India, 1972 – Delhi
Aryan Sen Gupta stood outside the Parliament building—not as a leader, not as a Member of Parliament, but as an intern volunteer for a low-budget parliamentary advisory body. His khadi kurta was stained with sweat, his leather sandals worn thin. Every time someone important walked past, he bowed slightly. Not out of reverence, but strategy. He was watching. Learning.
He was 22 years old.
The Youth Thinkers Conference had been his doorway in, but his real work had just begun.
Every evening after filing paperwork, he wrote detailed dossiers in his system's memory archive. He built a secret database inside his System with names, behavioral patterns, policy ideologies, and secret scandals of nearly 300 politicians across India.
He also began decoding the unwritten rules of power:
The man who talks least in public often decides the most in private.
Bureaucrats don't move files until they're afraid—or fascinated.
Ideology is negotiable. Ego isn't.
1974 – Bihar Movement
When Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) ignited the mass civil resistance movement against corruption in Bihar, Aryan saw his opening.
He didn't join JP's movement directly. Instead, he formed a youth wing within it—a think tank of policy experts, researchers, and whistleblowers called Bhaavee Bhaarat (Future India). They did what no one else in JP's campaign did: they proposed solutions.
While others protested inflation, Aryan's group proposed alternate price stabilization mechanisms.
While others attacked bureaucratic corruption, Aryan's team drafted a citizen accountability bill.
People began to notice.
Even JP, in a rare moment, invited Aryan to speak before a crowd of thousands in Patna.
And Aryan delivered a speech that would later appear on the cover of The Illustrated Weekly of India.
"We are not asking for revolution to tear down India.We are asking for revolution to rebuild it.Not red flags. Not black banners.But blueprints."
"This is not about the past.This is about whether India will become a country that keeps its promises."
That single speech gained him headlines—and enemies.
1975 – The Emergency
When Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency, Aryan disappeared from public life.
On paper.
In reality, he had already anticipated it.
He had created a second identity: Ajay Das, a legal assistant and data clerk. Using it, he traveled to 17 cities in 2 years, documenting human rights violations, media suppression tactics, illegal detention protocols. His System's recording feature captured audio logs of police brutality and wiretapping orders issued from local magistrates.
By the time the Emergency was lifted in 1977, Aryan had compiled a secret 400-page whitepaper titled "The Silent Emergency: A Memory India Must Not Erase."
He sent it anonymously to every major editor in India.
Only one dared to publish it: a rising editor named Ravindra Shastri of The Eastern Sentinel.
From that moment on, Ravindra would become Aryan's closest confidante in the media.
1978 – Entry into Politics
Aryan was now 28 years old.
The System sent a new message:
[Branching Path Unlocked: Join Mainstream Politics OR Create Independent Reformist Party]
Advice: Mainstream Entry = Faster Network Access, Slower Autonomy. Independent Party = Full Control, High Resistance.
Aryan chose a third option.
He joined a dying centrist party called BND – Bharat Navnirman Dal that had been decimated in the post-emergency chaos.
Why?
Because BND had no dominant leader. No legacy dynasty. No central ideology. Just a vacuum.
Aryan knew a vacuum could be shaped.
Within a year, Aryan authored BND's entire new economic policy charter. He cleaned up three state units and established youth wings in Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra. Party elders dismissed him as too "urban, arrogant, and idealistic."
Until the Bengal unit won 6 surprise seats in the 1979 by-elections—thanks to Aryan's strategic candidate placements and micro-campaigning model.
Suddenly, the BND elders changed their tune.
And in 1980, Aryan became the youngest National Executive Member in the party's history.
1984 – The Turning Point
Aryan was now 34.
Tragedy shook the nation. Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Riots spread. Fear gripped the capital.
Amidst the chaos, Aryan made a calculated move.
He gave a national address on Doordarshan:
"If we respond to violence with silence, we deserve neither justice nor peace.Today, I offer this: a national register of displaced persons, a riot relief tribunal, and a pledge from my party to compensate every widow, every orphan, every burned shop. We must rise from this fire—not as factions, but as a nation."
His speech was broadcast again and again.
Suddenly, Aryan was more than a policy wonk. He was a national voice.
1985–1989 – The Rise
Over the next five years:
Aryan led Parliament debates on anti-corruption, rural investment, and science funding.
He proposed India's first Technology and Education Sovereignty Bill, calling for self-reliant chip production and rural robotics labs.
He launched 100 Jan-Vikas Kendras in underdeveloped districts—small citizen service offices offering ID documents, banking help, land record transparency, and job mentoring.
In the 1989 elections, Aryan's BND shocked everyone: they won 132 seats—enough to form a fragile coalition.
The question was—who would become Prime Minister?
Most expected a veteran from Maharashtra or Karnataka.
Instead, Aryan was summoned quietly to a private dinner with coalition partners.
Two days later, the news broke:
"Aryan Sen Gupta – Prime Minister-elect of the Republic of India."
1990 – Aryan's First Day in Office
His System hummed again.
[Main Mission Completed: Become Prime Minister of India.][New Mission: Trigger the Golden Era – Rebuild India's Core Pillars: Industry, Infrastructure, Identity.]
[Reward Unlocked: Geo-Economic Awareness Lens v1.0][Bonus Reward: Title – Nation Architect]
Aryan sat in his office, sunlight pooling over the desk, his fingers resting on a fountain pen.
He whispered to himself:
"This country has waited long enough."