Jaipur, Bengalooru, and now Ahmedabad. Next destination/s: ________.

And what does union home minister Shivraj Patil, second to PM in internal security matters, say immediately after those sickening explosions in Ahmedabad? "I dont want to say that someone is to blame, or that someone should have done something. That's not what I want to say. I wont say it's because someone didnt do their job. There is no point going into all that. We dont want to say such things..." and so on like an idiot for five minutes on TV. Honest. The evidence is on your TV screens.

Here is a man who knows how to pad up big-time.
1. I dont understand how anyone can be so sick as to take THIS opportunity to jump at a rival's throat.
2. I dont understand how a responsible office-bearer can actually play political games first thing without first making a sympathetic statement for the victims, at least for the record.
3. I dont understand how he takes so long and so many words to say "Look, BJP is responsible."
4. I dont understand how we vote for such yucky, sticky, dirty people.

We have not just a cold-blooded, unfeeling government at the helm of affairs at the Centre, we have brazen and reckless thugs who have the gall to push their political agenda upfront in your face even while you are mourning the dead.

Not only their ministers, Congress henchmen --known as spokesmen-- such as one Rajiv Sponge were all over TV channels in a flash, almost grabbing the question like a footballer to start shooting obscenities at the BJP. They did the same thing Kargil-time. They kept ranting about how the Vajpayee government was sleeping all through and not doing enough. And when we won that war, they glumly shrugged, but we should have not allowed that to happen in the first place.

Considering the Congress never makes any mistakes-- remember all the blasts in Jammu and Kashmir for the last four decades, Mumbai in 1993 and thereafter, every year, Delhi, and wherever else -- its first reaction to a blast is to check out the government in place. If it's the BJP, the Congis slap on some make-up cake(ya, they actually look like they will peel any time) and present themselves post-haste at the ever-hungry TV studios like good boys at work to do momma's bidding.

(When 9/11 happened, the US Opposition didnt go gunning for Bush & Co. They united in grief, shared the anguish of the government and the people, and never talked about "intelligence failure." They knew this is not the occasion to strike. This point has been made by several intelligence officials, but alas, always in private, never in the press.)

I think it's disgusting that we vote for these scumbags. I hate talking about them because they are beneath contempt. And what's really unbelievable is that everybody else is seeing what I see and yet not seeing it. Am I the only one seeing them the way they are? Everyone else is voting them in. Do you?
Let's all get them out of the way. Vote Mayawati, vote Lallu, if you like, but not these Original
Sins.

By the way, does anybody else also get the feeling the serial explosions have a political mastermind?

P.S. When Mumbai trains cracked up on July 11, 2006, BJP didnt jump to studios to scream blue murder at the Congress. It issued a dignified condemnation. Just ONE case in point. Should suffice.