{"id":716,"date":"2018-12-12T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T09:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aradhanamishra.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2018-12-12T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T09:37:18","slug":"did-rahul-win-or-you-lose-a-letter-to-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Did Rahul win or you lose Modiji? A letter to PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Respected Shri Modiji,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of analysis and discussions have already taken place on various platforms (print and electronic media) and perhaps an equal number or more are on the way, to discuss the reasons behind your party\u2019s rout and Congress\u2019 upsurge in the states of MP, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh. A lot of people, experts are saying, that demonetization and GST hurt you. And quite a few are applauding Rahul for his \u2018leadership\u2019! But is it so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A middle-class voter, I am far from being an \u2018expert\u2019 but that\u2019s the beauty of democracy- power<\/g> of the common people, and equipped with that, I think I can share a thing or two about the reasons of your defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People voted for you because they thought you were different. They thought you wouldn\u2019t tolerate corruption in any form but then you went on collaborating with the Reddy brothers in Karnataka election and tried to form the govt there (unsuccessfully) with the connivance of the Governor. In Goa, you had already done so, (Congress had the majority but \u2018your Governor\u2019 invited you) but people let that go because they wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt. They still believed that you would do all that you had promised.  But by the time Karnataka happened, the line had started blurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the defense forces, you were the hero, who would put an end to the injustice meted out to them. You had promised OROP in your election manifesto and conveniently forgot about it once you came in the power.\u00a0 After a long period of protests by the veterans, you did implement that but in an absolutely diluted form- so much so that its non-implementation would have been a better proposition. Implementation in this form was more like an insult to injury. The veterans wanted this revision every two years if not one, while the notification said that the pension would be re-fixed every five years. Also, it came with a rider that the armed forces personnel who opted to get discharged on their request, would henceforth not get OROP benefits. Now, how justified is that with a steep pyramidical structure of the armed forces! Do you suggest that even if they are not promoted to the next rank, they are to continue being in the service grudgingly, to be eligible for OROP!!! I wonder whose loss is that! The armed forces,\u00a0which is forced to carry on with the personnel who are not happy being where they are, after being denied the promotion, or the personnel who despite not getting promoted, can\u2019t exercise their option of leaving, lest they lose OROP! \u00a0\u00a0And then you meddled with their sentiments by claiming all that they did or do as part of their duty and by putting \u2018your man\u2019 at the top, breaking the norm. All those people are not happy with you Shri Modiji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People knew that you belonged to a party, strongly associated with a religious leaning, and they were fine with that, as long as that \u2018leaning\u2019 didn\u2019t disrupt the fabric of the society, as long as it didn\u2019t stop development, as long as \u2018Mandir\u2019 issue didn\u2019t overpower the need to develop our infrastructure first, as long as providing employment to the youth remained the priority.  But you chose the opposite. A non-descript group like \u2018Karni Sena\u2019 went on a rampage and kept an entire state hostage while you and your govt kept mum, out of the fear that if you did something to stop it, Rajputs would go against you. Dear Shri Modiji, no Rajput or any caste wants such disruptions.We<\/g> wanted words of assurance from you and not the \u2018inaction\u2019 that you exhibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You had promised of a Lokayukt<\/g>, people were fed up with the rampant graft in the govt and had thought you would end all that. If you remember, seven years ago this word was what people had pinned their hopes on. As \u2018India against corruption\u2019 movement caught the imagination of the people, its two protagonists, Anna Hazare, and Arvind Kejriwal demanded the establishment of an Ombudsman to deal with grafts by public servants. Somewhere it helped you and your party big time. But you chose to break that promise. It showed that you were not really that different. The recent CBI fiasco added to the woes, further denting your image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You kept mum on the \u2018mob killings\u2019 by those supposed \u2018Gau Rakshaks\u2019. You thought by doing so, you are securing Hindu votes. Ironical this may sound but you lost in the \u2018cow belt\u2019. Modiji, believe you me, the middle class is least interested in the politics of religion. For them its more about economics than politics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With your absolute majority, people who had voted for you, hoped that you would rationalize reservation, making it economy based rather than caste based, but you chose to continue being in limbo-neither here nor there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe, you shall introspect over these, think why people chose you over others- there is still time. Use your \u2018international persona\u2019 rather than a persona whose party people engage in the debate of Hanuman\u2019s caste!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you think rural people are interested in your caste and religion politics, you need to correct that as well. For the farmers, Mandir is not important, good price of their produce, good roads, and cold storage facilities are. And yes, they are also troubled by your cow policy. They do not know what to do with their ageing<\/g>, non-milking cows. They are poor people with \u2018hand to mouth\u2019 existence. While your \u2018Gau Rakshaks\u2019 are all \u2018rampage happy\u2019, they haven\u2019t really shown much responsibility towards these cows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extraditing Mitchel (Augusta middle man)and getting the orders from a UK court to extradite Mallya, you did show some fillip towards your promise of \u2018corruption free India\u2019 but this was too little, too late and seemed more like a last-minute effort rather than an honest endeavour.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There cannot be even an iota of doubt that you have changed the perception of the word \u2018India\u2019 on the world platform and we are grateful for that. GST was needed but the execution certainly could have been better. But please let this country be India and don\u2019t turn it into \u2018Pakistan\u2019 of another kind with fanaticism.\u00a0 To\u00a0sum it all, I feel, it’s more about you losing, than Rahul winning.\u00a0 Maybe you can still change it and be the man that we had hoped you to be.\u00a0 And for you,\u00a0the good part is,\u00a0 general elections behave much differently than the Assembly elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picture Credit -The Quint<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright\u00a9 Aradhana Mishra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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