Modi desires educated individuals to enter politics: Union minister Bhupender Yadav

Abhishek Awasthi.

Noida: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants “decent and educated” individuals to enter politics and lead the country forward, Union minister Bhupender Yadav said here on Friday, exhorting young people to participate in the nation-building process.The environment and climate change minister recalled how educated and knowledgeable leaders like as Subhas Chandra Bose, Aurobindo Ghose, Rammanohar Lohia, and Jai Prakash Narayan helped shape the country’s politics. “First and foremost, never think that only those rejected from other walks of life enter politics,” Yadav remarked at the first session of the BIMTECH Business Literature Festival in Greater Noida. “This is a misunderstanding. During the freedom movement, Subhas babu dropped out of the ICS, Aurobindo Ghose dropped out of the ICS test, Lohia earned his MA in Germany and subsequently entered politics, and Jai Prakashji also studied overseas. Morarji (Desai) bhai entered politics after quitting the ICS and based on Gita and Gandhi ideas.””Today, examples include Arun Jaitley, who quit his Supreme Court practise, S Jaishankar, who served as India’s foreign secretary, Nirmala Sitharaman, who studied at Oxford, and Piyush Goyal, a chartered accountant.

There is just this perception in politics…because journalists usually convey bad stories, he stated. “I continue to believe that politics is a place for creative people. I am repeating what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said. India has been independent for 75 years and is now in Amrit Kaal. Someone from your generation, possibly 25 years later, would be in my shoes and work to move the country forward. Strong and educated individuals are needed in politics so that India’s path achieves higher stages of progress with good leaders.

This is exactly what Modiji desires,” he continued.Yadav co-authored “The Rise of The BJP: The Making of The World’s Largest Party” with economist Ila Patnaik. Penguin released the book, which covers the saffron party’s voyage.”Because I had worked on the ground for 21 years, I wanted the party’s story to be told in the shape of a narrative, in a recorded fashion.

But if I had written it on my own, it would have come out as the viewpoint of a BJP worker. So Ila Patnaik, a well-known economist and JNU colleague, joined the team. “The book became my perspective and her cross-examination of it, in order to provide a right explanation via it,” the minister explained.