Narendra Modi, our Prime Minister, more often than not seems to reside in the past. The other day he raised the issue of the Sardar Sarovar Dam blaming the 'urban' Naxals for spreading disinformation about its supposed benefits. This agitation at its peak dates back 20 years though the dam was formally inaugurated by Modi himself in 2017. It is not only this but Modi's favourite whipping horses are Nehru and Indira Gandhi who are both dead and gone some 60 years and 40 years ago respectively. Thus you find him mostly living in the past. Maybe he does this deliberately to avoid the problems that he sees around him in the present. The unmanageable economy, a currency that lately has taken to fly higher and higher against the US dollar, raging unemployment particularly among women, law and order issues with increasing crimes against women that continue unabated. Thus if his penchant is avoidance and he has a preference for the past, it is best that come 2024 we also relegate Modi to the pages of forgotten history.
