Change is the only constant. You either adapt to it or you perish when the time arrives. This is what erstwhile intellectuals like Tavleen Singh have failed to understand. The lack of logical counter has forced them into using shaming language to put forward their points regarding Hindu monk.
Tavleen Singh criticises Yogi Model
On 7th August, 2022, Tavleen Singh, 72-year old senior Indian columnist penned-down a highly aggressive write-up in her weekly Indian Express column. She started her article by criticising the political class for not expressing outrage over Basavaraj Bommai’s intention of emulating the ‘Yogi model’ in Karnataka.
Right from the beginning she started to put herself on a higher pedestal by claiming that media persons know more than millions of Indians. Taking the moral high ground, she began explaing the ‘Yogi model’. According to Tavleen’s lexicon, Yogi model means use of Bulldozer for maintaining law and order in the state.
Narrow definition of Yogi model
According to Tavleen, the Yogi model violates the fundamental legal principle of rule of law. Effectively accusing a democratically elected leader of running an autocratic setup, Tavleen wrote, “The mildest way that I can describe it is that it is an abomination. It is founded on the principle that it will not be courts who decide if someone is guilty of a crime but officials with bulldozers, acting at the behest of a political leader. Crime and punishment are both decided by officials and the punishment meted out to those suspected of a crime is that their homes are crushed by bulldozers.”
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It is evident that Tavleen has provided an extremely narrow definition of Yogi model and that too not grounded in factual reality. The Yogi model encompasses not just law and order, but also safety, investment, economy, job, entrepreneurship, religious policies among many other characteristics. To understand its full effects, one should gaze deep into UP’s conditions before Yogi Adityanath was voted as Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister.
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Snapshot of pre-Yogi Uttar Pradesh
Before March 2017, Uttar Pradesh was the hub of criminals. It was tough for children to return safely from school and tougher for women to even go outside. Political parties used to have their own Goondas (Goons) and they used to run the rooster.
The gangwars between these goondas were common and mostly innocent citizens were the ultimate victims of these gangwars. Any entity wishing to invest in the state knew that they had to provide separate illegal levies (hafta) to local goondas to ensure that their businesses run smoothly. Additionally, the then government didn’t have any fixed plan to improve the situation. Naturally, business sentiments were down.
Yogi Adityanath took over a crippled Police system
As soon as Yogi Adityanath took oath as Chief Minister of UP, he took the improvement of law and order scenario in his own hands and started working on mission mode. He virtually gave free hand to police by freeing them of any political pressure whatsoever. Earlier, Police personnel hesitated to shoot at the criminals in self defense too.
The reason being that they did not want to represent themselves before various human rights commissions, including state and Central ones. Even at these “unbiased” commissions, politicians had their puppets installed who used to punish those officers whose duty put hindrances in the working of the aforementioned criminals. Basically they were hounded for performing their duty.
Innovative ways to reduce crime
When Yogi freed the Police from these shackles, Forces were emboldened and today they don’t care much for the economic and/or political clout of criminals. Within the first 4 years of Yogi’ tenure, a total of 139 criminals were eliminated and 3,196 were injured in encounters with the Uttar Pradesh Police, while the force lost 13 of its personnel in such incidents. Unlike Secular parties, the Yogi Government doesn’t discriminate on the basis of Caste or Religion when criminals need a lesson for their wrongdoings.
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But, eliminating bigger criminals is easier than doing away with those smaller ones who camouflage as a part of the innocent population. It is here that innovations like printing their photos, using bulldozers to run down their illegal buildings, or making them pay compensation for rioting kicked in. Earlier rioters used to throw stones and run away. With the help of surveillance cameras, the Yogi government took their photos and pasted it on their locality walls for everybody else to see. In other words, criminals who used to get respect in society were now subjected to social humiliation.
Investments are flowing in
After strict legal actions on criminals, law and order improved remarkably in the state. Logically, investments started flowing in. Under Monk Yogi, the UP government is also organising Investors’ Summit on a regular basis. In 2018 itself, the BJP government in UP organised the 1st UP Investors’ Summit. It brought in investments worth Rs 61,500 crores in 81 projects. The next edition of Summit in 2019 brought in Rs 67,000 crores involving 290 projects. During the 3rd edition of the Investors’ Summit, Adani Group announced to invest Rs 70,000 crores in UP.
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Areas like Bundelkhand, which was defamed for “Ghaas ki Roti” by NDTV is now well connected, well watered and flourishing with development. During Akhilesh Yadav’s regime, no one thought that Bundelkhand will champion Defence Aatmanirbharta, but today, it is a reality, all thanks to Bundelkhand Defence Corridor.
This is the essence of the Yogi Model. Under the Yogi Model, UP has registered growth in the economy as well as other human development indices. But, one thing it has failed in is appeasement of “eminent intellectuals” of the country.
Intellectuals are bound to be unhappy
The Yogi Government has failed to take on board those experts who used to benefit from state coffers. It has failed to listen to those intellectuals who believe that every sinner has a future. It has failed to provide 2 BHK plots to journalists for advertising. It has failed to convince the virtue-signalling politically-correct lobbyists that their ideas are not practical.
But, that is exactly what a monk is supposed to do. He does not believe in appeasement. He believes in getting the work done. Probably, this is what Tavleen is suggesting Basavaraj Bommai to be ashamed of in her last paragraph.
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