Shinde: An asset or liability for Congress?
Friday February 22, 2013 10:31:25 PM,
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New Delhi: Union Home
Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who regretted his statement linking
the BJP and the RSS with terrorism just two days ago, is again in
the eye of a political storm over the alleged intelligence failure
behind the Hyderabad blasts that killed 16 people and injured 117.
The blasts issue rocked parliament Friday as the opposition
parties attacked the government after Shinde said there were prior
intelligence reports about the blasts.
Only last month Shinde created a furore by linking the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) with
terrorists while addressing Congress leaders at the party's
introspection-cum-strategy meeting in Jaipur in January.
The BJP vowed not to let parliament run till he apologised. But
while the BJP accepted his regret, the RSS rejected it.
Shortly after his "Hindu terror" remark controversy, Shinde was
criticized for not intimating the family of parliament attack
convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged Feb 9, through Speed Post,
denying even the basic human courtesy to him.
"Shinde sometimes makes controversial statements
unintentionally…but he is a hard worker…he should be more careful
while speaking on sensitive issues," a Congress leader told IANS
on condition of anonymity.
"The saffron terror remark could have been made with more
sophistication," he said.
"The less he talks, the better," political commentator N. Bhaskara
Rao told IANS, adding "any home minister will get the flak in case
of a terror attack."
Shinde was made the home minister after incumbent P. Chidambaram
was moved to the finance ministry in August 2012. He was also made
Leader of the Lok Sabha after Pranab Mukjerhee vacated the post
when he became the president in July last year.
He is considered to be Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's choice for
the high profile post of India's home minister as a reward of his
loyalty to the leadership.
Controversies are not new to the Dalit leader from Maharashtra,
who started off as a police inspector, quit the force and rapidly
climbed the poliical ladder to become the Maharashtra chief
minister and later a central minister.
In December last year, during the visit of Pakistani Interior
Minister Rehman Malik, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha had hit out at
Shinde for "not responding appropriately" to Malik's controversial
remarks about 26/11 Mumbai attacks' mastermind Hafiz Saeed and the
Babri Masjid issue.
Malik had compared the 2008 Mumbai attacks with the demolition of
Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992.
However, he later claimed that his statement had been
misunderstood.
BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the minister has a "confusing
approach."
"He (Shinde) has a very confusing approach. He said he had prior
information on the terror attack and the state was alerted. The
problem is such actions lead to perception of India as a soft
state," he told IANS.
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