One of my colleagues tells his story from the childhood days. He was very bad in studies and when caught to some difficult question, he would become philosophical and would give vaguely thoughtful answers which even the teachers won’t be able to make solve. This strategy of his, worked. The confused teachers often asked him to sit down. I think our Home Minister has reached a stage in life where he is qualifying himself to be incapable of handling really demanding jobs. One can only infer this, if one hears from him his recent remarks:
Chidambaram blames migrants for crime in Delhi, Opposition hits back
TIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES, Dec 13, 2010, 02.30pm IST
NEW DELHI: Union home minister P Chidambaram on Monday came under heavy fire by the opposition for blaming the spate of crimes in Delhi due to migrant population.
Stroking controversy, home minister Chidambaram said, “I condemn the heinous crime of rape. Migrants are behind such crimes in the capital.” “Crime takes place because Delhi attracts a large number of migrants,” said Chidambaram, whose ministry is responsible for law and order in the sprawling city of 14 million people.
Chidambaram was reacting after an 18-year-old girl was gangraped on Sunday in a moving car while 600-700 policemen, who were trying to locate the car went in vain. The policemen from the six police stations immediately launched roadblocks after her abduction but failed to save the modesty of the girl.
On the other hand, BJP leader Kirti Azad also criticized Chidambaram and said that Congress government has been trying to hide its failure and mistakes by blaming migrants. This was the fourth incident of abduction and gangrape in a span of one month. The rising incident of rapes in the capital have been raising serious question over the safety of women. Around 433 cases of rapes have been reported so far in this year in the capital. According to the statistics, Delhi witnessed one rape each day in the year 2010.
To find the ‘originals’ in Delhi – a place where almost entire population was butchered by Muslim invaders so many times in its history – is puzzling enough. And then to blame ‘migrants’, as if the ‘locals’ (so called) would never rape a girl – shows one’s own imprudent state of mind.
I think it is fine and doable to look at the demographic profile of criminals and make some observations (still, I wonder if Chidambaram could make a comment on ‘religion’ of a lot of criminals). But for a home minister of a country as diverse as ours, it is given that he would see the repercussions of his statements and judge appropriateness to audiences. This is why I strongly feel his statements were very wrong and even ‘evil’ in a sense. As the news arrives, the Thackerays from Maharashtra have expressed their ‘agreement’ over Chidambaram’s statements and went ahead with spreading their ‘divisive’ agendas.
In any case, if 700 policemen couldn’t stop a rape, as the case is in this one, I think Chidambaram’s plain ‘philosophical talk’ won’t save him or his government anyhow.
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