In an emotional stunt, Prime Minister Modi on November 10 said in Goa that he left his house, family and everything for nation, in an attempt to answer people who were doubting his intention behind the sudden demonetisation.
He wanted to make a point that he is a proper statesman and for the first time made an emotional appeal to the public. Going far in his eloquent address, he tried to make people believe that he sacrificed for the betterment of nation.
No doubt, Modi is a determined and committed individual who has achieved the present feat due to his dedication. But how far it is true that he sacrificed everything for the sake of country is a question, answer to which can be only found after analysing the time and circumstances when Modi actually left his family, and everything else which he now claims to have left behind.
Being a full-time RSS pracharak, Modi did not live with his wife Jashodaben after marriage in 1968 . The couple lived together for three months, after which Modi left home to travel across India, journeying as a 'sanyasi', as he described it to his family. After a period of three years, Modi stopped visiting his wife and family, as he got involved in his work as a RSS pracharak.
So, if this was the reason that he left everything nearly five decades before, then where does the sacrifice for nation arise? If this sacrifice would have been for the sake of nation then either he would have joined army or would have started any revolutionary act. He became sanyasi and was following RSS agenda or propagation of its ideology, which is not by any stretch of imagination a service to the nation but to the RSS.
Therefore when our Prime Minister says he sacrificed everything for the country, then either he is lying or he is making citizens believe that service to RSS is equivalent to serving the country.
To serve the country, there is no need to leave the family. Otherwise, there will remain no 'true' statesmen in India. What about those who are working for the betterment of nation and also take care of their family responsibilities? For me, army men are true statesmen who guard borders, even as they take care of their family, communicate with them on phone and visit them too.
Courtesy: twocircles.net