Rahul gives 99 per cent marks to Govt

It requires inveterate superciliousness for a person to make preposterous and insensitive comments on a regular basis. Rahul Gandhi is one such person. This gets confirmed, if confirmation was required, from his 99 per cent remark about the Bombay serial blasts on July 13.
The terror attack killed 17 and wounded many more, rattled the commercial capital of the country, and angered all Indians. A day after the outrage, as the city was trying to limp back to normal and the victims were groaning in hospitals, the crown prince said that total elimination of terror attacks was impossible. He went on to laud his own government for having largely succeeded in controlling terror assaults.
“It’s very difficult to stop every single terror attack. Terrorism is impossible to stop all the time. But 99 per cent of terror attacks have been stopped due to strong vigilance and intelligence efforts,” he said.
So, what should we do? Instead of castigating the Congress-led governments in New Delhi and Bombay for their gross incompetence and worse in checking the jihadis, should we hail Rahul, the lame duck Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and the super-Prime Minister, Sonia mama as divine creatures? Should we sing hosannas in praise of such gods and goddesses? By making such gauche remarks, Rahul has added salt to the injuries of the victims.
Then there is Home Minister P. Chidambaram who reacts by saying that all cities are vulnerable to attacks. He went on to say that terrorism is a global phenomenon. At a press conference, he listed the number of attacks in other countries. So, we have some consolation: it is not only the Indians but others as well who are dying because of terror! Thank God for small mercies.
Of late, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has begun peddling a perverse form of globalization. When questions are asked about soaring inflation, they say it’s happening all over the world. When it faces flak for its ineptitude in tackling jihad, it says terrorism is not restricted to India.
While it is true that global commodity prices have been hardening for some time, it is undeniable that mindless populism of the government has also augmented the aam aadmi’s torment. Similarly, developments in Pakistan and Afghanistan and regular terror funding from the Middle East are a big problem, but the sins of omission and commission by the UPA regime are too obvious to be ignored. But Rahul, who represents Amethi in the Lok Sabha, said, “We have improved by leaps and bounds.”
Evidently, what Rahul, Chidambaram, and other Congress leaders are saying is a lot of baloney. Yes, terror strikes have been happening all over the world, but no such thing has happened in the US since the September 11 attacks in 2001. Similarly, the UK was able to stop any incident after the London terror attack on July 7, 2005.
At the heart of the terror problem in our country is the propensity of the Congress, and other political parties, to mollycoddle Muslims fundamentalists and incorrigible fanatics. Congress leaders such as Digvijay Singh—who, by the way, is Rahul’s mentor—have always opposed policies and actions that can have a deterrent effect on jihadis. The aftermath of Batla House encounter is testimony to their brazen appeasement of Muslim hardliners.
Rahul’s superciliousness and insensitivity are the product and function of this appeasement.