Is the clamour out of genuine concern or same is actuated by some hidden agenda of the lobby consisting of so called liberals, intellectuals, urban naxals?
Yesterday Prashant Bhushan advocated for lifting lockdown because there is hardly any death due to corona. Today Pawan Verma in TOI writes that Lockdown is not meant for poor countries like India because Lockdown is leading to starvation of poor in India. Rajdeep Sardesai also looks upset with #Lockdown because it is affecting poor. These are few examples but fact of the matter is that large number of liberals, intellectuals, urban naxals have been raising similar kind of concern and are subtly trying to create a kind of environment so that everybody starts opposing the Lockdown.
But why the Lobby is doing so and what is their hidden agenda?
We should know that the above-said lobby of liberals, intellectuals, urban naxals are always opposed to Modi Govt. They have to oppose, whatever Modi Govt may do. When lockdown was announced, they said, why lockdown was announced so late, when first corona case was found in India on 30th January? When lockdown was successfully going on and was showing good results and when un-coperative attitude of Tabligi Jamaat and their followers, all of a sudden spiked corona cases in India, the lobby came to rescue of Jamaat and their followers by constantly saying that no community should be attached stigma because of spike in corona cases. Now, again, when despite severe non cooperation of Jamaat and their followers, India has been able to contain corona cases to an appreciable level so that efforts of PM Modi led govt are being appreciated worldwide, frustration of the lobby has heightened. Now, they are finding too difficult to tolerate the situation, wherein, despite severe lockdown, there is not much of unrest against the govt and barring Jamaat and their followers, everybody is cooperating with lockdown and situation in India is getting applauded worldwide.
Due to the above, the Lobby is trying to give another spin to the lockdown, suggesting that since Lockdown is hurting poor, it should be lifted immediately.
My request to lobby is to shun their hidden agenda. All sensible and impartial people feel lockdown is the need of the hour, Govt pro actively announced the lockdown before situation became critical. Lockdown has certainly severely curtailed the potential lakhs of cases of corona. Central Govt and all state governments are being sensible. They know the need of balancing health and economic needs of people and depending upon the situation, they have been giving much needed relaxations too in a phased manner. Central and State Governments are responsible to health and economic needs of the people.They have been sensibly trying to balance both needs of the people by continuing with lockdown and at the same time giving certain relaxations in a phased manner to help meet practical and economic needs of the people and hence they be allowed to take their own decisions about lifting the lockdown instead of unnecessarily trying to interfere with the same to help fulfill their hidden agenda.
