The home minister is being hauled over the coals for reading the same statement on terrorism in Kashmir a second time in Parliament soon after the first. The blame for the faux pas should be laid at the door of the official who prepared it. Why did he attach a copy of the first page to the original given to the minister? In any case, Sushilkumar Shinde's slip is not as bad as that of former External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, reading the statement of the delegate of some other country at a UN meeting. A pack of cards has only one joker. Our Council of Ministers at the Centre has only jokers. Remember Rajiv Gandhi's perceptive and far-sighted remark that the Planning Commission, then headed by Manmohan Singh, was a bunch of jokers?
A Seshan, Mumbai
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