Karunanidhi has become a laughing stock across India for the blatant and crass manner in which he sought ministerial berths for his kith and kin. But shameless as they are, these politicians do not get any lump in their throat while giving out a lie or seeking a favour. Impunity again, to the sentiments of millions who voted them to power. A cartoon in Times of India today beautifully depicts. Karunanidhi is standing before Manmohan Singh with a baby in his hand and the latter says that he would not hesitate to accommodate the former's great grand child also but they did not have any baby-seats in the cabinet. Nothing can be more disgusting than this. Even Dr Ramadoss looks very graceful in demanding a berth for his qualified son in the face of this man demanding a cabinet post to his son who is neither educated nor experienced. Fortunately, the hands of the PM are strengthened so much that he can keep these elements in check just like he showed the door to SP and RJD. May God give him more strength in disciplining the criminals and the corrupt in his regime.
Talking of the hypocracies, we saw many during the great Indian tamasha called the General Elections 2009. We saw losers being ungraceful - I don't say disgraceful - in inventing all sorts of reasons for the debacle, voting machine frauds, counting frauds, money play etc. But the best aspect of this election is the door shown by the Indian electorate to all sundries who were having a field day during the last 5 years, like the Communists, Lalus and Mulayams, Ramadosss and Pawars. All those who created havoc during the last term were put in their places. This will be a stable set up - be it Congress or BJP, all the tails that wagged the head have been chopped off. Even DMK could not talk from a position of strength. It had to go abegging. The initial signals are encouraging to indicate a cleaner rule.
Another piece of news that attracted me was US asking China to help Pakistan to train its forces to face terrorists. Are they trying to take coal to Newcastle? The country which for well over 5 decades specialised in training terrorists and sending them to India needs training to counter it - best joke of the millennium. Instead of pulling the pipeline of supplies of arms and money which everyone in the establishment knows where it lies, they are beating around the bush. Somebody has to call their bluff.