This is a funny story from India. Please do not mistake this for figment of imagination because this is scarily true and happening in real time as we speak. The Prime Minister of India is currently travelling- either in India or abroad, addressing people and trying to earn good will for his newly formed government. The problem is, he cannot help but oversell his achievements. He is constantly in campaign mode never once stopping to actually govern. Over the last 180 days, he has travelled abroad for 40 days (roughly) and spent almost 25 days campaigning for the state elections in India. So roughly 50% of the time has been spent in pure bluster with no productive work (unless you get all philosophical and say he is representing the country every day).
Now, comes the kicker. Since he has had no time to settle down and think through policies, there have not been many initiatives from the Government except a few photo ops and renaming old schemes and attempting to target them better. Obviously, we would understand and would treat him with deference if he would have said as much. Problem is, he goes around tom-tom ing about achieving more in 6 months than what previous Governments have done in 5 years and one is obligated to ask respectfully, Mr. Prime minister, what exactly has your Government achieved. The response would make you both laungh and cry. Apart from rising and setting of the sun, every other thing is being counted as “achievements” under the new regime. Schemes that have been running for decades now are being packaged as new ideas. Government response to help citizen during natural calamities is termed as achievement and votes are being sought on it. I feel disgusted by the narrow mindedness of the person who is supposed to be my leader and represent my country is so busy representing just himself.
I sure hope in the days to come people will notice more and more what I have noticed and perhaps motivate the PM to switch from campaign mode to govern mode. Until such a time arrives, India is nothing but a stage and the Government is nothing but a comic providing unlimited laughter to us citizens.
So long..
Now, comes the kicker. Since he has had no time to settle down and think through policies, there have not been many initiatives from the Government except a few photo ops and renaming old schemes and attempting to target them better. Obviously, we would understand and would treat him with deference if he would have said as much. Problem is, he goes around tom-tom ing about achieving more in 6 months than what previous Governments have done in 5 years and one is obligated to ask respectfully, Mr. Prime minister, what exactly has your Government achieved. The response would make you both laungh and cry. Apart from rising and setting of the sun, every other thing is being counted as “achievements” under the new regime. Schemes that have been running for decades now are being packaged as new ideas. Government response to help citizen during natural calamities is termed as achievement and votes are being sought on it. I feel disgusted by the narrow mindedness of the person who is supposed to be my leader and represent my country is so busy representing just himself.
I sure hope in the days to come people will notice more and more what I have noticed and perhaps motivate the PM to switch from campaign mode to govern mode. Until such a time arrives, India is nothing but a stage and the Government is nothing but a comic providing unlimited laughter to us citizens.
So long..
1 comment:
Abhi , The election was won on the back of what proved to be a very successfully strategy - the unbridled and manipulative use of propaganda , public relations and social media. Given that the management of appearances has paid such good dividends there is no reason to expect that here will be a change of course.
P.S. I enjoy reading your articles. - OD
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