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Luck smiles on Fernandes
And this time again, at the fag end of the Budget session, the Jammu attack on civilians and army personnel families by the militants occurred. The storm brewing again over the coffin import, petered out and the session ended. Who knows what will happen during the monsoon session? Like the proverbial cat, the Defence Minister too seems to have nine lives! | |
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can never please the Left parties. You are damned if you do, and
damned if you don’t. Irrespective of the importance of an issue, they
are firm on one thing— whatever the government proposes, they must
oppose. Whether it is a political or economic policy, the Left parties
are unanimous in their voice of disapproval. The CPI-M and the CPI
never get tired of pulling up the government for its failure to uphold
law and order. But the moment, the BJP brings forward a legislation to
control terrorism, they oppose it tooth-and-nail or should we call it
hammer and sickle? Suddenly, the subject of human rights violation and
minority sentiments crop up. Now on the subject of tackling rising
militancy in Pak-backed militancy, literally the entire nation is
unanimous that the government should take immediate steps to stamp out
cross-border terrorism, if it meant a war. The Congress as well as the
major NDA allies have asserted that they were with any step taken by
the Prime Minister in national interest. But not the Left parties, 
There’s
something about the luck of Defence Minister George Fernandes which
seems to hold. Everytime, he lands in a soup, he gets away by thesheer
turn of events. During the last session, he had to face a lot of flak
in Parliament over the leakage of reports on "Coffingate", that
pertained to the import of coffins for the Kargin martyrs at costs
much above the prevailing rates. The heat was so much that the entire
opposition boycotted the Minister and refused to put questions to him
or hear his answers. But the attack on Parliament House came in handy
for the government to rescue Fernandes and go for an early adjournment
of the session.
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