But unknown to the Young king events were a foot that would change his life in many ways than one events that would make him reach the peak of happiness and the depths of sorrow and also etch his name in the hearts of all his children for ever
Chapter 4. The transformation continue
The visit to the Imperial archives had emboldened the King to dive headlong in to the Transformation of his country he was given in responsibility another source of inspiration was the life and times of another King Bhumibol Adulyadej Rama IX of Thailand and His Majesty The King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein inspired by them he went on to introduce even more reforms like the extension of the National Citizenship Registry along with the unification of the elections to the provincial and imperial assembly he also bought about reforms in the basic laws which was bought in line with the Vyavahāra shatra and Book 3 of the Arthashastra even the court system was fixed on the Shastra according to which the court system was reformed as follows
· The Imperial court
· Provincial Royal courts
· District circuit Courts
· County courts
He saw to it that like the US, where the Supreme Court The Imperial Court of Justice would only look in to matters of policy and that more burden is shifted to the lower courts but it didn’t stop there the King’s council voted to create an all India Cadre called the Indian Judicial Service he further reformed the law and order system by elevating the CRPF to that of the Federal police with provincial police departments modeled on the Federal one and also introduced the Royal Prison Service
He also introduced currency reforms like the adoption of plastic currency in place of paper he also oversaw the establishment of a Land and food bank that would in his words cushion the people in hard time like the Thai King before him he made great strides in reforming agriculture and connectivity to the masses under his stewardship the projects like the Indian Canal system Project and Operation Akshaya was launched along with Operation Digbandnam to connect all of India with world class road system was instated all under his personal supervision
He also oversaw the construction of seawalls and dikes and other flood and draught prevention ideas
All this working was making the King quite popular and his massive Investment in Public works ate into the unemployment and poverty figures of India
So popular was the king that the Imperial assembly forwarded a motion to give him the title of the grate but he turned it down this symbolic act of turning the title down only made the prince more popular in the eyes of his subjects but all this worried his parents and his closest advisor who had asked him to slow down but he just wouldn’t listen he also extensively travelled the world highlighting India and the Indian economy which led many to equate him with Peter the great of Russia while his detractors called him a master con artist but to the common man he was demigod
Like the King of Jordan, Vikramaditya took keen interest in the defense of the kingdom he oversaw the transformation of the Indian armed forces in both qualitative and the quantitative sense and also took steps to make the defense forces as apolitical as possible
He saw to it that the armed forces were reorganized and reequipped with the latest weapons and drilled in the latest tactics he saw to the reorganization and retraining of the Indian Officer Corps in a hybrid system based on Indian, British and Prussian System which was put together after extensive research by the King and his defense chiefs
It was based on the recommendations of the Shekatkar Committee
He also changed the ranks in the army Applying British ranks in both officer and NCO ranks
He reverted to the British system of service seniority which was also followed in India prior to Independence in which the Navy was the senior service and the Army the second senior service followed by the Airforce he also revamped the Reserve system by reforming the Indian Territorial Army and reestablishing the Indian Naval reserve and the Indian Auxiliary Airforce
He also saw to the raising of a dedicated Marine corps and the setting up of Joint service commands with specialized Special Operations command
And not to mention like the King of Jordan he would take part in live-fire exercises and sometimes also participate in Operations Using his alias as Barath or Captain Bartha it was a morale booster for the men and women under his command to see that their king was with them always
The young king smiled thinking about the time when he went on an unpublished “hunt” across the border in the badlands of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
But then he thought , even with all this India still suffered from problems like the Republican Insurgency which was still an issue though not as problematic as it was in the 1990’s and early to late 2000’s it was still an issue to be dealt with not to mention the Indian Republican rebels that are hosted outside and are gallivanting their request for a referendum on the rule in India something called referendum 2020
Anyway the young king could take solace in the fact that India's economic credentials are at their best in years, even with minor volatility in inflation. A 10.7% growth rate is nothing to scoff at.
On the security front, the Republicans and jihadist were getting there are kicked by security forces. People can live safely without worrying about terrorist incidents every day. He had also taken steps to see that the Internal nexus of NGO - Evangelists - Mullahs - Lobby is getting their back broken.
He had also allied India with like-minded leaders putting him at the forefront of a right-wing populist movement that was internationally coalescing against the liberal ultra-left LGBTQRST lobby
But he didn’t care to fight globalism, nationalist ideals must be promoted and he would do it any cost
But somewhere in the forest of Chambal, a plan was being hatched that would if successful bring an end to the monarchy as the thought was shared among friends they laughed and then saluted the old republican tricolor the Republican chant of Jai hind rang out
Only fate knew if it would be successful