A Leader without a Vision - A Government without an Objective

British music legend John Lennon and Paul McCartney once said ‘Now that you know who you are what do you want to be?’ That is what is called as Mission and Vision in Management Books. While a mission is a statement of what is, a vision is a statement of what or how you would like things to be. A picture of the future you’re working to create, what you want to be when you grow up, what you want to become. Without a vision of where you’re going how can you develop a plan to get there and how will you know when you’ve arrived? Without a vision of where we would like to be, we can continue hiking various trails through life, climbing mountain after mountain, only to discover each time that we’ve arrived somewhere we really don’t want to be. Nothing was ever created without a vision. It guides us, gives us direction and purpose, and can serve as a powerful motivator for those around us and ourselves. The more precise and detailed you can be in writing a description of your vision of the future, the easier it will be to communicate it to others and gain their commitment to it, and the more likely you will be to achieve it.

Objectives create the road map and they are the manageable stepping stones to achieve the mission, make the vision a reality, objectives need to be SMART:

- S pecific
- M easurable
- A ttainable
- R ewarding
- T imed 

For a leader who does not have a Vision is like an Amateur Pilot who is flying a plane but not sure about the destination – so the future of the passengers and the plane is very uncertain? For any Government it must have a set of objectives that must be well defined to work on else it would be all ad-hoc and chaos. It is like that the people of Bengal have boarded a bus to reach Digha from Esplanade where the Driver does not know the route and not at all open to hear the suggestion. If anyone suggests that we wanted to go to Digha but seem to be that you are driving us towards Sundarban then the driver would shout at that person saying ‘Tui Ke Haridas Pal’. That is how exactly we can describe the current state of Bengal and its Supreme Leader.

That supreme leader does not have a Vision and the government does not have well defined objectives. Let us examine this in bit detail. The only objective for the ruling party before they came to power was to free Bengal from the Communists. The people of the state well understood that objective, gave them the mandate but after that WHAT? No one in this current regime does have an answer to this WHAT. That’s where the problem is – the leader does not have a Vision and the regime is not sure about their objectives. The current regime has started thinking Bengal as their Princely State and their leader as the Queen of the state – they are forgetting that the same kind of illusion has caused Communists irreparable damage and made them a ‘spent force’.

They talk about Ma, Mati and Manus and some of their most influential decision makers including highest level police officers are accused in looting the poorest of the poor and the last man in the queue thru Ponzi Scams like Sharda. About a hundred people have committed suicides because of Sharda scam. Hundreds of poor citizens died of Encephalitis disease but the state was not willing to take help from centre in healthcare. Lawmakers are instigating cadres for violence and justifying crimes against women. Some parliamentarians would use all sorts of unparliamentarily language in public and the whole machinery would work 24*7 to defend him. They have compelled the biggest industry house of India to leave the state and went to Singapore to attract foreign investment just to come back empty handed. Some are involved in getting more and more not so talented actors/dancers in the parliament who would never speak on any issue in the parliament. If common man calls their actor turned representatives to seek help then the amateur politicians get irritated. A common man sometimes might feel that people of other professions are not so important except acting in Bengal and all other professions like Doctor, Engineer, Professor, Lawyer and Teacher etc are taking a back stage in Bengal. Bengal today is in the state of ‘Free for All’ and ‘Go as You Like’.

The supreme leader declares her aim in public meeting to make the opposition ZERO. We can understand the objective which is to loot and befool the common man in the name of secularism and remain in power pushing the state and its people to medieval ages. Before the LS 2014 election the supreme leader was daydreaming of becoming PM and the ruling party was nurturing national ambition which was shattered after a rally in Delhi which was attended by less than hundred people. Can they explain why Anna ditched them at the last moment when their leader is the symbol of Honesty and Simplicity? BTW the same supreme leader was also ditched by other leaders like Mulayam during President’s election. Today they are all alone in national politics. They are so lost in their political journey that they have even forgotten their original objective of making Bengal free from Communists and now their supreme leader sending feelers to Communists for collaboration to defend the rising force which represents an aspiring Bengal. 

Swami Vivekananda once said: ‘There is a difference between an objective and actions! Unless you understand your objective, you will be wasting your time in your actions. Know your objective first.’ The people of this state must keep their eyes and ears open and make their decision without any biased misconception of secularism. I am sure that the people would exercise their ballot intelligently in the upcoming elections and support a development focused party which has visionary leaders and has a proven track record of delivering results in many states.

Bande Mataram.