoke to him and only to him all those things in Quran. Unfortunately Allah didn't speak to anyone else to double-confirm what he told Muhammed (this will be un-Islamic by the way). And Muhammed insisted that he is the last guy Allah is ever going to talk to. And Muslims believe that whatever is in Quran is exactly what Allah said to Muhammed.

My niece: How do you know, did you read Quran?

Me: Yes. Never believe anyone. Quran is hardly 500+ page book, smaller than your Harry Potter book. You should read it for yourself.

My niece: What did Muhammed say in Quran?

Me: Muhammed says that only Allah is the God. And Muhammed is his last prophet. The universe is created for Muslims to enjoy in the path of Muhammed and non-Muslims are born sinners and liars. And that it is every Muslim's duty to convert or kill non-Muslims so one day the whole humanity is full of Muslims (who accept Muhammed & Quran) and nothing but Muslims.

My niece: Does Islam tells Muslims to kill others?

Me: Muhammed himself killed and raped women as he spread Islam. He killed children (by our definition). He had slaves. And Quran says everything is fine in the path of converting non-Muslims in to Islam.

My niece: Did Muhammed say to kill children?

Me: Islam says that anyone who entered puberty is an adult and can be raped/killed. That is why they killed those school children in Pakistan recently.

My niece: Wait, why did they kill the children?

Me: Because the parents of those children, Pakistan Army, were bombing/killing those Muslims who want to spread Islam. So the children of Pakistan Army are enemies of Islam and those who achieved puberty are considered as enemies of Islam and were killed.

In fact Muhammed himself has killed children who had pubic hair in Banu Qurayza, an encounter with Jews.

My niece: So even a Muslim who fights against fellow Muslims are enemies of Islam.

Me: Yes, because the ultimate goal of every Muslim is to establish Islam over entire humanity. This is Jihad. In that path any obstacle is considered enemy of Islam and can be killed.

My niece: That means, normal Muslims who don't actively do Islam with others are Bad Muslims.

Me: Unfortunately, yes! If you believe in Islam & don't do your Islamic duty, you aren't a true Muslim. This is like your sister calling your parents who took your side as liars for calling her dream falsehood. Anyone who denies her dream, in this case Islam, are liars, enemies & suitable for killing.

Another interesting point is, the Pakistani Army which appears to be a Moderate Muslim in this scenario itself is guilty of genocide of non-Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh in addition to using Terrorism as a tool to hurt its enemies such as India.

So as far as non-Muslims are concerned, they are enemies of Islam irrespective of how good/bad Muslim you are.

My niece: So Muslims must convert or kill non-Muslims if they want to be true to Muhammed & Quran. But why are we told Muslims are good?

Me: Imagine you start calling your Mom as Daddy! First she will laugh, then she will get irritated and if you continue further she will be upset and shout at you. 

What will your Muslim friend say when you say "Hey Ayisha, you look, talk & behave same as I do. You even dislike Muslim terrorists. You too must be a Hindu inside!".

My niece: I think she will be offended if I call her a Hindu.

Me: Exactly and she would be right in getting upset for being called a Hindu. Its because we are trying to understand them in our image and not as they are. We must understand and recognize Muslims based on Quran & Muhammed, Christians based on Bible and Church/Jesus and so on. We are trying to understand them as Hindus. It is not only inaccurate but also not fair to Muslims. 

Calling things with their right names and characteristics is half wisdom!

Modi's speech at Madison Square Garden!

1.            Modi made a case for India to be the leader of 21st century, not China. For this he put 3-D value proposition (Democracy, Demography (young nation) and Demand). This is a direct hint to American businessmen. This week’s Hong Kong demonstrations proved that China’s democracy is weak; China is getting old (by 2030 – another 15yrs, china will start getting old) and China’s weak internal consumption (its economy is export economy and not consumer economy like India).

2.            Modi is hinting American industries to invest in and work with Indians. He made few points to this effect – Asking Indians to return (this will weaken American companies that depend upon India), Hinting that India will need 2kinds of FDIs (Foreign Direct Investment must First Develop India) and also visa on arrival for Americans. He is kind of saying imagine you have New York and San Francisco offices then add Madurai office also. You can travel to these offices within the day because I am developing smarts cities etc., Imagine what happens if 50% of skilled NRIs return. These will be 1 million (10 Lakhs) high tech jobs which make >$100K (Rs 60 Lakhs) per yr. You are looking at $100Billion (6 Lakh Crores) revenues to India every year.

3.            The key industries Modi is trying to pitch to America are – Tourism (Yoga/Hindu places – there are ~20 million Yoga practitioners in USA – imagine they visit India every year/two yrs. It will be $20+ Billion/120,000 crore tourism industry), Technology and Education. He knows that the biggest problems in realizing this potential is (1) Visa/Governance– Hence Visa on Arrival (2) Cleanliness – Lack of public involvement in cleanliness, hence Swaccha Bharat plan (3) Skilled Human Resources - Hence Education/Skill Development programs (4) Cultural Heritage – Hence “Har Har Gange” Plan (for Yogis) (5) Civic Amenities – Hence Smart cities and so on..

