Comments on: Nehru rate of Growth was due to Lack of Will and Vision http://www.deeshaa.org/2010/01/29/nehru-rate-of-growth-was-due-to-lack-of-will-and-vision/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sabarish Sasidharan http://www.deeshaa.org/2010/01/29/nehru-rate-of-growth-was-due-to-lack-of-will-and-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-149714 Sabarish Sasidharan Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:32:36 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/?p=3464#comment-149714 As you have already pointed out, this again points back to the general public. If being a visionary leader is not the criteria for success in elections, there is no real initiative for the leaders in it. A majority of the general public have to be reasonable for a visionary leader to succeed. Its easy for a contender to either sensationalise a trivial issue or simply give freebies at the time of elections and all that the visionary did would be forgotten. I can think of Kamaraj who was a congress chief minister in Tamil Nadu. He did so much for education, schools popped up everywhere, only to be trounced in the elections. His opponents succeeded largely by using cheap means a) Anti-hindi agitation b) promise of rice for a cheap price. And the junta was stupid. As you have already pointed out, this again points back to the general public. If being a visionary leader is not the criteria for success in elections, there is no real initiative for the leaders in it. A majority of the general public have to be reasonable for a visionary leader to succeed.

Its easy for a contender to either sensationalise a trivial issue or simply give freebies at the time of elections and all that the visionary did would be forgotten.

I can think of Kamaraj who was a congress chief minister in Tamil Nadu. He did so much for education, schools popped up everywhere, only to be trounced in the elections. His opponents succeeded largely by using cheap means a) Anti-hindi agitation b) promise of rice for a cheap price. And the junta was stupid.

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