THE confidence is showing -- through the 100-day programme Prime Minister’s current Council of Ministers has dawn up to mark the beginning of his third term. The Prime Minister and his Government as well as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) are very sure that the third term will give them a bigger mandate to lead the nation to greater heights. So the 100-day plan of action to launch the third term. There are so many things to do, so many dreams to fulfill, and hence the 100-day programme as a preparatory step. Possibly, there could be a debate over the actual number of seats the BJP-NDA will win in the next Lok Sabha elections due in a few more weeks from now. But there is no debate whatsoever over chances of Mr. Modi’s victory. Even the Opposition grants that the Prime Minister is slated to win the elections. The results, thus assured, Mr Narendra Modi has drawn up a detailed plan to execute in the first 100 days after winning the ensuing elections. In a country that has seen ruling parties getting afflicted with anti-incumbency factors, such a confidence is rare to be found. It must be asserted that Mr. Modi’s confidence in his own electoral performance is not without its base. Much to the contrary, he has every practical as well as poetic reason to believe that he is returning to power on the strength of the good work his Government has been able to do in the past two terms with Mr. Modi as Prime Minister.

 

The Government’s confidence stems from that body of truly good work the Centre under Mr. Modi has been able to do. There is no doubt that the 100-day programme will give the new Government a great impetus and help the country to surge forward on the path of his own dreams. In other words, the country will charts an altogether different and confident path for itself in the third term of Mr. Modi as Prime Minister. The idea of ‘Viksit Bharat’ -- Developed India -- is already on the agenda. Now comes the 100-day programme that will push the ‘Viksit Bharat’ idea still further and faster. Obviously, the message is clear for the voters -- that they have a Government that performs and has a full confidence in itself. The 100-day programme also has a reference to a statement by Prime Minister Mr. Modi ten years ago. He had said, then, in effect, that a government has only 60 months to show its worth in a five-year term, and therefore it must not waste time. The 100-day programme appears to be in line with that thinking -- get going immediately without wasting a single day.

 

So, the 100-day programme comes into operation the moment the new Modi Government gets sworn in after electoral victory -- no matter the margin big or bigger, past-400 or anything. The sense of urgency cannot be missed. The Prime Minister wants to lose no time in hitting the ground running -- as they say. He has a stupendous agenda before him -- to utilise the Amrit Kaal to the 100th anniversary of Independence in the best possible manner and take the country up and ahead on all parameters. This agenda makes the Prime minister restless because he has seen the big dream of making India the strongest and the best in every which the way. When the goal is big and the time is appropriate, then everything is going to fall in its own place if planned action is undertaken. The 100-day programme indicates that. This shows the powerful vibrations the Prime Minister intends to create in the country so that every Indian feels the need to step up his nationalistic activity and participate in nation-building process. This also indicates that some rare things may be expected from the Government in the next term.