India's Incompetence - Incredible India turning to be Incompetent India

When the first wave hit, India considered itself to be in a safe zone and hoped to be the Santa Claus of the world. But with new variant hitting, the whole story of Incredible India has collapsed and now the world sees us as Incompetent India.

While many theories exist as to the situation we are in (May 2021), most of it can be squarely blamed on the govt. True, nobody knew the extent of vaccine requirement in India, when India started distributing vaccines to the world, but the govt should have ramped up production by releasing funds to the vaccine makers SII and Bharat Biotech.

The govt. has become more in a win all mode and this hubris has to be broken. The govt. could have done the following:

a) Talked to the various political parties and postponed the election for a year. Everyone would have agreed and those that didn't could have taken the blame.

b) Work with non BJP govt (end of the day people have elected them) and seek their support in the pandemic.

c) Talk to independent experts and the need for a strategy to tackle the issue

d) Stop being cheesed off for every comment that is made and spend time defending the comment.

e) Delegate and give more credence and support to competent people than dictating the policies from center.

f) Let media and reporting be free and not jail like UP does for every small thing (be it the rape case reporting, oxygen reporting etc).

g) Sab ka saath sabka vikas should have the priority and not focus on Hindu votes only. Hindus are self thinking and would not vote en-masse like other groups.

h) Be more reasonable and project a more approachable leader who is interested in India and not just BJP gaining power.

i) Megalomaniac projects can be put on hold as more productive projects are the need of the day- Sardar patel statue, Central vista, Bullet train are megalomaniac projects which can be tackled if we become rich and not when we are in a poor state.

j) Focus on Competent, Corrupt free, Compassionate India.

 If we do not do this, the Secular and free loving people of India will be shattered and we will go back to the -|India could have done, but did not do|- repeat of yesteryears. We will be only left with potential, not progress.