Cue to Q?
Cue to Q?
During those 3 days when India or at least the politically aware were wondering “Will she or won’t she”, I had argued to my friends the “she shouldn’t” position.
As any “reasoning”, it cannot be separated from my persona, milieu, my emotions and feelings. However I did not want to stake it all on her foreignness. I conceded to the reality that she had been around as the leader of opposition, had intimate meetings with the ex-PM on sensitive matters involving national security. It was water under the bridge.
The reason was since we are passing thru really tough times which required the PM to take gut-level decisions. Every one of those decision of hers will be looked thru the prism of “foreignness” where as the nation should be concerned only by its merits. We as a nation are not that mature. It would be a tremendous overhead for the polity to function effectively. We probably would never know what really went during those days and nights that made Manmohan Singh the PM.
Now this Q business in the news is troubling me beyond all the obvious reasons. The B.Datta, (ever wondered what that B is and why it should be a secret?) from Law ministry volunteering to the Crown prosecution, the law minister going public in defense of him, at the same time CBI telling the magistrate that it is still trying to extradite Q are the obvious reasons. But my worry is this: she knows that she is known to be personally close to Q, any such (in) voluntary help will revive the controversy, this will be conceived so perilously close to helping a fugitive and this help will be rightly or wrongly connected to her. It is a very safe assumption that she knew this was going to happen even if one cannot assume she ordered it. If she would be willing to let this happen knowing what this entails will mean only either of these things. She is ready to accept the damage hoping that it will be to a level acceptable to her. Or she hopes to limit the damage to a level acceptable to her. If my assumption about her fore-knowledge is wrong it means an over-eager courtier engaged in unauthorized conduct. This means that the courtier thinks that this sort of behavior would please her, which is even more troubling.
posted by Srinivasan @ 9:46 PM
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2 Comments:
seeni,
let me take tangentially to:
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I conceded to the reality that she had been around as the leader of opposition, had intimate meetings with the ex-PM on sensitive matters involving national security.
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if u had mentioned for the sake of being "politically correct" in posts then fine, i give a go ahead :). Otherwise. It is kinda childish to assume that as a leader of opposition she had meetings with the then PM on sensitive national security matters. i seriously doubt which nation are you talking about, is it the one that encompasses the holy city country of pope? since when in india the ruling PMs discussed things (seriously) with leader of opposition in sensitive national (indian) matters? i guess even the SPM (subordinate PM) MMS doesnt discuss many of those sensitive national security matter things with SPM (super-PM). wait...wait...or did u mean I.K.Gujral, V.P.Singh, Deve Gowda, Chandrasekhar as (ex-PM) with whom she had meetings on sensitive matters involving national security? Then i concede.
Coming back to Q issue:
I don't think she is dumb enough not to have any fore-knowledge in subjects that interest her most. It could be, as you have mentioned, her confidence in subduing(?)/diverting the opposition arising due to this support, had made her to give a open go ahead. This means there is going to be yet another set of NDA MPs to be trapped or who knows George Fernandez and casket theory might be getting dusted. POK (not Pak Occupied Kashmir; this is Pope Only Knows).
I clearly alluded that my emotions and feelings on this issue are entirely a notch or 2 away on this matter. Then it becomes my emotion vs. your emotion. But to state your position and reason, it is better to stay away from them.
For that sake, I just wanted to give all the benefit of doubt to her and still see what is going wrong here.
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