An open letter to Yeddi

Dear Chief minister,

    I do not know if you have time to go through my letter if I write to you directly. I do not know if you know how to check your E-mails. When the entire country is pointing fingers at you, when the world can clearly see the happenings in our state, I cannot expect from you any special attention to my letter if I write to you. So I give up the idea of writing to you directly. Yet I do not want to give up the idea of bringing my frustration out and I want to make use of my blog for the same. The constitution permits me to do so. If your goons do not like it, I don't care.

  I do not understand politics much sir. I've no idea of how things move within your party or any other party. So I don't want to get into it. I just want to remind my readers of certain things. Unfortunately, public memory is too short. I won't be surprised if you'd be successful in mesmerizing the people and win the next assembly elections too. We lack education, integrity, common sense and you very well know it.

 It's been over two years of your rule in the state and when I look back, even if I do not go deep into certain matters, I feel ashamed that I'm alive in this era. The Mangalore pub attack marked the beginning of an era where we've to be scared of  enjoying our freedom. The video of rowdies mercilessly beating women became the most watched video. I do not care to know what those girls were doing. I do not care to understand what moral policing is. No matter what claims these groups make, we all know their ill intentions and wait,would you permit me and my friends to beat you up because we don't like what you are doing? I remember you openly stating that you were against pub culture. The first thing that was to be assured was that taking law into their hands and displaying dadagiri so openly could not be tolerated. Instead, your government as well as our media were more bothered about why these rowdies did that. I don't understand why you even listened to them. Whatever their purpose was, they had to be screwed for their behavior. Until they did all that they wanted, police could do nothing. Thanks to your government.

 Then came the attack on churches. It took more than 14 cases in different parts of the state to make you realise that the limit was being crossed. Again you came out saying you were against forced conversion. Who cares!? All we need is peace. Let your police put those people behind bars if they are trying to convert people. The continuous attacks not only displayed your support to these groups but also proved that your law and order machinery isn't functioning. This is exactly why people are scared to bring your government to power at the centre. We'd love to see our country develop minister, but for that, we aren't ready to lead such a fearful life. We are fed up with terrorists.

 Your honorable power minister who probably has the most irritating smile in the world, did nothing to meet the power requirements in the state and right from the day I've learnt about electricity, I've never felt so helpless and incapable of using it. We kept watching. We waited for the situation to improve only to see your minister happily resign from the post.

 Your own men dictated you. You literally kept crying and we had to keep all our complaints aside and look at the drama. You danced to the beats of another group of good -for- nothing rowdies and we just had to watch. The Lokayukta's team exposed clearly the illegal mining in the state and was trying to do it's best when your government played filthy politics to suppress them. Everything has been so transparent and yet you all are shameless. The Lokayukta resigned from the post and clearly stated that your government isn't cooperating with them. What he actually meant was that your government wasn't allowing them to do their work. On one side you take the Reddy brothers' side and ask people to 'prove' that they are guilty and on the other side you try to stall the process. Why are you so adamant? Why don't you allow CBI probe if you are so 'clean'?

 This is too much for just two years sir. Your inefficiency is making us pay prices. What shameless politics are we witnessing. I hate to see your faces. I'm not even getting into grievances of farmers and other flaws. When you are busy dealing with all these, development definitely takes backseat. I can't blame you for that!

Regards,
A helpless spectator.