Digvijay Singh, a former Congress Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, has rapidly degenerated as a most irresponsible, utterly undignified, senior ruling party leader, bordering on lunacy, after assuming the office of a Congress general secretary at the party's head office in New Delhi. Despite all his senseless remarks, sometimes offensive even to his own party and some of its sober leaders, he is known as a loyalist to the ruling dynasty and its heir-apparent, Rahul Gandhi! He never tires of pushing his icon's claims to the Prime Minister's chair, causing immense embarrassment to the incumbent, Dr Manmohan Singh who seems in no hurry to vacate it in favour of Digvijay Singh's favourite Gandhi. If nothing untoward happens to the PM's health, nor any other grave political disaster or fiasco hits his regime, Dr Singh seems determined to complete his term until the next general elections in 2014, when he will be 82.
In the meantime, unfortunately for Digvijay, his prime ministerial candidate further spoiled his chances for wider popular acceptance as the next head of government, by his immature and ill-timed remarks in the immediate aftermath of the bloody Mumbai bomb blasts which killed 20 innocent persons and injuring over 130. Rahul effusively praised the Congress governments at the Centre and Maharashtra for taking "profound steps" to fight terrorism and improving security by "leaps and bounds". Then why such ghastly terror incidents are recurring, his insensitive reply was that some blasts would continue to happen and cannot be stopped. Instead of applying a much-needed healing touch to the terror victims who had lost their dear ones, he was rubbing salt into their wounds. There was a sharp and angry reaction over Rahul Gandhi's "bachkana"(childish)comments in the public and the media.
But, sure enough, Rahul's apologist Digvijay Singh defended his remarks. He went even to a crazy extent: Out of the blue, he accused the RSS for being possibly involved in the Mumbai mayhem! Even though he added that he had no proof against the RSS in this latest incident, he had evidence on the RSS involvement in earlier terrorist acts! However, his main worry seemed that his party's Muslim vote bank was being heavily eroded as all investigating agencies were naming Muslims as possible suspects. Hence, in order to impress the minority community for being their well-wisher, Digvijay Singh used this mischievously clever ploy to divert the attention to the possible role of non-existing "Hindu terrorists" in the Mumbai blast, by naming the RSS. He had done this earlier in the Batla House terrorist incident in Delhi in which a police inspector was gunned down by the terrorists present in the House. He had dubbed it as a fake encounter contrary to the policy of his own govt. Hence, it is beyond comprehension as to why his party leadership is not expelling him from his important post. The only explanation could be that he enjoys the patronage of the ruling dynasty-Mrs Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi who seem to be quietly supporting his pro-minority and anti-majority angle in the interest of their nefarious vote-bank politics.
In the meantime, unfortunately for Digvijay, his prime ministerial candidate further spoiled his chances for wider popular acceptance as the next head of government, by his immature and ill-timed remarks in the immediate aftermath of the bloody Mumbai bomb blasts which killed 20 innocent persons and injuring over 130. Rahul effusively praised the Congress governments at the Centre and Maharashtra for taking "profound steps" to fight terrorism and improving security by "leaps and bounds". Then why such ghastly terror incidents are recurring, his insensitive reply was that some blasts would continue to happen and cannot be stopped. Instead of applying a much-needed healing touch to the terror victims who had lost their dear ones, he was rubbing salt into their wounds. There was a sharp and angry reaction over Rahul Gandhi's "bachkana"(childish)comments in the public and the media.
But, sure enough, Rahul's apologist Digvijay Singh defended his remarks. He went even to a crazy extent: Out of the blue, he accused the RSS for being possibly involved in the Mumbai mayhem! Even though he added that he had no proof against the RSS in this latest incident, he had evidence on the RSS involvement in earlier terrorist acts! However, his main worry seemed that his party's Muslim vote bank was being heavily eroded as all investigating agencies were naming Muslims as possible suspects. Hence, in order to impress the minority community for being their well-wisher, Digvijay Singh used this mischievously clever ploy to divert the attention to the possible role of non-existing "Hindu terrorists" in the Mumbai blast, by naming the RSS. He had done this earlier in the Batla House terrorist incident in Delhi in which a police inspector was gunned down by the terrorists present in the House. He had dubbed it as a fake encounter contrary to the policy of his own govt. Hence, it is beyond comprehension as to why his party leadership is not expelling him from his important post. The only explanation could be that he enjoys the patronage of the ruling dynasty-Mrs Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi who seem to be quietly supporting his pro-minority and anti-majority angle in the interest of their nefarious vote-bank politics.
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