“Atanu Chakravarty aptly sums up Modi’s vision when he says: ‘We have to be totally prepared while facing Modiji because the moment we come face to face with him, he asks us the latest figures of the increase in micro-irrigation cover in the State. He is essentially against a subsidy-based governance model and believes that subsidy should be used to help people stand on their feet and not beyond it. He often asks us when the day will come when farmers start earning enough after adopting micro-irrigation, thus helping the Government save subsidy and dreams of the day when that saved subsidy can be extended to another group of marginal farmers to enable them to stand on their feet.’ Few would have that kind of long-term vision in this country, free from populism and yet committed to long-term public welfare.”