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Bharat Mata ki Jai !!

Swami Vivekananda once said

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success"

For the last one year , the 'one idea' for many a 'Hindu Nationalist'  like me was to see NaMo at 7RCR. As the campaigning for the 2014 elections ends today, its just begin to dawn that the journey that we embarked on will come to an end in a week's time.

Its been a long hard fight but then we nationalists are a bunch of fighters - from Maharana Pratap to Rani Ki Jhansi, no matter how bad the odds are against us, no matter how powerful the opponent is, we never give up , we always find the resolve to carry on

As I met hundreds and thousands of NaMo volunteers, I saw in them the spirit of Mahara Pratap and Rani Laxmibai - from spending weekends in villages after a week of hard work at offices, weekly outreach programs, chai parties, participating in Run for Bharat marathons, authoring Tweets and FB posts to  counter our hostile 'news traders' , collecting inputs for manifesto, communicating NaMo's vision to the public, driving voter registrations, door to door campaigns ..... the list is endless....

Like Maharana Pratap and Rani Laxmibai, we have fought for a cause, no matter what the results show on May 16th, history will remember this campaign.

For me, this campaign has achieved for India far more than getting NaMo elected as PM - it has awakened the people of India.

Swami Vivekanda said 'Arise, Awake and do not stop till you reach your destination'. 

Post this campaign I can say for sure that  India has awakened and risen and we will not to stop till we reach our destination - to realise Swami Vivekananda's vision of seeing Bharat as a jagad guru.

Bharat Mata ki Jai !! 





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