Sashi Tharoor, a Congress Member of Parliament from Kerala and the Minister of State in the Central Ministry of Human Resources Development(HRD), once a high-ranking UN functionary who contested the post of the Secretary-General, must be a sad man, though he seems to put on a mask of a satisfied and committed Congressman. Having lost the election for the key UN office, Tharoor quit the UN job and joined Indian politics, getting elected to the Lok Sabha(House of the People) on Congress ticket, in 2009. Because of his impressive background, international exposure and experience, he was appointed as a junior Minister in the Union Ministry of External Affairs. Unfortunately, due to his would-be-wife's alleged involvement in some dubios business deal, that caused a furore in the media and in the public, he had to resign from his office. After a year or so in limbo, Tharoor made a return to the UPA Cabinet, again as a junior Minister(Minister of State).
This time, Sashi was more circumspect, more in tune with the Congress culture of sycophancy; he conducted himself seemingly in a parrot-like fashion, speaking politically correctly like other apologists and third-rater party spokespersons. Gone was a sauve, professional, ethical objectivity of an intellectual.Thus, in all his appearances in TV news channel debates he sounds pathetically predictable like a Manish Tewari, Renuka Chowdry or Manu Abhishek Singhvi. In a recent debate(October 27) on the bomb blasts in Patna at Narendra Modi's massive rally in the Gandhi Maidan, Tharoor was defending the State govt led Nitish Kumar although it was widely condemned for its incompetence to provide adequate security, by retired senior IPS officers like Prakash Singh, chief of the UP police and Ajit Doval, the chief of the Intelligence Bureau. Several persons were killed and many more injured in the blasts.
It is incredible that Sashi Tharoor, obviously in pursuit of self-serving goals, has allowed his image to be comprised and diminished. It has been reduced to that of a petty-minded politician who has to justify his party's mean misdeeds and clear lapses, morally unsound and unacceptable. What a terrible fall for a promising personality!
This time, Sashi was more circumspect, more in tune with the Congress culture of sycophancy; he conducted himself seemingly in a parrot-like fashion, speaking politically correctly like other apologists and third-rater party spokespersons. Gone was a sauve, professional, ethical objectivity of an intellectual.Thus, in all his appearances in TV news channel debates he sounds pathetically predictable like a Manish Tewari, Renuka Chowdry or Manu Abhishek Singhvi. In a recent debate(October 27) on the bomb blasts in Patna at Narendra Modi's massive rally in the Gandhi Maidan, Tharoor was defending the State govt led Nitish Kumar although it was widely condemned for its incompetence to provide adequate security, by retired senior IPS officers like Prakash Singh, chief of the UP police and Ajit Doval, the chief of the Intelligence Bureau. Several persons were killed and many more injured in the blasts.
It is incredible that Sashi Tharoor, obviously in pursuit of self-serving goals, has allowed his image to be comprised and diminished. It has been reduced to that of a petty-minded politician who has to justify his party's mean misdeeds and clear lapses, morally unsound and unacceptable. What a terrible fall for a promising personality!
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