Dreaming with Modi 2014-2029

Dear Friends,

I am a part of the silent supporters of PM Modi in this Indian and Indic renaissance. Silent to the extent of just talking on social media and debating with family and friends. I have not done much work beyond that, but have absorbed a lot reading some great emerging Indic intellectuals and warriors. I have learnt from many of you, and have collated the key expectations we collectively have from the NDA-3 Modi Government from 2019-24, building on the good groundwork of NDA-2 in 2014-19.

Many of the following efforts won’t face great judicial/ legislative obstacles from the Lutyen cabal, but require dedicated karyakarta work.

Please note that many of these are not my ideas, but yours – I have just collated them. Some action points related to the NDA government, some to the BJP party and rest to the nationalist ecosystem. 

So, what are our key goals – 2024/ 2029:

1. Vikas/ Development in all spheres – socially and economically

2. Civilizational pride and security

3. Global Super power - economically, militarily and culturally

4. Much better overall and daily experienced governance

All support and feed into each other.

What are the roadblocks:

1. Poverty, corruption, institutional weakness, low social indicators etc.

2. External Inimical nations like China and its colony Pakistan

3. Internal Enemies – MEWD (Maoist, Evangelist, Wahabis, Dynasts) – (if you prefer, you can replace Maoist with Leftist)

The Big Picture

Economy

We are a USD 10 trillion (PPP) and USD 2.7 trillion (nominal) economy with USD 7000 (PPP) and USD 2000 per capita (nominal). We are 3rd largest economy in PPP terms and 5th largest in nominal terms. But around 40% of the 29 crore households are below Rs. 2 lac/ annum income and need urgent help.  

We should be a USD 10 trillion (nominal +-20%) economy with USD 7000 per capita (nominal) by 2030, IF this trend continues/ betters. So, we would be 3rd largest in both PPP and nominal terms, with an upper middle-income economy. We should also have a target that every Indian household should be able to able to earn Rs. 3 lac/ annum as minimum income (in today’s earning power) with own efforts and no doles – the basic Indic standard.

Civilization

We are effectively 70% Hindus in India (yes, 70%* - explained below) – that is after losing 20% of Indian land to Pakistan + Bangladesh – Baluchistan, and some to China. We can assume that only 30% of this Hindu population (20% overall population) understands the Indic challenges to some extent (mostly derived from minimum BJP vote share over the past 15 years).

The challenges here are the MEWDs, global MEWDs (D here stands of global academics and media) and general lack of awareness among 70% of Hindus.   

For civilizational pride and security, we need to ensure that demographically and culturally, we are 80%+ Hindus (ideally go to 84% as per 1951 census) and 85%+ Indic religions – nationally and in most of districts, atleast consecutive districts. Demography is destiny. Conscious efforts are needed further that destiny. We need 2-way secularism.

Geopolitics

We want to emerge as a global superpower. China, with it’s colony Pakistan, are our key roadblocks here. 

Some of the listed action areas are:

(Most feed into other goals but have categorized for ease)

A. Civilizational Pride and Security

1. Have a dedicated team (including cross country 10-20 MPs) with specific responsibility for each

a. Stopping Bangladeshi/ Rohingya/ others infiltration

b. Sending back Bangladeshi/ Rohingya infiltrators (poor job in NDA-2)

c.  Rehabilitating Indic immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan

These can be done irrespective of delay in passing and executing CAB (Citizenship (Amendment) Bill). 

