Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Suit, boot and a plough” (April 22). You are right in observing that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s accusation of the Narendra Modi Government seeking to snatch away land from the farmers and hand it over to corporate entities that had supposedly funded Mr Modi’s and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election campaigns, is an outrageous accusation without substance. Further, Mr Gandhi has accused the BJP on Net neutrality, claiming that the Government intended to provide Internet monopoly to corporates. This is outright silly. The Government has taken no such decision.
The issue of Net neutrality has come into the public domain after a paper that an independent body, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, put out. The Government has already made it clear that it will take a decision based on ground realities, and that the TRAI paper is not a policy decision. Mr Gandhi’s over-zealous attack on the Government on various fissues is not backed by proper homework. When he speaks in Parliament, he must speak with facts; rhetoric may make for good sound byte, but it cannot be taken seriously.
Mr Gandhi has launched in recent days, personal attacks on Mr Modi, by referring to sartorial tastes and calling the regime a “suit-boot ki sarkar”. The Congress may be happy that their esteemed leader has at last begun to speak in Parliament, but that is not reason enough to celebrate. Mr Gandhi must learn to speak sense.