Remember Me?

Its October 2^nd, as we know it is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, a non-violent leader whom we call as our “Father of The Nation”. But today I am going to talk about a person, whom we have forgotten in present era. I am talking about “Lal Bahadur Shastri” second Prime Minister of India. One of the most honest PM of our nation, son of farmer and a very humble person. He shared the birth date with Gandhi, and that’s why I think people don’t remember his birthday, because they are too busy in celebrating Gandhi ji’s birthday.

Shastri ji was born on 2 October, 1904 in Ram agar in Varanasi in Kayastha Family. Shastri ji didn’t believe in caste discrimination, dropped his title. Later, when he graduated at Kashi Vidyapeeth, he was given the title of Shashtri. He was a strong believer of Gandhi ji but very few of us know that he was influenced by Lokmanya Tilak in his early days.  In 1921, when Mahatma Gandhi call for youth to come out of schools and colleges and join the Non-Cooperation movement, Shashtri paid heed to that call. This also marked Shashtri’s first move towards India’s freedom.

Lal Bahadur Shastri went to jail as early as when he was 17-years-old. Jailed for his participation in non-cooperation movement, Shastri was later let-off as he was only 17 (minor) then. In 1930, during the Civil Disobedience Movement Lal Bahadur Shastri was again jailed for his participation in it. This time Shastri served a jail-term of two and half years. Shastri learned about western philosophers and social reformers during his jail-term. Lal Bahadur Shastri was also arrested in 1940, and 1941 till 1946. The fact will surprise you a bit that Shastri spent almost nine years in jail in total during India’s Independence activism.

Shastri ji was the person who starts the appointment of woman conductors in the transport facilities; also it was him who ordered using jets of waters instead of lathis to disperse the crowd when he was minister of police department.

“Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”

It is also very well known that after Nehru’s death, Indira Gandhi was offered as PM’s post but she refused it and after that Shastri ji was offered as PM post. It was he who made a committee regarding prevention of corruption, Shastri ji was a short man but his will power and his determination was bigger than his heights.

In the war of 1965 he was the leader who led from the front and gave a free hand to the Indian army that time, Shastri ji was expired on 11 January 1966, he suffered cardiac arrest, but his death is still a mystery.

In today’s world, when we see moral and ethical life of political leaders and parties reaching to a new low, it is surprising to observe that our past had given us great leaders who stood the test of time with integrity, conviction and clarity. Shastri ji was one such a character!

The NaMO Story- Part1

Okay! How should I start this article, I really don’t know, my way may not be appropriate, or you may say I could do better. On 17^th, our Prime minister has completed 64 years of his life. A person who belongs to a poor backward family, who spent his so many days selling tea in railway coaches. A person who worked really hard and cashed every opportunity whichever he got. Right now he’s PM of our nation and perhaps the most popular leader of the present era. He was CM for 13 years of Gujarat, a state which was in debt up to 2001 and right now which is the most prosperous state of our nation.

As I told you he belongs to a poor family, his father use to sell tea at Vadnagar railway station, when he (Modi) was 12 years old he use to help his father in the lunch time. He was an all rounder student in his school, excellent in studies, a good orator, and a good actor. He use to represent his school in many district level declamation competitions. He left his home at the age of 17 years, making a prophecy right by a saint that he will be a politician or he will be a saint in his lifetime. He returned to his home at the age of 19 again. He was associated with Rastriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) since his school time, RSS gave him discipline, punctuality for his lifetime and he got the feeling of patriotism from there. Narendra Modi has a big impact of Swami Vivekananda on his life; Modi ji considers Swami Vivekananda as his role model. He believes in “Karma Yoga”, “Karma yoga” teaches the role of work/karma in the life of man, it also teaches the non necessity to think about the result of any work.

Being a Gujarati he knows how to do business with things, even with those things which are useless. I have read many examples on internet and told by many Guajarati’s that he knows how to do the things. Since October 2013, I am observing him and his moves very closely, and from my experience I can assure NaMo will change the perspective of our nation towards the world. His focus is only and only on development. Job-creation, inflation is on his main agenda.

“Saugandh Mujhe Is Mitti Ki Main Desh Nahi Mitne Doonga”

It’s been 120 days since he sworn in as 16^th PM of our nation. He is doing his work with complete dedication. I hope his hard work and will power, will pay him. I hope our economy will revive and inflation, unemployment will disappear as soon as possible. He is trying to end the barriers between various departments of our system such as environment, aviation, road etc. He got a warm welcome in Japan, which is going to invest in bullet train corridor from Mumbai to Ahmadabad. Japan is a developed nation and that nation is going to invest more in our economy, which will be a big boost in our nation.

It’s a series about NaMo, and his moves. I hope you enjoyed it reading. Visit for more!

RESERVATION SYSTEM OF INDIA!

Today I want to talk about a cancer of our system – Reservation. Reservation, I am not talking about railway reservation but I am talking about reservation in education and Government jobs. Today every youth of this country wants a Government job and a seat in Government College, but it’s a dream for most of the candidates. But what is reservation? It is actually leaving aside a certain number of seats in government institutions for members of backward communities. It is actually helping some candidates of a community and making fun of rest of the candidates.

When I gave my first AIEEE exam in 2009 I scored 82 marks that time, I had a friend(SC) who got 48 marks, I won’t say I was more deserving or more eligible for that but after the result, He got a seat in Govt. Engineering college and I didn’t. It is the story of almost every deserving student in our country. Today this scheme (reservation) is creating a social division or social drift; people who are getting benefits from this system are often not liked by other people who think that they also deserves good opportunities.

It was first introduced by Mandal commission, by reasoning that a group (SC/ST/OBC) in Indian society is always disheartened by higher group/community (General) in India. Even founder of Indian constitution Dr. B.R.Ambedkar was against this, he said “If reservation is given we should give this to the poor people, not to some categories”. Which was correct, but Ex-prime minister V.P. Singh introduced it and , when he lost the power it was abolished by other government. But congress introduced it again in 2004 and since then it is pain for majority of candidates.

I am not against reservation but not on the basis of caste base but on the base of someone’s economic conditions. A tea-vendor’s, vegetable seller’s, tailor’s barber’s, labour’s etc. children deserves to be in good government college but it’s a dream for them. While majority of people who are in SC/ST group and who have good economic condition gets unnecessary benefits due to this system. I hope current NDA govt. Will change this injustice with most of the students, hope this system will end and every candidate could dream of a government job. Well this scheme should not be used by NDA as politics tool which congress always did. Congress always planned to give reservation to Muslim community which was never accepted by Supreme Court of India. If they were successful to imply this I am sure this would be a major reason for communal tension in our country. Give reservation but only in the condition of economy, not on the basis of caste, creed and religion. At last, I am again requesting our Govt. To change the parameters of reservation as soon as possible so that talented candidates could help in nation’s growth.