2. Kashmir

a. Preserve what we have – Maintain and enhance Hindu demography in Jammu and Ladakh

b. Observe 19th January nationally as black day for Kashmiri Hindus exodus

c. Complete boycott and punishment to any separatist (Hurriyat wants to live in Pakistan after making Kashmir into Pakistan – why wait, shift to them existing Pakistan) 

d. Abolish Art 370

e. Abolish Art 35A – it is unconstitutional, anti-women, one way and possibly anti Dalit

f. High support to patriotic Kashmiri Muslims – there are many

g. Settle 1 lakh ex armed forces men & 2 lacs (out of 6-7 lacs) Kashmiri Hindus in Kashmir (Remember J&K population is only 1.3 crore – 25% of Punjab and Haryana combined and 5% of UP)

h. Continuous support to Indian people trapped in Gilgit Baltistan

i.  Rebuilding Martand Temple

j.  Amarnath and Mansarovar linkage with rest of India like Char Dham

k.  There have been many Bollywood movies on Kashmiri Muslims and Azaadi, how about a few on Kashmiri Hindus/ exodus.

3.  Completely stopping Wahabi, Evangelist and Maoist funding

As Hindu Charter states, all 'institutional’ foreign-funding must be banned. Only NRIs/OCIs/PIOs however, in their individual capacity, must be free to donate to Indian religious institutions — including that of all minorities.

https://swarajyamag.com/blogs/an-open-letter-to-mohan-bhagwat-chief-of-the-rss

Continue dedicated efforts for upliftment and empowerment of Dalits, Tribals etc.

4.  CAB and NRC

5.  Equality for Hindus in religious and educational institutions
Constitutional amendments to Article 26 – 30 in the now lapsed Dr Satyapal Singh Private Member Bill -  https://swarajyamag.com/blogs/an-open-letter-to-mohan-bhagwat-chief-of-the-rss

Amending RTE would take time and will face a lot of opposition. We should use this opportunity to develop Hindu run schools. Central and state governments should give a large grant and facilities to Hindu run schools to enable them to shoulder the RTE obligation. This way, we can support the Hindu schools to meet the competition.

6. Hindu Temples – usage of funds

Once we free temples from government interference, we should develop a code how temple money should be used. Temples have helped with their assets when India comes under danger and they would be willing to do so now. This should not be government led but by larger Hindu ecosystem (like Dharma Sabha). Some initial thoughts about existing cash/ valuables as well as annual offerings.

a. They should retain 5 years of expenses as cash in hand (Microsoft model)

b. They should use some part of one-time development and regular maintenance

c.  Priest salary should be benchmarked to school teacher salaries

d. They should use money for developing new books, propagating existing books, holding cultural festivals

e. They should open new temples

f.  They should hold Shastrartha by rotation – with popularity of National Science/ Maths competitions

7. Historically, ashrams and schools have played a large role in extending Hindu culture.
We have many old and new Ashrams – from Shakti peeths to Akharas to new ones like Ramakrishna Ashram, Sri Aurobindo Society, Arya Samaj, Art of Living, Patanjali, Mata Amritanandamayi Ashram, Sri Ramana Maharshi Ashram, Chinmaya Mission, Isha Foundation. We should help their expand to each district or consecutive districts. They can focus on their respective activities – some on Ghar wapsi, some on yoga, advancing advaita.

8. Each state (atleast NDA ruled ones) should develop important civilizational cities 
(Ayodhya, Mathura, Haridwar, Ujjain, Prayagraj, Varanasi) – making them important centres again. They should be large, with 20+ lac population, with modern infrastructure. 

9. Declare Ram Sethu as national asset

10. Building and Rebuilding Temples – create civilizational spaces

a. Build Ram Janambhumi Temple – till matter sorted, lets develop Ayodhya into a magnificent city to welcome Lord Ram

b. Build Martand Temple – no exiting structure so less controversial (even Pakistan is talking about building Hindu temples)

c. Complete the Varanasi corridor (excellent work)

d. Start similar project in Krishna Janambhumi in Mathura (to find innovative solutions for the time being)

d. Kedarnath development and Kumbh – excellent work, which should be extended all over India in phases

f. Identify top 100-150 temples/ places of Hindu and Indic civilization and develop them to world class destinations with purity. They should become cultural hubs 

