Thursday, August 16, 2012

Address the burning issues

Mr. Prime Minister your calculation of GDP growth rate, full account of the international economic slowdown and its impact on our economy in your speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day can’t fill the empty stomach of crores of poor Indians. The issues on the ground that the people confront with are backbreaking price rise, rising corruption in government departments at all levels. But you have kept almost mum on these two burning issues. The people of the nation had expected that Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh would dwell in detail in his Independence Day speech on all these issues and the measures being taken by the government to check price rise and eradicate corruption before the people of the nation. A hope had to be infused among the people by PM on the occasion of Independence Day. He has failed to energize the countrymen who are seething with discontentment against his government. There is economic downturn worldwide. It means according to our Prime Minister, the Government would do nothing to check runaway price of essential commodities and grains. It appears that the UPA Government of Dr. Manmohan Singh has been struck with paralysis. It has lost all hopes of recovery from the mess the nation has slid into due to its mismanagement of economy, lack of will power to take drastic steps to keep the economy going smoothly and buoyantly. Mr. Prime Minister, you had played a pivotal role in starting economic reforms successfully in India and taken the nation to the position where it used to be called emerging super economic power by none other than super economic power of the world. You had achieved astounding success in handling economy when you were the Finance Minister. You have already left stamp of authority on nation’s economy as FM. Undoubtedly, you are economist of international repute and your honesty and integrity have been unquestionable all your public life. Now, you are the Prime Minister. But it appears that you are PM only in name. The performance of your government in its second innings reflects it all on all fronts. Where has your magic touch to the economy gone? Is it the political support that you lack in taking steps to fight out price rise and corruption? If that is so, why don’t you relinquish the post of prime ministership and keep your credentials, image and economic wizardry intact. If there is no political consensus and because of this growth is lagging behind, whose fault is this? Is this the fault of people of the nation or your government? This is coalition era and Congress mindset must adapt to the reality in the interest of the nation. The UPA government must try its best to take all political parties on board and develop consensus on the burning issues of the day. Price rise and corruption are the two measure issues that a common man faces today. Illiteracy, poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment are not today’s problems. They have been prevailing in the nation since Independence. The need of the hour is to declare war on price rise and corruption. And if the government fails to fight out these two issues within the time left with it to go for Lok Sabha elections in 2014, it is bound to meet its doomsday.

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