Pride and Arrogance goes before a fall!
Just before the Kurukshetra War, Lord Krishna went to the Kauravas to mediate in order to avoid war. He started by asking the Kauravas to give back half of the Kingdom to Panadavas, which was their due. Duryodhana refused. Krishna progressively brought down his offer, from 5 states to finally 5 villages.
"I will not give them the space to stick a needle" , thundered Duryodhana, partly due to his arrogance, partly due to his pride and based on a false sense of infallibility.
The rest is history.
When the appointment of P J Thomas as Chief Vigilence Commissioner came up to the panel comprising of the PM, Home Minister P Chidambaram and the Opposition Leader Sushma Swaraj, the opposition leader pointed out that P J Thomas has a corruption case pending against him, the details of which was not in the dossier in front of the panel. She objected to the appointment saying a tainted person cannot be the CVC, a post that requires spotless integrity. Added to it, P J Thomas was the telecom secretary who objected to a Vigilance Enquiry in the biggest corruption case the country has seen - the 2 G Scam. His candidature was absolutely untenable. The panel met on a friday, and Sushma Swaraj asked for 24 hours time from the other two to verify the fact and meet again. Anyway the CVC had to take oath only on Tuesday next. The PM and HM, in their arrogance, bluntly refused the legitimate request of the Leader of Opposition. Sushma also said, she will agree to anyone shortlisted in the panel other than P J Thomas. But like Duryodhana, our PM arrogantly pushed his nomination through on a 2-1 vote, with Leader of Opposition noting her dissent.
Now with Supremen Court striking down the appointment as illegal, the PM and HM has no place to hide.
This raises many questions.
Why did the PM insist on P J Thomas and no one else but P J THomas? It is inconceivable he was unaware of the tainted past, as he heads the Ministry of Personnel Affairs.
Since he has no stake in P J Thomas becoming the CVC - the PM is personally clean - it is obvious he was doing it at the behest of someone else.
And there is only one person who can string the PM along - Sonia Gandhi and she has many skeletons in her cup board.
The needle of suspicion points firmly to Sonia Gandhi.
But let us thank the Chief Justice and the Supreme Court for upholding the fact that ethics, morality, honesty and integrity should be paramount while selecting constitutional functionaries. The Country owes them a great debt.
P.S : The PM did not apply his mind. The FM did not apply his mind. But why did the honourable President of India, who appoints the CVC on the panels recommendation, not take note of the Opposition Leaders dissent. She has taken the oath to uphold the constitution. She should have sent the recommendation back to the panel to reconsider, but she chose not to. This is the problem with electing a Rubber Stamp nincompoop as President
