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Minimum Government Maximum Governance – Open debate

With the results of the bye elections in and the BJP doing well in Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, Offstumped is inviting open debate from its community of readers and twitter followers on “Minimum Government Maximum Governance” being a credible Center Right alternative to the UPA’s ostentatious austerity and one-size-fit-all psuedo progressivism.

Will the BJP go to polls in Maharashtra for the upcoming assembly elections with Minimum Government Maximum Governance as its platform ?

Recent tweets on this subject below:

  1. Last but not the least “Minimum Government Maximum Governance” in action http://is.gd/3gpdq from Offstumped archives
  2. More on “Minimum Government Maximum Governance” from INI’s Pragati edition March 2008 http://is.gd/3goYJ
  3. Narendra Modi’s seminal speech in Chennai articulating Minimum Government Maximum Governance is a must read http://is.gd/3goP7
  4. Window of opportunity still exists for Modi to seek moral high ground & steer larger BJP debate rather than leave it to apolitical ideologue
  5. If there is one reassuring angle to bypolls it is that BJP’s lock on Gujarat is secure enuf for Narendra Modi to consider larger issues
  6. Imperatives for the BJP dont change it still needs to settle succession with transparency, break new ground with coherent credible agenda
  7. Why all this excitement over bye-elections, BJP always did in state polls till R’sthan debacle and Delhi defeat
  8. If farmers with even 25 acres of land are signing up for NREGS http://is.gd/3eAL0 it raises troubling questions on who exactly is BPL ?
  9. Lack of coherent & credible political alternative to NREGS is leading to institutionalization of role of Govt as primary employment provider
  10. must be asked how long before the psuedo-progressives in the Congress decide to pass a “Right to Employment” bill universalizing NREGS
  11. Finally a political party bold enough to say it will scrap NREGS will promote rural self enterprise http://is.gd/3eC3Y kudos to Sharad Joshi
  12. Can the BJP ever demonstrate such clarity and certitude to denounce NREGS for destroying self reliance fostering a BPL mindset
  13. Punjab seems to make a start in letting rural Local Government raise its own revenues be self sustaining http://is.gd/3ezBm
  14. Finally someone is paying attention to 2002 BPL Census data http://is.gd/3euCl will the same ministry accept majority dont want entitlements
  15. At the risk of sounding repetitive will say this again there is only one opposite to UPA’s one size fit all centralized psuedo-progressivism
  16. Movement to freedom and autonomy to Local Governance, unless the BJP reinvents itself to herald this move it will be seen as Congress clone
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Filed under: jeetega-bharat, Maharashtra Polls 2009, UPA-II Critical Appraisal

From Agitational Politics to Aspirational Politics

For an overview of the new Big Tent read this. To understand how the new Big Tent will differentiate itself read this and next read this for the 5 big ideas that shall shape the new Big Tent.

In this post, the first big idea – Freedom to the Individual will be developed further.

To best appreciate this let us rewind to 2002 and some hard facts from the Below Poverty Line (BPL) Census of all Rural Households.

The Rural Ministry has an elaborate web based data base for the full Census data with the ability to drill-down by State, District and Block.

Let us take the example of Andhra Pradesh to illustrate the point based on this report from the Indian Institute of Economics.

Table – 5.2 : Preference of Assistance and % ages

1

Wage employment

38,70,537

31.62

2

Self Employment

36,59,237

29.91

3

Training & Skill up gradation

12,01,601

9.82

4

Housing

19,16,590

15.66

5

Loan or Subsidy

15,89,672

12.99

 

Total

1,22,37,637

     100

From the above table it is clear that more rural poor or the “famed aam admi” prefer either Self Employment or new Skills than those who look to the Government for employment.

To be precise nearly 40% of all rural poor in Andhra Pradesh want the freedom to fulfill their aspirations either through self employment or through new skills.

Significantly the number of rural poor who want to depend on the Government for either employment or housing is less than 50% while more than 50% of the rural poor want the freedom to chart their own destiny with some helping hand in the form of subsidized loans.

There in friends lies the fallacy of “Aam Admi” progressive politics practised by the Congress that is blind to this crying need of the Rural.

This trend is not isloated to Andhra, Offstumped had highlighted the same trend in Karnataka back in 2008 in the run up to the assembly elections there.

The tyranny of the politics of entitlement practised by the Progressives is such that not only is it repudiating the aspirations of the Rural Poor it is actually condemning them to a future of dependence on the Government for Wages while creating incentives for otherwise independent households to get classified as BPL to be at the receiving end of the Government’s dole under the guise of NREGA.

It is exactly this Progressive fallacy that must be exposed by the politics of Aspiration that shall be practised within the new Big Tent.

Freedom to the Individual within the protective shield of the White Umbrella shall come to mean liberty for each Indian to pursue his or her aspirations be it to be self employed or to acquire new skills while being unencumbered by the tyranny of the State

Only when the new Big Tent begins to shun agitational politics stuck on greivances to embrace Aspirational Politics that create opportunities will the Shveta Chhatra shall come to symbolize

#1 An Ownership Society

#2 A Culture of Responsibility

#3 The Spirit of Enterprise

More on that and Freedom to the Community in the next post.

Filed under: DesiPundit, jeetega-bharat, Shveta Chhatra

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