Antulay's Rendezvous

Musing # 34

Hi,

Immediately after the Mumbai mayhem an SMS was going around with the message " We can tackle the people who came by boats but how to tackle the people who have come by votes".

At that juncture I thought that this is a ridiculous message and a sick joke.

But after being witness to Mr. Antulay's antics regarding his conspiracy theory regarding the slaying of Mr. Hemanth Karkare by the terrorists, I'm seeing now how apt is that message. It's not just one opportunistic politicians stray remark that is disturbing the spirit of true Indians but the unabashed approval of this by the party to which he belongs and which is known to play the minority card for it's vote- bank politics.

He unashamedly admits in the interview given to Lakshmi Iyer in Mumbai Mirror " I have been flooded with adulations from across the country. Previously, no one use to take note of me when I went to the mosque , now everyone comes and hug me."

Yes, Mr. Antulay you will get plenty of adulation even from across the border and lot of people are eagerly awaiting to hug you also from there.

Mr. M. J. Akbar who is the voice of all patriotic muslims has rightly commented in today's column of his in TOI that Mr. Antulay is Ms. Simi Garewal of Indian politics in his context. I concur with him but in my own context that, She resurrected her sagging Carrier with her "Rendezvous" show with living celebrities and Mr. Antulay has even outsmarted her with his " Rendezvous " show with a slain martyr.

Now, coming back to that SMS,

We blame the intrusion of the undesired elements through boats as " Intelligence failure".

Then can we call the intrusion of undesired politicians like Mr. ARA through votes as the "Intelligentsia failure" ?

mentor mohan