Saturday, September 16, 2006
Sunil Dutt - the only Congressman to resign his parliament seat over Babri Masjid demolition
Tuesday, March 11, 1997
Why did they not speak before? Why are they speaking now? The innocent naiveté of the stock question is not easily apparent to all and sundry. But it derails the impact and importance of some of the late speaker’s briefs in political field. After S. B. Chavan, it is now the turn of Sunil Dutt, who had kept a gentlemanly silence while Congress was being irreparably damaged by a few self centered power-hungry manipulators. At least Sunil Dutt’s silence can easily be deciphered. He was the only Congress MP that tendered his resignation after the Babri Masjid demolition and the riots and police brutality in its aftermath. He had not envisaged the vindictive and ruthless nature of his adversaries, whose blatant misuse of power at their command to punish him for his ‘intemperance’, was to reduce him to a pitiable wreck. And this is all common knowledge. Still some wise people ask the stock question: why did he not speak earlier on? Why is he is speaking now? Rao and Pawar in power had unleashed on the people, a governance which was more diabolic and disruptive than the much maligned period of Indira Gandhi’s emergency.
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Why did they not speak before? Why are they speaking now? The innocent naiveté of the stock question is not easily apparent to all and sundry. But it derails the impact and importance of some of the late speaker’s briefs in political field. After S. B. Chavan, it is now the turn of Sunil Dutt, who had kept a gentlemanly silence while Congress was being irreparably damaged by a few self centered power-hungry manipulators. At least Sunil Dutt’s silence can easily be deciphered. He was the only Congress MP that tendered his resignation after the Babri Masjid demolition and the riots and police brutality in its aftermath. He had not envisaged the vindictive and ruthless nature of his adversaries, whose blatant misuse of power at their command to punish him for his ‘intemperance’, was to reduce him to a pitiable wreck. And this is all common knowledge. Still some wise people ask the stock question: why did he not speak earlier on? Why is he is speaking now? Rao and Pawar in power had unleashed on the people, a governance which was more diabolic and disruptive than the much maligned period of Indira Gandhi’s emergency.
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