Rambling thoughts on three news items
I told him the maxim that “The mills of the Gods grind slowly, but they grind well.” Likewise, I told him, the wheels of the government move slowly but at the end grind well. So also the wheels of justice — they turn slowly but grind fine at the end. At this, my friend snapped back: What happens when the wheels fall off and there is no justice? Ask T.V. Mohandas Pai, I said.
Be that as it may, now let me turn my attention to the three news items my friend mentioned. One was about Rahul Gandhi’s Citizenship of India. The second news item was about return of those Kashmiri Pandits who escaped terrorist persecution in 1990 by migrating to Jammu and other parts of the country — some are in Bengaluru too. The third was about Sambhal Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh (UP).
We have been reading about Rahul Gandhi’s controversial Indian Citizenship since decades. It is an important question that must have been decided before Rahul Gandhi was allowed to contest the election. It is Constitutionally imperative that this question must be answered either by the Union Government or by the Court because he has now become the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, which means that a person with questionable citizenship is part of the Union Government.
For sure, ours is a Left-Liberal Democracy and a Soft Government and seems to be a lethargic government. Who knows, there must be some purpose for the delay in deciding the case one way or the other.
This is the later petition in the Lucknow High Court which has sought information from the Union Home Ministry regarding Rahul Gandhi’s Citizenship. In an earlier petition, which was dismissed as withdrawn, the Karnataka resident, one S. Vignesh Shishir, claimed Rahul Gandhi holds British Citizenship and hence ineligible to contest the election. But Rahul Gandhi contested, won and has become the LoP. The issue seems to have become a fait accompli.
See the irony of it all. The petitioner had submitted two representations to the Union Home Ministry in this regard. But there was no response. So the petitioner has gone back to the same Court seeking CBI probe into the matter. And, of course, the Court has rightly sought information from the Union Government about action taken on petitioner Vignesh Shishir’s representations.
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