Modi governance ideas influenced by East Asian welfare-growth model & social ethos
Reportedly the impression is that Narendra modi was a right-wing Prime Minister, who turned left to win the 2019 elections. But is that so? If anything, the stupendous victory on Thursday is the biggest rebuttal to the notion that it’s only Congress’s left-of-centre liberal socialism which has answers to a multitude of problems of india’s poor.
“The Left kept telling us about social problems… they kept talking but did nothing. We are the ones who have delivered,” thundered modi at his victory speech at his victory speech at the BJP headquarters in delhi as he claimed this new political space, which until now belonged largely to the Congress. But how? On the surdata-face, as has been written about, it was the successful implementation of a range of schemes Swachh Bharat, Ujjwala, Saubhagya, a recast MGNREGA, Ayushman Bharat, PM-KISAN, among others.
Yet, are these any different from the bouquet of schemes one got from the Congress? After all, many of the big ideas like Aadhaar and direct benefit transfers were started by the manmohan Singh government, embraced and taken forward by modi Sarkar.