Thursday 16 October 2014

So You Sowed, but He is Reaping!

As a child, all of us would have heard, "As you sow, so you will reap." That statement is so prone to misuse, especially, if you are a woken-up and aware citizen of India in the last one year or so. Also our recent habit of fast-food life, where we want things rendered at the click of a button, makes us believe what usually a man with a reasonable head wont.

To them, the proverb stands; but to those who had sown, it has become, 
 "So you sowed, but he is reaping!"

Let us start with democracy, which has been the legacy of Congress. Baring the mention of Janapada, (as far as I can pick up from my distant memory of my history books in school days) a democratic setup in some areas in ancient India, we had only kings, and sultans and more kings, till India started its journey to redeem the pledge of its "Tryst with its destiny". Democracy and scientific temper had to be ship of the voyage that India started in 1947. 

When a part time tea hawker and seasoned riot organizer, rose to occupy the post of Prime-minister of India, he was essentially reaping the benefit of what Congress has sown over the years. He acknowledged that by honoring the post of PM in his usual dishonorable way, when he repeatedly gave calls for "Congress Mukt Bharat."  

Since the day, he has risen to his much cherished political post, he is on a spree to inaugurate projects and heaping praise on himself and occasionally on Mr. Vajpayee; as if, you have to have a start date and end date of any project! 

Like the MOM of ISRO; a project conceptualized and successfully executed in just three years by ISRO; Modiji painted it, as if, the glorious episode in Indian space technology was started by Mr. Vajpayee between 1998 to 2004 and completed by he himself in just 100 days into power in Delhi. 




"Nothing Happened in Last 60 Years"
It would be unfair to accuse him for such day light robbery on his own; in pulling off such a HEIST his accomplice was as usual the media. The media was previously  found to be beating his drum, while he was impressing Japanese with his skills from his RSS sakha days. The media forgot the tremendous synergy brought into the Indo-Japanese relationship by previous Govt; many of the members of these media accompanied Dr. Singh to each such Japanese visits. In matter of fact, two such visits had happened in 2013 itself; this time though these media guys have to book their ticket and carry their bed-holders on their own. 

Then he was caught cleaning an already cleaned road on the occasion of "Swacha Bharat" photo-op in the capital. And boy, that was another name changing exercise; Nirmala Bharat mission, started in 2012, was renamed for no other reason than may be vastu sastra. 


"Delhi is so Dirty, Ahmadabad is so Clean"

Given a chance he would shout "Kuch nehin hua 60 saal main," but be very careful to dress for the inauguration events. He would inaugurate War ships and say that we have done nothing in the last 60 years, so he would rename National Manufacturing Policy initiatives, to Make in India. 




Today, as I write, many bhaktas are sounding "Mayyyyyyy" as Modiji is inaugurating Shrameva Jayatey; his media friends have started making "First Time Ever" headlines. 

But truth is that the event
"EPFO approves Rs 1,000 minimum monthly pension" happened, in Feb 2014. 


One media friend says, 
"Each of the six to seven lakh industrial units in the country will also get a unique Labour Identification Number, or LIN. 

A unified labour and industrial portal, where all data will be stored. The other will be the "Labour Inspection Scheme," which aims at ending arbitrariness in the inspection mechanism." 
This is Mithyameva Jayatey, the truth is here:
Oscar Fernandes Inaugurates Unified Single Portal for Ministry of Labour & Employment

This has already happened in 13-February-2014. 


"Mithyameva Jayatey"

Then there is this, Sansada Adarsh Grama Yojana; really is it the produce of the fertile mind of Modiji? In fact, it is the RURBAN program of UPA, with a twist. The twist is that now the center would take over Panchayatiraj and the clarion call of decentralization of Modiji will be shoved under the carpet. This is what this media report says: 
Modi's model village project to merge mutilple welfare schemes


While pointing at these concrete instances, I am also speculating about the fate of those in the green room. One of that is JNNURM, which is going to be masked through the much hyped smart city drama. What is a smart city and what are their parameters for smartness? Even the budget which allocates 7000 crore for 100 cities is criminally silent about it? I have just one simple request, please do not indulge in re-branding exercise before the friendly media.  

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