Dear PM @narendramodi, here is a collection of "The worst is over" ft that you pulled off year after year. Imagine being able to say that every year and people believing it every year.
Here. This is 2017. The year after de-monster-stroke.
Beginning of 2018, and I think here economic survey guys honestly thought the worst was over.
But they underestimated the power of a stupid man in power. Yeah. That's you dear PM @narendramodi.
By end of 2018, some of your ministers were seriously hoping for that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Without realising that the light will come only if you move towards it.
We can't expect light if we are digging a grave and not a tunnel.
Then came 2019. From a definite worst is over, we started doubtfully hoping. "The worst may be over", shh.. I hope so?
But then, People plan, PM decides. How much more can you suffer for me? Dear PM @narendramodi asked.
Mint which in 2017 had announced that the "worst is over" started asking the question to that answer in early 2020.
"Is the worst over for Indian Economy?"
Our dear PM @narendramodi laughed so very loudly at this.
PS: You didn't hear it because he lives in a 12 acre bungalow.
Economists again decided to say something about the economy.
"Worst may be over.. but..".
They were knowledgable earlier. But had become wise by now.
They just wrote "but..."
By September 2020, finance ministry had had enough of this.
They declared themselves that this is the absolute worst that they can do. That they cannot do worse even if they want.
Well, an elephant might not know it's strength. But we know.
The guy who directed inking the fingers of citizens coming to deposit their own money which by the way was made junk overnight by Govt's own decree, couldn't sit back as the "the worst is over" chorus was getting louder.
I think he will know. He was there from the beginning.
For many, these are just statistics. But these are lived realities.
When decision after decision you decide to test the sacrificial capacity of poor subjects, we are being pushed back by 21 years dear PM @narendramodi.
When there is a wound in your body you don't say ah, anyway there is pain, let me get some surgeries done. No.
You give it some rest.
So give some rest. To society, to economy, to people. We need to heal.
The way we framed rules was very 'Modi'ish. That neighbours would need to take an approval route for investing in India. Without taking the name of China.
With that what we also conveyed that we put China and Pakistan in a similar category. As a hostile or an enemy nation. 2/n
For China, a limited skirmish with India would have always been on the table as an extension of their diplomacy. Considering the infrastructural advantage, historical disputes and distance from mainland, this was a region they could always pick to fight. 3/n
"Only Gandhis can hold INC together." is a statement often thrown around, repeated saying of which, is expected to validate its own assertion.
To analyse this question a bit impartially, first you have to ask whether INC has held itself together. 1/n
Let's start from 1997, when Mrs Gandhi came into active politics. A split happened around the same time.
1. In 1998, Mamata Banerjee, a congress leader, split from the party and made Trinamul Congress. She governs West Bengal now. Marginal presence of INC in the state now.
2. In 1999, Sharad Pawar split from INC specifically due to the rift with Mrs Gandhi and made NCP.
NCP is a major political party on its own right in Maharashtra now.
You make use of him like a bt constable. But he is actually National Security Advisor. 1/n
What is NSA?
Well, wiki says, “NSA is tasked with advising the PM on all matters relating to internal & external threats and opportunities to India... The NSA receives all intelligence reports and co-ordinates them to present before the Prime Minister.“ 2/n
And what is national security?
Well, national security is not just territorial security, but includes non-military dimensions, including security from terrorism, economic threats, energy threats, environmental threats, resource threats, cyber threats, pandemic threats etc. 3/n
Impossible to not look back and see what was going through my mind then.
And more importantly whether my acts since then has justified my own decision.
Have to thank twitter here. August 2019 TL gives me a glimpse to my own thoughts back then. Long thread. 1/n
September was a month of taking questions and finding answers. Key learning was that dismissing questions that we found senseless is how we reached here.
Ranging from what about Kashmiri Pandits to didn't you resign because you were about to be fired for misconduct. 2/n
September was also the first month of what was to be an incessant travel. Had a belief that it is important to have a conversation on what we are doing in Kashmir not with just those in Delhi, but to people of the country at large. It was also a month of feeling helpless. 3/n
Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's resignation has serious implications to the future of free & fair elections in India. He was to be CEC during the upcoming WB & UP elections. Has been forced out by the Govt now. We didn't stand up for the few who stood up for the country!
How each member of his family was targeted by the very government which appointed him as Finance Secretary and later as EC. Is the Government saying that they made him both without any vigilance or IB clearance? Wasn't there due diligence then? thelogicalindian.com/news/central-a…