November 28, 2008

Lone survivor of blasts: Shivraj Patil

The only person who has survived almost a hundred blasts in India is India's home minister Shivraj Patil. Today I was searching for an image with a tag line 'Face of terror' and the first image that came was Shivraj Patil's.
He is a terror that Congress is funding with great pain. No body knows why he is not removed. A US Government report recently said combating terrorism costs much more than financing terrorism.
So India is combating Shivraj Patil which is costing the country much more than financing him as the governor of some state, a place where his style suits well.
He looks more like a governor or the President of India than a home minister. He cannot win an election and no body knows from which constituency he stood for and won.
Journalists in Maharashtra say his nomination to the elections was always Sharad Pawar recommended and supported. Now that Pawar is no more with Congress, he will lose his deposit if he contests elections any more.
A nation of 1 billion plus wants the home minister to be removed and packed off to some solitary confinement with an electric iron and a comb. He can also be used as a model for Raymonds or Reid and Taylor. He can also be used for shampoo ads. He can also be used for hair dye. But for god’s sake he cannot be used as India’s home minister.
Even people like Walter Andersen, a former senior Administration official, who headed up the State Department's South Asia Division of the Intelligence and Research Bureau, say he is the most incompetent man around.
"You have a totally incompetent home minister, and why he isn't removed is beyond me," he told rediff, "He really doesn't know how to get the bureaucracy organised to have some sort of coordinated planning."
But one person, for unknown reasons, is keeping this great man intact. Your guess is as good as mine.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

hi , came across ur blog today as i was searching the net if there is anyone who has some rational questions about the attacks on mumbai . thankfully i found ur blog . voices like urs and mine are few and rare amidst all the jingoism and frenzy . but as someone said " lets be the change we wish to see in this world " . keep up the good work . i have put ur blog post as my gmail tagline . hope its okay with u . will be visiting the blog often .

Ramesh Srivats said...

Guess who Shivraj met after being kicked out...
Shivraj Patil debates with Sardar Vallabhai Patel on who was the better home minister. Check http://www.rameshsrivats.net/2008/12/shivraj-patil-versus-sardar-patel.html

And if you want my take on what should be done, read the next post.