07-25-2008, 02:58 AM
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Manmohan Confidence Vote - A Pyrrhic Victory</b>
What a roller coaster that was ?
After all the tack of dealmaking, abstentions and surprises finally some real action on the floor of the house with 3 BJP MPs baring the fixer and broker in chiefâs morality for the whole world to witness.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wanted this motion of confidence to be a judgement on his 4 year record. Let us pay close attention to how this confidence or lack of was expressed.
First let us play close attention to Manmohan Singhâs vituperative attack to L.K. Advani
The Leader of Opposition, Shri L.K. Advani has chosen to use all manner of abusive objectives to describe my performance. He has described me as the weakest Prime Minister, a nikamma PM, and of having devalued the office of PM. To fulfill his ambitions, he has made at least three attempts to topple our government. But on each occasion his astrologers have misled him. This pattern, I am sure, will be repeated today. At his ripe old age, I do not expect Shri Advani to change his thinking. But for his sake and Indiaâs sake, I urge him at least to change his astrologers so that he gets more accurate predictions of things to come.
As for Shri Advaniâs various charges, I do not wish to waste the time of the House in rebutting them. All I can say is that before leveling charges of incompetence on others, Shri Advani should do some introspection. Can our nation forgive a Home Minister who slept when the terrorists were knocking at the doors of our Parliament? Can our nation forgive a person who single handedly provided the inspiration for the destruction of the Babri Masjid with all the terrible consequences that followed? To atone for his sins, he suddenly decided to visit Pakistan and there he discovered new virtues in Mr. Jinnah. Alas, his own party and his mentors in the RSS disowned him on this issue. Can our nation approve the conduct of a Home Minister who was sleeping while Gujarat was burning leading to the loss of thousands of innocent lives? Our friends in the Left Front should ponder over the company they are forced to keep because of miscalculations by their General Secretary.
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All fury no fire Dr. Singh, you did not have the courage to even say all of this on the floor of the house. All of this invective apart the facts of your record Dysfunctional Governance dont change, the reality of your Electile Dysfunctional Leadership dont change.</b>
Your vote of confidence was bought by going to bed with fixers and brokers who are incapable of speaking the language of decency, bred as they were in the gutter.
The final tally says it all with 275 for the motion 256 against the motion with 10 abstentions.
You were right to pursue the strategic intent of getting India out of the nuclear winter it has been in. But sir you did not convince any political formation to express confidence on the merits of your record. You did not convince a significant number of individual members cutting across party lines to express confidence on the voice of their conscience. Rooted in questionable abstentions this is a pyrrhic victory and it is beginning of the end of your Ultimate Perverse Alliance that saw you accidentally occupy this august office.
Manmohan Confidence Vote - A Pyrrhic Victory</b>
What a roller coaster that was ?
After all the tack of dealmaking, abstentions and surprises finally some real action on the floor of the house with 3 BJP MPs baring the fixer and broker in chiefâs morality for the whole world to witness.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wanted this motion of confidence to be a judgement on his 4 year record. Let us pay close attention to how this confidence or lack of was expressed.
First let us play close attention to Manmohan Singhâs vituperative attack to L.K. Advani
The Leader of Opposition, Shri L.K. Advani has chosen to use all manner of abusive objectives to describe my performance. He has described me as the weakest Prime Minister, a nikamma PM, and of having devalued the office of PM. To fulfill his ambitions, he has made at least three attempts to topple our government. But on each occasion his astrologers have misled him. This pattern, I am sure, will be repeated today. At his ripe old age, I do not expect Shri Advani to change his thinking. But for his sake and Indiaâs sake, I urge him at least to change his astrologers so that he gets more accurate predictions of things to come.
As for Shri Advaniâs various charges, I do not wish to waste the time of the House in rebutting them. All I can say is that before leveling charges of incompetence on others, Shri Advani should do some introspection. Can our nation forgive a Home Minister who slept when the terrorists were knocking at the doors of our Parliament? Can our nation forgive a person who single handedly provided the inspiration for the destruction of the Babri Masjid with all the terrible consequences that followed? To atone for his sins, he suddenly decided to visit Pakistan and there he discovered new virtues in Mr. Jinnah. Alas, his own party and his mentors in the RSS disowned him on this issue. Can our nation approve the conduct of a Home Minister who was sleeping while Gujarat was burning leading to the loss of thousands of innocent lives? Our friends in the Left Front should ponder over the company they are forced to keep because of miscalculations by their General Secretary.
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All fury no fire Dr. Singh, you did not have the courage to even say all of this on the floor of the house. All of this invective apart the facts of your record Dysfunctional Governance dont change, the reality of your Electile Dysfunctional Leadership dont change.</b>
Your vote of confidence was bought by going to bed with fixers and brokers who are incapable of speaking the language of decency, bred as they were in the gutter.
The final tally says it all with 275 for the motion 256 against the motion with 10 abstentions.
You were right to pursue the strategic intent of getting India out of the nuclear winter it has been in. But sir you did not convince any political formation to express confidence on the merits of your record. You did not convince a significant number of individual members cutting across party lines to express confidence on the voice of their conscience. Rooted in questionable abstentions this is a pyrrhic victory and it is beginning of the end of your Ultimate Perverse Alliance that saw you accidentally occupy this august office.