Wishing for failure.

From Vibhishan to Mir Jafar, India's history can be traced through its traitors. In the past it was about betraying secrets about armed forces but today it is about trying to undermine Mr Narendra Modi and trying to ensure that he fails in his efforts to make India richer and stronger. Some are plain angry at the prospect of the Congress losing out. Yes, the Congress led government was utterly corrupt but politicians of other parties are no saints either. Yes, the complete domination of the Congress by The Family is nauseating but there are other parties also run by families. Yes, the colossal waste of public funds on corrupt social schemes to buy votes caused inflation and ruined the economy but the real problem was that the Congress failed to cover up its flimflam. There are those that are openly hostile. Mr Modi is authoritarian and will be a dictator. Really? Why did the government fall flat on the ground when Mr Rahul Gandhi called the ordinance to protect convicted MPs a " complete nonsense " that should be torn up. Mr Modi will polarise the country because he will fail to protect minorities who are cowering in fear as second class citizens in Gujarat. These people have not visited Gujarat where minorities are making huge amounts of money and some even vote for Modi while the pseudo-secular Congress has kept them in ghettos for decades by its fear tactics. Then we have those who write reasoned articles on why Mr Modi will be ineffective. The BJP is divided, they say, with a cabal of bitter geriatric has-beens who will betray the party to stay in relevance when they have been irrelevant for a long time. True. We saw how local BJP fellows worked to defeat Gen Khanduri in Uttarakhand because he wanted to control corruption in the state. Since the BJP will not get an outright majority it will have to depend on coalition partners who will not allow any major reforms. Surely, it becomes the duty of these hacks, who are also citizens of India, to put pressure on these politicians so that they back economic reforms that we desperately need. Finally, there are those who are gloating that Modi will be shackled. The massive corruption of the Congress has resulted in freezing up the system, nefarious subsidies will be impossible to curtail and he will be stopped in the Rajya Sabha. Hard to believe that educated people are actually hoping for Mr Modi to fail. The enemy is within.