A sneak peak into General Election 2014. Narendra Modi vs Rahul Gandhi BJP vs Congress Why Narendra Modi would win General Election 2014 ?

1. By
Aaroosh Jain
Abhishek Verma
Amarpreet Singh
Anmol Basra

2. INTRODUCTION
• One is a former tea boy, the other a Harvard and
Cambridge-educated scion of India's biggest political
dynasty. In a country of contrasts, the national elections
starting April 7 will be a battle of backgrounds.
• From one of India's "backward castes," the 63-year-old
Modi grew up in a dusty village in western Gujarat state
where electricity was scarce and his father's tea stall
earnings bought few luxuries.
• His main opponent from the left-leaning Congress party,
in power for a decade, is 43-year-old Rahul Gandhi who
was raised in leafy New Delhi surrounded by the trappings
of power.

3. Contd..
• His main opponent from the left-leaning Congress party,
in power for a decade, is 43-year-old Rahul Gandhi who
was raised in leafy New Delhi surrounded by the trappings
of power.
• Gandhi's father, grandmother and great-grandfather were
all prime ministers, while his Italian-born mother now
runs the Congress party, which faces widespread voter
discontent over corruption and weak economic growth.
• Modi, who worked his way up through grassroots Hindu
groups and makes no effort to disguise his contempt for
the Gandhi's, derides his younger opponent as "shehzada"
(prince) and has mocked his lack of experience in office.

4. FOR & AGAINST !!
WE VOTE
FOR
NARENDRA MODI
AS OUR NEXT PRIME MINISTER.

5. NARENDRA DAMODARDAS MODI
• Born on September -- 17, 1950 Small district of Gujarat, Vadnagar.
• He was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi.
• An Indian politician who has been the 14th Chief Minister of the state
of Gujarat since 2001. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) and is the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP-
led National Democratic Alliance for the upcoming 2014 Indian general
elections.
• Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and 1998
Gujarat state election campaigns, as well as a major campaign figure in
the 2009 general elections won by the Indian National Congress.
• He first became chief minister of Gujarat in October 2001, being
promoted to the office upon the resignation of his
predecessor, Keshubhai Patel, following the defeat of BJP in by-
elections.

6. Contd..
• In July 2007, he became the longest-serving Chief Minister in
Gujarat's history when he had been in power for 2,063 days
continuously. He is currently in his fourth consecutive term as
Chief Minister.
• Modi is a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
and is described as a Hindu nationalist by media, scholars and
himself.[ He is a controversial figure both within India and
internationally.[ His administration has been severely criticized
for the incidents surrounding the 2002 Gujarat violence.
• He has been praised for his economic policies which are
credited with creating the environment for the high rate of
economic growth in Gujarat. However, his administration has
also been criticized for failing to make a significant positive
impact upon the human development of the state.

7. POLITICAL CAREER TIMELINE
 1987: Modi joins the BJP as the seven-year-old party
becomes more popular and taps into the growth of Hindu
nationalism across India. The party wins a majority in
Gujarat in 1995, and Modi rises quickly up the ranks.
 2001: Modi gets his big break when Keshubhai Patel, the
former chief minister of Gujarat, is forced to step down in
the fallout from the January earthquake that killed
around 20,000 people. He is selected as Patel's
replacement and remained in power ever since, becoming
Gujarat's longest-serving chief minister.

8. Contd..
 2002: On 27 February, riots break out after over 50 Hindu
pilgrims die in a train fire in the town of Godhra. Between
1,000 to 2,000 people, mainly Muslims, are killed in the riots,
and Modi, as chief minister, is accused by his critics of not
doing enough to stem the riots and even quietly encouraging
them - allegations he has strongly denied and which have
never been proved.
 2008: In October, Modi persuades Tata Motors to move its
factory to build its ultra-low cost Nano car to Gujarat from
West Bengal after protests from farmers over land
compensation, a sign of his business-friendly approach to
politics. Gujarat today is one of India's wealthiest states and
Modi's supporters credit him for bringing uninterrupted power
supplies, smooth roads and a flood of investment to the state.

9. Contd..
 2012: On 31 August, Modi addresses a number of topics
during an online web cam chat which draws questions
from around India and across the world. Viewed as a
media-savvy politician, the 62-year-old is also an
avid Twitter user with more than a million followers.
 On 20 December, Modi wins a fourth successive term as
the chief minister of Gujarat, with his BJP party winning
115 of the state legislative assembly's 182 seats against 61
for the Congress party.
 2013: On 9 June, Modi is chosen to head the BJP's
campaign for the general elections due by May 2014, a
position that would eventually make him the party's
candidate for Prime Minister.