It’s all about bringing the Indian-American (scientist-professional-business) collaboration that worked very well in USA to India. He is going to develop India as Bharat; not some Philippines or South Korea or Malaysia (notice his mention of them developing as someone else).

USA: A Vedic Civilization on Abrahamic Foundations?

US is like a Vedic civilization with Abrahamic foundations. For a moment let's forget how it came to existence & call it a Pralaya for Natives.

What I see is following patterns (again at a large scale) with exceptions...

1. Varna Vyavastha
The intellectual class (whoever opts it) are given all state support needed in their pursuit of knowledge (research funds, labs and what not) but are kept barely above BPL in terms of personal wealth.

The Kshatriya class has strong hold on enforcing this entire Varna-Vyavastha. It also has unquestioned say in the national resources

The Vaisya class is allowed to accumulate wealth and as a tool to extend US interests. But even this so powerful Vaisya class is allowed to be free only as long as the profits flow back home. This class is ruthlessly curtailed if/when they try to build a center outside of core US.

The Sudra class is kept in an extremely well orchestrated bliss of materialistic pleasures. 

2. Individual freedoms - as long as the individual is moving in the prescribed order of Varna/Ashrama Vyavastha the individual is given lot of freedoms be it in terms of right to bear arms, or sex or pursuit of & access to materialistic excesses.

3. Ashrama Vyavastha - the Balya avastha was enforced by forced schooling upto highschool (?). The Brahmacharya (higher education in this society) is made in such a way that by the time an individual comes out of it, he has enough debts (assuming no parental support) that he will remain in debts for rest of life. The whol Grihastha Ashrama is about working for retirement & paying debts of Brahmacharya. The retirement is more of a solitary contemplation in retirement homes with little association with family & society.

4. Environment/animal rights - even here the environment & animal rights are sustained and supported only as long as they do not come in the way of their Abrahamic foundations. Hurting a dog is animal rights but slaughtering of billions of cattle, turkey's etc for food is completely ok. A time magazine report a few months ago reported that all native species have seen a remarkable turnaround and are now in more numbers than they ever were in 200 yrs.

For an Indian (or any immigrant for that matter) the Abrahamic foundations are not visible and are kept away from the highways and malls that the immigrants visit. So the immigrant only sees the Vedic structures and fall for the underlying Abrahamic traps

Geopolitics V2.0

Every empire must end. But the sun setting empire can, and often does, select who will be its successor. We could see this throughout the history.

It is said that Britain identified USA as its successor empire after WW1 and passed on the baton to USA after WW2. Eventhough USA was once a British colony and fought a violent war of independence, the British empire thought USA to be a more 'natural' successor to the empire than say Russia.

Even USA as the sole superpower after Cold War, it started propping up China as its potential successor if chips fall down and we started seeing the G2 scenarios evolved in past decade.

If we the world map we can see two set of groupings, more like compatible civilizations. In the east we have Russia, China, India and Japan. In the west we have USA, Europe, Britain and Canada. The Brazils of South America are same as the Austraila/Newzealand of Asia; at best They are representatives of outside block in the core pool. Canada is to west as Russia as to east; a vast territory with lot of natural resources but very small local populations. 

The melting pot is the ME region and Africa. The colonial hangover (of last two empires - British & USA) is currently holding them in Western control, while their real value proposition is for East. West is trying to harass and delay raise of East by holding on to the two USP's of ME, namely Oil and Islam. 

Given this background, it is not only natural but also desirable that the Asian group makes much needed compromises in their internal dynamics before one of them can take the baton from the west as the next empire. 

The key sore points in this equation are Pakistan, Indo-China border issues, Energy security, China-Japan and Japan-Russia border issues etc., None of the Asian group powers can become the next empire without solving these issues. 

Can China trust India to be a natural successor for it when the time comes? Will China benefit to have India as its successor empire than say Turkey?

What can be done to this end? Following are some suggestions.

- China cuts its relationships with Pakistan and supports India's pursuit to take over PoK. China also gives up its claims on Aksai-Chin. This will severe the Islamic corridor between Pakistan & Xinjiang and distance China from Islamic nuicense.

- Russia and China extend their proposed Oil/Gas pipeline network into Burma/Inda thru Yunnan province. This will be connected to India's own Oil/Gas grid in North-East India.

- India develops a undersea Oil/Gas pipeline from Iran and connects it to the Russia-China grid. 

- This will setup a Oil/Gas network stretching from Iran-India-China-Russia-Japan. This will connect two major suppliers with three major customers. At current rates this is a $500-600B energy grid completely liberating Asia from Western energy politics. India & China can balance each other supply routes by controlling their grids.

- Once cut from their Asian markets the ME islam can be turned to focus on their western frontiers like they did during crusades. Europe & USA will be natural places for Islamist hordes to enjoy the fruits of civilization.

- This will force West to use Pakistan as the spoiler of Asian game. But surrounded by the entire Asian group on all four sides Pakistan will not last more than a week and cease to exist as an western agent.

