Lauding Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for his intellectual abilities and being “prime ministerial material,” the former Law Minister, Ram Jethmalani, on Wednesday said he was at the crossroads of history and had to choose between a future of “glory” and that of “degradation.”
“I know about his intellectual abilities. I believe that he is prime ministerial material, Mr. Jethmalani said.
“But, Sir, today, he is standing at the crossroads of history.... One is the road to glory, a glorious future and the other is the road to absolute degradation, breach of faith and breach of trust. It is for him to decide which way he wants to go. I hope he will go the way to a glorious future,” Mr. Jethmalani said during the budget debate in the Rajya Sabha.
“The glorious future lies only in making some kind of compensation to the people for your past crimes, seeking their forgiveness, and going back to them with a clean mind and a clean soul.”
The lawyer-MP earlier said Dr. Singh had “passed off” his responsibility to the Finance Minister to reply to the provisions of the general budget.
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Jethmalani is right. The INC led UPA2 is in a mess, mired in a plethora
of scams. The remote control is also ineffective. In fact it is being
guided by the likes of Mamta and Karuna. The general opinion is it could
fall any time. The only way it could save itself is by MMS exchanging
the portfolio with Pranabda. This will reign in all the jokers in the
ministry and cut the remote cable.
If this not done there is every possibility of the INC breaking up after
the government falls.
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