Modi Model: Fancy Myths and Hard Facts
BY RK MISRA Offices of power are often breeding grounds of indestructible myths. And if the flavor of the current Indian season is Gujarat, focus turns to this ‘model’ laboratory where Prime Minister Narendra Modi perfected the alchemy of success. Like the legendary King Midas whose touch turned everything into gold, Modi possesses the uncanny ability of turning anything he propounds into a national crusade whether it is Sardar Patel’s statue or the nation’s state of sanitation. With the Gujarat model elevated to the status of a ‘Bible’ for administrators after BJP came to power in the country, the performance audit carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on implementation of the sanitation campaign in Gujarat during the period 2008-13 (Modi rule) provides proof of how reality is clouded to forge myths and then build castles on it. The CAG report was tabled during a truncated two day session of the Gujarat Vidhan Sabha last week on November 11 th