Modi, Modi, "Mayday, Mayday"

Yes this is a desperate call for help. The PM is busy electioneering and holding huge crowds spellbound with his powerful oratorical skill. I have myself fallen under his spell just listening to him, but now, I am waking up to see fearful happenings around me. BJP and their supporting elements are  directly and indirectly  at the root of them.

Sixteen months on, the trust and the hope of the people have begun to sag. What is happening on the ground is frightening. Benefits promised for the well-being of the common man are still to come while what he is getting are  threats  to his very existence – his family life, how he lives, what he eats. Secularism is a bad word and in its place HInduthva is flaunted.  Instead of focussing on development  about which there is much talk even the BJP-led governments are  digressing into  areas which have so far caused no harm to the population but now seem to be  irritating the extremists of the ruling party who are openly threatening to plunder and to kill. They have begun to act on their threats and have to be reined in. The PM whom the  people chose with such acclaim  has not gone beyond giving oblique advice against  those threats.

All that the PM has to do –and do without delay – is to recall the oath he has taken to uphold the law of the land and do just that. There are some of his ministers and  party men-and women - who seem to forget that once they form part of the government they cease to have the same freedom to act as unrestrained party members. They are subject to the dictates of the Constitution  and the PM has to ensure this. He has to make it clear that  he would uphold the Constitution and act without fear or favour  to do so. He is the master of the spectacle and he should now  organise and preside over one in India.  Maybe it would be a good thing for him to call his MP’s and MLA’s  and have one big gathering to loudly repeat the oaths which they have taken last year. Till now he has raised a storm among NRI’s  abroad.It is time now for hin to  do the same here to forcefully demonstrate to those resident in India that the “Mayday”  call has reached him .