He chose the Chinese soil to make his pronouncements on an issue of internal significance for India. Telangana, it will be agreed , is India’s internal matter.
It is an issue that has thrown the Indian government led by the Congress, and the Andhra Pradesh government, also led by the Congress into a state of absolute confusion and turmoil.
Mr. Veerappa Moily was replaced by Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad as Congress Party functionary in charge of AP affairs. Mr. Azad is behaving with the delicacy of a bull in a China shop. This can only worsen the situation for Telugu people as a whole.
Why did Azad choose China as the platform for unleashing his tongue on as sensitive an issue as Telangana?
He did not speak about the 50 year- old Chinese occupancy of Indian territory (Aksai Chin and a part of Arunachal Pradesh).
He did not speak about the building of dams on the Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet) which could reduce water inflow for irrigation in India.
He did not speak about ‘stapled’ visas, even.
China’s support for Pakistan’s occupation of part of Kashmir did not warrant mention on Chinese soil.
The Ghulam sahib had little Azadi to speak about any of the known sensitive issues.
The wiseman of Congress did not dare to speak of the reasons why Kashmir is such an insoluble problem. Nor did he speak about Israel and Palestine. At least, it would have been a sufficiently international issue to merit an international platform as big as China.
Whether he had any health related observations (especially mental-health of a political kind) to make at the meeting of the BRIC health ministers, neither the Indian government nor Azad’s own maker has any clue.
So Azad picked on a ‘safe’ subject, one which does not affect Sino-Indian relations adversely. When it comes to Telangana, both China and Mr. Azad could toe Hamlet’s line – what’s He to Hecuba, or Hecuba to him?
Azad felt free to comment on Telangana in China; to gore the Telugu people, play havoc with their delicate , fragile relational figurines, and frangible nerves. Seems to be politics of a very ur-sophist kind . The only people who took offense were the Telangana leaders. Even the Union government and the Congress Party have quietly condoned this impolitic behavior of a senior politician.
Have we heard any leader of any nation comment on their internal matters from foreign soil?
Even American Presidents, both intelligent and ordinary ones, though very powerful are pretty circumspect in their approach to domestic issues when in another country.
But Tealngana and Seemandhra in China? And no contextualizing comments on Gorkha, Bodo, Vidarbha aspirations as a method in madness?
Sonia ji… you managed to shuffle the jokers in the pack. Now how about the chinamen?
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