Battle 'Already won' and the 'War is on now'
The 'one-man army' pitted against a sophisticated war machine, was 'already a winner' long ago! Going to conventional battle, where he can be outgunned and outnumbered, is a bit of a mug's game. Which is why the wily warrior chose the battleground where he had the natural advantage, and waited to ensnare his enemies in his parlour. Dr Subramanian Swamy, who was for long waging a lonely battle against big-ticket corruption deploying the due process of law, sounded the bugle to signal his guerrilla war effort in 2012, against the Queen Bee, Sonia, and Prince Rahul.
He furnished, purported to establish that the acquisition of Associated Journals was illegal on many counts, and that the 'mother-son' duo; was in technical violation of several laws. Indicatively, in his election affidavit in 2009, Rahul had not declared his shareholdings in Young Indian, and could therefore have been in technical breach of election law. Likewise, Sonia to had misused the government accommodation provided to her at 10, Janpath by holding a shareholder meeting of Young Indian at the premises. Swamy got his accusatory engine warmed up. And drew Gandhis into a legal battle, on turf that he's rather more comfortable with. For precisely the reason that Swamy's earlier allegations were so over the top (and therefore easier to dismiss as the wild and fanciful imagination of a fevered mind), the new charges, for all their chillar nature, sound more credible, in an environment where the lid had been blown off corruption in high places with damaging revelations about Sonia’s son-in-law Robert Vadra.
From all accounts, Swamy's strategy of provoking and Rahul to respond—unlike has already (in 2012) succeeded. A letter purporting to be from "Rahul’s office" addressed to Swamy (but which made it to the media) says Rahul reserved "all options"—including, presumably, the option to sue Swamy for defamation. Which, ironically, was what Swamy wanted: he would like nothing better to get Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the stand, where he can use his right as his own defence counsel to cross-examine them and pose all the embarrassing questions, he’s been shooting at them all these years all along, but which were airily dismissed. In a court of law, however, it’s difficult to get away by sniffing snootily at embarrassing questions.
Swamy had lured Sonia and Rahul out of 10 Janpath, from which comfortable cocoon they had thus far been engaging with the world on their terms. Now, Swamy offered them a juicy bait, with which he got them to venture into the turf where he enjoys territorial advantage: the court of law. The Ganges gharial had to lye in wait, hoping the sharks will stray into the bogs and marshes he knows so well.
Swamy's persistent focus on exposing corrupt elements in higher echelons of power has got due public attention now. With the high reach of the electronic media, we can surely expect some difficult times for corrupt politicians in general. Wish India produces a few more people like Swamy. Congress failed to come clean and dump the corrupt elements from the party, even if they happen to belong to the higher echelons of power. Swamy's petition to EC to derecognize the congress party was a well considered legal master stroke.
The 'one-man army' pitted against a sophisticated war machine, was 'already a winner' long ago! Going to conventional battle, where he can be outgunned and outnumbered, is a bit of a mug's game. Which is why the wily warrior chose the battleground where he had the natural advantage, and waited to ensnare his enemies in his parlour. Dr Subramanian Swamy, who was for long waging a lonely battle against big-ticket corruption deploying the due process of law, sounded the bugle to signal his guerrilla war effort in 2012, against the Queen Bee, Sonia, and Prince Rahul.
He furnished, purported to establish that the acquisition of Associated Journals was illegal on many counts, and that the 'mother-son' duo; was in technical violation of several laws. Indicatively, in his election affidavit in 2009, Rahul had not declared his shareholdings in Young Indian, and could therefore have been in technical breach of election law. Likewise, Sonia to had misused the government accommodation provided to her at 10, Janpath by holding a shareholder meeting of Young Indian at the premises. Swamy got his accusatory engine warmed up. And drew Gandhis into a legal battle, on turf that he's rather more comfortable with. For precisely the reason that Swamy's earlier allegations were so over the top (and therefore easier to dismiss as the wild and fanciful imagination of a fevered mind), the new charges, for all their chillar nature, sound more credible, in an environment where the lid had been blown off corruption in high places with damaging revelations about Sonia’s son-in-law Robert Vadra.
From all accounts, Swamy's strategy of provoking and Rahul to respond—unlike has already (in 2012) succeeded. A letter purporting to be from "Rahul’s office" addressed to Swamy (but which made it to the media) says Rahul reserved "all options"—including, presumably, the option to sue Swamy for defamation. Which, ironically, was what Swamy wanted: he would like nothing better to get Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the stand, where he can use his right as his own defence counsel to cross-examine them and pose all the embarrassing questions, he’s been shooting at them all these years all along, but which were airily dismissed. In a court of law, however, it’s difficult to get away by sniffing snootily at embarrassing questions.
Swamy had lured Sonia and Rahul out of 10 Janpath, from which comfortable cocoon they had thus far been engaging with the world on their terms. Now, Swamy offered them a juicy bait, with which he got them to venture into the turf where he enjoys territorial advantage: the court of law. The Ganges gharial had to lye in wait, hoping the sharks will stray into the bogs and marshes he knows so well.
Swamy's persistent focus on exposing corrupt elements in higher echelons of power has got due public attention now. With the high reach of the electronic media, we can surely expect some difficult times for corrupt politicians in general. Wish India produces a few more people like Swamy. Congress failed to come clean and dump the corrupt elements from the party, even if they happen to belong to the higher echelons of power. Swamy's petition to EC to derecognize the congress party was a well considered legal master stroke.
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