This
Loksabha election is not just about a fight between political parties but it is
fight between evil and the good, fight between daring individual and dynasty
politics. A ray of hope to thousands of budding politicians. It is test of patriotism.
It is about making Common Man’s dream come true. It is about millions of youths
who are working towards to make 272+ possible without any expectations. It is
about accomplishing the dreams of India 2020.Many states have already fought the
battle and results are awaited. Recently Karnataka went to polls and now it’s time
for political pundits to predict the mood of the state. Anyway everyone will
have their answers next month by this time. First ever BJP government of south
India was a big flop. Not because the state has not progressed under BJP (at
least the progress was better than now), but what bothered the most was
internal fights, ego of some of the so called national leaders and immaturity (but
never gave up in 49 days!!!) .people were fed up of all these, they just wanted
to change the government and the only option left was to fall back to self-declared
seculars, congress. All these factors have made BJP a weak opponent in Loksabha
polls. With all these exceptions, BJP made some space and is expected to sweep
around 15-20 seats .NaMoBrigade played a major role in helping BJP to rise from
the ashes like a phoenix in karnataka.
NaMobrigade
works for the mission “Narendra Modi for PM”.It was started to create awareness
about NaMo in Karnataka and thereby helping BJP to win maximum seats. The end
of the NaMoBrigade was decided the day it was started .It will be dissolved as
soon as NaMo takes oath as PM. Now NaMobrigade is household name in Karnataka
and it has got 300 and odd branches throughout the country. But like many other
organizations, the brigade also has an untold story. I feel it is worth telling the success story
of the team before it is buried in the political history.
It was all started with a Bangalore based facebook page, “Narendra Modi fans from Karnataka”.It was just a page and never had any intension of getting into ground work. Inspired by development work of Narendra Modi, Chethan Kumar along with his friends Ajith Shetty and Srikanth Huddar has started the page in November 2012, to create awareness among the people of Karnataka about gujrath’s progress under Modi. Meanwhile, pre –poll survey of VS elections indicated that BJP may get 60-70 seats but BJP managed to get only 40 seats which were far worse than the survey results. Based on VS election result another survey was done in which BJP was expected to get only 2-3 seats in LS election. Karnataka vidhana sabha elections result was nightmare for BJP and with only an year left to Loksabha elections this was not at all a good news for anyone who wished to see modi as PM. So these guys have realized that there is much more to be done than just hitting the keyboard in order to increase the contribution of Karnataka in making Prime Minister Modi. They decided to work as an alternative to BJP in ground level. “Shankanad” and Tajindar bagga’s ‘Modi’fied India are some of the pro-modi groups which initially supported them.
Karnataka
VS election result was out on May 8th and on the same day “Narendra
Modi fans from Karnataka” has posted a status calling out for volunteers from
every district to work in ground level. Hundreds of messages poured into the
inbox even after knowing that the volunteers will not be helped financially in
anyway. Chethan and group met Ramakrishna Kulkarni and his friends who were
working in Bangalore for the same reason. A meeting was called on May 12th
to discuss the future goals; meeting was attended by only 5!! It was decided to
name the organization as “NaMo Army”. On the Same day NaMo Army started a
blog for the online registration of
volunteers through social media. NaMo army has met top BJP leaders to discuss
the agenda of the organization but they din’t get any support from the top guns.
The group moved ahead without losing the heart. More than 20 members attended
next meeting of NaMo Army. Volunteers
from across the state who were working towards “NaMo for PM” came together
under one roof. They dropped the name “NaMo Army” and renamed the organization
as “NaMoBrigade”.NaMo Brigade launched its official website,www.namobrigade.in.
NamoBrigade
decided to kick start the activities from june ,2013 but for some reason it has
to be delayed. By that time Mangalore based industrialist, Naresh Shenoy came
in contact with the team which strengthened the team. On july 14th
NaMoBrigade was officially started its operation by a small inauguration
ceremony in Rastrotana , jaynagar. On the same day NaMoBrigade started
registering volunteers through missed calls. Over 3 lakhs volunteers got
registered through missed calls.
After
brigade officially started in Bangalore, it was time to start its branches in
different parts of the state that include Jamakandi and Kolar. As decided
earlier there were no ranks in the organization each and every one were
considered a member who are working towards a single goal and brigade also
heard to last man’s ideas . At the end
of the day, it was a team of like minded who were up and working towards a
single goal.
Working
committee was formed to communicate the activities of the brigade .Jago bharath
fame chakravarthy sulibele was requested to be the mentor of the team.Naresh
Shenoy was selected as conveyor
unanimously , Chethan, who has button started the brigade was made co-conveyor
, Ramakrishna Kulkarni , who worked at ground level from day one was another
co-conveyor. Shakunthala Iyer, Neeraj Kamath, Bharath Suryaprakash, vinay
koppad , Lakshmish K.S , Rajesh rao, srikanth huddar were working committee
members.
As
NaMo always say "social
media has lent voice to the common man and given him the opportunity to make
his voice heard". NaMo brigade is live example, which started
as a facebook page went on to become the household name in Karnataka .It is not
just an organization it’s a political revolution. All credit of success goes to
Narendra Modi , he is the real hero of the brigade. More than an individual, he is an ideology. He
inspires youth and sow dreams in them.
If
we look at the history of this country, there are Gandhis and Nehrus in all
times but there are boses and savarkars too, who never was in the limelight. We
have to learn from the past and come out of Gandhi-Nehru mentality. There are some
unholy souls in NaMo brigade too who had personal agendas, they just used Namo
brigade as a platform, spreading lies , creating myths but there are many who gave their todays for our
better tomorrows, working hard behind the scene, without wanting to show their existence. Many
gave up their high paying jobs. It would
be unfair if we don’t thank every Mr. X of the brigade who worked sincerely.
NaMo
brigade has gone through many hardships; there are people who helped financially.
Brigade will always remember their contribution. The success of NaMo brigade
lies in the team work and an individual cannot claim it as theirs. Still NaMo brigade has never failed to serve
the nation, it always believes that this nation can one day be world leader
with strong leadership of Narendra Modi and as of now only he can lead us to
make India a prosperous country. Let the truth alone triumphs. Every pre-poll
survey is in favor of NaMo, so it is time for every brigadier to celebrate the
moment. It will remain as one of the best moments of our lifetime. Let’s all
work towards bringing back the glory of this great country.
Jai Hind.
Vande Matharam
Translated By
Arpitha Shivakumar
