As per Wikipedia, the meaning of The Word Anthropophobia is Fear Of People, An abnormal Fear of People, especially of Group / Society. This phobia is caused by Feeling Insecure or Caused by Inferiority Complex. Whether, my Inferring of the words has got any Connexion with the following article of Shri Aakar Patel, a writer & coloumnist.( The article published in The Deccan Chronicle of The 9 th Nov. 14. under The Caption ::: A CABINET OF INSECURITY When Indias cabinet was sworn in about ( few ) months ago,two important portfolios were given to one man. Arun Jaitley held both Defence and Finance, two of the four jobs considered most important in the Union Govt., ( The other two being Home & External Affairs ).On the day he took office , Mr. Jaitley said he would only hold the Defence for a few weeks,till someone else came along. At the time it was being speculated that this Someone may be the former Journalist Arun Shourie, Who ever was on the PMs mind, that person did not come along and May has turned to November. It is for this reason that the Goas CM Manohar Parrrikar , one of the BJPs best minds, is being brought into the Cabinet ( according to reports) The question is why get a Chief Minister , particularly one who is seen as very competent , to leave his job and move to Delhi ? Why bring an OUTSIDER when there are over 300 Lok Sabha MPs available to Narendra Modi to choose from ? There are two reasons why this problem of a shortage of talent has come about. The first problem is a general one.Any strong ideology , especially one like Hindutva which is based on anger and resentment against real or perceived injustices, will attract a certain sort of person. We most not expect those who gravitate towards the writing of such people as Guruji Golwalkar and Veer Sawarkar and Deen Dayal Upadhyay to be subltle in their thinking. That is why the CONGRESS with 200 seats had many more capable leaders than the BJP with 280. The Congress had a choice of any of the THREE FIRST RATE Finance Ministers ( Manmohan Singh himself, P. Chidambaram and Pranav Mukherjee ), while Mr. Modi must use the only finance minister he has available to also spend time on defence.There are of course BJP leaders who show suppleness and pragmatism in their thinking ( like Mr. Jaitley and Mr. Parrikar ) , but they tend to be less ideological and more flexible on Hindutva issues. The second problem is a more specific one.It has to do with the Prime Ministers INSECURITY. He does have some talented and experienced people on his bench but he chooses not to use them. The excuse used is either that they are too old ( L. K.Advani & Murali Manohar Joshi , both of whom are in the Lok Sabha but with no work ) or that they are too young ( Varun Gandhi , who is ambitious and smart, and angling for more responsibility ) . THE REAL REASON THESE PEOPLE ARE KEPT OUT IS THAT THEY THREATEN Mr.MODI and he would rather not deal with them in the cabinet. HE DID THE SAME THING IN GUJARAT WHERE EXPERIENCED LEADERS LIKE KESHUBHAI PATEL & KASHIRAM RANA,along with their supporters, were kept out of POWER. But there is a hurdle in replicating in Delhi what he could do in Gujarat. In running the Gujarat Government , as with any state government , Mr. Modis focus was mainly on governance. THAT IS TO SAY, EXECUTING POLICIES THAT WERE FOR THE MOST PART SENT DOWN FROM THE CENTRE.When the vajpayee Govt., opened up the the power sector to private companies , Mr. Modi was EXCELLENT at implementing it in Gujarat, which has a power surplus , mainly from private generation.In doing this work he empowered a team of BUREAUCRATS who handled the work of the MINISTRIES , UNDERCUTTING the POLITICIANS who were the Ministers. There were ONLY TWO MINISTERS WHO HAD REAL RESPONSIBILITY ( SAURABH PATEL & AMIT SHAH ) AND NEITHER WAS GIVEN CABINET RANK SO THAT THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT THEIR WORK HAD TO BE SUPERVISED BY Mr. MODI through the BUREAUCRATS. After his move to Delhi, the nature of the work has changed. Mr. Modi must focus on legislation and policy and not so much implementation.This has disrupted his model. He has tried to exert control by giving much of the work,as in Gujarat , to Ministers of States he trusts, like piyush Goel and Nirmala Sitharaman . They manage portfolios like energy and commerce & industry , that are Mr. Modis favourites. BUT THE MAIN FUNCTION OF THE UNION GOVT., IS POLICY & LAW MAKING .IN MANAGING THIS MR. MODI NEEDS TO BRING IN VERY BRIGHT PEOPLE ,OF WHOM HE DOES NOT HAVE MANY. AND , UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM AND FOR THE GOVT., , THOSE HE HAS, HE DOES NOT WANT.
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