Enjoying power without any
accountability is an added advantage for the future prime minister Rahu Gandhi.
His denouncing of the controversial ordinance to negate the Supreme Court
verdict on convicted lawmakers as ‘complete nonsense’ is something in that
direction. Rahul Gandhi said the ordinance should be ‘torn up and thrown away’.
The statement of Rahul has shaken the PM Dr Manmohan Singh and the latter said
the issue would be considered by the Cabinet. How easy to swivel the decision
of an elected Government without any answerability? The whole episode is an
image building exercise of Rahul Gandhi, one which is akin to group weeping of
all Congress men before the mother and the son.
It is true that common people
do not generally want politicos involved in criminal cases as lawmakers. But
the ordinance contains something more than that. Nowadays it is the practice of
political parties to trap leaders of rival group by filing false case. And it would
take several years to come out from a criminal case due to the snail pace of
the judicial system. Rahul Gandhi, in fact, has not studied the ordinance and hence
optioned for erratic outburst against the prime minister. The opposition of BJP
is explicable as they are the Opposition party while that of Rahul Gandhi,
being the Congress Vice-President, is not reasonable. It is aimed at personal
gains.
K A Solaman
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