11. Special focus on districts where Hindus/ Indics are less than 70% of population

12. Ghar Wapsi – both of nominal Hindus and converted Hindus
Aim should be to go to 80-85% Hindu population from current 20% and 70% respectively

13. Movies are the biggest medium to popularize our culture. 
Very few people read historic/ cultural books. Sadly, more people know of Bajirao Peshwa from the movie than history books. Half of Bollywood hates us, but other half is with us – plus from Telugu/ Tamil cinema. Some movies that need to be made

a. Indo-Korean movie on Ayodhya princess marrying Korean Prince and starting the royal dynasty of Korea

b. Indian teacher going to China and teaching them Kung Fu

c. Indian King establishing kingdom in Indonesia/ Thailand

d. Movies on Martand Varma, Lachit Borphukan, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Maharaja Lalitaditya

14. Indic Tourism 
Places like Rahigarhi, Lothal, Dwarka (submerged), Shivaji Fort should be converted into tourist worthy places with weekly light and sound shows.

15. Write Indian civilizational books. 
Many new Indic authors are writing many books – which is great from a scholarly angle – but most people don’t read so many books. Can we have an integrated 4 book volume which covers our epics, our history, our economics, our darshanas, our nitis, our interaction with rest of the world and relative position in the globe - with good details. More people should have basic and good understanding of our culture, and people who want greater understanding can read further. 90% of today’s generation don’t know the difference between shruti and smriti, or recite 5 Sanskrit Shlokas. If you ask most people, they would say Ashoka and Akbar were the greatest rulers in India. Maybe, but they should also know about 20 more in reasonable understanding.

16. Translate world and Indian classics and contemporary books into top 20-30 Indian languages 
Indian languages are dying – people can speak them, but ability and willingness to read and write important and contemporary stuff in Indian languages is declining.

17. Yoga, Ayurveda, Sanskrit and Cow – these can be the four pillars of Indian daily life. 
More R&D should be done in these areas.

a. 5 years of Yoga training (integrated with Indian martial arts) should be strongly encouraged in schools. We should target that in 10 years, 30% of all Indian school students have undergone 5 years of this yoga training.

b. Integration of Ayurveda in allopathic medicine system

c. We should aim to teach advanced spoken and written Sanskrit to 1 lac students (ideally from all regions and all Jatis) every year – out of maybe 2 crore students completing schools in a year

d. Develop ecosystem for aged cows in rural areas on PPP model – government builds large cow shelters with bio gas facility (one-time cost), and devotees/ temples/ energy from biogas pays for purchasing them from farmers and their upkeep. 

18. Uniform Civil Code
MEWDs have spread a lot of poison against UCC. Best way is to present a draft UCC – then people will see that its not imposition of Hindu religion. Involve secular muslims like Arif Mohammad Khan and Salim Khan (the film writer).

19. Cultural Council
Like we have Economic Advisory Council and National Security Council reporting to the PM, we should have a Cultural Council reporting to PM. It should have varied people like Dr Kapil Kapoor, Meenakshi Jain, Michel Danino, Subhash Kak etc.

20. English newspaper
We need a new English newspaper. Most of the English newspapers are filled with MEWDs, with limited opinion space for Nationalist perspective (no place in news or editorial). But Republic TV has shown that there is a big space to present a nationalist perspective – which is also well received by the masses (No. 1 channel from very beginning). Swarajya Magazine is showing the same. But we need a mass daily English newspaper – that is what influences top 20% of population and going forward, next 30% of population. With 5 crore dedicated BJP households, we should not have a problem having a circulation of 5-10 lacs (The Hindu has 12 lac and The Indian Express has 5 lac daily circulation). It should be targeted towards IAS aspirants, leading universities and upper middle classes across top 10 cities/ all state capital to start with. 

21. Ecosystem
MEWDs have a full ecosystem developed over the years – politicians, bureaucrats, academia, media, lawyers etc. We need to develop a parallel ecosystem but without falling into the pitfalls of the former. We especially need a system of lawyers who can take Indic causes and take them to fruitification. Many new and young lawyers have come up, but we also need senior and established ones – ministerial positions could be long term objective.  

