In May, Shri Modi’s government came to power riding on the back of a corporate funded, high voltage campaign that was based entirely on false promises and baseless allegations. They coloured public perception through a deft but devious media campaign that showed the pre-election period as dark and gloomy and promised “Achhe Din” under BJP rule.
Six months of Shri Modi’s model of governance and there are three shameful characteristics that stand out: first, U Turn on promises, second, plagiarising and renaming of UPA schemes/decisions and third, selling out national interests to benefit friendly industrial and corporate houses. To hide his failures, Shri Modi’s TV events, rhetoric and showmanship driven Sarkar has been presenting a TV-tamasha-a-day to divert people’s mind from the problems faced by the nation. These tamashas are nothing but attempts to keep people alienated from real issues, so that they don’t start asking questions.
In the run up to the elections, Shri Modi and BJP made a series of promises and have shamelessly reneged on all of them: Governance, Black Money, Rail Fares, Diesel Deregulation, Tainted Politicians, Stand on Corruption and Lokpal, Subsidy on LPG cylinders and Validity of CAG reports to charge political opponents, are only a few examples.