Dear Amit Shah ji, I commend your commitment to the values which our ancient rishis valued and which my friends and I also do. I commend a...
Dear Amit Shah ji,
I commend your commitment to the values which our ancient rishis valued and which my friends and I also do. I commend also your felicity with language as was noted in your article published in The Times of India of June 26, the anniversary of the Emergency.
I confess I had a different opinion about you based on the accounts of your actions as home minister in Gujarat where you doubled as the chief minister’s alter ego. The chief minister, of course was our very own Modiji who is prime minister today and is slated to remain as our country’s undisputed leader for another term or even two.
My negative view has turned to positive since that date. A day earlier, on June 25 and all the days leading to the anniversary, I was being regaled by media stories of opposition leaders crossing over to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Some were seeking greener pastures perhaps, but many wanted to avoid the “slings and arrows of outraged fortune”.
The latest to yearn for an escape from your party’s bear hug was Pratap Sarnaik, a Shiv Sena legislator from my state of Maharashtra, who wrote an open letter to his party chief, Uddhav Thackeray, who also doubles...
