Those twenty minutes...

“Convey my thanks to your chief minister as I have reached back to Bathinda airport safely”. These were the words of PM Modi to the officers of Punjab government.
On his way to Hussainiwala from Bathinda, PM Modi’s vehicle went motionless for 15-20 minutes as some farmers had blocked the flyover on which PM was passing by. The protestors in the form of farmers were dissatisfied with the central government’s approach and were demanding meeting with PM. After which, PM’s cavalcade returned to Bathinda airport.
 This minor lapse in security is being termed as a serious fallacy committed by state government. Press conferences that followed, alleged INC for hitching a conspiracy to kill the most powerful leader in the world who never dared facing a public question in his eight years stint as prime minister. Godi media houses are portraying opposition parties as one having ‘bloody intentions’ responsible for so called breach in PM’s security. Don’t get surprised if any terror angle is linked to this case in the upcoming days or it becomes an electoral issue in the Punjab assembly elections.

Security lapses in high profile leaders’ convoy is indeed an issue of concern, but to make a mountain out of a molehill of the same is never justified. If we turn over the pages of history, we will find that India in 20th century has lost two of her most popular PMs due to security breach. Although, a lapse is a lapse, but the magnitudes of the previous lapses were major than the current one. BJP is notoriously famous for playing upon people’s emotions. Introduction of insane topics into play is an old tactics of BJP. Major election issues take a backseat and the dramatic subjects decide the winner. When an ambulance can wait for long minutes in a traffic jam or probably due to a road blockade, can’t a PM who boasts himself to be a fakir face the brunt of farmers in face?

 

 

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