In presuming that there is growing anger against the Narendra Modi government, Congress president Rahul Gandhi seems, on the contrary, to be ignorant and oblivious of the still unabated ‘Jan Aakrosh’ (People’s Anger) against his party, the Congress, for having turned a blind eye to the unpardonable scale of corruption under the United Progressive Alliance (“At Delhi rally, Rahul throws an open challenge to BJP”, April 30). Putting aside for a moment his rhetorical tirade against the Prime Minister, Mr. Gandhi sounds amusing, to put it mildly, when he says that people are angry with the government about corruption, among other issues. Mr. Gandhi should know that if people are tolerant of all the shortcomings of the Modi government, it is only because the Prime Minister is perceived to be clean and his government corruption free. For this point alone, they are prepared to trust him, post 2019. Mr. Gandhi should find better issues with substance to challenge Mr. Modi. After frittering away golden opportunities to lead the nation to prosperity, the Congress does not seem to have learnt any lessons. It needs to go in for some soul-searching.
Sivamani Vasudevan,
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Chennai
Mr. Gandhi has forgotten that the Prime Minister is working hard and trying to fix the chaos created after a decade of United Progressive Alliance rule, which is best known for unspeakable corruption. Mr. Gandhi’s wild charges and challenges at the ‘Jan Aakrosh’ rally can be attributed to his playing to a gallery of sycophants.
V.S. Ganeshan,
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Bengaluru
There seems to be renewed vigour in the spirited challenge thrown down by Mr. Gandhi to the Bharatiya Janata Party. The coinage ‘Jan Aakrosh’ is a fitting way to take down the BJP’s slogan, “Acche din”, of which there are no signs as yet. The BJP should not forget that its brute majority is not enough to pooh-pooh the questions posed by the Congress. What is the development that has taken place in the past four years? Why are we hearing the same old rhetoric of dynastic rule? After the BJP took over the reins, there has only been a rise in difficult situations such as agrarian distress, growing unemployment, economic failures, flawed moves such as demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax, and increasing insecurity for women and children.
Many of our institutions are under attack. With the general election drawing closer, the BJP needs to give us a credible account of its so-called achievements.
D. Sethuraman,
Chennai