Modi has no cure for India's misery

War hysteria and jingoistic chest thumping cannot alleviate the acute crisis that has plagued Indian agriculture which sustains about 60 % of the country's people. Farming has become an unviable profession under the present regime. The lowest farm income growth in the last 14 years has been delivered by the Narendra Modi government.

In spite of the tall claims of the government about creation of jobs, the reality is for everyone to see. India's unemployment rate has touched its lowest in 45 years. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has to borrow money to pay salaries. BSNL employees are also not being paid on time. Faculty and researchers at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, one of the country's foremost research facilities, are being paid 50% of their salaries.

Navratna companies like ONGC are being pushed to declare dividends to mitigate the government's revenue shortfall. And while all these take place, Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi team up in London and open a new shell company just on the eve of elections. None of these issues can be solved by waging a war with Pakistan.

The PM's disastrous handling of matters of national importance has brought the country to the precipice of disaster. The Congress and other Opposition parties must harp on these points so that voters know that the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi do not have the cure for the havoc they have wreaked on India's people.

-K Manohar Rao, Hanamkonda