Everytime there is a tragedy in India, politicians add to the misery of the victims, be it appearing in hospitals uninvited, or by spouting inane and insensitive platitudes.
Barely 24 hours after three bombs rocked crowded places in Mumbai, they were at it again, with their daft quotes and politicking.
Here are five of the worst.
Here are five of the worst.
"Not an intelligence failure'
- P Chidambaram
The Union home minister admitted that there were no intelligence inputs in tragic happenings, but refraining from calling it an intelligence failure. We wonder if Chidu's intellgence, in all its 3 digit glory, has cooked up a perplexing paradox simply too confounding for the common man to compute (what with all that looking over the shoulder he has to do).
The Bharatiya Janata Party was quick to slam the Home Minister, as is custom, with Rajeev Pratap Rudy saying: "When any incident which occurs, when we have a large network of intelligence agencies and intelligence networks, it is a failure. So out rightly denying that it was not an intelligence failure, I think, is an act in which the home minister is trying to condone this terror attack.
"We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying." - Rahul Gandhi
A statement that neither sugarcoats the truth nor exemplfies it, if truth indeed it is.
Farmers in UP may well have an additional more concern: Our future PM (c'mon, you and I know it) is running out of prittle-prattle and pointless platitudes.
Again, the BJP (who else?) was the first to pounce. But this time, others also joined the bandwagon, slamming the Yuvraj for 'condoning terrorism and militancy.'
You might be mistaken if you thought people from Pakistan and Afghanistan are flooding Mumbai.
There are some people whose geography is limited to only Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
"India is better than Pakistan where blasts take place every day, every week.”
- Digvijay Singh
How can a list of stupid things that politicians said not contain the King of them all?
We thought India was being run into the ground by safron-clad boogeymen who haunt your every waking moment and can only be exorcised by bringing them up at every conceivable occasion.
So, are you sure, saffron groups are not involved in the blasts, Mr general secretary? And yeah, did nobody call you the day before the blasts?
"Terrorists had the advantage of surprise" - Manmohan Singh
You don't say!
Gone are the balmy days where terrorists lost sleep over whether it would be discourteous if they did not drop a line in advance.
Terrorists, these days!
FROM DNA
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