What will the kettle do if the pot keeps calling it black? Just return the compliment and if possible add a few more spoonfulls of soot to make the pot look blacker. This is precisely what the tehelka-tarred BJP has done to the Congress which now appears as black as black could be.
Of course, neither party has deemed it necessary to extricate itself from the muck evidently owing to the realisation that there could be no escape from truth. So they have done the next best thing – of defending themselves through offence and venturing to prove to the world at large who is the blackest of them all. But do we have to be told at such great pains and expense, signoras and gentlemen, that the secular Congress and the pious BJP have but one common denominator?
Of course, we, the people, are only too familiar with the political version of Newton ‘ s law, that says, for every Bofors, there is an equal and opposite tehelka (after making due allowances for inflation). But unfortunately, in all this mutual mud-slinging, is it not the nation itself that has emerged dirtier than thou?
Having successfully enhanced democracy by stalling parliament right through the Budget session, the Congress party now promises to continue its stone-walling unless the Government addresses the key issues raised by it. Now one may ask what these are and the ever eager Congress spokesman would volunteer a list of demands that would appear most legitimate and eminently reasonable, that is for the ordinary eye.
But delve deeper and assure the Congman that you have no hidden cameras on your person and you will have the truth in black and white, rather more black than white. That the real reason for the Congress refusal to play ball with the government has nothing to do with its much touted ‘ legitimate demands ‘ but rather owing to the party ‘ s overwhelming but misplaced chivalry for a damsel ‘ s well deserved distress.
And so if the CBI scrutiny of Sonia ‘ s past is dropped forthwith, Parliament could be back on rails, also forthwith. And it would be cheers for democracy, till the next scam rocks the government which in turn will activate the CBI and put it on witch-hunt mode, raising the hackles of the obvious target, leading once again to a two-way traffic of mud and tar…the sordid tale would be never ending.
It is a pity that the villains of the tehelka drama are all set to go scot free simply because the Congress has such a vulnerable leader who could be so easily blackmailed into submission. Let alone tehelka, Sonia undoubtedly remains the best bet for the BJP ‘ s survival and is an ample insurance for all the future shocks that the ruling party may come to face.
Of course, the Congressmen see in their IMFL – read Indian Made Foreign Leader -their only hope of curing their power itch, but there seems to be no realisation that it is Sonia who needs the party camouflage more for survival and not the other way round. Normally, politicians attain ill-fame only after entry into politics, but here is a leader (?) who appears to have walked in with a huge baggage of skeletons, even imported ones.
Yet the Congmen are proud of her and are ‘ intimidated ‘ if she is targetted, to the extent that even governance could be halted! But the party having been converted into a private property of Sonia and Sons (and daughters too) could afford to behave so, but should the country suffer as a result of the Congmen ‘ s Sonia mania? Only god, that is Swamy, knows!