10. ACHIEVEMENTS
 Modi's government has worked to brand Gujarat as a state of
dynamic development and economic growth and prosperity,
using the slogan "Vibrant Gujarat".
 Narendra Modi has consistently been awarded as best
administrator by different private organisations from all over
the world
 To attract foreign investment in Gujarat during his time as
chief minister, Modi has made visits to countries such as
China, Singapore, UK and Japan.
 Modi’s GIFT(Gujarat International Finance Tech-City): Built on
986 acres the GIFT project is setting a benchmark for the
whole world about how one can deliver financial services,
technological security, real time operations, multiple activities
etc from a single place, at the same time.

11. Contd..
Gujarat holds many records in India in terms of
economic development :-
• 20% of S&P companies have offices in Gujarat.
• 25% of India’s GDP belongs to Gujarat.
• 20% of India’s Industrial Output.
• 9% of India’s Mineral Production.
• 22% of India’s exports.
• 24% of India’s textile production.
• 35% of India’s pharmaceutical products.
• 51% of India’s petrochemical production.

12. NAMO 2014: MODI WAVE
In three opinion polls conducted by news agencies
and magazines, Narendra Modi was declared the
preferred choice for the post as Prime Minister in the
forthcoming parliamentary elections.
 In September 2013, Nielsen and The Economic
Times published results of a poll of 100 Indian
corporate leaders - 74 of them wanted Modi to be the
next prime-minister, compared to 7 whose preference
was Rahul Gandhi.
Economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind
Panagariya stated "We are impressed by Modi's
economics." Spiritual leaders Ramdev and Morari
Bapu have supported Modi's Prime Ministerial
candidacy. Modi will be contesting from Varanasi Lok
Sabha constituency in the election.

13. Contd..
 Modi uses social media very effectively, tweeting
extensively and has more than 2.2 million followers
on Twitter.
 As things stand today, it seems that the decision of
BJP to declare Modi as the Prime Ministerial
candidate is paying the party rich dividends with
the individual popularity of Modi playing the
pivotal factor for galvanising votes for BJP.

15. RAHUL GANDHI
Rahul Gandhi born on 19 June 1970 is the Vice
President of the Indian National Congress party and
the Chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress and
the National Students Union of India.
Gandhi served as a General Secretary in the All India
Congress Committee and represents Amethi as
its Member of Parliament (MP).
 He is the second-ranked member of the Congress
Working Committee.

16. BACKGROUND
 Gandhi comes from the politically influential Nehru–Gandhi
family.
 His late father, Rajiv Gandhi, had served as the Prime Minister
of India and had been President of the Congress Party.
 His mother Sonia Gandhi is currently serving as President of
the Congress.
 He grew up in New Delhi, where his grandmother Indira
Gandhi, was serving as Prime Minister until her assassination in
1984. His father was likewise assassinated in 1991.
 Due to security concerns, Gandhi constantly had to shift
schools in his youth. He studied abroad under a pseudonym,
his identity being known only to a select few including
university officials and security agencies.

17. POLITICAL CAREER
 Rahul Gandhi’s entrée in politics had been initiated
in the May 2004 Lok Sabha elections, when he had
contested from his father Rajiv Gandhi's former
constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
 The seat was originally held by his mother Sonia
Gandhi, who had shifted to the adjacent
constituency of Rae Bareilly.
 The condition of the Congress party in Uttar
Pradesh had been deplorable then, covering only a
meagre 10 out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats.

18. Contd..
 The move had come as a big surprise for the
political analysts, who had always speculated the
charismatic sister, Priyanka, as the inevitable choice
to the political heirloom.
 The general feeling of the rank and regime of the
Congress party had been that, the youthful face of
the youngest Gandhi generation might be
instrumental in the restitution of the Party’s
popularity amongst the youths of the country.
 Rahul Gandhi had emerged as a winner, marked by
a landslide victory.

19. Contd..
 However, till 2006 he had held no important
portfolio.
 Other important political roles of Rahul Gandhi
worth mentioning had been the joint campaign
with his sister Priyanka Gandhi, for Sonia Gandhi’s
re-election in Rae Bareilly in 2006.
 He had also featured in the Congress campaigns for
the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Following this, Rahul Gandhi was appointed as the
General Secretary for the All India Congress in
September 2007.

20. YOUTH POLITICS
 In September 2007 when he was appointed general
secretary in charge of the Indian Youth
Congress (IYC) and the National Students Union of
India (NSUI), Rahul Gandhi promised to reform
youth politics.
 In his attempt to prove himself thus, in November
2008 Rahul Gandhi held interviews at his 12,
Tughlak Lane residence in New Delhi to handpick at
least 40 people who will make up the think-tank of
the Indian Youth Congress (IYC), an organisation
that he has been keen to transform since he was
appointed general secretary in September 2007.

