Rebuttal to 'The Moral Ambivalence'

Mr. Sanjay Jha’s writing on moral ambivalence coming from a person who belongs to a party which doesn’t have morality at all. He starts the article with narratives on Mrs. India Gandhi. But conveniently forgets that same Gandhi imposed emergency in the country and put thousands of people behind bar. He conveniently forgets to talk about Mrs. Gandhi’s decision to hold election in Assam after horrific the killings of innocent Muslims in Nielle under centre’s watch in spite of the opposition from the election commission. Again he forgets to add in that Mrs. Gandhi famously told while campaigning in north eastern state that state will be run as per Bible. Look at Mr. Jha’s moral ambivalence here, he proudly states that allegation on Mrs. Gandhi regarding misuse of the official machinery was cleared by SC, but at the same breath he wants to pronounce Mr. Modi guilty in spite of not a single court in the country found him guilty even after 11 long years of investigation. I want to ask Mr. Jha, did Mrs. Gandhi resign based on moral ground or Allahabad HC’s judgement? If it was based on the court judgement, which court pronounced Mr. Modi guilty of any wrong doing? Does country has separate legal system for Mr. Modi, where he is presumed to be guilty until proven guilty in a court of law? What kind moral ambivalence Mr. Jha is talking about?

I am really baffled by the argument that since riot took place under Mr. Modi’s watch; he is not eligible to talk about the good governance. If I extend the same argument even Congress CMs like Tarun Gogoi, Ghelot and Pratviraj Chavan are not eligible to talk about the Good Governance. However, BJP ruled states have not seen a single riot after 2002, which is contrary to the Congress ruled states. If I take pre 2002, horrific killings of minorities took place under Congress’s watch whether it is 1984 anti-Sikh riot, 1989 Bhagalpur riot, 1983 & 2012 Assam riots etc. This list is endless and these riots show that the Congress pathetically failed protect the citizens especially minorities. Unlike other riots, 2002 Gujarat riot has been investigated thoroughly by SC appointed SIT, which gave clean chit to Mr. Modi. By rejecting it and questioning the integrity of the SIT, Mr. Jha displaying his disrespect to institution and his way is the highway. In addition Congress even failed take any action against their leaders involved in the any of the riots and continuously disrupting the legal process.  

Now coming to Rambo act, BJP spokesperson has rightly said it is rather good to be a Rambo than to be a Dumbo and Scambo. If 15000 was not the right number of pilgrims rescued by the Gujarat government, why didn’t Mr. Jha present the right number in his article? The fact is even UK state didn’t know how many pilgrims were there, how many died, how many are missing and how many are buried? Funny thing is Congress party’s ‘YUVA RAJ’ went to UK in spite of HM’s suggestion of not to allow VIP’s visit. Look how bad omen this ‘YUVA RAJ’ is, the day he visited, IAF aircraft crashed, which resulted in loss of life. Also, ITBP had to evacuate their jawans from their guest house to provide security the ‘YUVA RAJ’. Is this the kind of morality and ethics Mr. Jha is talking about?   

Mr. Jha’s observation on Mr. Modi’s idea on ‘less government and more governance’ is totally misunderstood. I would advise him to listen to the speech given by Mr. Modi in the ‘Think India’ discussion conducted by TV18. Mr. Modi clearly mentioned that he didn’t mean ‘Less Government’ as reducing the size of the government, instead having right size of government at right place/department. Mr. Modi explained this with an example as well. But people like Mr. Jha don’t get these ideas because of their intellectual bankruptcy.  

Now coming to malnutrition, farmer suicides, poverty ratios, woeful education levels, and other social and human development indicators. Mr. Jha is presenting as if only Gujarat has these problem. In most of these parameters Gujarat performed better than the Centre governed Congress. I am presenting comparison of some of these parameters which were taken from the Planning Commission website. I don’t have to comment anything on these since the data speaks for itself. I expected at least a data based analysis than mere rhetoric from Mr. Jha. I will do more comparison studies based on some more parameters in the coming days.

Sate	Avg_GDP_Growth (%, FY02-12)	Per Capita Income as on FY12 (Rs)	Unemployment Rate (per 1000 persons)	Literacy Rate Growth (%, btwn 2001 to 2011)	Safe Drinking Water (%)	Malnutrition (%)
Gujarat	10.10	57508.00	10	10	90.3	38.77
India	7.71	38037.00	38	9	85.5	41.16

Mr. Jha talks about Mr. Modi making frequent visits to FICCI/CII. Why does PM attend annual CII meeting every year? Who is stopping ‘YUVA RAJ’ from making frequent sojourn to FICCI/CII and project himself as messiah of middle class? When he was invited to give speech in CII, he made mess of it without giving any hope to industries and telling them that if industries have any problem don’t ask for PM’s help. If this is the kind of leaders projected by Congress, definitely any sensible person wouldn’t be excited/happy. The reality is even after the country is headed by an economist PM MMS, growth is going down, foreign exchange reserves is going down, inflation is high, rupee is depreciating, current account deficit is high, fiscal deficit is high, unemployment is growing, PMO is not aware of the decisions taken by his ministers etc. On the contrary in the past decade Gujarat’s growth is above the national average, agriculture growth is nearly 10%, 72% of the country’s employment was created by Gujarat etc. If Congress leaders lost the opportunity and Mr. Modi provides the hope for good future, Mr. Jha should be blaming his party itself not Mr. Modi. One more point I wish make here is that most of the corporates have businesses in Maharastra, which is ruled by Congress for past 14 years. What was stopping Congress CMs to get the confidence of these corporates? Is Mr. Jha saying that people of the country are fools to be hoodwinked easily by a leader who shows close proximity to the corporates?

The fact is Congress fooled people of the country through vote bank politics. Mrs. India Gandhi came up with slogan ‘Garib Hatao’, she couldn’t achieve anything but entitlement based schemes. This divided the country based on caste and religious line. According the Planning Commission date 29.8% of the population is below poverty line which includes Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Parsis. India can’t be a developed country until every citizen is brought above the poverty line. Why couldn’t Congress come with a holistic approach based on income for the poverty elevation instead of caste and religion based schemes? Can Mr. Jha through some light on this?