On Sardars, Sardars, And More Sardars

Callous.

That is the right word to describe Chacha Manmohan S Gandhi’s statement that the “1984 riots cannot be kept alive forever.”

Does that mean we all forget the Holocaust? Or Hiroshima? Or any other instance of deliberate mass murder?

And do note that the word “riot” is inappropriate. What happens in India are “pogroms.” What happened in 1984 in Delhi was a pogrom against Sikhs. The pogrom was organized by Congressmen. There has been no justice yet. And we know that the Congress is very fond of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar.

Yet, Chacha is the PM-candidate of the Congress.

He has spoken as a loyal Congressman, not as a Sardar.

So let us turn to another Sardar, who has spoken like a true “Sardar”: MS Gill.

He is opposing an SMS gambling game. (Read about the game here.)

Amit Verma has already lambasted him in an open letter.

But allow me to lend some muscle to Amit’s arguments.

MS Gill is a former chief election commissioner who has shown us his political affiliation by becoming a minister in the Congress-led government. Yet, elections are the biggest legal gamble in India! Candidates gamble in the electoral sweepstakes.

MS Gill was running the casino – as an interested party.

So much for Sardar-speak.

We should get Montek the Sardar Planner in, shouldn’t we? And his predictions of the growth rate.

Anyway, with so many Sardars running the government, it was bound to mess up real bad. Here is news that the courts in Switzerland have ruled that documents submitted to them in a money-laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate are forged. Pune-based racehorse breeder Hassan Ali is innocent.

I am always happy when a man’s wealth is saved from State usurpation.