Opinion 2014 Tone-setter

“BJP has successfully executed the generation change and Modi with his customised appeal to the masses is gaining popularity day by day. The incumbent state governments are indirect beneficiaries,” says the editorial in the Organiser,underlining Narendra Modi’s role in ensuring BJP victories in these four states. “With an autonomous leadership and a state-specific governance model,the BJP is in a better position to create pro-incumbency. The centralised control of a family and its interests do not allow this to happen for the Congress,” the editorial reasons for the “dichotomous incumbencies” in these states.

Panchjanya ,meanwhile,refers to pre-poll opinion surveys to suggest “saffron” victories in these four states” “Political analysts sense a nationwide anger against the Congress which is likely to have an adverse outcome

for the party in these elections as well…”

FREUDIAN FLAW

In a full-page article in the Organiser,retired Supreme Court judge V.R. Krishna Iyer faults the chief justice for not making public the name of the “erotic delinquent judge” facing allegations of sexual harassment: “Why this fundamental flaw? Fellow feeling and judicial brotherhood have obviously affected even the Chief Justice. Tell us the name of the suspect,otherwise judges as a class suspected…”

“Sitting in the Supreme Court the Criminal Procedure Code does not give you an examination of a criminal investigation without so much as an FIR. Have the judges of the highest court forgotten the first principles of criminal investigation? Pity!” he writes,adding,“the robe offers no immunity to their lordships if they commit sex delinquency…” Referring to the intern’s charges of a “Freudian aberration”,Iyer suggests,“Judges,you may hold the highest office in the country but if sex prevails over you,you must suffer punitive consequences”.

FOUL INTENTION

Panchjanya has carried a two-page article criticising the JPC report on the 2G spectrum allocation scam,terming it a testimony of “ill-intentions”. “The JPC has acted as a tool to bury the scam of the ruling party,” says the article,suggesting it is a repeat of what happened to the JPC report on the Bofors and Harshad Mehta scams under past Congress regimes. The article asserts that there is “no acceptable basis for not summoning (former telecom minister) Raja” before the JPC. The article says that this report must be trashed and suggests,“if the shehzada of Congress had to tear something up,it

was this (JPC) report”.

Compiled by Ravish Tiwari.