Bankrupt leaders who tried to exploit our strengths — accommodation, forgiveness, welcoming attitudes, understanding and empathy — to mean our weaknesses have been shown the door.

The ability of the Modi government to fulfill the basic needs of electricity, gas connections, roads, bank accounts, healthcare, houses, national security and hygiene to a huge chunk of Indians who hitherto had been left out for more than 65 years formed the base of Modi’s vote-bank. Modi has given a new grammar to Indian politics. He has tapped into the aspirational instincts of Indian hinterland. While his detractors were busy mocking his policies and dismissing them as publicity, Modi was directly supervising the delivery of his promises. He gave a massive push to Digital India by promoting the trinity of Aadhaar, Jan Dhan accounts and mobile phones. By cutting out intermediaries and bureaucratic hassles, he was able to ensure that benefits of government subsidies and other schemes fully reached the people for the first time through direct benefit transfers. Modi topped up his welfare push with direct income support for small and marginal farmers. Apart from this, Modi paid special attention to regions where the BJP has been historically weaker, regions such as Bengal, North-East, Odisha, Kerala etc. These were the regions where Modi’s political opponents dominated and where BJP had no hopes of any electoral benefits. These were also the regions which were historically neglected by the ruling parties as well. But instead of neglecting these regions that didn’t vote for him, he paid special attention to their progress. North-East is the best example of this approach. The amount of effort the central government put to complete the pending projects in north-east is commendable. Today, after more than 70 years of independence, the north-east is has finally reached the center.

The election campaign saw the Congress using many dirty tricks and making many tall promises. But the GE19 verdict has thrown out the age-old practice of the Congress. GE19 verdict has shown that resurgent India will not fall for empty promises. The Congress’ time to divide us on religion or caste is gone. The resurgence that Modi has achieved is massive. For some, Modi is everything evil and his supporters are bigots, illiterate, dangerous idiots, who had a chowkidar in front of their Twitter handles. Be it comparing Modi to Hitler, or be labeling Modi as a ‘Chor’, India has trashed all these opposition labels for good. And there is a reason behind that, India has benefitted enormously from the schemes launched and implemented by Narendra Modi. Faith, which was once restricted to Gods and religion now transcends its definition. Today, nation’s faith is in Modi, nation believes that Modi is the man who can deliver, who can improve the lives for each and every individual. These beliefs are not without foundation, as highlighted previously, people have benefitted enormously. Victory is not Narendra Modi’s; it is the victory of justice over the injustice that millions of Indians have been subjected to since independence. It is the victory of Indians for a New India. It is the victory of grace, dignity and a commitment to work towards a country we want to see flourish, thrive, grow and compete with the best in the world. We are, Vijayi Bharat.

“Bhakts” were called bigots, illiterate, dangerous idiots. “Bhakts” stand vindicated today. They were subjected to abuse, made fun of, berated, denigrated, belittled, and vilified for their support for Modi. BJP and RSS supporters were brutally murdered for their faith in ‘New India’. But it was the belief and trust in Modi that made people solidly stand behind the Prime Minister. People for long have voted for political figures, for political parties. This must be the first time that people voted for themselves, for their future, and for the future of their children. What Modi offered the nation was a springboard for national pride and development.

Now Modi has an even greater responsibility than earlier. The aspiration of living upto Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s dream of “India 2020“is in the minds of all Indians. With Narendra Modi’s track record and with Indians standing strongly behind him, we can and will achieve a ‘New India’. But our responsibility doesn’t end with us casting our vote. The strategy to divide us so that a handful of politicians can stay united in their cocoon of entitlement and inheritance needs to be trashed forever. We have to stand together and pull in the same direction on all issues ranging from but not limited to national security, economic development, foreign policy, public health and job creation. Over the next few years, we need to throw out the pessimism and bias that Narendra Modi’s opponents want us to fall for. Vijayi Bharat is just a start, Samrudha Bharat should be our next target.