| ashu |
Posted
on 14-Dec-00 11:38 AM
Biswo wrote:
> To me your contention is not only pregnant
>with moral flaws,but
>is also full of loopholes to provide
>justification to
>fete anybody who is incumbent!
Since you are misinterpreting my thoughts
(again!!), here is my answer.
If BBKC is, say, a khattam character,
let him be declared so by the LEGAL
process.
If that can't be done, and some
of us don't like BBKC, then, well,
all we have are just that: Our opinions.
And we don't have the right to force our
opinions re: BBKC on an organization
like Help Nepal, especially when none
of us are affiliated with Help Nepal
More to the point, if the rest of the
public have elected BBKC as their MP
and ther representatives have chosen him
as a Minister, then, well, he remains a
Minister -- privy to the privileges of
the Ministry. And one of those privileges
is coverage by the press.
Look, I do not want to second-guess
the janata who have rightly or wrongly
elected BBKC to the post in which he is
today.
That is why, I have made a sharp distinction
between honoring an institution and honoring
a person.
For example, when George W. Bush shakes hands
with President Clinton, I don't think that
the gesture should be taken as Bush's condoning
Clinton's personal failings. All Bush would
be doing is HONORING the institution that
Clinton represents. That's all.
Likewise, inviting BBKC is merely a gesture
to honor the institution (i.e. Ministry, in
this case) he represents, without making a
judgement as to what a chor/fataha/badmaas
he is or is not.
I hope my points are clear to all. As for
your extreme (Nazi) examples, others can
decide how relevant they are to this
discussion.
Finally, though I personally do not like BBKC,
I have no trouble accepting him as a head
of a Ministry in our democratic setting.
oohi
ashu
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