Year 1980, Bharatiya Janata Party’s first president, Bharat Ratna Atal
Bihari Vajpayee thundered the prophetic and magnetic words, “Andhera Chhatega,
Sooraj Niklega, Kamal Khilega”
Year 1984, post Indira Gandhi assassination, Rajiv romped home with over
400 seats in the Lok Sabha; BJP opens account with 2 - Dr. AK Patel from
Mehsana, Gujarat and Chandupatla Ranga Reddy from Hanamkonda, AP; both get
mocked by the ruling dispensation on the floor of the house, “Hum do Humare
do”.
The early 1990s, the immortal Raam Mandir movement reaches an emotional
crescendo and BJP crosses 100 LS seats for the first time; the late 1990s saw
Atal-ji being sworn in multiple times as the PM eventually managing to lead a
coalition government into the new millennium.
The mid-2000s saw the fall of the Vajpayee government in spite of
improved economic parameters, tremendous scientific & infrastructural
progress (who can forget Pokhran and National Highway expansions?) as the
Congress Ecosystem managed to best the gentle giant; Narendra Modi is watching
and learning – noting down the mistakes that should not be repeated.
Year 2014, the culmination of the wishes of a great and ancient nation
coupled with the pain of the dark decade – Narendra Modi becomes the 2nd
BJP leader to take charge as the Prime Minister of India with a thumping
single-party majority; by year 2017, the party is ruling 71% of the land mass
and 69% of the population.
Year 2019, Narendra Modi does an encore crossing the most coveted and
cherished triple-century Bhaarat celebrated immediately followed by the
fulfillment of two long standing manifesto promises – abrogation of article 370
and the commencement of a King’s return to his Kingdom of Ayodhya!
Cut to today with the following image circulated in social and mainstream
media with hysteric glee and unsavoury captions:
