Dear Prime Minister,
I remember those days when I was in college and 2014 elections results got announced. At our hostel, we all gathered to watch your speech on the TV. It was a very rare experience because before that we used to gather only for a cricket or football match and not for any kind of a speech.
Even today, I have that 2014 speech in my mind. Because that day, you addressed our nation first and not the world, unlike previous Prime Ministers. You addressed our people directly and in a very simple manner. You told people very basic things about cleaning our country and saving water and electricity rather than making any philosophical statements. You were addressing the nation as the Prime Minister of India only with no other badge on your shoulder.
But what I see now, today you are a whole different person with a lot of badges on your shoulder. You made me see you as BJP’s PM candidate while you were speaking at the Red Fort on our recent Independence Day. You also made me see you as an RSS member when I saw you speaking about the presence of plastic surgery and aircraft in the Ramayana at the conclave of Science Congress 2018. It’s ironical when I compare your speech at the Science Congress with your thought of “New India”.
Surely in these five years, a lot of work has been done by your government, especially in the infrastructure sector. The bridges like Bogibeel and Dhola Sadiya in Assam, highways like Eastern peripheral expressway and Yamuna Expressway and a number of seaports, all deserve appreciation. Your schemes like Saubhagya, Udaan and Bharatnet have been successful to some extent.
But according to me, every PM has two things to do in his tenure. One is to do your “work” and other is to perform your “duty”. There is a difference between these two. “Work” is where the PM has to focus on the development, empowerment and economic growth of the country. “Duty” is where they have to maintain the relationship between the people as tolerant as possible and conserve the Indian culture.
In the section of “work”, I have no problem with your government but as far as your “duties” are concerned, you have caused a lot of damage to the Indian culture. A government may be corrupt, may play with the rights of the people but it should not touch the social fabric of the country which it has at its foundation and you have done that only. Yes, Congress also did minority politics but for political gains only. Beyond that, they or any other regional party have never created this kind of stressed situation as far as the Indian society is concerned.
In 1977 elections everyone was concerned about whether India would remain a “democracy” or not and before this year’s elections, everyone is concerned about whether India would remain “India” or not. This year, something huge is at stake and I am still confused. Please help me out!