Various comments have been made in this blog on Kapil Sibal's hubris, egregious outbursts and misplaced sarcasm (vide posts dated 23.09.09, 8.1.11 and 24.1.11.) Now he has given us an opportunity to question his integrity also.
"Nobody was hurt in the police action against Baba Ramdev's followers !" Sibal's outrageous lie was repeatedly telecast (alongside the video clips of several persons being beaten by police) the day after the police resorted to teargas shelling and lathi-charge. Does the honourable minister expect us to believe that the police were only lathi-charging the wind and teargassing the sand? In the near future, comparisons between Ramlila Grounds and Tiananmen Square are likely. It has now emerged that a lady, Rajbala, who suffered injuries in the police lathi-charge is paralysed for life below the neck.
Mendacity may be a useful tool in courts to save scoundrels, but it is not expected of a minister. His shamelessly inconsistent behaviour of obsequiously pleading with Ramdev at the airport and subsequently heaping ridicule on him after unlawfully banishing him from Delhi speaks volumes about the minister's highhanded duplicity.
"We know how to reach out and also how to rein in" claims the minister. He could as well have said, "We know how to falsify the truth and how to legitimise the unlawful". Manmohan Singh's minions have upstaged him on many occasions. Poor Prime Minister ! Why is he putting up with all this arrant nonsense?
"Nobody was hurt in the police action against Baba Ramdev's followers !" Sibal's outrageous lie was repeatedly telecast (alongside the video clips of several persons being beaten by police) the day after the police resorted to teargas shelling and lathi-charge. Does the honourable minister expect us to believe that the police were only lathi-charging the wind and teargassing the sand? In the near future, comparisons between Ramlila Grounds and Tiananmen Square are likely. It has now emerged that a lady, Rajbala, who suffered injuries in the police lathi-charge is paralysed for life below the neck.
Mendacity may be a useful tool in courts to save scoundrels, but it is not expected of a minister. His shamelessly inconsistent behaviour of obsequiously pleading with Ramdev at the airport and subsequently heaping ridicule on him after unlawfully banishing him from Delhi speaks volumes about the minister's highhanded duplicity.
"We know how to reach out and also how to rein in" claims the minister. He could as well have said, "We know how to falsify the truth and how to legitimise the unlawful". Manmohan Singh's minions have upstaged him on many occasions. Poor Prime Minister ! Why is he putting up with all this arrant nonsense?
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