Letter to the Prime Minister

A letter to the Prime Minister...Mere Man Ki Baat

Dear Mr Prime Minister,

It is time for you to start your next round of International Tour. This is what you do best. It is a great entertainment for all our NRIs and helps divert attention from your promises which you are finding difficult to deliver.

You had denounced the Aadhar Scheme and promised to junk it. Nice to see that you have realized the value of this and the efforts that has gone behind it - not to talk about the hours many of us stood in the queue to get our Aadhar Cards.

Your brothers in your Sangh Parivar have started a campaign proclaiming Godse as a Patriot. Considering that Gandhiji hails from your City and you used photo Ops with the Chinese PM on the Banks of Sabarmati, I would have expected you to speak up...

Your Finance Minster criticizes the RBI Governor for not lowering interest rates. This is an attack on an autonomous Institution, revered the world over as one of the strongest Banking Regulator with one of the best Governors. But you choose to remain mute. World over Crude prices have crashed. But the Petrol and Diesel prices have not been lowered commensurately. Rather excise duties have been hiked. Your Chief Ministers had opposed GST. Now that you are in power you realise the benefits of GST!

Your Sangh Family members are making a mockery of the law and order by targeting PK, a brilliant movie. Surprisingly the film OMG went through without a murmur. Is it because Aamir is a Muslim while Paresh Rawal in OMG is a Hindu and a member of your party? Well, I will not know till you speak.

Some of your ministers use abusive language and you still remain quiet!

You had promised to bring back black money within 100 days of coming to power and distribute 15 lacs each to the poor. My watchman asks me when is the money coming. I tell him, Please listen to "Man ki Baat" maybe the PM may still make an announcement!

Mr Prime Minister you had accused the previous Government of having Biriyani with the Pak PM while their soldiers kept targeting our people. You went one step further and invited the PAK PM for a Dawaat for your swearing in. What has changed now? Oh! You have to be silent. You decided to have a photo Op with the Chinese Premier on a Swing while the Chinese had entered Arunachal Pradesh! You continue to be silent.

Your HRD Minister does not know the difference between a Yale University Degree and her Leadership programme certificate that she obtained as part of the 11 MP Group that visited Yale. I did seriously expect you to speak up. But you will only speak at Election rallies and in the Cultural shows that you conduct abroad.

You are truly rewriting History. You almost made Christmas a working day and Government Offices did remain open. Will you have a similar view for Diwali considering it is considered the start of an auspicious year. And yes the Stock Market opens for Mahurat Trading. May we know your Man Ki Baat?

Your party has won seats only in Jammu, has a barely 2 per cent vow share in Kashmir, is not the single largest party in J & K, but still wants to lead the Govt. considering you led the campaign there, should we not hear from you?

There are reports that your Telecom Minister is being paid a retainer fee by one of the Reliance Group Companies. If this is true is it not a conflict of interest considering that Reliance has a large interest in Telecom? Your minister is silent, but maybe he is learning from you as well.

You forced little Children to sit through after School Hours to listen to you. Maybe you want to build yourself as the next Chacha Nehru. But frankly who is interested! We are more interested to hear on the many other promises you made to secure votes.

Lastly your avid followers on the Social Media take strong offence to your criticisms. Yes Criticism is welcome but needs to be civilised. Well given the statements by members of your Government, I guess they are only following their elected members.

Mr. Prime Minister, I wish you a successful new year, a year where I hope you have control over what your brothers and sisters from your extended Sangh Parivar speak that are at variance at a Secular, Integrated India. I hope that you are less vitriolic in your election rallies. I hope that you and your party stops dividing the Country on communal lines for vote Bank Politics.

 

And yes I do sincerely hope that my watchman gets the Rs 15 lacs from the Black Money.

 

Yours truly,

 

Indian Citizen

 

First posted on Face Book December 30, 2014