Dear Mr.Prime Minister,
The press conference expressely arranged at short notice with the editors of leading television news channels was a golden opportunity accorded to you to come clean on various scandals,scams,corruption,allegations of fuelling the already galloping inflation rates and last but not the least a manic obsession with maintaining the so called high and healthy growth no matter what even though the same is only widening the chasm between the have and have nots and India versus Bharat but your shoddy performance at the said press conference left a lot to be desired and only ended up muddying the waters further and only adding to the confusion caused by a vacillating and highly uncertain government.
To begin with, your body language and postures failed to evoke any sense of confidence whatsoever both in the eyes as well as the mind of the average television viewer,yo constantly fumbled, seemed ill at ease,were shifty eyed and evaded direct answers by couching your replies in inanities and technicalities whenever you felt that the going was getting a little too hot for comfort, your press secretary intervened on more than occasion and reprimanded supposedly hostile editors on the premise that the press conference was not meant to be an interrogation of the prime minister.
Infact, I would venture as far to say that some of your replies raised serious doubts about the efficacy/efficient functioning of your mental faculties as your holier than homilies and unsolicited advice to the editors on avoiding/bypassing the scams associated with and created by you and your highly corrupt and immoral coterie of ministers as the same was lowering the prestige of the government and the nation both domestically and internaionally and raising serious doubts about growing governance deficits, certialnly left me scratching my head in bewilderment and consternation as the media's job is to report the news no matter what in a fair,free and non partisan manner and your homilies only seemed to serve as an impediment or obstacle in the media's coverage of your government and it's repeated bunglings.
To your credit, it must be said that you did make a game effort to defend the indefensible,cover up the sins of ommission and commission perpetrated on an unsuspecting and highly gullible electorate that gave you a resounding mandate to rule the country for a further five years a little over two years back. But, what the stereotyped aam aadmi did not bargain for was a Prime Minister who seemed to be busy playing the flute while Rome was burning, you conveniently deflected the onus/blame for the 2G spectrum scam squarely on the shoulders of Messrs A.Raja and the then finance minister P.Chidambaram,while the fact of the matter is that the very same Mr.Chidambaram had written a detailed letter to you as early as January 2008 clearly outlining his displeasure and discomfiture with the highly abrasive and authoritarian style of functioning of the telecom minister and also raised his doubts about the methods adopted by the telecom minister in the allocation of spectrum,yet you conveniently overlooked the same and tried to sweep it under the carpet by taking recourse to the hackneyed argument of compromises being an integral part of a coalition governments.
Coalition governments have become the norm rather than the exception worldwide Pradhan Mantri Ji, but taking shelter under the coalition umbrella fails to hold water as you are the only one who can decide what is more important to you, your morals,ethics,embellished and much commended sense of personal integrity,personal probity,good governance,a renewed sense of hope and confidence in the heart and mind of the common man or then sticking onto your prime ministerial gaddi no matter what and sacrificing all sense and differentiation between right and wrong,moral and immoral and ethical and unethical at the altar of political expediency and the much abused coalition dharma.
Taking recourse to the villified coalition dharma is no excuse for your dithering,bungling,vacillations,spinelessness,convenient blind eye and a slithering and convenience based sense of integrity and probity that only makes an appearance at highly opportune moments or then you find yourself backed against a wall and are left with no other recourse but retaliation, your so called broad hint that the Bharatiya Janata party's renewed sense of hostility stemmed from a sense of wrongdoing and the governments actions against a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government did you no credit whatsoever and only further fuelled doubts about your much vaunted sense of imagined hurt and personal humiliation.
Why don't you sacrifice your government if you are deeply perturbed by the scams and loot perpetrated on the hapless common man by your coterie,resign,sacrifice your government and come back with a renewed and stronger mandate for the reforms and unparalleled growth that you have publicly committed yourself to on many an occasion publicly or else step down and hand over the reins to a decisive,incisive,strong,highly moral and confident P.Chidambaram as both yours truly as well as the aam aadmi have no doubts whatsoever in their hearts and minds about his ability to lead this emerging superpower from the morass of corruption,nepotism,scams and spiralling inflation that you have plumetted it into.
Bow out an walk into the golden sunset with whatever leftover sense of dignity and personal probity that you can muster from the shambles that surround you before the much abused junta does a Hosni Mubarak and confines you to the dungeons of India's political history for eternity.
Yours in Sorrow,
A Deeply Perturbed and Highly Concerned Indian,
Sundeep Chopra.
