Attention, Honourable PM
A recent news item very prominently covered by some dailies has once again attracted my attention. You have tried your best to repeatedly bring this very dangerous practice of our fruit-traders to the front. I am sure, like on all previous occasions, such bold reporting will also go unnoticed by our authorities.
I appeal to the good senses of our Prime Minister for taking urgent action. She definitely knows about it from press reports as well as bold reporting in various newspapers that this practice is leading and pushing our citizens to dreadful diseases like, kidney and liver problems and failures, cancer and other fatal diseases, etc. Does she expect us to believe that she and her ministers and advisors running the affairs of the country are so nonchalant as not to have noticed this grave issue? Is her entire machinery ineffective and powerless? If yes, she should step down from the realms of power she is holding and let the matter be handled by someone who can take the right and appropriate remedial actions. I hope she would realise the grave situation the fruit-traders are putting almost the entire nation to. I would retrain from making any comments on the perception the foreigners living in our country, and also outside it, would have about our country's administration.
It ought to be noted that this country was, not very long ago, administered by only one governor with the required number of secretaries. The population of the country has grown manifold over the years and so has the size of our government machinery and administration. What are the ministers and the secretaries, with all the powers at their command, doing? Aren't they aware that owing to sheer callousness of their administration these fruit-traders are comfortably playing with the lives of people. We have come to the state that we are afraid of, and refrain from, offering a piece of any fruit to our children. I don't think this has any parallel anywhere else and in any other country. Our heads must hang in shame!
If our administration is incapable of adequately punishing the culprits and ensuring that this practice is stopped once and for all, what can we expect from it in tackling and solving the problems of Tipaimukh, terrorism, bombings, returning wage-earners, rampant use of black money, etc.
How long do we go on taking poison, Madam Prime Minister?
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