Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Utter Shamelessness, Mr. PM

Manmohan Singh today said we have to learn to live with corruption and that there has to be a compromise! How can a standing PM say something like that. My blood's mercury level shot up by a couple of degrees and heart beat rate rose while I heard him talking like that on a national television channel. It's like a doctor who says  'you have a cancer but I am sorry, you have got to learn to live with it.'
This particular incident has made sure that Manmohan Singh, though intelligent (academically), is as incapable as our first PM, Chacha Nehru was. Even Nehru, unlike his daughter and grandchildren, was himself not corrupt (I suppose). But simply impotent(, politically).
This also reminds me of Mahatma Gandhi's post-independence wish - INC be dissolved, form a new party, with new name, and capable and willing members. I do not know how important was dissolving INC then, but right now.. ? Because when a doctor says that nothing can be done about a cancer, its generally third degree and only thing the person has to look forward is to Die. Does Manmohan Singh mean same to happen to INC?