READERS of this newspaper will be shocked to know how India has changed in the last 10 years after Narendra Modi became the PM of India.
1. India is now suffering from the highest rate of unemployment in 45 years, according to NSSO data.
2. All top 10 most polluted cities in the world are now in India, according to WHO data.
3. The number of Indian soldiers martyred is now the highest in the last 30 years, according to Washington Post.
4. India now has the highest income inequality in 80 years, according to Credit Suisse Report.
5. India has now become the world’s worst country for women, according to Thomas Reuters Survey.
6. Kashmiri youth joining militancy is the highest in 10 years, according to Indian Army data.
7. The farmers in India suffered the worst price crash in the last 18 years, according to WPI data.
8. The cow related violence and mob lynchings on record is the highest after Narendra Modi became the PM of India, according to India Spend data.
9. India is now the world’s second most unequal country, according to Global Wealth report.
10. The Indian rupee is now Asia’s worst performing currency, according to Market Research data.
11. India has now become the world’s third worst country in environment protection, according to EPI report.
12. For the first time in Indian history, foreign funding and corruption has been legalized, according to the finance bill of 2017.
13. Narendra Modi is India’s first PM to give no press conferences, as of date.
14. For the first time in the history of India, CBI vs CBI, RBI vs Govt, SC vs Govt fights have happened because Modi wanted control of all democratic institutions
15. For the first time in the history of India, four Supreme Court judges gave a press conference saying that our democracy is in danger.
16. For the first time in the history of India, top secret defence documents have been stolen from the Defence Ministry’s office.
17. Intolerance and religious extremism has gone up to the highest in the last 77 years.
18. The Indian media is now the worst media in the last 77 years.
19. For the first time in the history of India, if you criticize the BJP government, you will be labelled as anti-national.
20. The Narendra Modi government is the worst government India has ever had in the last 77 years.
21. The amount of Rs 15 lakh which Narendra Modi had promised to give every citizen of India after winning the 2014 elections has still not been credited into our bank accounts. We are also yet to see the ‘Achche Din’ which had been promised to us by our current PM.
22. If you compare the prices of medicines you bought eight months ago with the current prices, you will be shocked to find that the prices of medicines have gone up to 100%. Why did these pharmaceutical companies suddenly raise the price of medicines so much? The answer is Electoral Bond.
Several pharma companies had to pay crores of rupees to the BJP government as forced bribes through electoral bonds. In order to recover this money, the companies had no other alternatives but to increase the price of medicines without any control. In return for bribes, the BJP government allowed these companies to increase the prices of even essential medicines. In other words, Narendra Modi has done the biggest corruption shared by the BJP from the word – go, colluding with the companies to directly hit the common man’s pockets, which has messed up our family budget. Modi has been betraying the people of India to a large extent.
Some people say that the 2024 elections are the last elections that will happen in India because if Modi wins this time too, he will desperately want to control all institutions of our democracy and we will become a dictatorship.
—The writer is contributing columnist, based in Mumbai, India
Email: jubeldcruz@yahoo.com
