The growing public outrage over ethanol blending is not just about fuel quality or mileage—it's about a deeper, festering frustration with a government that refuses to engage in honest dialogue. Despite mounting criticism, falling vehicle efficiency, and questions about pricing transparency, the Modi government has remained conspicuously silent. 

Not a single responsible minister has come forward to clarify, defend, or even acknowledge the concerns. The refusal to answer—whether in Parliament, press conferences, or interviews—raises a critical question: Is this ignorance, or simply arrogance born out of unchecked power? For many citizens, it's clearly the latter.

The silence isn’t just frustrating—it’s dangerous. In a democratic setup, accountability is the backbone of governance, and when leaders stop responding to public concern, that very foundation starts to crack. Today, citizens see ideas die quietly in the shadows, while officials indulge in backroom dealings and photo ops.

The image is damning: bureaucrats sipping tea, plotting the next round of schemes, confident in their ability to dodge consequences. With corruption growing more institutionalized, many feel the system rewards silence, shields wrongdoing, and punishes transparency. Ethanol blending may have been marketed as an environmental initiative, but for the public, it now symbolizes everything that’s wrong with modern governance—opaque decisions, fake optics, and a ruling class untouchable by accountability.

Perhaps the most telling sign of this arrogance is the complete absence of political responsibility. When was the last time a bjp minister resigned after a major policy blunder? When did a top leader give a non-orchestrated interview, open to tough questions from independent journalists? Such moments are now rare, almost non-existent. This is not the behavior of a confident government—it’s the posture of one that believes it can rule without answering to its people. Ethanol blending, in this context, is just a symptom of a larger disease: the decay of democratic transparency under the weight of self-preserving power.
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SIBY JEYYA

05/08/2025 08:54 AM