VOX POPULI
by
S Kamat
as
Aam Admi
Issue: 282 Date: 20.05.2019
Contents:
1. Amit Shah's Foot In The Mouth Moment
2. Criminality In Politics
3. BCCI Should Revert Back To Cricket's Administrators
Amit Shah's Foot In The Mouth Moment
Narendra Modi has said that the Congress has found its scapegoats for losing the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Sam Pitroda for his - Hua To Hua? - comment about the 1984 Sikh riots and Mani Shankar Aiyer surfacing again to repeat his abuse of Narendra Modi as a neech. In the same manner Narendra Modi will only have to blame Amit Shah for the less than expected gains for the BJP in Bengal. Amit Shah made 2 mistakes during his Bengal campaign. The first was calling Bengal - Kangal Bangla. The Bengalis are a sentimental and emotional race. They may call each other names amongst themselves but do not take lightly any outsider calling them names and that too calling their land that they hold proud a kangal - pauper. The second is that no Bengali belonging to a home grown party like the TMC will ever break a statue of their icons like Vidyasagar, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekanand just to name a few. The BJP goons will regret for having broken Vidyasagar's bust and that too located in a institution that carries his name. Whatever gains the BJP may have garnered up to the last phase of polling in Bengal they would squander in the last phase of polling, thanks to Amit Shah's intemperate comments and action. For the 9 seats that go to the polls on 19.5.2019 one wonders if the BJP will get any of these after Amit Shah's gaffe.
Criminality In Politics
Lately Vanzara & Amin have been discharged on a technicality in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Apart from the refusal of the Gujarat Govt. to give permission for these police officers to be prosecuted, the case would have any way fallen through on the lack of evidence criteria. Similarly we have senior leaders like Narendra Modi & Amit Shah all moving around in public life flaunting their discharge from criminal cases on the same 'lack of evidence' basis. Modi for his involvement in the 2002 Gujarat riots and his buddy Amit Shah on the charge of complicity in murder of a prominent Gujarat politician who was a minister to boot. The BJP as a party has the largest number of criminal cases registered against its functionaries which is a record of sorts in independent India. The question then is - Do we need them to be in the governing seat for another 5 years?
BCCI Should Revert Back To Cricket's Administrators
The amicus curiae, Justice (retired) P S Narasimha, appointed by the SC for BCCI has rightly said that outsiders should stay away from BCCI and return the game of cricket to its own administrators. The CoA has proved ineffective and for such a long time, almost 3 years, been unable to resolve the cricket body's issues for which reason it should be disbanded apart from the fact of the infighting among the CoA members that has been seen for the last year or so.
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