Its high time now that Rahul Baba becomes a journalsit and joins any one of the anti-governmental news channel. What, is he a mass com aspirant or a journalist or a politician? Agreed that today, everybody is doing everything and thanks to social media for that, but that absolutely does not mean that a person already staying on the top floor of the building comes down to the second floor, unless there's an emergeny. Is RaGa under the emergency curve of politics? HUhh!
Congress 'leader' Rahul Gandhi's dialogue with industrialist Rajiv Bajaj on the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis was aired on Thursday and this is the latest in the series of deliberations the former Congress chief is having with experts from various fields on the impact of the pandemic. During the interview, Bajaj said that the Indian government had imposed a 'Draconian' lockdown to curb coronavirus but that it was 'porous' and ended up damaging the economy. According to Bajaj, the coronavirus lockdown had flattened the wrong curve, that is GDP, and hadn't really been successful in containing the virus.
This is not the first interview that Gandhi has been a part of. Earlier in May, Gandhi had interacted with economists Raghuram Rajan and Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee about the impact of lockdown as well. The interviews are aired on the Congress party's social media platforms. But what the internet cannot fathom is this - is Rahul Gandhi considering a change in his career path?
“All my friends and family from across the world have always been free to step out, to take a walk, to go and buy something they require, to go and visit someone. So in terms of the social and emotional aspects of this lockdown, they seem to have been in a much better place,” he added. However, Bajaj failed to note the positive imacts of the lockdown on the economy. The 20 lakh crore package by the Central Governmnet is helping the industries and MSMEs make their businesses stable and growing. Its even horrifying to imagine the COVID-19 situation if there was no lockdown.
The situation is diffiult not only for the oppositions but for everyone. If not now, when does it think to give away the ruler chasing practice? Most questions Rahul asked were confined to economy during the COVID-19, the rebuilding of economy, the growing unemployment and centralization of authority, moving backwards to authoritarian model, something that is gone wrong with global economy, infrastructure of hatred and division and of course, India needing a new vision.
Nobody has denied that, not even the Prime Minister and the Health Minister. They are well aware of their limitations. Yet they are taking every possible step to arrest the spread of the virus and provide succor to the stranded migrant labors, workers, and students in whatever way they can. As compared to the worldwide damage caused by this novel coronavirus pandemic, India is placed at a much better position with the optimum utilization of its resources and manpower, thanks to the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues in the government.
If RaGa has to think so much for the nation, instead of asking directions from Bajaj for Modi, Rahul Gandhi would have done well by jumping into the fray with his ‘huge’ manpower of the Congress party to serve needy people in the wake of this COVID-19 pandemic. But he chose to be in the position of an advisor. People no longer require advisors, they are aplenty available in India. What they need is leaders for whom the country is top priority. It is time Rahul learns his basic lessons from Modi lest he became irrelevant in the contemporary Indian political scenario.