Rahulspeak

Prashun Bhaumik |

By Sanghita Singh

That Shashi Tharoor is no innocent soul is a fact that is clear to everyone. The alacrity with which the Congress party dismissed him was praiseworthy. But the Congress’ moral stand seems to have political undertones – their NCP coalition partners such as Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel also named in the IPL muck-raking have been given time until proven guilty. The Congress clearly does not want to indict its ‘friends’ from the NCP with the same briskness and disturb the happy coalition. But it’s for anyone with a wee bit of common sense to see through its game plan – if the party wanted to be transparent, it should have adopted a similar stance for all those in the line of fire in IPL-gate. At least Rahul Gandhi, by that standard can be absolved of double standards – he still praised Shashi despite the Congress having shown him the door.