Mr. Modi, we dont know you

There is a lesson that I have learned from Modi's Interview with Karan Thapar on Devil's advocate and that lesson is :

"If you are a public personality make sure that you are sufficiently media
friendly and you know how to use it to your advantage".

Ok, we will not discuss about the Gujarat Riots here, lot has been written on it and we are clear that the government did not do enough (or could not do enough) to contain those riots and the person at the helm of the government has to take responsibility for it, which Modi did not at that point in time. Let us not be unfair to Narendra Modi opinionating the facts and let us not see him through the dark painted glasses of media. Even without that his credibility and image are tainted enough.

Let us look in to his life after the riots, he got selected as CM of the state, a state ravaged with earthquake in 2001 and riots in 2002. Credit to him for bringing Gujarat to a place where it is acheving 10% growth YoY continuously. He was the person who revamped the entire political as well as delivery system of Gujarat. He has worked, amazingly to improve the life of every single Guajarati. He has nailed the system where it should have been way back. Corruption has decreased for sure, Business is easier now, Infrastructure has developed considerably, jobs are getting created. India today group has awarded him the best chief minister twice in three years. He definitely has the most efficient and the best resume amongst all the chief ministers of the country.

But,

People still see him as a mass-murderer, Riots are still fresh in people's mind. He has done a lot post riots but a lot is not enough to clean the blot that has been created on his career.

Just a thought, had then back in 2002, Modi had accepted that the government could not do enough to contain the riots and he takes the moral responsibility of things going haywire. Had he told this infront of media and had taken proper steps that could have saved many lives, today he might not have been questioned, snubbed, opposed, interrogated and embarassed by the media.

To me it was not him, a person but it was the Gujarat Government, the entire system that failed in 2002. No one person can be blamed for such act of terror. It were the hundereds of people involved in the riots, it were the inefficient police force of the state, the hard liners and also everyone who allowed the state to reach to such dire state.

But a lot has passed since then, there are a thousand things that he did, but national media it seems have very conviniently ignored all of them. Narendra Modi should have used all that he did post 2002 to be projected in the right manner in the media. Now that has happened within Gujarat, but not outside it. So there is a fairly positive image of him in Gujarat and fairly negative image in rest of the world.

The man is suffering from image crisis. How I wish to go into his mind and know if he is facing identity crisis? How I wish to know if he had ever wished the things that happened in 2002? How I wish to know what is the future of Gujarat that he conceives in his mind? How I wish to know many things but for his non-media savvy attitude.

Tell me who are you Mr. Modi.... what is it that you have for Gujarat's Future... tell us more ... dont walk out of interviews, we want to know, we are concerned....

Moment of the interview, that made me think all this:

During the interview with Karan Thapar, which was taken in Narendra Modi's Office, there was a point when Karan was describing narratively the cruel killings of hundereds of innocent people in Gujarat riots and was indicating his involvement and inefficiency as a chief minister. The looks, helpless, frustrated, flimsy, "dont-do-it-to-me-again" looks, that Minister had on his face told to me that there is more to Modi.... Have captured it!

Tell me Mr. Modi, What does your mirror say to you when you stand infront of it, in the solace of your room, in the peace of your mind, away from the media frenzy, Has that person in the mirror ever asked you : Was I responsible? What was your answer?

An Edit on 26th October: I am editing this blog after reading a lot and the most interesting and scary I thought was the Report by tehelka, If even 10% of this is correct, I know Mr. Modi what the man in the mirror says to you.