B. Global Super power - economically, militarily and culturally

1. 10X10X5
We have to digest the bitter truth that we won’t be able to match China in many aspects today and in the near future, especially as it colonizes Pakistan. We need to build better alliances – 10x10X5 strategy – 10x growth in relationship value across 10 nations in 5 years. US, Japan, Australia, France, Vietnam, Israel, Indonesia etc. could be natural allies. This 10x should be a combination of trade flows, investments, cultural and tourist exchange, technologies, defence and other specific areas. The needs and strengths are complementary to a large extent.

2. Russia
We also need to balance Russia so that it becomes neutral between India and China/ Pakistan.

3. Neighbours
We need to have an overly generous 80-20 policy framework towards the neighbouring country - Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, South East Asia. We yield to them in 80% of cases, they to us in only 20% but critical cases (like Bangladesh in taking back Bangladeshi immigrants, Myanmar in China supported terrorists). 

4. China and Pak
Relations with China and Pakistan should be strictly on 50-50 basis – Don’t trust, keep verifying.

5. Responsive policies
Balakot, Surgical strikes and Doklam showed that we are willing to give appropriate response to Pakistan’s terrorism and Chinese hegemony. These are institutional response. What about non institutional ones? One of the key failures of Kandahar blackmail was not that we released the terrorists under pressure, but that we did make it our life’s mission to eliminate them after the event where they be on the earth. (US/ Israel approach). The same continues with Dawood Ibrahim and Hafiz Saeed. 

6. NSS
Evolving a National Security Strategy (NSS) and publicly making available the unclassified part of it.

https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/modi-bjp-return-with-historical-majority-need-to-build-stronger-military

7. Replicate the Brass Tacks series of exercises 1987 involving the entire Central Government. Conduct at least two national exercises to bring awareness and preparedness where it should exist.

8. Restructuring of ‘Ministry of Defence’ 
Effectiveness of HQ Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) - pass a legislation making all aspects of integration and joint functioning a legal necessity. This should include the entry of uniformed officers into the MoD too.

9. Faultlines of enemies
Regular Interaction and systematic support to Baluchistan, Sindh and Tibet freedom fighters.

10. Cutting Edge technologies
Formation of a cross-functional technocrat team and regular benchmarking of India with US, China, Japan, Israel etc. on crucial emerging technologies - Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3D printing, Internet of Things (loT), 3D printing augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Solar Power, Electric Vehicles.

C. Development in all spheres – socially and economically

1. Poverty elimination

The overall structure of Indian population is that the top 20% of 29 crore households are doing well in absolute and relative terms. The next 40% have started doing well with trickle down effect. It is the bottom 40% (especially the bottom 10%) which require urgent help. While the government is doing its part, I believe that voluntary and targeted philanthropy by the top 20% towards the bottom 40% can accelerate the process. This innovation would mean that one rich family helping two poor families on an average over the course of 3-4 years. The focus should be on income generating asset creation (land on lease/ buying cattles/ buying machines etc) for the bottom 40% population. Here, facilities like Jan Dhan accounts can go a long way. 

2. Urbanization
If India has to move from 40% urbanization to 75% urbanization over the next 25 years, the work for that has to start now. We need to identify 200 top cities (mostly current cities, with hopefully some new cities) in India which will support bulk of urban population. Should historically important cities like Ayodhya and Ujjain have just 5-6 lakh population?

3. Tourism
We need a great emphasis on tourism. That is needed for economic development, upgraded cultural exchanges as well as projecting global strength. We need to work from the basics – cleanliness, air connectivity to smaller tourist places, much better budget hotels, marketing around the globe. India should have multiple (atleast 5) top class places for skiing, white water rafting, surfing etc. with international tournaments.

