<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->How can Hindus know for sure that this Varun Gandhi is for real? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The episode does not call for a judgement of Varun Gandhi's credentials, nor has sufficient data to do so. Mere speeches dont make for enough ground of assessing anyone, especially a single case. One has to wait and watch for his commitment over time. His motivation of course seems to be to create a contituency for himself, and emerge as someone in a leaderless and listless UP BJP. Might have taken cue from Raj Thackeray in this.
One must say however that Maneka Gandhi is surely psec enough. Notice her comments on Gujarat issue. She also did not come forward on rAma setu issue, despite this offering her a classical case for taking up environmental and animal rights issues which she often does. I myself had approached her without success. But that does not reflect anything on VG.
Besides, by judging him through stretched blames like his being born from a musalman grandfather and father, a matter in which he had no choice (unlike others who happily send their daughters to moslems), is not only unfair but may also reflect paranoia of some kind.
The episode is not about judging VG, and that would be juvenile thing to do, but it is really about analyzing reactions it has generated within different quarters, especially within BJP.
The episode does not call for a judgement of Varun Gandhi's credentials, nor has sufficient data to do so. Mere speeches dont make for enough ground of assessing anyone, especially a single case. One has to wait and watch for his commitment over time. His motivation of course seems to be to create a contituency for himself, and emerge as someone in a leaderless and listless UP BJP. Might have taken cue from Raj Thackeray in this.
One must say however that Maneka Gandhi is surely psec enough. Notice her comments on Gujarat issue. She also did not come forward on rAma setu issue, despite this offering her a classical case for taking up environmental and animal rights issues which she often does. I myself had approached her without success. But that does not reflect anything on VG.
Besides, by judging him through stretched blames like his being born from a musalman grandfather and father, a matter in which he had no choice (unlike others who happily send their daughters to moslems), is not only unfair but may also reflect paranoia of some kind.
The episode is not about judging VG, and that would be juvenile thing to do, but it is really about analyzing reactions it has generated within different quarters, especially within BJP.