Where's the doubt?

I'm totally aghast at the politics being played out by Karunanidhi and his cohorts in clamouring for the release of the murderers of Rajiv Gandhi. Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan - all part of the heinous crime - have lost their plea for clemency from the President of India and are to hang on the 9th of next month.

While the 'apologists for pardon' concede that the three'd indeed done a dastardly crime, their recommendations are based on the larger sentiments of the Tamilians - wonder what that means? The guilty needs to be punished and there can be no soft approach. One can never forget the fact that Karunanidhi, the then CM of Tamilnadu, had refused to be part of the reception formalities accorded to the Indian Peace Keeping Forces returning from Sri Lanka in 1989. It seriously made one wonder, then, as to where this guy's loyalty lay!

How can one be so indifferent to the country's armed forces? Again, how can the same person be pleading the case of wrongdoers, who'd brutally snubbed the life of a charismatic leader? Would he've done so if he'd lost someone from his own kith and kin? And the timing is most important! Many of his close relations and partymen have been entangled in cases of corruption of unimaginable and staggering proportions!! The public attention and intense media scrutiny need to be deflected and hence this act.

A plain case of double standards!