It is shocking that Rajasthan home minister Gulab Chand Kataria should not only adopt a derogatory tone about former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but also use abusive language in referring to the for
It is shocking that Rajasthan home minister Gulab Chand Kataria should not only adopt a derogatory tone about former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but also use abusive language in referring to the former PM while addressing his party workers in Churu.
A state home minister is typically a senior politician and a responsible member of his party. It is disturbing that the saffron party should have among its top leaders people who have no sense of civilised language.
Dr Singh is not only a former PM but also an eminent Indian, a former distinguished professor, and an internationally acclaimed economist — in every sense a respected elder.
Mr Kataria and his party should realise that speaking insultingly about anyone in public life, more so an exalted personage who has led the country, disgraces the speaker and not the person he has referred to. It shows him to be a boor and a poor leader.
Regrettably, under the present dispensation leaders of Opposition parties and those who dissent against the establishment are routinely harried, disparaged and attacked. This seems to create an overall atmosphere of disrespect about opponents. Mr Kataria may well be an uncultured person at an individual level, but such elements seem to gain a sense of impunity in the times we live in.
As a public gesture of good and decent conduct, and in the interest of a healthy political atmosphere in which democratic opponents are shown due regard, the Rajasthan leader deserves to be reprimanded by his party.
