Friday, April 22, 2016

A man who needs to be ostracised!

I was always aware of the fact that 'Politics was the last haven for scoundrels' but there were many politicians who went about their work honestly for the betterment of the country, leaving landmark achievements to their credit and I'd refused to believe the saying because every field has exceptions.

Coming specifically to P Chidambaram, he could articulate well, spoke the right things and one was under the smug impression that the portfolios of Home and later, Finance were in safe hands. I mean, if a person who was sharp and could get under the skin of any problem, to install corrective measures was like child's play. Since he was senior enough to be on the top of the pecking order, he'd the eyes and the ears of Sonia Gandhi which is what matters in the Congress party!

And see what a sorry figure he makes out these days. Shunned by the Gandhis - which isn't a new phenomenon, they always dump their minions when the embarrassing truth seems to engulf them - and with no one, from his party, to back him he looks lost and lacking in purpose. The shenanigans that he had resorted to in the Ishrat Jahan case followed by the Malegaon blasts and the Samjhauta Express blasts do not paint a kind picture of the ex-Home Minister.

In the case of the Malegaon and the Samjhauta Express blasts, the Anti Terror Squad under Raghuvanshi, had clearly identified the Pakistani hand for fomenting ill will between the Hindu and Muslim communities by virtue of the violence. Yet, the two Pakistani suspects under custody were returned to Pakistan even before the investigations had come to its logical conclusion. The terror attacks were labelled 'Saffron Terror' by the then Home Minister and a new twist was introduced.

As a layman, I consider his actions anti-national because he needs to answer the following questions and if his answers are not satisfying, he should be tried for treason in a fast track court and punished forthwith:-

    (a) On the one hand we complain that the Pakistanis haven't done enough on the 26/11
          investigations. Here, the masterminds behind the terror attacks have been sent back to
          Pakistan without completing investigation. Are you part of the 'fifth columnists' out
          to destroy this country?
    (b) By altering the course of investigations, the then Home Minister was trying to mislead
          the country about top secret information that could harm our national security.
    (c) Another interesting information that can be clubbed along was his famous diatribe against
          Nandan Nilekani's endeavour to collect data for the 'Aadhaar card', saying that the Home
          Ministry must rightly(?) be the custodian of such data. For manipulation? And named it
          the 'National Population Registry' for collecting the same data all over again! Nothing seems
          to be heard on that front, any more.


Tailpiece.

Can't understand why the Congress party had stooped so low to prevent Narendra Modi from being the Prime Minister of this country because it's obvious from Chidambaram's actions that it had political overtones! One really feels sad for the Grand Old Party which has reached its nadir thanks to a lacklustre leadership!! 

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