This will move the frontiers of Asian group to Africa and Australia for the next round of geopolitics.

A quick analysis of Modi Cabinet!

I am grouping the ministers into different groups

Group 1: Seniors, long-time party loyalists., People I wish didn't get into the cabinet, because I think this is a Modi Sarkar and not BJP Sarkar.

1. Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs

2. Arun Jaitley: Defence, Finance, Corporate Affairs

3. M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs

4. DV Sadananda Gowda: Railways

5. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs

6. Prakash Javadekar-Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge)

Group 2: The Dynamites (People who can push Hindutva agenda unapologetically if needed)

1. Uma Bharati: Water Resmy ces, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

Group 3: The Get'it done'ers (Task Masters).. My Dream Team... I want these types in key areas

1. Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

2. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice

3. Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation

Group 4: The Dynamic lot. My Dream Team... The new comers I love... I want the whole cabinet is filled with these

4. Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resmy ce Development

5. Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare

6. Piyush Goyal-Power (Independent Charge),Coal (Independent Charge),New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

7. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman- Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs

8. General V.K. Singh - Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

Group 5: Party poopers (in my highly biased opinion based on Paid Media reports. My sincere apologies to them). I wish they are pushed aside completely.

1. Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs

2. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women and Child Development

3. Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers

Group 6: I don't know them'ers. So I presume (again with bias) they are so..so

1. Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

2. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries

3. Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs

4. Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

5. Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel, Labmy  and Employment

6. Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

7. Shri Inderjit Singh Rao- Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), ]Defence

8. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar- Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resmy ces, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

9. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik- Culture (Independent Charge), Tmy ism (Independent Charge)

10. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

11. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal - Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

12. Dr. Jitendra Singh - Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space

13. Shri G.M. Siddeshwara - Civil Aviation

14. Shri Manoj Sinha - Railways

15. Shri Nihalchand- Chemicals and Fertilizers

16. Shri Upendra Kushwaha - Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation

17. Shri Radhakrishnan P - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

18. Shri Kiren Rijiju - Home Affairs

19. Shri Krishan Pal - Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

20. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan - Agriculture, Food Processing Industries

21. Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava - Tribal Affairs

22. Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

23. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai - Mines, Steel, Labmy  and Employment

24. Shri Sudarshan Bhagat - Social Justice and Empowerment

Group 7: I miss them What happened???

1. Amit Shah

2. Meenakshi Lekhi

3. Nalin Kohli

4. Shaina NC

5. AsmaKhan Pathan etc.,

Group 8: My favorite oldies

1. Subbu Swamy

2. Arun Shmy ie

3. MJ Akbar??

4. Rajiv Malhotra

5. Baba Ramdev

6. Sri Sri Ravi Sankar....

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Adding Modi (he himself is == to 10 cabinet ministers; so the  total Cabinet strength is 50 ), I got 20/50 ministers in my  Dream Team (Groups 3&4 Plus Modi). About 6/50 are BJP Seniors and 24/50 are I-don’t-know them types. Assuming 50% of Group-6 passed Modi's selection process my  Dream team is about 30/50 that is 60% of cabinet.

The Group 1 is important for they ensure the party BJP and its core is in firm control of the political dispensation. These people went thru many ups and downs with the party and developed a long institutional memory. Combined with Group 2 on certain initiatives they can make the yindootva-fundamentalists very happy.

The Group 2 is very much needed for the REAL freedom of Bharat from the triple colonization (Islamic, Christian & Secular). I wish I have two more people in this group but I hope a couple from Group 1 will provide issue-based support to Group 2. This is the group that will make sure that Ram Mandir, A370, UCC etc are not forgotten in my  pursuit of creating wealth, lots of it. Who knows, in right circumstances Group-5 can become martyrs for the right causes.

As I can see majority of Group 6 are from coalition partners, which I need to respect because I want the BJP alliance to do well throughout the country. So I need to live with this 10/50 (the other 50% qualified into my  Dream Team) that 20% of coalition Dharma.

I couldn't find more than 3-4/50 people in Group 5 (Once again this is my highly biased and prejudiced opinion reading the Paid Media. My advanced apologies to them). So this is less than 10% of the cabinet strength. This kind of people can cause harm only when the "Silent Majority" is Secular. Given the fact that I have my  dream team in majority, they will behave like good citizens.

This brings us to the missing names!

I hope Group 7 has been given much larger tasks than I can imagine, hence are kept out of this cabinet.

Personally I hope my favorite Amit Shah joins the team officially. He is the ideal candidate for defense ministry given the challenge-quadrant: (1) External Threats, (2) Force Development, (3) >$100B procurement in next 5 yrs and (4) building MIC from bottom up.

I am a personal fan of many of Group-8 candidates. But I think they, with lots of respect to them, will be failures in a cabinet setting. I think they should be used to educate, convince and change the national perspectives on some larger-than-one-administration issues such as (sic) Secularism, UCC, A370, calling my  nation as Bharat instead of slavish-India etc.,

Overall I will give this cabinet 8/10 marks.

Swasti!