Merry Christmas everyone.
Today we have birthday of India's former PM, Atal Bihari Vajpayi ji who commands huge respect in India and called as the statesman. While hearing about this news discussion on it, one commentator on one channel said, compared to ABV, Modi is much better leader.
Can we have a healthy comparison of one of the two tallest leader India has seen in terms of their
1. Economy
2. Social sector policies
3. Foreign Relations
4. Security challenges
5. Other imp sector
Some people often compare who is better leader? Please share your opinion like gentleman.
Mods please deletw thread if it distorts discussions in some way.
Comments
But a very interesting topic this.
Post Kargil integrated defence staff was setup for unification and coordination in action within the three wings of defence - massive coordinational bungling in the initial stages of op vijay.
Even NSA was created by ABV. There are also rumours that ABV began re-developing the assets and infra in Pakistan that Gujral had dismantled earlier (grapevine)
He pushed infra by PMGSY, golden quad and also mooted river interlinking and dredging for waterways
Even in edu sector he amended constitution for 21a and started SSA.
He also started SEZs and dedicated industrial clusters. Also privatization like you said strategic disinvestment.
He worked through Pak problem (which was neglected in Gujral doctrine) and twice tried to offer genuine peace and also made Kashmir a party to the tri-alogue. But I think he declared tibet as China territory but they did not return the favour with Sikkim. (With my very shallow knowledge I feel that China has managed to fool each of our PMs except Indira to some extent)
Pokhran!!! And within 2 years persuaded Bill to come to India and thus paved way for MMS-Bush 123.
Narsimha Rao formally began ties with Israel but ABV took them forward in a big way... in a covert way of course.
Transparency - the precursor to RTI law (i forget the name) and also started live telecast of LS proceedings on DD.
Too early to comment on Modi. Maybe our kids... sorry my nephews and your kids... will debate on some forum reg Modi.
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Service tax was there since 1994 but nominally ABV was the first PM to give service tax and service sector its rightful importance. The service sector and tax grew by leaps & bounds since 2000. He made huge reforms to this sector.
NREGA failed to win him a re-election but was a good idea.
National calamity contingency fund which later became NDRF.
Infra revolution.
Failed on pak. If Israel hadn't helped we'd have lost kargil. Attack on parliament had no retaliation from our side
Failed to bring agricultural revolution.
Modi on the other hand has dealt sternly with pak (Full points here)
His main focus has been agriculture and environment. In gujrat he encouraged farmers to shift more towards cash crops. Soil health card was his brainchild. We'll see how his green highways, irrigation, efficient irrigation and power saving schemes turn out in the next 2 years. Agricultural revolution is the only way to bring industrial revolution.
Corruption has actually come down from the previous regimes you can see the changes in spending habits of your friends in various govt departments.
UID linked accounts for all has some scope in future.
Digital transaction through Rupay at PDS outlets can end corruption once and for all.
Seems to be on the right track with rail and power sector reforms.
Eagerly waiting for the Talgo coaches.
Taxmen are working overtime. Disputes are being cleared up. Work in Govt offices has improved.
The govt officers still harass public and there is no mechanism for effective and quick grievance redressal. Tried the online portal. Doesn't work. Not like ABV did anything about it.
And doctor who Xmas special is finished downloading. So, that's all folks.