Dear CM Saab,
A royal salaam! I had so many hopes and aspirations
and still do when you won the state elections fair and square and with a
resounding, convincing majority to change the state’s fortunes. Punjab is as
much as your state as it is mine and I am deeply passionate about changing its
fortunes as much as you and your bandwagon and the promising election manifesto
that was laid out to woo all of us and sundry!
Captain Sahib, I am disappointed and this is not
because I am an Akali and I am going to go down the familiar ‘tu’tu main main’
path that my horse is bigger than yours and so forth. Its actually my fault, I
am an ordinary farmer’s wife from the village boondock’s and I had assumed that
you would used this opportunity of visiting Defense minister who happened to be
a Sikh to your advantage and your state. Sir, no one can match you in wit, or
the excellent command of the language, you’re a historian (an author of repute
and I have read every one your books plus the cooking special – have to cook you
see) and the icing is that you are an army man; this could have been the
diplomatic coup in your turban and your plume would have outshone all. But,
your childish, churlish refusal to meet a fellow Punjabi who has risen to an
exalted position of being a Defense minister of a country where you wanted to
go preach and garner votes and advance your political fortunes while playing to
the fat, rich NRI gallery.
Why did we not show our famous large –hearted Punjabi
hospitality to a minister who was visiting? Why did you just brand him as a
Khalistani? What are you planning to achieve by doing him a dis-service?
I am sure he has been thoroughly interrogated, vetted
and probed and then was made the minister and to be childish to label him this
without any proof was not expected of you! It’s like being in the playground of
the school and as children do a tit-for tat reaction as his country had not let
you in to convince and influence the floating voting Punjabi!
Imagine the
adulation and the far greater impact you would have had worldwide and the youth
who would have idolized you more for rolling out the red carpet for Sajjan. In
fact, just being your charming self you could have won every one over. Also, a
country that has one of the highest populations abroad of Punjabis diaspora one
could have worked for greater co-operation and also opened up industry,
agriculture avenues.
I think, if I am not mistaken all those benefits are
going next door, I mean to Haryana and we are left high and dry.
Doesn’t a soldier soldier on and make the best of the
situation?
I don’t know much, but I wish you had welcomed a son
of the soil, who is visiting Punjab as we speak and has been covered by the
press and the media internationally.
He himself says , that there could have been a lot of
co operation on civil, defense and that could have ushered in a much needed
boost for the economy as you say we are in the worst debt since the crash of
29!
Me thinks , you protested too much and the egg fell on
your face , but it could be the other way I could be horribly wrong too .
Yours truly ,
Pind wali bibi !
Sat Sri Akaal (True is Timeless),
ReplyDeleteRightly & daringly said.
Power da nasha just spoils everything.
Service is one word which very few public servant understand in india, most of them act as Bosses and Sirs but actually they are supposed to be public servants.
But unfortunately a 700+ years Gulaam Nation is still under Gulaami of politicians and goons now. It seems Gulaami has gone into the genes.