The final nail in the coffin for George Fernandes was perhaps the humiliation of being rejected for his Muzaffarpur constituency by his party colleagues.
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Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Well, my view on George Fernande’s is similar to my view on all those who stand for electoral positions: this is not a paid job nor an opportunity to garner funds or votes for your own party if you are part of a coalition. You then have to stand for the values you want to embed in the polity and whatever funds come your own party’s way should be incidental. I think George Fernandes thought only of transport workers, railway, taxi and so on, but used them for his own radical image. Nothing much proved in the physical circumstances of these categories. Beyond that, he was incapable of evolving creative solutions or introducing far reaching solutions. He remained a Catholic believer throughout though he had left the priestly vocation at the age of eighteen.
Did you know that he asked for an audience with Pope John Paul II (Pope Wojtyla) in 1977 when he visited Rome? He kissed the Pope’s hand. He may have done so hoping that this pope would confer him his support to become Prime Minister of India, like Lech Wałęsa, the labour leader who became the president of Poland.
When Jays Jaitley speaks of scorpions, I wonder if she reflects on how difficult it was for her and George Fernandes to prevent Indian politicians, mostly Christians, from throwing scorpions at me when I was working at their friend and protégés, George Mathew’s institute in the early 1990s? That despite the fact that I was introduced to both of them and George Mathew gave them details of the ‘scorpions’. Further, and of political interest, have you forgotten lawyer Ram Jethmalani mentioning on TV how Fernandes ignored
b sending the army to Narendra Modi’s aid during the Gujarat riots? He was the Defence Minister then, with no excuses or alibis like ‘my boss did not allow me’, the classical alibi of bureaucrats.
Well, my view on George Fernande’s is similar to my view on all those who stand for electoral positions: this is not a paid job nor an opportunity to garner funds or votes for your own party if you are part of a coalition. You then have to stand for the values you want to embed in the polity and whatever funds come your own party’s way should be incidental. I think George Fernandes thought only of transport workers, railway, taxi and so on, but used them for his own radical image. Nothing much proved in the physical circumstances of these categories. Beyond that, he was incapable of evolving creative solutions or introducing far reaching solutions. He remained a Catholic believer throughout though he had left the priestly vocation at the age of eighteen.
Did you know that he asked for an audience with Pope John Paul II (Pope Wojtyla) in 1977 when he visited Rome? He kissed the Pope’s hand. He may have done so hoping that this pope would confer him his support to become Prime Minister of India, like Lech Wałęsa, the labour leader who became the president of Poland.
When Jays Jaitley speaks of scorpions, I wonder if she reflects on how difficult it was for her and George Fernandes to prevent Indian politicians, mostly Christians, from throwing scorpions at me when I was working at their friend and protégés, George Mathew’s institute in the early 1990s? That despite the fact that I was introduced to both of them and George Mathew gave them details of the ‘scorpions’. Further, and of political interest, have you forgotten lawyer Ram Jethmalani mentioning on TV how Fernandes ignored
b sending the army to Narendra Modi’s aid during the Gujarat riots? He was the Defence Minister then, with no excuses or alibis like ‘my boss did not allow me’, the classical alibi of bureaucrats.