A couple of days ago I voiced the suspicion that someone in the
Intelligence Establishment was leaking copiously to Arvind Kejriwal.
He told the Press on Friday that the source was a "senior Congressman."
Not a single reporter present asked who. More interesting, no one (at least none that I watched) tried later to guess who it might be.
The opportunities to do so were ample, for the Congress top brass convened as if on cue for a day-long retreat.
It was as if Someone Up There had arranged a game of Clue. Was it the Finance Minister in the Library with an Axe? The Minister for Human Resources with a Rope?
It could be the former Home Minister. After all, he was a former lawyer for Enron. And he did try to sneak in a central police force that could have gutted constitutional structures and Indian democracy. Also, if the challenge to his last election in Chennai goes wrong, he could be headed for the exit anyway.
But I doubt it. My bet, purely on a hunch and a bizarre exchange on Headlines Today, is the Human Resources Minister, bushy-browed verse-monger Kapil Sibal.
Which of the numerous bizarre exchanges on Headlines Today?
The one in which Rahul Kanwar, talking to Sibal in the immediate aftermath of Kejriwal's allegations about Robert Vadra, said to him in high glee words to the effect: "So what now for you? Prime Minister?"
Sibal, also in high spirits, stayed silent but cackled like a hen.
Now, it could be I was tripping on too much soda water and imagined the whole thing, but I swear that's what came down the pike.
It set me wondering. Does HRD cover Intelligence? If it does, could my speculation be right after all?
He told the Press on Friday that the source was a "senior Congressman."
Not a single reporter present asked who. More interesting, no one (at least none that I watched) tried later to guess who it might be.
The opportunities to do so were ample, for the Congress top brass convened as if on cue for a day-long retreat.
It was as if Someone Up There had arranged a game of Clue. Was it the Finance Minister in the Library with an Axe? The Minister for Human Resources with a Rope?
It could be the former Home Minister. After all, he was a former lawyer for Enron. And he did try to sneak in a central police force that could have gutted constitutional structures and Indian democracy. Also, if the challenge to his last election in Chennai goes wrong, he could be headed for the exit anyway.
But I doubt it. My bet, purely on a hunch and a bizarre exchange on Headlines Today, is the Human Resources Minister, bushy-browed verse-monger Kapil Sibal.
Which of the numerous bizarre exchanges on Headlines Today?
The one in which Rahul Kanwar, talking to Sibal in the immediate aftermath of Kejriwal's allegations about Robert Vadra, said to him in high glee words to the effect: "So what now for you? Prime Minister?"
Sibal, also in high spirits, stayed silent but cackled like a hen.
Now, it could be I was tripping on too much soda water and imagined the whole thing, but I swear that's what came down the pike.
It set me wondering. Does HRD cover Intelligence? If it does, could my speculation be right after all?
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