Home minister speaks out

The impression Shivraj Patil makes when he talk is of utter disrespect for human life.

Read the below excerpt from his comments (full text here)

Again, he was careful to counter the charge of being "soft" on terrorism by pointing out that he was adhering to a policy framework set out by the Congress leadership. "My party's ethos is to do justice and to see it is done in a manner which contains and controls criminal and terrorist activities and at the same time does not give any opportunity to human rights violations," he said.

Refuting the charge of intelligence failure in the Delhi blasts, he said as he has in the past with regard to other attacks like 7/11, "It (inputs) were available with us in Delhi also. But what was not available was the timing and the method to be used for the purpose." He claimed that this was the case even before Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi warned of an attack on the Capital. Unfortunately for him, the claim does not seem to carry conviction even with his colleagues who are worried about the political cost of his continuation in the home ministry.

I can see only two things from this text:

1) I don't care about innocent people dying as long as we keep our muslim vote bank happy

2) I don't see why I will be held accountable for the bomb blasts when all I do is follow my party orders!