Why he (Rahul Gandhi) is not what he used to be!

Recently, I happened to watch the press conference of Mr. Rahul Gandhi, the former president of the Indian National Congress party, on the ongoing pandemic around the world. It was not something everyone was excited about or was waiting for him to deliver his thoughts on this topic. Although he came out, like any other opposition leader, and spoke his words out and gave suggestions to the ruling government to combat the current 'emergency-like' situation as well as to have a strategic plan to offset the economic and social repercussions that might arise due to it.

We often, in the past, heard words like 'Chawkidaar chor hai' in his speeches where he tried to question every work of the ruling government. Although there is no doubt that his work compels him to ask questions to the ruling government but he was often criticized for the lack of oratory skill and for his choice of words in his speeches where he had gone blank a few times.

Leaving all that aside, I wanted to watch this press conference because he is one of the many early people who informed the government to be prepared for a possible coronavirus pandemic situation in India and the adverse impacts it would have on our economy. I wanted to look at how he would respond to the questions and know his thoughts and suggestions to deal with the current situation.

Almost an hour-long press conference covered questions on the economy, healthcare, migrant laborers, food crisis, unemployment, social unrest, and governance. His response was not exhaustive to say but he did come with a blueprint that he tried to include in every answer he gave. The blueprint talked about:

1. Food Safety:

He stressed the fact that they would be a food shortage after the lockdown and thus government should ease out the distribution of the grains to the poor people who do not even have a ration card.

2. Social Unrest:

If people are not provided with an adequate amount of food to survive, jobs to earn their living there would be social unrest to follow.

3. Economy:

He talked about the economic impact this lockdown would have on our economy and how the government should strategically prepare packages for different sectors to ease out the burden on the economy in the coming months.

4. Governance:

He pressed on the fact that in this crisis situation the governance should be bottom-up rather than having a centralized command. This bottom-up approach would give powers to districts and states to combat the situation according to their geography and come up with solutions best beneficial for them.

5. Unemployment:

He advised the government to boost or provide a package to the SME sector which is the largest employment generator in the country.

Apart from the above points, he also emphasized doing testing at a large scale to detect and manage the spread of coronavirus.

Though many people will say different things and make a mockery of him as he repeated certain words quite a few times in his press conference, he did give a blueprint on the areas to work at to mitigate the problems beforehand. He also showed the political fraternity how to behave as an opposition party leader in times of crisis.

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