This May, UPA-II completes two years of governance. Our Worthy Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and The Indian National Congress might boast of for what they have achieved on the Economic Front and at the International Forums during the course of these two years of UPA-II regime. Let it be the Recession Shielded Economy or the remarkable defence deals, PM might also boast about the healthy and sound relations with the International community but the question to the Government and the readers is “Do these figures and facts really matter to the Common Man?" The common man who is pathetically crushed under the burden of High Inflation rates and for whom managing the kitchen’s budget has become a hard nut to crack. In this fast paced life where people find it difficult to cope up even with the basic necessities of life, the ever Rising Inflation is an Inevitable Liability. At the pace with which rates have been increasing, it's actually difficult to maintain the hand to mouth situation as well. How does the definition of DEMOCRACY seem correct here? It's an IRONY when we say "It's the Government for the People".
After the sweeping results of 15th Lok Sabha Elections in favour of The INC, Political Pundits forecasted a much powerful and stable UPA-II which was free from back-dragging and dominating Left Front. But UPA-II seems to have badly failed on many fronts. Despite of having many Bigwig Economists and Able Administrators, Government has failed to tame the Inflation named Ghost. Any Government can bring the Economic Reforms but transforming the economy without hurting and affecting the common man should be the target of the so-called statesmen studded UPA-II. The Common Man is still held back by the clutches of various social and economic issues which are surely a part of the country's progress. A country can any day not be called Developed if the barrier between the richies and the poor people can't be set back on a decent scale. Lack of transparency and control over the government and Cabinet is another issue which should be haunting our PM Manmohan Singh. He might be a respected PM but certainly not a loved one anymore.He seems to be doing and portraying his work under an influence which is not acceptable at the sake of the country's progress. Multi-crore scams, corruption, black-money are the various issues to which our prime minister owes a reply to the nation. Multi-billion dollar 2G scam, ISRO-Devas Deal which happened under the nose of PM accuses him for the lack of control over his cabinet and puts light on the increasing hunger and depleting conscience of our politicians.
How non-serious our government is on the Corruption issue can be judged from the fact when A Common Man Anna Hazare started the Mass Movement for The Jan Lokpal Bill. Our so called government took no time to raise fingers on Anna’s clean image and dignity and tried to malign the non-violent and clean movement in the modern world. All possible efforts were put into action to suppress the Able man's Worthy attempt. It seems government isn’t interested at all to tackle such serious issues and wants the whole nation to go corrupt so that people lose the morality to question the government on its wrong doings. This paves the way for every single individual to take upon corruption as a Birthright. How can this lead to our dreams of seeing our country as a developed nation? When everyone knows Jan Lokpal Bill can tighten the noose around corruption and the corrupts then why the government seems to be so reluctant about it? Why a common man had to shake the government and tell it to do something to tame the corruption when we already have so called wise men in the cabinet? Here the concept of the Cabinet seems like a useless deal. When these so called worthy people have been elected to bring a change, why do we need a man amongst the common masses to come up and explain them what their work is? Who puts in their jammed heads that issues like these are their responsibilities and cannot be removed from the core until and unless the system does something awakening.
Government also boasts of providing Employment to the Poor through "NREGA". But have their wages increased as much as the Food Inflation has soared since July 2009?? In the last two years petrol prices have been hiked by 55%. At this pace it gets difficult to imagine, rather out of feasible mental attributes to what will petro-based fuels cost at the end of UPA-II regime. This time Congress Ka Haath certainly Not Garib Ke Saath. Conclusively, the government has undoubtedly failed in a big regard to make any revolutionary changes for the betterment of the poor which is the need of the hour. On the contrary, the picture seems to have been going down the ladder at a badly poor and declining rate. If the scenario continues at such a steep rate, the poor masses are certainly expected to undergo even more miserable living conditions.
