New Delhi
29th May 2015
To,
Shri Narendra Modi
Hon’ble Prime Minister
Government of India
New Delhi.
Dear Shri
Narendra Modiji,
I have read
with interest your letter addressed to ‘fellow citizens of the country’ on the
occasion of the completion of one year of your assumption to the post of Prime
Minister of the nation. You have explained the activities of your government
during the period. I felt that I should write to you regarding what we feel
about your achievements and their results.
I know you are
working hard visiting several countries to bring FDIs to India, though there is
a valid criticism that you have spent 53 days to tour 18 countries in the last
one year but have toured only 48 days in India. You may change the balance. But
your tours are business ones not political ones as our earlier Prime Ministers
did. Some of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s interactions with Heads of
Nations at conferences like ‘Bandung’ and his inking of ‘Panchseel’ with Chou en
Lai are historic. However, your efforts to improve relations with our
neighbours and trade relations with Asian, Latin American countries should
yield positive results as the US and European countries are in crisis and
trying to throw their burden on developing countries like India.
But your claim
that your government is trying to improve the poorest on the principle of ‘Antyodaya’
is unfounded. Contrary, the Land Acquisition Ordinance is against the peasants
particularly the poor peasants. Labour reforms are against the workers who are
producing wealth by their sweat and blood. Your proposal to make it difficult for
workers to organise trade unions certainly is not in favour of the poor but
helps only the rich industrialists to exploit more.
I hereby give
you the list of a few poor Indians who benefited in your one year rule. The
following corporates added exorbitantly to their wealth this year.
Gautam Adani Rs 50,000 crore
Bharati Group
(Sunil Mittal) Rs 60,000 crore
HDFC Rs 1,00,000
crore
SUN Group Rs 1,00,000
crores
Tatas Rs 1,10,000
crores
The total
increase of corporate houses during this period is Rs 10 lakh crores. Those
benefited are Mahindras, ICICI, Infosys Wipro, HVL and HCL etc. (Source PTI).
The one-year has seen continuous rise in prices of all essential
commodities as the big business are free to manipulate prices through hoarding
and forward trading. Certainly this
is not a proud record in favour of people. Suicides of farmers are still
continuing, poverty is on increase, prices of food grains and all other essential
commodities have gone up. Atrocities on women, dalits and terror on minorities are
is on the increase. Among people who were surveyed, more than 60% are saying
that corruption has increased.
Your claim is that power brokers’ raj has been demolished.
But now the one-man rule has got reduced to the old style. Your party campaign
resembles the ‘India shining campaign’ of your party widely publicised before
its miserable defeat 11 years back.
The threat to abolish special status to north-eastern
states is against the federal principle on the pretext that the Finance
Commission has recommended 42% to states. But on the whole it is less by 1%
than it was earlier to states’ share (6% to 5%).
Also, banning of beef in some BJP ruled states is
interfering with the food habits of people. Muslims, Christians, Dalits,
Adivasis, OBCs, and some other caste people eat beef. Your minister wants all
of them to go to Pakistan if they want to eat beef. This gives an impression
that you do not have any control on their utterances, which are foolish and
insulting majority of our population.
Under your one-year rule, attacks on the minorities have
increased. In the national capital itself, there had been anti-Muslim violence
in Trilokpuri and ghastly attacks on churches and other Christian institutions.
Your calculated silence on vicious outbursts of leaders of
various outfits of Sangh Parivar is the main cause of their encouragement.
Please break your silence and explain your approach on the policy of your party
and Sangh Parivar. It is going to destroy the secular fabric of our
country.
Dear Shri Modiji,
I have quoted only a few examples. One year is certainly a
review time. Rethink about your policies, come out from the clutches of
corporates and stand with the poor and exploited people of our mother land.
Introspect with heart and soul. Decide whether you are with the exploiting
corporates or with the people of India.
With regards,
Yours Sincerely,
(Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy)
Former Member of Lok Sabha
General Secretary, CPI
संदेश
