Just when it seems like the dust might just have a chance to settle down, Sonia Gandhi throws a volte-face. Or was this what the lady had intended all along, and we, from our positions of seething moral indignation never seen it? Or was it just that we were too busy laughing at jokes about India outsourcing her Prime Minister?
I must admit I have never thought much of that lady till today… When she has refused the position of prime minister…
I have never been overjoyed at the prospect of having a ‘person of foreign origin’ as our Prime Minister…. but, if the lady could rein in a scattered Congress and infuse life into a party that was all but dead and buried, then why not? And for someone who made a very reluctant entry into Indian politics….
As for the nay-sayers, there is just one thing that rankles me…. That all this opposition comes from people fighting over one common Indian language, unwilling to accept Hindi (or any other for that matter) as their own national language, happy to stay with the language of our erstwhile ‘rulers’ as their own language…..
I was reading Jivha’s post on Uma Bharati’s comment on Sonia Gandhi. And was fascinated by some of the comments to the post. Right! Root for Bobby Jindal in the US (he makes us proud)….
For a lady mocked for her scripted speeches, I must say this rings sincere…. Especially if we do acknowledge the fact that she made a very reluctant entry into Indian politics. If only she stands by this decision without giving in to party pressures from the pandering Congressmen and allies or finally turns this too into a well-scripted drama (only to turn around and say, I agree because the script demands it…. much like our holier-than-thou heroines), then hats of to you, lady….
If India has managed to vote in a secular Government ruled by a Prime Minister made of shudh deshi ghee, then I think we have got the best possible deal….