I don’t understand why one cannot criticise the NDA govt at the centre. This is the start of their second term and it’s the right time to criticise them so that by the end of this term they clean up their act.
Also, all the chest-thumping by some people doesn’t impress me and neither does the whataboutery. You want to pretend everything is ok, feel free, I don’t have to. Yes, I know that there is a narrative being built against this government of mob lynching, etc. But the government has to do something about it. It can’t bury its head in the sand and expect it to go away. It began in 2014 and will continue until the next election – and every election after that until a Congress government returns.
So, it’s time the narrative was nipped in the bud because say what you want, but the liberal ecosystem is far more powerful than some people sitting on Twitter can imagine. It stretches outside this country’s shores and the damage it can do is unimaginable. Prime Minister Narendra Modi can’t wish it to just disappear with a wave of his magic wand. And he can’t expect his band of loyal bhakts and supporters, who get uptight and abusive every time he is targeted, to do it for him.
It’s for the Prime Minister to take the bull by the horns. And as someone who voted for him, I have the right to criticise him. And one of the things that stick in the gut are the events in Unnao, and his complete silence on the issue.
What happened in Unnao is an utter disgrace, nay depravity. But that’s nothing new in UP. Murders, rapes, abductions are an every day affair. But one expects the new CM Yogi Adityanath to change it. But he can’t do that if he runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds.
Think about this girl, raped by the MLA first two years ago, then gang-raped by his goondas, her father “allegedly” killed in police custody, the eyewitness to his death also dying. And now this accident which killed her aunts and has her in the hospital on life support. And then tell me, the CM Adityanath didn’t know?
Don’t tell me the CM only knew yesterday that Sengar was a criminal and of his crime/s. In this day and age if a CM doesn’t keep tabs on what his MLAs do and doesn’t crack the whip on them he has no business being there. For example, why did MP Sakshi Maharaj visit the MLA who was in jail? And, why wasn’t he reprimanded for doing so?
Also, no point saying A does it so why not B? We voted the BJP to power because they said they were a party with a difference. If they’re no different from the rest why should people vote for them again? We need better governance, not cosmetic surgery or whataboutery.
So, when I voted for the BJP and Modi it was because I didn’t want the Congress and the dynasty. If this govt is going to pass the buck to the last one for every wrong done, next time I’ll vote them out. These 5 years are when we want to see the changes they promised before 2014.
So stop defending Modi and his government and his party’s governments around the country. It’s time to ask questions instead of sweeping them under the carpet.
If this govt doesn’t have the courage to handle the bureaucracy, opposition and judiciary, they might as well step aside or they will by the end of five years be pushed aside by a voter who has no time for losers, whiners and wafflers, or for those who indulge in whataboutery.
As for the UP CM, he needs to decide if he wants to be a headline in the state’s history or just another ignominious footnote like so many others before him.
For both, the clock is ticking.
Been There Done That 