AN OPEN LETTER TO RAHUL GANDHI:
9TH JULY, 2023:
Dear Rahul Gandhi,
This is my heartfelt letter to you.
My father knew Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and also your grandmother Indira Gandhi.
One thing, I know for sure is, that they would never have spoken in any way against India, whether they were in power or not. Especially not in their visits abroad.
The reason, I am writing this letter to you, is that you come from a family that would never speak against India abroad but you seem to be doing just this consistently.
WHY?
You say that democracy in India is under threat, just after your party had a huge victory in Karnataka and our Prime Minister, Narendra Modi congratulated the Congress on its win. Then you say, there is no press freedom but everything you say and do is reported in all out networks and in newspapers in several languages.
So, why do you speak against the one country and people that has given so much to your family.
True, the voters have not warmed towards you in particular but that honestly has to do with you, more than them. You have not really been much of a politician in your life and it seems you don't really want to be one except when you are abroad.
Yes, you did a Yatra but you had comfortable caravans to sleep in and your party to back you all the way. It possibly was more about your IMAGE than Bharat jodo. I saw your face splashed with various ordinary Indians but it was always about you.
But the fact of this letter is that unlike Nehru, Indira and Rajiv your trips abroad lately seem to be all about how bad India is. No democracy, no freedom of press, minorities being mistreated etc.
How can you forget the brutal killing of Sikhs in the year, 1984, or the riots that took place year after year in several parts of India under Congress rule? If as you say, the Dalits were mistreated in the 1980s, than you have to also say, it was under the Congress government.
And as far as the Muslims are concerned, your party used them mostly as a vote bank. I have heard several of them saying this and they are from all walks of life. Can they all be wrong?
I have seen soldiers die of awful wounds in Army Hospitals, they and their families have given us a country, where we can live safely, while they live for years in conditions that no army in the world lives, that may be at Siachen, Ladhak, Arunachal Pradesh, manning borders.
Many die in peacetime due to high altitude sickness or falling into ravines and freezing to death. These borders are manned by Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus. They look out for each other, yet you can actually tell a foreign audience that minorities are being discriminated against?
What exactly do you gain from the comments you make against India? Do you want to win British and American votes? Don't you realise that you are hurting every Indian in how you depict our country abroad.
Do you hate the BJP so much and our Prime Minister, who is lauded world over for being a great leader, that you have to discredit every single thing that India has achieved in the last nine years. Surely you must know that in the year, 2014, our banks were in a mess and India was considered one of the FRAGILE FIVE COUNTRIES? Even PM Modi's worst critics admire him for the reforms, he has brought about in Jammu and Kashmir and in the banking sector, in infrastructure, in housing for the poor, in internet connectivity, in sanitation and so much else. This is evident to most Indians but not to you? Why?
Can you deny the strides made in so many sectors in India today? Yes, we have problems and they could have been addressed in the sixty plus years of Congress rule and some were like the IITs, that were built and the land reforms. No one denies this. But neither can you deny the free food benefits and the health cards that have helped the poorest families, brought under the BJP government along with inclusive banking. This benefitted all families irrespective of their religion or caste. Surely you must know this.
THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT NEVER SIGNED A MOU WITH THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY. WE STILL DON'T KNOW, WHAT WAS THAT?
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