Sunday, August 4, 2013

An open letter to Dr. Manmohan Singh

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

I write this open letter to you as an ordinary citizen (aam aadmi, as per your party's preferred lingo). You have been the PM of our nation for 9 yrs, the third longest serving PM. In these 9 yrs you have shown that it is possible to survive at the highest levels of Indian politics by virtually taking no decision of your own. You have proved that silence is golden when you have nothing to say and most of the time you have nothing to say.

You have proved that to survive in Indian politics you need quantity and not quality. You have proved that a highly qualified individual can take orders from a sparsely qualified individual. You have proved that you can survive as the highest executive officer of this country without inspiring the people, without exuding confidence among the people and most of all without saying anything.

Whenever you have made a bad decision you have blamed it on either the opposition or coalition politics. You have not taken responsibility for anything that has happened to the country but proudly display your ads on television enlisting few triumphs. While I congratulate you on your triumphs, they are too less and far apart to make up for the bad governance that this country has gone through during your tenure. You blame the present economic condition of India on global slowdown, then please explain to me sir, how is that 46 countries have had better economic growth than us in these same years that India has lost all its economic shine. When we "GOT" (not elected, for we didn't even know you were in the fray) a super educated prime minister for our country we were practically crying with happiness expecting our country to now climb greater heights and truly be a super power and enriched society, instead we are now crying looking at the poor economic condition of the country.

Why is it sir, that while leaders of many nations shower praises on you and regard you as one of the greatest economic minds of the 21st century, India as a nation is still failing? Are we so weak and dependent on resources from elsewhere that a global slowdown affects our very ability to feed the citizens. And if you claim that global factors are the real problem that why is that in the last 9 years of your "leadership" you have not given a thought on self sustenance?

I request you sir, to kindly vacate the position of the PM of this country and hand it over to someone who can own up to the responsibilities, since you blame everyone else around for all the mess. I am one citizen who does not want you to remain in the executive position handed over to you. While I will exercise my right (voting) in the hopes to keep you off the chair, I would surely appreciate it if you did it yourself!!

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