Neech Aadmi

Mani Shankar had (has) no control over his words. Shashi Tharoor had (has) no control over his actions. Manmohan Singh had complete control over his words and deeds. He said nothing and did nothing. Singh has now become aware that he has the freedom to speak but perhaps with Soniaji's prior permission.

Mani Shankar thought he was doing a great service to his party when he referred to Narendra Modi as "Neech kism ka aadmi". Poor fellow, he does not know the meanings of 'neech'. He is able to speak in Hindi fluently but without understanding what he is saying. Does a politician need any greater qualification than this ? He claims he thinks in English even while speaking in Hindi. Does he want us to believe that he thinks while talking? If this is the oral output after thinking, one wonders how his speeches will be when he does not think which being a politician is his default position.

He has offered to 'pay the price' in case the Congress does badly in Gujarat elections because of his neech statement. How do we isolate the consequences of this statement from the effects of campaigns by Rahulji , Hardik Patel etc.? We are of course foolish in asking this question because he has already said he is thinking in English.

I used to think low of Mani Shankar for his utterances. Now I realise how wrong I was. I must first ask him the meanings of his statements before coming to a conclusion.

Mani Shankar Aiyar on Shashi Tharoor

Mani Shankar Aiyar has ridiculed Shashi Tharoor as a chameleon on the latter's late discovery of Narendra Modi's 'inclusivism'. Aiyar has also noted that "notwithstanding simmering public doubts over the tragic death of his warm, gregarious wife Sunanda, he was selected again for Thiruvananthapuram." In other words, Tharoor is treated as a renegade.

Tharoor and Aiyar are supposedly the two best brains in the Congress party. Tharoor's rationalisation that by praising Modi's 'changed behaviour' (?) he is only setting a higher benchmark against which the public has to judge the prime minister has not cut much ice with the party. Reasons for his pro-Modi comments are clear as daylight. He desperately needs government's intervention to torpedo the police investigation into his role in the gruesome death of his third wife.

Aiyar is desperate to get into good books of Sonia Gandhi. Tharoor has given him an opportunity to exploit. Perversely intelligent people are a greater liability to a political party than honest fools.