Dear Honourable Prime Minister of India,Shri Narendra Modi Ji.

I need to tell you something. They don't like you.

To be honest, they never really liked you, but even in this time of our biggest existential crisis also, when you need all of us, every single citizen of ..(1/25)
India to back you with all our might, they don't like you.

They don't like you when you take a daring decision to lock down a country of 1.3 billion people, to save their own lives.

They don't like you when you send flights to get back your countrymen from the riskiest ..(2/25)
areas to relative safety; they say but the migrants had to walk.

They still don't like you as you send thousands of buses overnight to bring back migrants to their hometowns as now, they say migrants are at risk because of the crowding.

Maybe they are expecting you to arrange
one cab per person or build them homes overnight with stashes of cash wherever they are? Whatever it may be, but they don't like you.
As the head of a developing nation taking a big hit on the economy, you lock down the country at a time and stage where half the world was roaming
around in gardens and paid a hefty price with their lives.
Where some so-called heads of powerful nations, the so-called 'buck stops here' heads, could nt even dare to lock down a state, u executed the world's largest lockdown in the history of mankind. They still don't like you.
They don't like U 4 d confidence n morale boosting in your speech that united channelised an entire nation of a billion n they still don't like U when u exude humility n awareness of the situation by apologising 2 the poor of the country 4 having 2 do this 2 them and the nation.
They don't like U when u release an economic package 4 the poor.

They don't like U when u repeatedly ask them with folded hands to stay at home 2 save their own freaking lives.
They don't like U when u beg them to express gratitude for the unsung heroes while your government is
bringing in test kits from Korea/Germany n setting up required facilities on a war footing.

Now, sir, these are the same folks who cannot even figure out how to entertain themselves and their family of four for 21 days but they expect you 2 have a perfect solution 2 d problem of
1.3 billion people of different needs.

These are d same folks who may not even have helped their neighbours or maids in need but they want you to distribute money 2 d needy equally, without lapses. overnight.
Some of them cant even manage their home budget with a huge salary but
they want U 2 manage d economy in these testing times without failures.

Some of them can't attend their offices or meetings on time n some may not even wake up on time despite alarm clocks but they want you 2 announce d lockdown in the morning 2 give them time 2 hoard n stash
the essentials.

As if and announcement in the morning will have a different impact, silly!

Their walls are filled with pictures of police charging protesters, even if it was to save their own lives, but their walls shamelessly avoid posting thousands of Indians stuck in the
Middle-East brought back in Air India planes.

Their walls r filled with posts on migrants' sufferings but nvr a single post on wat could b d solution 2 save lives without collateral damage.
Their walls shamelessly avoid showing Sikhs doing langar, Muslims opening up their hotels
to feed the needy, Christians opening their hearts to not just humans but also the suffering dogs on the roads, common men opening kitchens, ordinary people working with government employees to distribute money, goods, food. Don't be surprised why They don't like you.. (13/25)
because for them you are part of a political party and ideology which they admonish and the fact that you won the a majority in Indian elections twice, which they have neither the capacity nor the maturity to digest.

Alas, if, and only if, for one moment they could treat you as
the head of the nation, head of their nation, the Prime Minister of India... but still, they don't like u.

And Sir, you. You are at fault.

U don't boast of your government's humongous efforts to be d 1st one 2 bring in thousands of Indians back home without even @PMOIndia
thinking for a second about their race, religion, language, orientation, or even citizenship.

You don't boast of the fact that our first quarantine establishment of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police was positioned even before the first coronavirus case in India surfaced..(16/25)
You don't publicise how your railway compartments are turned into a quarantine zone, a first of its kind in the world.

You don't market all the efforts your billionaire Industrialists in the country are putting in to ensure the health infrastructure is expanded rapidly to meet
the demands of the present crisis and the future.

You don't question the protesters gang, the award returnee gang, the afraid gang, the pseudo-intellectual gang while they are all shamelessly hiding wrapped their tails around them when the country needs them the most..(18/25)
Tweeting or posting anything in opposition 2 any steps d government takes is their only 21-day quarantine plan.

Yor government will still serve them all n protect them all, just as any other citizen of India, but they still won't lik U.

And your face, Sir, it still hides
the dilemma n d helplessness u deal with. I, for sure, see the agony behind that confident, smiling but serious face for which saving the lives of each and every individual is personal, very personal and I can see that.
I can see the trade-off you face, of having to self-destroy
the economy 4 saving d nerve, d life of this nation, its people, of all races, regions, religions, economic stature n political orientation, even d traitors.

I can see this is a fight where winning is not d goal, minimising losses is. Suffering n collateral damage r inevitable,
and survival is the key.

The goal is not 2 win but 2 just hang in there and live another day till the virus is defeated by the scientists, people, doctors or d very nature that brought it up.

Dear honourable prime minster of India, Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi, I am with you
as U lock down d nation for 21 days, and if need be, even more. As you said, Jaan hai to Jahaan hai.

The economy is revived by living people, not coffins. One never boasts of the future and I will not either.

Only time will tell if this was our finest hour but at present
I am positive that the steps you and your government is taking will save our lives and also our economy and minimise the losses.

Keep serving the nation for as long as you can.

We need you.

Jai Hind!
- By someone who has no wings (right or left), No extremes (hard or soft), No religion, No party Membership, but Only a passport that is dear to him above everything else, an Indian Passport that Proudly says he's an Indian...(25/25)
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