“All’s fair in love and war”,
goes an old saying. The current political discourse in our country has perhaps moved much closer to a war-like situation than it has ever been and hence it
is but natural for political opponents to rake up non-issues, spin-doctor them
and then present them as gospel truth as they wage this war upon their political opponents. One can view such episodes with a general mistrust of all politicians,
but given the 24*7 media (including social media) attention, every such move gets
wide-spread publicity and ends up influencing a section
of the electorate. The truth, often, gets lost somewhere in the din.
Politicians would continue doing this to score brownie points. None other that Mr. Vajpayee told this, in 1991, to the then finance minister Mr. Manmohan Singh. (Apparently Mr Singh, a newly-turned politician, took opposition’s criticism of his first budget to heart and communicated to PM Mr. Narsimha Rao his desire to resign. PM Rao mentioned this to Mr. Vajpayee, and the latter shared the above wisdom with him and requested not to resign on this issue).
Politicians would continue doing this to score brownie points. None other that Mr. Vajpayee told this, in 1991, to the then finance minister Mr. Manmohan Singh. (Apparently Mr Singh, a newly-turned politician, took opposition’s criticism of his first budget to heart and communicated to PM Mr. Narsimha Rao his desire to resign. PM Rao mentioned this to Mr. Vajpayee, and the latter shared the above wisdom with him and requested not to resign on this issue).
