Monday, October 15, 2012

Perfect

Well, Sandipan Deb hits the nail on its head as usual here

Kejriwal has chosen his first two targets very well. One, Robert Vadra, the first son-in-law, whose avarice seems matched only by his stupidity. It was a shameful spectacle to see senior Union ministers falling over one another to declare the charges “baseless” and proclaim Vadra’s innocence. It was proof, if any more was needed (it really wasn’t) that Congress politics is at its core a pathetic sycophancy.
Salman Khurshid, who won the first lap of the sycophancy race by announcing that he would “die for Mrs Sonia Gandhi”, has now been pilloried. Great choice. He is the law minister, and the allegation is that his wife’s non-governmental organization (NGO) has been siphoning money meant to aid the disabled. And it’s just days after a Hindi channel did a sting on the NGO’s workings, and Uttar Pradesh’s leading Hindi papers are publishing more news every day of how the NGO’s reports are full of lies. Now there is hard evidence that the Congress workers have been scampering to supply hearing aids and wheelchairs to people who were supposed to have received them two years ago. Trouble is, some of these supposed beneficiaries are dead, and others can’t be located—they were possibly fictitious anyway. And of course, the question Kejriwal has raised is absolutely valid: If it is a private NGO, why are Congress workers running around to cover up the filth?

If these two paragraphs of text do not convince the people of India that Congress should not be reelected, there is no way that india as a country can rise from its ineptitude.

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