Friday, February 11, 2011

DEAR PRIME MINISTER

Venerated Prime Minister,
                                       India finds itself at the crossroads of its glorious history under your leadership and two years into your second tenure,rampant corruption,galloping inflation,separatist tendencies that are threatening to tear the country asunder,growing divide among the rich and poor and India versus Bharat,highest unemployment rates ever recorded and lowest industrial growth rates ever registered have made the already miserable lives of a majority of Indians even more pathetic yet you prefer to turn a nelson's eye and maintain a stoic silence on the ills afflicting the country and its denizens,instead of initiating adequate remedial measures to eradicate these ills,maladies plaguing the system.
The voters of India gave you another opportunity to serve the country in view of the yeoman service rendered by you and your ministerial colleagues during the UPA-I regime and to give you due credit, most of the measures and schemes initiated by your governement did have the desired results and add many a feather to your turban giving rise to a renewed sense of optimism and eternal hope in the heart of every Indian regarding the bright and prosperous future of our glorious motherland, but I am sorry to say that the shenanigans and picadilloes of a few of your ministerial colleagues and wrongly intentioned and executed policies have left the country and system in a shambles.
Galloping inflation,ever increasing food and everday articles of consumption prices are rising by the day yet the economist in you still seems to be grappling with the enormity of the problem,Onions have been selling for as much as Rs.60 per kilo,tomatoes at Rs.40 per kilo,sugar at Rs.35-40 per kilo,milk is priced at Rs.30-32 per litre,edible oils are selling at an all time high and no brand is available for less than Rs.75-80 per litre, no dal retails at less than Rs.45-50 per kilogram, yet you continue to remain in deep and blissfull slumber let a monolith from the past Sharad Pawar lord over the all important agriculture ministry without sacking him forthwith and either donning the mantle yourself or better still replacing him with an agricultural expert of the eminence of a Dr.Swaminathan or other such credible individuals.
You have taken recourse to mouthing platitudes like rampant corruption and governance deficit is slowing down our growth rate and can have disastrous long term consequences in the long run, our international image and standing has taken a beating in the face of this monstrous edifice of corruption yet continue to turn a blind eye to the heinous acts of corruption perpetrated by your ministerial colleagues. You slept over Raja's sins for well over three years despite numerous warnings about his shenanigans and picadilloes from all and sundry and continued to remain in deep slumber over an emerging scam christened the "S band spectrum scam" by the English news channels that emanated from within the precincts of a ministry headed by you namely the Space,Science and technology ministry.
The quantum of this scam which was entered into by Messrs Antrix and a leading private player Devas Technologies Private Limited which incidentally is headed by a group of top ranking ISRO employees is emerging to a threat to this country's internal and external security and abrogates unto itself the inalienable right to allocate to private players the S band, a band intrinsically meant for the use of the defence,home,science,space and technology minstries thereby braising grave security related concerns.The quantum or magnitude of this scam has been pegged well in excess of Rs.2 lakh crore by the nation's leading English news channel thereby making it an even bigger scam in comparison to the infamous 2G spectrum scam,will you now atleast put in your papers owing moral responsibility for the same or then is the lure of the prime ministerial gaddi greater than the dictates of your conscience.
You have gone on record time and again calling the maoists and extremists the single biggest threat to the internal security to the country and promised earth shattering changes in both the approach towards tackling this menace as well as the scourge of terrorism.There was also some amount of lofty talk regarding the modernisation,overhauling of training methods of both our police a well as para military forces as well as the immediate provision of ultra modern arms and equipment to policemen trying to take on the might of AK's 47 and 56 assault rifles with .303 breech loading rifles of WORLD WAR II vintage. Yet your loud proclamations and declarations have continued to remain just that as a parade taken out by the Action Force expressely constituted to tackle the menace of terrorism in the aftermath of the 26/11 attacks cruelly proved.
The separatist,secessionist and splittist leaders from all nooks and crannies of the country continue to rule the roost and threaten to tear the country asunder with their utterances and highly objectionable agendas under both your active and passive patronage and indulgence, the Telangana,Harit Pradesh,Vananchal,Gorkhaland,Bundelkhand,Cooch Behar,Vidarbha and Assam and Nagaland seccessionist leaders and activists continue to have a field day and considerably whip up passions on a daily basis as you seem top be more interested in patronising and hob nobbing with them rather than imprisoning them and trying them for treason as all seccesionists and separatists are nothing but traitors to this divine motherland and ought to be tried for treason and awarded the death penalty for the same as the punishment for treason is death in an overwhelming majority of countries in this wide world.
Unfortunately, the ill gotten gains gains arising from power and pelf and sticking to the prime ministerial gaddi no matter what seem far more important to you in comparison to the unity band integrity of this country and untold sufferings endured by the Aam Aadmi and perpetrated by this supposedly Aam aadmi friendly Sarkar, your ministers do not listen to your sagely advice and utterances continue to remain a law unto themselves and freely indulge in acts of corruption,nepotism,filling the coffers of their political patrons and their own in the absence of an enlightened and well intentioned leadership strong enough to take them on headlong and mete out requisite and timely punishment for their alleged wrongdoings and willfull acts of rampant corruption.
Your actions or the abject lack of action from your end has only served to reinforce the image of a weak kneed,indecisive,spineless and indifferent prime minister who mis only interested in self preservation at the cost of the nation. Go Mr.Prime Minister and walk away into that glorious sunset with whatever left over glory you can muster as the time for your departure is well nigh before the Aam Aadmi decides to take up cudgels against you and your cabinet colleagues and run all of you into the ground.
Go, resign and pave the way for a new highly motivated,committed,inspired and idealistic leadership inclined towards giving this Matrubhoomi the future it so richly deserves.
Yours faithfully,
SUNDEEP CHOPRA.
A CONCERNED AND PATRIOTIC INDIAN WHO CARES.

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