Dear Prime Minister,
After a long time of cursing your government, I thought I will
write to you.
You are a very respectable person in the government. After Nehru,
you have been the only person to be the Prime Minister after completing a full
five year term. In a country like ours this is indeed a great achievement.
You have been a globally renowned figure in the field of Economics. You have held
very many prestigious positions of power in many Indian and foreign
institutions. We all have high regard for you, as an economist.
During the Narasimha Rao prime ministerial-ship, in
1991, you freed India from the License Raj and brought in economic
reforms. This exercise totally changed the economic facet of India. You have
been lucky enough to have got all the accolades for that. But, it goes without
saying that if at all you did not have a brave and risk taking Prime Minister
like Mr. Rao, you would not have been able to do anything at all. This shows
how important the role of a Prime Minister is, in a country like ours.
You have been lucky enough to be declared the Prime Minister by Mrs.
Sonia Gandhi, this when she herself had an opportunity to hold that prestigious
position of power. Is it that she sacrificed the most powerful position for you
or was she denied the opportunity? This still remains ambiguous. Anyways, you
were lucky. You had it and you continue to have it despite the galore of issues
the UPA is undergoing, corruption being the front runner.
Your government has been infamous for the most number of scams and
the humongous loss made to the exchequer (or gained by some individuals). Your
ministers and MPs seem to be obsessed with breaking their own records of
corruption. And I should tell you that you are gifted with very eloquent
speakers in your government, who try to play with words and try to create a
clean image of your government. Again, you are so lucky to have such people
around. Apart from the money they loot, you should reward them for the brilliant
work they do.
But, you will always have the curse of Anna Hazare. You deceived
him and the people of India. You announced on the floor of the house that you
would pass the Lokpal Bill and you sent a singed letter to Anna saying this,
but you have not yet fulfilled that promise of yours. You unleashed the Income
Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate behind Baba Ramdev and tried to
somehow tarnish his image. In fact you have tried all means to stop these two
activists from raising the issue of corruption.
The 2G scam happened right around you, but you wished to look away
from it, and let it materialize. You had an escape route then, because the telecom
ministry wasn’t directly under you. But now, in the coal-gate scam, you don’t.
It was you who was at the helm of the coal ministry. Now how can you justify
this? Are you searching for a scapegoat for the coal-gate too? Well, you may
not be lucky in this minister!
Team Anna came out in the public with the draft CAG report that
named you in the coal scam. They demanded for an independent SIT to probe the
charges. You denied it vehemently. You also added that even if there is an iota
of truth in their acquisitions, you would resign from public life.
Now that the CAG has submitted its final report and it still has
your name mentioned, have you forgotten the statement that you gave? In 1993
you had submitted your resignation from the post of Finance Minister after a
report mentioned that your office could not anticipate the securities scandal. What
has changed you from 1993 and 2012? Mrs. Sonia Gandhi?
You, before leaving for Tehran, for the NAM summit, said that you
were more concerned about the GDP growth and that you wanted it to happen fast.
This was the justification you gave for subverting parliamentary procedures and
allotting 142 coal mine blocks. Let alone the fact that most of the allottees
were not capable of mining out the mineral and did contribute nothing for the
GDP growth. Imagine what the situation would be if each and every minister in
your cabinet does this subverting of parliamentary procedures! You also said
that your maintaining silence has won over many issues. Sorry. This is not what
we want from a Prime Minister. We want you to talk and articulate your stand.
Why don’t you learn this art from your friend Manish Tewari?
After coming from the NAM summit, you said that there is no
question of your resignation and that the CAG is not right. Also you blame the
BJP for stalling the Parliament. You did whatever you wanted to in your way,
which has been proven wrong, by a constitutional body, and now you shoot down all
the people who point fingers at you? Are you in a primary school to act in such
a childish manner? Does your silence remind you of your school days, when all the
students were supposed to remain silent?
What is it that you are going to do? Are you going to let this
political logjam prevail? Have you thought of something or are you waiting for
Mrs. Sonia Gandhi’s orders? How does your conscience allow you to be Mrs. Sonia’s
poodle all the time? In the last week of June, 2012, you had talked about unleashing ‘animal
spirits’. Was Poodle the animal that you meant then?
The nation would be thankful to you and would restore the respect for
you if you submit your resignation and keep away from politics. You are good as
a teacher or researcher, why don’t you continue doing that? Or at least take
some rest in your old age, you have done enough. You have been tagged as an ‘under
achiever’, compared to a ‘shikhandi’, ‘dritarashtra’. Haven’t you been happy with
these wonderful names you got? Or do you want more names to follow?
For all what you have done, remaining silent and letting the looters
to do their job with much ease, you deserve the same punishment what Kasab is
going to get. Sorry for being harsh, but you asked for it Mr. Prime Minister.
Hoping that you turn in to a tiger from a poodle soon!
With shame and grief,
A patriot.
Bharat Mata Ki Jai!