21. Contd...
 Under Rahul Gandhi, IYC and NSUI has seen a
increase in members.
 The Indian Express wrote in 2011, "Three years
later, as another organisational reshuffle is in the
offing, Rahul's dream remains unrealised with party
veterans manipulating internal elections in the
Youth Congress and a host of people with
questionable background gaining entry into it."

22. CRITICISM
 RAHUL GANDHI was vested with the simultaneous
charges of the National Youth Congress and the
National Students Union of India in 2008.
 In January 2013 he was coroneted as the Vice
President of the Congress Party, a post only second
to the Party President and his mother Sonia Gandhi.
 This, in brief, is the political career of Rahul Gandhi,
from which it is evident that he had earned nothing
in his political career.

23. Contd..
What are the qualities India needs in a PM? Here is
one list, and Rahul does not pass any test.
 First, is he responsible? Does he take ownership of anything
beyond his claim to the big chair? A leader has to take
responsibility for anything he does directly, and constructive
blame for things that go wrong.
 Has Rahul shown any such inclination? In 2009, Manmohan
Singh asked him to join the cabinet. Rahul evaded the
responsibility. Singh’s government has done many things to
help his politics, but Rahul and Sonia have been quick to
claim credit only for the things that went right (NREGA, farm
loan waivers, et al).

24. Contd..
 There’s no Rahul articulating an economic vision on
how to get resources to the poor without busting the
budget.
 Second, a leader must have some experience handling
something. Nehru was in politics for years before he
became PM. Indira Gandhi was a minister in Lal
Bahadur Shastri’s cabinet before she became PM. Even
Rajiv Gandhi, for all his political inexperience, was an
Indian Airlines pilot before he inherited his mother’s
job. But Rahul? Has he held any job in his life? Why did
he decline Manmohan Singh’s offer of a ministerial
berth when it was offered?

25. Contd..
 Was it to evade responsibility? It is all right to hide behind
the fig leaf that he is working for the party, but could he not
have held a real job as well? Why couldn’t he have worked
for the party and government, as many ministers do? Most
senior ministers do ministry work as well as handle party
affairs in some states.
 Lastly, Rahul Gandhi does not even demonstrate the will to
rule. From Motilal Nehru to Jawaharlal to Indira Gandhi, all
of them demonstrated a firm resolve to lead this country by
stamping their own views on it.

26. Contd..
Even Rajiv Gandhi, despite his distaste for politics,
accepted reality when his mother was assassinated
and decided to show the party who he was. He led
from the front – at least for a while. Rahul Gandhi
has shown no will to rule. If he is not keen on taking
up the job, he has not said so. If he is keen, he has
yet to show it by responsible action. From all
accounts, Rahul Gandhi has not demonstrated any
pluses – beyond being a member of the dynasty –
to tell us that he is ready to lead this country.

27. CONCLUSION
 Being the Prime Minister of a country is an
incredibly difficult task, not only the final
responsibility of the nation rests on the Prime
Minister’s shoulder, he is answerable to the
population of the nation for any untoward action
and he also becomes the chief representative of the
country in the global perspective.
 The only factor that goes in the favour of Rahul
Gandhi’s Prime Ministerial candidature is his breed,
his lineage or his title, whatever one decides to dub
it.

28. As far as I know, the breed
factor works well in
choosing primates, but
definitely such factor
cannot cut out a world
class leader for a nation.
Everybody knows Rahul
Gandhi as the pampered
son of Congress President
Sonia Gandhi, but nobody
has any clue as to what
he can do for the
betterment of the country
if he is chosen as the
leader.

29. CONCLUSION
• A Roger Federer is a great tennis player, but the legend is enhanced
because of his battles with a Nadal; a Tendulkar's true genius was tested
in his contests with a Mcgrath. What is true of sports is certainly true of
politics.
• The contrast between the Congress's dimpled 'Prince' and the BJP's
macho Pracharak is too striking to be ignored. One is a child of privilege,
blessed with the most enduring brand name in Indian politics. The other
is a child of hardship whose father was not even a sarpanch. The BJP
likes to present the contrast as 'dynasty versus meritocracy'; the
Congress would like to project it as a secular versus communal divide.
• Modi is the great communicator; Rahul appears uncomfortable in large
public gatherings. Modi wears the badge of CEO-style governance as his
calling card with panache; the other talks of reforming 'systems' but has
no ministerial experience. One is celebrated as an icon for a 'neo-middle
class'; the other claims to represent the aspirations of a young India
beyond the bright lights. Clearly, in a presidential style race, Modi is a
delicious prospect which is guaranteed to attract eyeballs.