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1. 2G Scam, PAC & Chidambaram—Answers that Raise More Questions:

Sunday, 08 May 2011

NDTV ran an exclusive interview with Home Minister, Chidambaram on the 7^th May, evening. The answers and responses of Chidambaram in the interview, raises more questions than they answer. Here we go:-

(Disclaimer: The dialogues are not literal quotes, but carry the sense of the way the interview went.)

Chid: (To a question from NDTV): The PAC report is a coup. (“Coup”, Dictionary meaning: Successful stroke, move or gamble).

The Arising Question: (Thank God, a senior minister and ruling party member acknowledges the PAC’s “move” as “successful”.) But perhaps, Chid meant the word “Coup” as “revolution”.

If so, what would a conscientious opposition party do other than starting a revolution, when the government machinery and the P.M. and the whole cabinet stays in deep slumber while the nation, and its coffers are being looted by a Minister belonging to a “coalition” partner??

Chid: Mr Joshi has misunderstood my words “closure of the matter”.

The Arising Question: What else could be understood when the talk is about the 2G Scam and the “matter” is sought to be “closed”??

NDTV: Sir, when as the Finance Minister you had objections to pricing of the spectrum, and the concerned minister was not heeding to it, as a minister responsible for the nation’s finances, should you not have taken up the matter with the P.M., or should the cabinet not have taken it up?

Chid: I can’t say about the “cabinet”. The P.M. had already taken up the matter and had written to the Telcom Minister.

The Arising Question: What credentials and respect would a senior minister with the Finance portfolio carry when he fails to prevent one of his colleagues from implementing decisions that are against the nation’s financial interests; but does not consider it necessary to raise the issue in the cabinet, and washes his hands off by stating he can’t say about the “Cabinet”?

And prefers not to take up the issue with the P.M. and to let the matter take its own course, since the P.M. is aware of it??

Does the Hon’ble Minister have conviction of his own judgment and a sense of commitment to his duties and responsibilities?

There are many more Questions that arise from the Answers given by the then-Finance Minister during the interview. But, as the saying in Odia goes “it is sufficient to check one particle from the rice being cooked to confirm if it is cooked and is soft enough to eat.”

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Post-Osama P.stan—Shades of White (Lies)

Having milked the US government of billions of dollars – most of which was pocketed by the politicians and defence biggies – , on the pretext of supporting the fight against terrorism, these P.stani politicians and officials were naturally hard-pressed to invent white lies to cover up their own, and the country’s complicity with terrorists, following Osama’s discovery and killing in their backyard, very near the road on which the ex- & Axed President Musarraf used to do his jogging exercise.

The whole P.stani system feigned total ignorance about the presence of the man or monster whom the whole world was on the lookout for.

This was so white a lie, that naturally, no sane man would believe.

With a little imagination, however, the P.stani’s could have deployed a brighter shade of white lie that could easily have passed muster.

They could simply have said that they have learnt and practised some lessons on propriety and justice from their good neighbour.

One Afzal Guru, has been convicted and sentenced to death by the highest court of the neighbouring Country for an armed attack on the Country’s Parliament.

The neighbours are so law-abiding and such believers in fair-play that they have been protecting the attacker safely in great comfort for the past several years.

Absolute fair play has ensured that Guru will not be executed until his rightful turn comes up as per the queue of convicts in the death row.

And there is a possibility that the present President who is fighting her own Jain-Jihad against all cruelty like a death-sentence irrespective of the crime committed, will accede to the mercy petition in favour of Guru.

And, of course, there is also the example of Ajmal Kasab, similarly convicted for terrorism, who is under the government’s protection at great expenses to the state exchequer, till the death sentence is confirmed by all the courts in the world.

Citing these exemplary policies of a good neighbour, which is also highly appreciated by the Americans, the P.stanis, following the discovery and death of Osama in their backyard, could simply have announced that they had taken on themselves, the burden of keeping Osama isolated under their watch so that he can’t do any more mischief for the Americans.

Would not this deeper shade of white lie have placed the P.stani’s in a much brighter light ?????

2G Scam, PAC & Chidambaram—Answers that Raise More Questions:

NDTV ran an exclusive interview with Home Minister, Chidambaram on the 7^th May, evening. The answers and responses of Chidambaram in the interview, raises more questions than they answer. Here we go:-

(Disclaimer:  The dialogues are not literal quotes, but carry the sense of the way the interview went.)

Chid: (To a question from NDTV): The PAC report is a coup. (“Coup”, Dictionary meaning: Successful stroke, move or gamble).

The Arising Question: (Thank God, a senior minister and ruling party member acknowledges the PAC’s “move” as “successful”.) But perhaps, Chid meant the word “Coup” as “revolution”.

If so, what would a conscientious opposition party do other than starting a revolution, when the government machinery and the P.M. and the whole cabinet stays in deep slumber while the nation, and its coffers are being looted by a Minister belonging to a “coalition” partner??

Chid:        Mr Joshi has misunderstood my words “closure of the matter”.

The Arising Question: What else could be understood when the talk is about the 2G Scam and the “matter” is sought to be “closed”??

NDTV: Sir, when as the Finance Minister you had objections to pricing of the spectrum, and the concerned minister was not heeding to it, as a minister responsible for the nation’s finances, should you not have taken up the matter with the P.M., or should the cabinet not have taken it up?

Chid: I can’t say about the “cabinet”. The P.M. had already taken up the matter and had written to the Telcom Minister.

The Arising Question: What credentials and respect would a senior minister with the Finance portfolio carry when he fails to prevent one of his colleagues from implementing decisions that are against the nation’s financial interests; but does not consider it necessary to raise the issue in the cabinet, and washes his hands off by stating he can’t say about the “Cabinet”?

And prefers not to take up the issue with the P.M. and to let the matter take its own course, since the P.M. is aware of it??

Does the Hon’ble Minister have conviction of his own judgment and a sense of commitment to his duties and responsibilities?

There are many more Questions that arise from the Answers given by the then-Finance Minister during the interview. But, as the saying in Odia goes “it is sufficient to check one particle from the rice being cooked to confirm if it is cooked and is soft enough to eat.”