Political naivete or legal chicanery?

Aam Aadmi Party has petitioned to Supreme Court contesting the legality of Presidential notification to keep the Delhi Assembly in suspended animation. While the court was trying to acquaint itself of the niceties involved, the Attoney General Vahanvati and Addl. Solicitor General K.V.Viswanathan representing the central government justified the notification with the outlandish argument that the Congress and the BJP may come together to form the government in Delhi.

What a creative idea! The government is ready to invent any fiction if only to subserve its selfish purpose. The Court must have been amused.

Festival of controversies

The Jaipur LitFest has become a ConFest (Controversy Festival). Kirorilal Meena threatens women participants that if they drink at the festival, he would beat them up himself! He is an M.P. Who else can talk like this?

Ashis Nandy, author cum sociologist, argues that most corrupt people are from OBC, SC and ST. He has subsequently clarified but not denied the statement. Has he done any statistical analysis? He has not clarified. Apparently this is only a gross generalisation based perhaps on perception. Narendra Modi, easily the least corrupt chief minister on date, belongs to OBC.

There are strident calls for Nandy's arrest. Rather, he should be asked to prove his controversial statement. In case he stumbles, he should be named and shamed. If facts and figures are on his side, a deeper sociological study would be welcome.