Till yesterday, I had a respect of the highest order for Mr Salman Khurshid, but after hearing his jibes on his adversary, that concept--the respect--stands subdued. He was claiming to own the legacy of Gandhi. The legacy of Gandhi's endurance and civility. But, without a minutes loss, the Gandhian philosophy took an ugly turn--a metamorphosis in the new decade--and what was coming out from Mr Khurshid's mouth was a rebuke, a castigation, a vituperation to not only the Gandhian philosophy, but to his lineage also, for, he happens to be a son of the ex-Union External Affairs Minister--Md Khurshid Alam Khan and great grand son of the third president of India, Dr. Zakir Hussain.
I haven't had heard a politics of this sort in my thirty and six years of my life, and from the mouth of an Oxford laureate, is unbelievable. Now, the automatic question arises that whether he has studied there or has managed a degree from Oxford anyhow, or, he has worked there as a peon or a sweeper. He has a very respectable lineage. But, that lineage--the tahzib and tamiz of his Union minister father and highly respected maternal grandfather--the third President of India Late Md Zakir Hussain--stands rebuked also with his latest barb of the meanest degree.
There is no dearth of issues in India, why then the political water is getting murkier day by day? Whether to show allegiance of the highest degree to the chairperson or some one else? And how anyone can be so dead sure of anyone's impotence? Isn't it seem premonitory for the time to come? Whatever be the silver lining of this cloudy phase of Indian politics, one thing is sure that these learned people, in their quest of victory in the coming general elections, will not hesitate in posing in their birth-suites in front of general public and stripping others also, to feel at home in the election frenzy environment. And what happened in 1947--when millions were pogromed--in 1984 or in 1992 was their virility, their potency.
Whatever result the general election 2014 will throw, it certainly will not have the grand old party of India in the picture, for, the comments from so learned and astute persons like Khurshid's may be a presage of time to come for the Congress party. No apology will suffice to retrieve the legacy of the Mahatma. And the learned class will remain moving away from Congress with jibes like this. He must be reprimanded severely, not to tarnish the image of Nehru, Gandhi and Maulana Azad anymore.
And Khurshid Alam Khan, Zakir Hussain, St. Xavier, St. Stephens, St. Edmund all stood with their head bowed in the heaven, the first two for being their ancestor and the Saints for their schools from where this laureate was molded.
I haven't had heard a politics of this sort in my thirty and six years of my life, and from the mouth of an Oxford laureate, is unbelievable. Now, the automatic question arises that whether he has studied there or has managed a degree from Oxford anyhow, or, he has worked there as a peon or a sweeper. He has a very respectable lineage. But, that lineage--the tahzib and tamiz of his Union minister father and highly respected maternal grandfather--the third President of India Late Md Zakir Hussain--stands rebuked also with his latest barb of the meanest degree.
There is no dearth of issues in India, why then the political water is getting murkier day by day? Whether to show allegiance of the highest degree to the chairperson or some one else? And how anyone can be so dead sure of anyone's impotence? Isn't it seem premonitory for the time to come? Whatever be the silver lining of this cloudy phase of Indian politics, one thing is sure that these learned people, in their quest of victory in the coming general elections, will not hesitate in posing in their birth-suites in front of general public and stripping others also, to feel at home in the election frenzy environment. And what happened in 1947--when millions were pogromed--in 1984 or in 1992 was their virility, their potency.
Whatever result the general election 2014 will throw, it certainly will not have the grand old party of India in the picture, for, the comments from so learned and astute persons like Khurshid's may be a presage of time to come for the Congress party. No apology will suffice to retrieve the legacy of the Mahatma. And the learned class will remain moving away from Congress with jibes like this. He must be reprimanded severely, not to tarnish the image of Nehru, Gandhi and Maulana Azad anymore.
And Khurshid Alam Khan, Zakir Hussain, St. Xavier, St. Stephens, St. Edmund all stood with their head bowed in the heaven, the first two for being their ancestor and the Saints for their schools from where this laureate was molded.
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