Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests has done the unpardonable a la Shashi Tharoor. He has criticised our Home Ministry while on a visit to China.
He has discovered that there are two dimensions to India's relationship with China. The Copenhagen spirit dimension is what the minister endorses. He is against the "Huawei headache dimension". According to the overly articulate minister, our Home Ministry's suspicion that possible malware / spyware in imported telecom equipment , particularly from China, could severely threaten national security is "needless" and "paranoid". "We are imagining demons where there are none". Even Pandit Nehru and Krishna Menon would not have been so naive !
The minister has committed a double fault. One, what is the expertise at his command to give a clean chit to Huawei ? Secondly, is a foreign territory the right place to castigate another ministry in the Indian cabinet ?
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