4. Revenues
Over and above our budget spending, we need 4-5 lac crore of additional revenues a year – 1 lac crore in education, 1 lac crore in health, 1 lac crore in defense capex, and 1 lac crore in debt repayment. So, we need to privatize much more – from 1 lac crore a year to 3-4 lac crores. We can publicly state that all this money will go towards education and healthcare investments.

5. PSU financial system
Merge more PSU banks. Banks Board Bureau seemed like a good initiative, but to my limited knowledge, it did not work.

6. Agriculture 
We have been struck at 50% irrigation level for a long time. Like the government has specified goals in many areas, it should also state a specific goal – 75% irrigation by 2025 – with focus on micro irrigation and small ponds irrigation. We should aim at becoming an agriculture export superpower. 

7. Import Substitution 
Unlike theorist, import substitution could have a specific role. Besides economics, it should be viewed from geopolitics, security, technology and job creation viewpoint.

a.  To prevent supply dominance by an adversarial government (China in pharmaceutical APIs/ electronics)

b.  Future mass scale/ important technologies (Electronic vehicles, solar energy)

c.  High employment industries

d.  Inter linkage industries (Healthier Steel industry solving PSU bank problems)

So limited time, slowly moderating tariffs should be continued.

8. Employment
We need to shift atleast 25-50% of farmers to manufacturing/ services. Have many mid-scale industries (500-1000 crore revenue) in suitable aspirational districts/ Eastern part of India.   

9. Energy
Have an integrated energy policy with following constraints

a. Per capita energy consumption of say 2000 kWHa

b. Cost effective

c. High share of Renewables and gas/methane and less of Petrol/ Coal

d. Majority of ecosystem within India or Indian control – including batteries/ panels etc.

10. Infrastructure 
Already outlined by the government.

D. Much better overall and daily governance

1. Fast track the corruption cases against the key thieves of UPA.

2. Have a much better and qualified ministry with addition of specialists and technocrats.

3. Have a battery of experienced lawyers who can take on the cabal of Congress ecosystem in judiciary.

4. Judicial and police reforms are areas where little has been achieved – but lots needs to be achieved.

5. Technology usage in many areas of government – citizen interaction has helped a lot.

6. Periodic media interaction of the Prime Minister (he can choose the format/ newspeople) with daily media briefing by government.

7. Accountability
If BJP has to replace so many MPs and MLAs in each election, it shows that there is a big problem of governance. Ask any die-hard BJP supporter, and he will curse local BJP municipal person, at par with other parties. We need to have definite KRAs from MPs and MLAs etc. General people are less interested in attendance and how many questions you asked in assembly, although they can be also important. These KRAs could be - 

- Amount of time spent in constituency

- Actual spending of MPLAD funds (select projects which you can get finished)

- Identify Top 20 tasks at the beginning of their term for their constituency and how many they finished

- Specific common national goals – cleanliness, green coverage, water table, cultural activities from above.

8. Succession Planning
People did not vote for a particular MP or even the party but for Modi ji. Modi ji will be 73 in 2024 – will the age limit apply to him? We would want him to continue atleast till 2029. But we have seen that a lot of Indian kingdoms collapsed as the king continued in throne till very late age. So he should think of succession planning in a couple of years from now.

* India started with 84% nominally Hindu population. Today, that number is 70%. Let me state how – it was 79% in 2011 census. It has been reducing by 1% every decade so we come to 78%. As per global Christian sites, India has 5% Christian population, not 2% as they don’t respond correctly in census to continue to avail benefits. So, we come to 75%. AITC, SP, CPM, DMK and AAP together got 12-13% vote share in 2014 elections. Assuming 70% of them were nominally Hindus, 40-50% of these are deracinated and effectively anti Hindus. So that reduces Hindus by another 4-5%. So Hindus are effectively 70% of Indian population, and that too divided on caste and linguistic lines. Though that means of 50% of Hindus have voted for BJP in 2014 and 2019 elections – a good consolidation.