Thursday, May 10, 2007

Furor in Lok Sabha over Dikshit's Remarks

Following the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's anti-Bihar and anti-UP rhetoric on Wednesday, both Houses of Parliament were adjourned on Thursday as leaders from various parties demanded an unequivocal apology from her for insulting millions of Biharis and UP residents across the nation.
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As reported, on Wednesday, while laying the foundation stone of a flyover in New Delhi, Dikshit singled out people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh saying a large number of people from these states come to Delhi and settle down here contributing to traffic and other civic problems.

IMO: I will not say that all this is political correctness gone mad, as is so often the case in European countries, and given India's circumstances Sheila was almost certainly right to apologise quickly for any implied offence. But her comments are really to a certain extent simply echoing Rahul Gandhi's expressed sentiments about UP, and he is a candidate in the UP election ! Some would say, fairly enough, that Mahatma Gandhi was the greatest human being who has ever lived, even with the inclusion of Jesus Christ and Buddha. Well I would say that if Rahul Gandhi is elected to UP he may need inherited gifts from his ancestors to carry out his program. We may soon start to see.

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