| ashu |
Posted
on 30-Mar-01 12:27 AM
Dumdum wrote:
>Mahesh Acharya resigned and I think he did a good job.He should
>be repentant on the illegal act he committed.
>Looks like Acharya is the only person who dares to resign from
>his post in this filthy rat-infested polity.
Granted that Acharya is a well-known
die-hard bhakta of Sai Baba.
Still, Acharya's resignation need NOT have the
highfalutin moral tones that it has been given.
On the face of it, in no other country of the planet the
defense minister (who is a former finnace minister)
resigns over the re-appointment of the central banker!!
I think the truth is much more complicated than what
Acharya and those quick to hail him as some kind
of a moral hero are letting on.
That is to say: It is highly likely that Acharya resigned NOT because of the Rawal case (which, for him, has re-emerged at a right time!) but because his boss Girija is going down anyway (what with Lauda Kanda, the dysfunctional Parliament, and the rest) and Acharya, being a clever politician, is simply making
an exit from the Cabinet at a time suitabel for him under the pretext of this Rawal case.
After all, think about this: Acharya is on record for saying
that he respects the Supreme Court's decision. If so, what then was stopping Acharya from continuing to be the defense minister?
Is Acharya's ego so big that he couldn't accept a mistake he made
on the Rawal case last year, and therefore can't be gracious enough to say, "Look, I goofed up last; the Court is right now", and continue being the present defense minister?
If not, then even if Acharya hated the guts of Rawal, how many times would he as the defense minister get to work with Rawal, the central banker, anyway?
I also suspect that Acharya, the defense minister, did not get along with the defense officials, and that could have
implicitly prompted him to quit too.
Acharya is clever in that he's been able to use the Rawal case
as a believable pretext to jump from the sinking ship of GP Koirala.
Now, let us watch GPK squirm, wriggle himself and try to get himself out of the big corrupt mess he has created for himself.
oohi
ashu
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