Dear Prime Minister of India
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Dear Prime Minister, “We the people of India.…..” wish you very earnestly not to remain silent and evade truth. Why not to come out clean of Gautam Adani snafu setting the record straight once for all, earlier it is done the better it would be for the nation?The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi targetting you all the time with a needle of suspicion on this issue for the past couple of years is not in good taste for you and the nation too.
Ironically, are very tricky, testing and embarrassing times not staring the nation in its face in light of first the USA Govt.’s indictment of Gautam Adani on charges of corruption, fraud and criminal conspiracy, and then a New York Court’s startling act of issuing arrest warrants against Adani and seven others? Please do not hide behind the premise that it is Adani, how is the NDA Modi.03 regime concerned with it?
Will this development not have very far-reaching ramifications in all respects for the nation throughout the world tainting India’s fair name?
Quite pertinent to remind your goodself that the list of questions and suspicions miring the system under your tutelage is mounting up every now and then for the polity to clear misty clouds of “fair” turning “foul” and “foul” turning”fair”in our polity within the twinkling of an eye. Three witches in William Shakespeare’s popular drama “Macbeth” haunt us who chanted, “Fair Is Foul And Foul Is Fair.”
You took a sacred oath of office thrice “….that I will do right to all manner of people in accordance with the Constitution and the law,without fear or favour,affection or ill-will.” Now is the time to uphold the constitution and the law by distinguishing between the fair and foul both prevalent in the system where you proudly claim that you have a penchant for “Zero Tolerance For Corruption, Fraud And Cheating.” Why should not the truth emerge whether stakeholder investors hail from either the United States of America or India?
It does not augur well for India and NDA Modi.03 that so many hi fis are indeed trapped in quagmire of legal and parliamentary wranglings.Home Minister Amit Shah is facing Canadian Government charges of his being hand in glove in Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing.An FIR at City Police Station Bengaluru was registered against Finance Minister Mrs.Nirmala Sitharaman for extortion and criminal conspiracy at the instance of Adarsh R. Iyer co-president of Jannaadhikaara Sangharsh Parishad with Justice M Nagaprasanna of Karnataka High Court now reserving his orders pertaining to questioning of the registration of FIR.National Security Adviser Ajit Doval got summons from an American Court in an alleged plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Then Securities Exchange and Board of India,(SEBI)Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch also happens to be a suspect skipping the Congress leader KC Venugopal headed Public Accounts Committee call to depose before it. The polity as usual seeks refuge on the pretext where are the evidences?
There is no clue available so far after more than five years, how that suicide bomb attacker on February 14, 2019 entered Pulwama region of Jammu Kashmir carrying large quantity of explosive in his car alone unchecked and uninterrupted which resulted in the killing of 40 CRPF security men?Will then Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh reveal how the bomb attacker got the safe entry to the site of attack and now donning the mantle of Defence Minister of India will he set the record straight of how many organisations or armed forces experts were consulted before translating controversial Agniveer scheme into actuality though he did claim in Lok Sabha while intervening in Lok Sabha in response to Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s flaying of this scheme that 158 organisations were consulted? Will he place on the floor of Lok Sabha the evidence in black and white in response to Rahul’s Agniveer scheme’s ifs and buts?
Will you ensure that everyone is equal before law in India? When the BJP bigwigs and spokes persons on various forums have to face the music on account of omission and commission on the part of any BJP party leader or activist in anyway anywhere, they instantly offer a stereotyped response, these are charges not conviction, have Mr. Hemant Soren the Jharkhand Chief Minister or erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal been convicted after having been summoned and following allegations they were incarcerated for months together. Sanjay Singh and Sanjay Raut of AAP and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) Rajya Sabha members respectively were behind the bars for many months on sheer charges not conviction.
Do not couple of these instances cited above bear testimony to the fact that double yardsticks have been in the vogue so far as the law of the land and all are equal before the eyes of law in India is concerned. Has the polity under your more than decade long stewardship not shielded economic offender fugitives Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi( of Punjab National Bank Scam),Lalit Modi, Vijay Mallya, so on and so forth? The fugitive in Erstwhile Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina lands safely in India getting shelter in India, what has India gained so far, have bi-lateral relations with the neighbours harmonised? Why there is really no room for any transparency, accountability,consensus,certainty and uniformity in the framework of the polity in India?
If things continue like this consistently then the dangers of situations going beyond reach and out of control cannot be ruled out. The examples of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh must serve as the sharp eye-openers. Why nations such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Kenya are having second thoughts of snapping deals done with Gautam Adani’s companies. The French and Australian regimes too beckoned in the past that you impressed upon them to favour Anil Ambani in Rafale Fighter Air Craft Deal and Adani in offering deals.
In the best interests of India that is BHARAT it is imperative to stem the rot of suspicion looming large over the nation in various walks of life.William Shakespearean universal assertion holds still fine in India’s context in his famous play, “Julius Caesar” very aptly exhorting those in high positions, “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.” Will you and all your NDA colleagues care for this at all?
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Contributed by :
Prof PK Sharma Freelance Journalist
Associate Professor of English(Retired),
Pom Anm Nest, BARNALA (Punjab)
Mobile: 94170-02504
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