Show the door

Another controversy is in our midst.

I am talking about the blatant disregard for political norms, moral values etc etc shown by T R Balu, the Shipping Minister of Government of India in using his ministerial powers to allot gas to the company owned by his sons.

The act itself is bad. But the brazen way in which he has tried to brush it off telling that there is nothing wrong in his action. Hello! Excuse me! But did I hear you wrong. I thought you took an oath in the presence of President of India wherein you mentioned that you will not misuse your office for personal gain?

The farce doesn't end there.

"The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) forwarded as many as eight letters to the Petroleum Ministry for allotment of gas to the firms owned by the two sons of Shipping Minister TR Baalu, but the Congress sees nothing wrong in that!. As the issue continued to rock Parliament, the party defended the PMO and said that forwarding letters is a common practice and did not necessarily mean endorsing the contents. Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said: "The PMO had forwarded the requests to the Ministry. There is no question of endorsing or agreeing with the contents."

I am within my rights as a citizen of India to ask whether PMO is a post office, whose only job is to forward the requests?. Are they not expected to do some due diligence.

Senior Congress leaders said that the party would not press for Baalu's resignation, as it was an internal matter of DMK and not the Congress.

Misuse of Office by one of the Ministers an internal matter of a constituent party? Someone must have their head really examined.

Dr.Manmohan Singh! There is a thing called Accountability. Would be nice if you can look up the meaning of the word in a Dictionary and whether you understand or not, call TR Balu and give him exactly 30 seconds to either put in his resignation or face dismissal from the Council of Ministers. Show that you have some spine. You are unfortunately the leader of our Country.

On another matter, at long last we have kicked out KPS Gill and his lackey Jothikumaran from the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF). The joke is however on us. They were suspended by Indian Olympic Association (IOA), which is being headed by Suresh Kalmadi for donkey's years and the IOA's track record on 'uplifting' the Indian sports is more dismal (if that is possible) than IHF. And they shall be supervising the IHF. God help Indian Hockey.

Now, now - will someone please show the door to the Suresh Kalmadis, Randhir Singhs, Priyaranjan Das Munshis of this world. Let some fresh air come into our sports arena