Commitment vs Delivery

Commitment vs Delivery

The current government committed to a whole lot of things when they were fighting the elections- they fought it pretty hard against an already dead snake. They beat them to death and came to power, my belief was in any case BJP would have come to govern with or without Modi as 10 years of UPA was too much for us to take. We were perturbed by a lot of scams and scandals that the anger in us was clearly highlighted during the elections’14.

But after BJP took charge i was expecting a lot from the government that would benefit the selfish tax payer (me!).  So, when i started commenting people around me said, “ Boss, you need to give time” Agreed, it wasn’t fair from my part to expect miracles to happen when one never expected anything from UPA for the past 10 years. We witnessed a lot of high end drama as the Prime Minister did a big “Sashtaanga Namaskaram” when he entered the Parliament and all of us said, “What a man” and we believed that he is out there to change the course of our country. Unfortunate that we weren’t aware that the GDP, Industrial growth, Inflation, Petrol Prices etc., were under control with the UPA govt. As a smart strategy the BJP never went on overboard to criticise Dr.Singh, PC, Sonia, Jayram Ramesh, instead they consistently made Rahul the scape goat and continued with their assault. This improved the image of the BJP and its leaders thereby dented the congress. The common man was made to believe that what BJP is delivering needs to be cherished. Prime Minister continued his foreign trips and made all of us believe that the relationships are improving with all other countries in the world except for China, Srilanka and Pakistan (which actually matters).

PM launched demonetisation and said all the black money will come to the roads, but unfortunately all of us came to the roads and stood in the queue to withdraw our own money. The banks kept strict stipulations that we cannot withdraw beyond a certain amount, but we all quietly adhered thinking that the black money holders are going to come to the roads. This is where we need to appreciate ourselves that when we believe, we believe. The Government took almost 8 months to give us an account of what was collected(99%). There is no clarity,

on what was the cost of this whole exercise called “Demonetisation”,

on what happened to those people who died standing in queues,

on those who lost jobs and

many who lost their businesses.

 Forget about the time we all spent discussing about this damn demonetisation.

Can you remember any issue that has affected us the most that we were discussing about the government between 2004 to 2014?

Look at some statistics,

The crude prices have comedown drastically while our fuel and cooking gas prices only look north.

The country’s GDP is at an all time low since 2006.

GST is all set to screw small and medium size businesses as they will have to only keep filing GST returns (40 times in a year).

The Swaach Bharat only added in the form of taxes and the dirt still exists. The amount of money spent on communicating the program runs into 100s of crores. The Make in India initiative remains to be a nice jargon and no great movement beyond Adani and Ambani. The news channels have surprisingly sounding pro government.

But the Central Govt is very busy preparing for election after election across the country and their only agenda is “Congress mukht Bharat”.

Friends, we need prosperity and not eradication of a party that doesn’t have power in any case.