ON BUDGET DAY, THE MODI REVOLUTION COMES INTO FULL VIEW

Whether it be in health, education, housing or in other fields, the transformation of India through the Modi Revolution is coming into full view.

- M.D. NALAPAT

The difficulty in understanding the depth and range of the Modi Transformation of India is that the enormous volume of substantive changes that the Prime Minister of India is responsible for resembles an iceberg. Much of it has been hidden under the surface, with only a small bit visible on the surface. The 2025-26 Union Budget presented on February 1 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who is and has always remained faithful to the vision and priorities of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has shown that the Modi Revolution has broken through the mist of obfuscation, and its immensity has emerged into clear view. A prediction made by the present writer was that Modi 3.0 is the term when such changes will begin to be tangible to citizens at an accelerating pace. In what follows, it is this vision and a list of some of the priorities which will be discussed to the knowledge of this writer about an individual whom he has studied and followed the trajectory of since PM Narendra Modi was a senior office holder of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In this capacity, he had appeared on a few television programs in which this writer was also a discussant. The interventions he made were few, but each was well thought out and revealed a mind focused on the unlocked potential of India and the raising of living standards for all of its citizens to levels consistent with what they deserve as citizens of the world’s most populous democracy. In particular, he made sure to mention issues confronting women and youth, two groups that aroused his particular attention. In the more than quarter century since then this vision, his focus, his list of priorities, has not altered in the slighte