Sonia yet so far

Among the six resolutions passed by the DMK at its Executive commitee meeting today, the most hilarious one was about praising Sonia Gandhi. The resoultion, loosely translated, said "we heartily congratulate madam Sonia Gandhi for installing a secular Government at the centre and so graciously opting out of prime ministership." This statement captures the essence of how debased and unprincipled Indian polity has become today.
Firstly, by attacking the earlier Govt's as being communal, the DMK is merely shooting at its own feet. For the past five and a half years, the DMK has ben part and parcel of the same NDA government, which it now accuses as being communal. Its own MPs - TR. Baalu, A.Raja were until recently Union ministers in Vajpayee's cabinet. The DMK may now have chosen to change its political company, but it does not belie the fact that it milked the NDA till the very end. The DMK and its chief Karunanidhi conveniently forgot the BJP's communal character when Murasoli Maran was being treated at Houston. The tab picked up by the same NDA Govt. It did not find the BJP leadership to be communal when the Prime Minister took part in the last rites of the esteemed Industries Minister. The motive is not to hit the DMK below the belt. But the fact of the matter is, what right does the DMK have to occupy a high moral and secular ground? Where was the DMK Cheif when Gujarat was burning? Even a hardline Hindutva votary privately admits that Gujarat was a blot on India's secular image. The Chief of the Dravidian party did not raise his voice against Godhra or what followed at Gujarat. His silence was intepreted as political astuteness. It was in fact approval. If there is one political party in the country that deserves to labelled as being communal and fostering a divisive agenda - it is the DMK. At the forefront of the Dravidian movement, Muthuvel Karunanidhi's treatment to the brahmins of Tamil Nadu was as heinous a crime as what Modi has done to Muslims in Gujarat. The only difference instead of bloodshed, it was large scale humiliation and enforced marginalisation. This concerted project has managed to erase the community's presence from public life. The late Murasoli Maran, who many say, would have insisted on sticking on with NDA would be turning in his grave to have seen his party joining hands with the party whose president they had conspired to kill. The DMK was singularly resposnible for entertaining the LTTE. At a press meet, in those times, Maran thundered,"We did not know we were harbouring a Frankenstein monster." LTTE may have been Frankenstein, but Maran did not refute his party's support and encourgement to the killers of the former PM of India.
Now, the wife of the very same Rajeev Gandhi may find it politically correct to have polite conversation with Karuna and his kin over lunch. But her roots in Orbassano irked Karuna as much as did to Sushma. The cold, calculated,political creature that Karuna is led him to wait for her to opt out of PMship before he could lunge at cabinet berths. Though he had been offered more than he could chew, Karunanidi chose to throw a tantrum and wanted much more. Now that he has been mollified, like a wailing baby shut up by a pacifier, he and his party shamelessly pass a resolution attacking the NDA and praising Sonia. In fact, there was even one resolution by Karunandihi's cronies praising their beloved Kalaignar for having won 40 seats and for having secured 12 ministeral berths for the State. Muthuvel Karunandi must be happy man. As he turns 81 soon, he has provided financial secuirty for four generations after him. Now his 7 ministers would ensure four more generations of the Karunanidhi's family would live a life of opulence.