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Political bridges over troubled waters

July 1, 2009 posted by indiatime |

When Mumbai’s first sea-link bridge opened up for traffic yesterday, like everything else in India, it opened up new political avenues and inroads. Sharad Pawar, the local leader and also the agriculture minister at the center, stole the first opportunity to announce that the bridge be named after slain former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. That he did so sitting next to Rajiv’s widow Sonia Gandhi, the most powerful political leader in India, wasn’t mere coincidence.

Pawar’s generous gesture may keep his coalition partners at bay for a while, but local and regional opponents are up in arms against the naming of the new sea bridge. They had plans to name the bridge after Veer Sawarkar, a revered patriot who once jumped off a ship near France, almost pulling off a miraculous escape on sea.

But then Pawar is trying to pull of his own miraculous escape, especially in the wake of recent election defeats for his party’s leaders and those murder charges against his close aide and brother-in-law Padmasingh Patil. He is getting back into the game, hoping to score a few, trying to rebuild yet another bridge over the troubled and hot political waters that he and his party are in.

Sail on silvergirl,
Sail on by.
Your time has come to shine.
All your dreams are on their way.
See how they shine.

If you need a friend
Im sailing right behind.

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.

- Bridge over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel)


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  1. Vinoy on July 2, 2009 6:05 am

    Somebody commented-’the country has gone to dogs’.I strongly disagreed.At least the dogs would have been faithful to the people of the country.You can’t insult the dogs by comparing them with these bastards(the Indian politicians)!One of these, a ruling party member of parliament was seen (on national television) slapping a bank manager and later on shamelessly denying that he ever did!And the country’s law minister too tried to save the culprit by observing that the MP had denied slapping the manager!Another, a central minister tried to pressurise a high court judge in a criminal case(as alleged by the judge himself) and so far no action has been taken against the minister.In any other civilized state,the man would have been immediately dismissed from the cabinet.But not in this mera Bharat mahan where they are always making bridges over troubled waters!

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