I wish someone would tell to the Dumbest Guy bar None in India the following quote from Abraham Lincoln;
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and
some of the people all the time, but
you cannot fool all the people all the time"
Two months ago, the Supreme Court comes down heavily on MPs and MLA's who are convicted but continues to enjoy holding their position. Instead of using this as an opportunity to cleanse the political system, the Government comes up immediately with the idea of a law to circumvent the SC verdict. The speed with which the Government moved is astonishing. If only the Government took decisions that fast pertaining to so many issues pertaining to the common man!.
The proposed law runs into rough weather in the Parliament and it was left to be debated by a Parliament Select Committee, as it should be. There is no hope of this law getting passed before the next elections, as things stand.
With Laloo Prasad Yadav's and Rasheed Masood's verdicts due by the end of the month, the Government (read Congress) takes the Ordinance route. Any Ordinance has to be passed by the Parliament in 6 months time. But by then Laloo and Rasheed would have been safe, and it would be left to the new Government to take a call on this. In all likelihood the ordinance would have lapsed.
BJP and Left had serious reservations (more as a political strategy- they have nothing to lose by opposing the ordinance). They meet the President, who himself had more or less made up his mind to return the Ordinance for reconsideration, once MMS was back from US. He didnt want to embarrass the PM of the Country while abroad, and rightly so.
Return of the Ordinance after the Opposition had met the President would have been a body blow for the Congress and the UPA. And the purpose for which the Ordinance was issued, viz. to save Laloo and Rasheed, would not have served, as the Government has to be seen to be reconsidering the Ordinance, Cabinet has to approve and then again it has to be resent to the President, who cannot refuse to sign the second time around, but can sit on it. The Ordinance was anyway doomed.
To save face, Congress scripted the comedy of Rahul Gandhi, attending a Press Conference hosted to 'support the Ordinance', make a cavalier statement denouncing it, embarassing the PM while he was abroad, and walks off without waiting to take any follow up questions. He didnt want some smart alec reporter (and there are still some with a bit of back bone) to ask the obvious questions - "What the hell were you doing these last 2 months when the whole issue was being debated in the political circles? Why didnt you raise your objection then? and Can you guarantee not giving seats to Criminals in the next Elections?"
Sonia and Rahul have done irreparable damage to the office of the PM. They have demeaned it to such an extend that if MMS had even an iota of Self Respect, he would put in his papers on his return. There was a big hue and cry when Rajiv Gandhi, insulted the then Foreign Secretary A P Venkateswaran, in a Public Meeting. But our media is silent on Rahul Gandhis immature, irresponsible outburst. Here is a guy who is dumb, drunk with power, has absolutely no accountability, refuses to take any responsibility, and doesnt care a fig for the people. He is also not in India for majority of the time, and God only knows what he is doing when he is abroad. How long do Congress think they can fool the people?