The press conference expressely arranged at short notice with the editors of leading television news channels was a golden opportunity accorded to you to come clean on various scandals,scams,corruption,allegations of fuelling the already galloping inflation rates and last but not the least a manic obsession with maintaining the so called high and healthy growth no matter what even though the same is only widening the chasm between the have and have nots and India versus Bharat but your shoddy performance at the said press conference left a lot to be desired and only ended up muddying the waters further and only adding to the confusion caused by a vacillating and highly uncertain government.
To begin with, your body language and postures failed to evoke any sense of confidence whatsoever both in the eyes as well as the mind of the average television viewer,yo constantly fumbled, seemed ill at ease,were shifty eyed and evaded direct answers by couching your replies in inanities and technicalities whenever you felt that the going was getting a little too hot for comfort, your press secretary intervened on more than occasion and reprimanded supposedly hostile editors on the premise that the press conference was not meant to be an interrogation of the prime minister.
Infact, I would venture as far to say that some of your replies raised serious doubts about the efficacy/efficient functioning of your mental faculties as your holier than homilies and unsolicited advice to the editors on avoiding/bypassing the scams associated with and created by you and your highly corrupt and immoral coterie of ministers as the same was lowering the prestige of the government and the nation both domestically and internaionally and raising serious doubts about growing governance deficits, certialnly left me scratching my head in bewilderment and consternation as the media's job is to report the news no matter what in a fair,free and non partisan manner and your homilies only seemed to serve as an impediment or obstacle in the media's coverage of your government and it's repeated bunglings.
To your credit, it must be said that you did make a game effort to defend the indefensible,cover up the sins of ommission and commission perpetrated on an unsuspecting and highly gullible electorate that gave you a resounding mandate to rule the country for a further five years a little over two years back. But, what the stereotyped aam aadmi did not bargain for was a Prime Minister who seemed to be busy playing the flute while Rome was burning, you conveniently deflected the onus/blame for the 2G spectrum scam squarely on the shoulders of Messrs A.Raja and the then finance minister P.Chidambaram,while the fact of the matter is that the very same Mr.Chidambaram had written a detailed letter to you as early as January 2008 clearly outlining his displeasure and discomfiture with the highly abrasive and authoritarian style of functioning of the telecom minister and also raised his doubts about the methods adopted by the telecom minister in the allocation of spectrum,yet you conveniently overlooked the same and tried to sweep it under the carpet by taking recourse to the hackneyed argument of compromises being an integral part of a coalition governments.
Coalition governments have become the norm rather than the exception worldwide Pradhan Mantri Ji, but taking shelter under the coalition umbrella fails to hold water as you are the only one who can decide what is more important to you, your morals,ethics,embellished and much commended sense of personal integrity,personal probity,good governance,a renewed sense of hope and confidence in the heart and mind of the common man or then sticking onto your prime ministerial gaddi no matter what and sacrificing all sense and differentiation between right and wrong,moral and immoral and ethical and unethical at the altar of political expediency and the much abused coalition dharma.
Taking recourse to the villified coalition dharma is no excuse for your dithering,bungling,vacillations,spinelessness,convenient blind eye and a slithering and convenience based sense of integrity and probity that only makes an appearance at highly opportune moments or then you find yourself backed against a wall and are left with no other recourse but retaliation, your so called broad hint that the Bharatiya Janata party's renewed sense of hostility stemmed from a sense of wrongdoing and the governments actions against a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government did you no credit whatsoever and only further fuelled doubts about your much vaunted sense of imagined hurt and personal humiliation.
Why don't you sacrifice your government if you are deeply perturbed by the scams and loot perpetrated on the hapless common man by your coterie,resign,sacrifice your government and come back with a renewed and stronger mandate for the reforms and unparalleled growth that you have publicly committed yourself to on many an occasion publicly or else step down and hand over the reins to a decisive,incisive,strong,highly moral and confident P.Chidambaram as both yours truly as well as the aam aadmi have no doubts whatsoever in their hearts and minds about his ability to lead this emerging superpower from the morass of corruption,nepotism,scams and spiralling inflation that you have plumetted it into.
Bow out an walk into the golden sunset with whatever leftover sense of dignity and personal probity that you can muster from the shambles that surround you before the much abused junta does a Hosni Mubarak and confines you to the dungeons of India's political history for eternity.
Yours in Sorrow,
A Deeply Perturbed and Highly Concerned Indian,
Sundeep Chopra.
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