The author of The Rise of NaMo and New India, Mr Ramesh Chandra Tiwari, has prefaced the book with a marvellous piece of writing that unravels the mysteries of politics with no holds barred. In a poem, he invokes divine guidance on writing about a great person before he starts the first part of the book, in which he gives a detailed account of how the people of India greeted Sri Nrendra Modi as a Prime Ministerial candidate in 2013, how they were excited to receive him as their national leader and how BJP swept to victory in 2014 and in 2019 as well.
The second part of the book consists of about forty poems and a few commentaries on Covid 19, the ceremony to lay the foundation stone of Ram Janm Bhoomi, the Sino-India border conflict, the national education policy 2020 and agricultural reforms 2020. The first poem is a brief biography of PM Narendra Modi, then a series of poems that describe his love for the country and loyalty towards it, his leadership abilities and his boundless enthusiasm to make the country self-reliant. A few poems feature his schemes and the historical laws introduced and reformed by his government, like welfare programmes, Clean India Movement, development of social, economic and transport infrastructure, surgical strikes, revocation of Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir geographical reorganization, law against triple talaq, ten percent reservation to lower general class And Jammu, Kashmir amended reservation and Citizenship Amendment Act. There are poems that commemorate a few great leaders like, Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Atal Bihari Bajpai and DR APJ Abdul Kalam.
According to the book Shri Narendra Modi proclaimed India to be integrated, free of divisive politics and free of illegal immigrants. He promised to develop a caterpillar into a butterfly i. e. all-round development of the country and to deal with sensitive and complex issues. The opposition reacted by saying that what he declared were the impossible things. But when he finally succeeded fulfilling his prophecies, the defeated parties are alarmed and started struggling for their existence. The book maintains that one’s nationality is one’s identity and not one’s family, caste, race, religion or faith etc. Your nation is your root; without it you are an alien on the earth. So do not damage your country by laying your loyalties with any foreign community. The book affirms that it is for the first time that China felt a shock which the Modi government has recently given to it in terms of trade, border security, development of infrastructure along LAC and relationship with both Asian and Western countries and that the light of the honest governance has spread across the world, winning the hearts of not only the people of Jammu and Kashmir but also of the people of Pak-occupied Kashmir, who now welcome the Modi government.
The author warns the government of the population explosion and suggests that any deed of corruption is the deed done against the interests of the people, though appreciating the efforts of the Modi government in rooting out corruption. He opines that a true leader is he who knows the right way and can lead the society or the country to where all may live a more comfortable and peaceful life. So unlike most premiers PM Narendra Modi takes innovative decisions – all in the interest of the people only and never in his own interest. When the people of some other country compare their heads with him, they wish they had a PM/President like him. In short, The Rise of NaMo and New India is a wonderful book on politics that charts India’s seven year history of Modi rule and has an analytic approach to political conundrum.
