India bleeds once again

Two events is a day. Though separated by hundreds of miles, each has the capacity to change history. And surely will History change but sadly for India, yet another arrow in the heart of Mother India.

NDT or ND Tewari has allegedly done what one could have never even imagined. An 86 year old man, with one step on the ground and the other on the pyre has the audacity of playing ras leela. At a time when the grand Pandit should be sunk deep into the chanting of the Vedas, he is delving deep into the forbidden lands. Whether this is a fact or just a malicious campaign to push ahead the Telangana issue, one would never know. The Congress high command saw wisdom in sacking Tewari in order to douse the flame of Telangana. The bloody flames will ensure that Tewari gets no chance to prove his innocence! And we suddenly hear cries of the hysteric masses demanding that Tewari be sanctioned for his misdemenour. We are hearing slogans of ethics and values. Let me leave this issue here..for the time being.

And on the other side we have the wily “Guru” of Jharkhand. He tramples ethics and values as one does the dead leaves in the jungles of Kharkhand. Let us take a quick look at the man who has been invited by the Governor to form the government. On 23 January 1975, he was allegedly part of a mob that attacked the Muslim-dominated Chirudih village in Jamtara Ten people including nine Muslims were killed in the attack. Along with sixty eight others, he was charged with murder. In 1986, an arrest warrant was issued against him. In 2002, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha with the help of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He became the Union Coal Minister in the Manmohan Singh government, but was asked to resign following an arrest warrant in his name in the thirty-year old Chirudih case. After the warrant was issued, he initially went underground. On 28 November 2006, Soren was found guilty of murder in the twelve year old case of the kidnapping and murder of his former personal secretary Shashinath Jha. Soren is the first and only case of a Union Minister of the Government of India being found guilty of involvement in a murder. On 5 December 2006, Shibu Soren was sentenced to life imprisonment; he still awaits trial in the Chirudih case.

Now, which of the two makes you cry more? An 86 year old veteran putting Khajuraho to shame or a convicted criminal playing hoola hoop with Law and Order?

And yes, the BJP. What ethics are portrayed here by the party which shouted the meek and mild Manhohan into a corner when Soren was a Minister in the UPA government, is the one propping up the convicted criminal to don the mantle of the Chief Minister? Atalji, we sure are glad that you are not around to see where the Judges would be hiding in Jharkhand.