Yesterday, we had yet another gem
from our conveniently-silent and comfortably-numb Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh.
No one can say what caused Mr.
Manmohan Singh to break his silence after seven days of the Delhi gangrape in a moving bus, but it would
have been better had he maintained his familiar, formidable silence.
Manmohan is expressionless,
emotionless or so seasoned to cover his emotions and expressions might have
been a matter of debate in the initial days when his bad phase during the
second term of the United Progressive Alliance government began but certainly
not now.
The country should not have
demanded that its prime minister come forward and give a statement on the
plight of the young girl fighting for life after the brutal gangrape, for,
rather than soothing, it left us in the bad taste.
It was as mechanical as Sheila
Dikshit’s sympathy for the girl, for, it didn't give us any hope.
Dr. Singh, here too, is getting
able support of his colleagues like Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde, the person
supposed to handle the internal security of the country. According to a PTI
report, Mr. Shinde appeared to equate the young protesters of Delhi with the Maoists. He said in various
interviews, "It is very easy to ask the Home Minister to go to India
Please give us a list of your
preferences Mr. Shinde.
Another Congress leader, this
time, the chief of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee, Botsa Satyanarayana,
had another gem to offer. He told reporters in Hyderabad :
“Do we roam in streets at midnight as we got Independence
Dear Mr. Prime Minister, what is
this?
If you and your team cannot sooth
the pain, let alone eliminating it, please don’t aggravate it.
The real shine of Manmohan
Singh’s speech that shocked and left us speechless came in last when he was done with
his statement and asked his staff if everything went right by asking ‘theek
hai’. ‘theekhai’ became a hot trend on the social media platforms afterward.
It could have been a normal slip but not in the prevailing circumstances. A delayed (as usual) Manmohan was reading mechanically a written message that didn't give us any hope. And to add to the misery, his 'theek hai' was like rubbing salt on the wound. The 'theek hai' (irrespective of what it was intended for), was not 'theek' (right), for Manmohan as well as for us.
It could have been a normal slip but not in the prevailing circumstances. A delayed (as usual) Manmohan was reading mechanically a written message that didn't give us any hope. And to add to the misery, his 'theek hai' was like rubbing salt on the wound. The 'theek hai' (irrespective of what it was intended for), was not 'theek' (right), for Manmohan as well as for us.
No one can say how it slipped out
but there should be a task-force to investigate and introduce the team or the
gentleman to the country who engaged us so intensely with this gem.
For, though unintentionally, he
(or they) let us have yet another point to count on where Mr. Manmohan Singh
and his government have failed us.
Manmohan Singhji, ye theek nahi
hai, ye nahi chalega, ye nahi hona chahiye!
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
