A Campaign of Canard

In the last couple of weeks or so, there is a campaign of canard by inveterate Modi baiters and are systematically trying to present a bleak picture of pandemic surge in India is due to the failure of the current government in handling the crisis. 

Especially the so called country's leading intellectuals claiming to be secularists and these men regularly appear in Television debates and have developed a personality cult among elite intellectual class of India include leading historian(cricket, environment etc) , noted journalist and social activist and are depicting the pandemic situation in India as a gross failure on the part of Modi Government and are carrying out this campaign thru social media relentlessly in the last fortnight.

I have a high respect for this intellectual class and  their right to criticize and certainly agree with them that when a man happens to be the prime minister of a country, he is not above scrutiny and critics have right to highlight his omissions and commissions in a constructive way with an open mind but when it is done with prejudice against one man consistently carrying out a negative campaign to sully the image then criticism turns to hate campaign and the critics tend to lose respect in the eyes of an ordinary reader.

Even an opposition leadar who is known for his childish statements is up now with making sarcastic statements to take advantage of the situation. And other opposition parties are not far behind in the race in badgering the government instead of co-operating in an hour of crisis in the country.

This second wave has hit India a little late but whole of Europe and America have already been through it and are fighting to restore the normalcy but behaviour of opposition party leaders, media and citizenry in those countries is a lesson for all of us to learn. In an hour of national crisis all stake holders are rallying behind the government of the day and extending all possible support to fight for the cause unitedly to wade through the crisis but in our country the situation is exactly the opposite and the so-called secular intellectuals and opposition parties  are trying to hang albatross around one man's neck and showing him in poor light.

If we think why India is still a progressing country despite rich resources and best in class people reasons are not far to seek. In the past we have seen, even in the country's gravest situations, as a political class we failed to put up a united front to demonstrate that the interest of the nation is paramount and parties and individual are secondary. Instead our politics is ready to descend to any level for the sake of power and ready to do any machinations even at the cost of country.

We celebrated the last week the birth anniversary of Nobel laureate poet Tagore who goes onto say in one of his poems - Let My Contry (men) Awake.....

...... Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by 

Thee into ever-widening thought and action;

Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake......