1999: the battle for Bellary. Sushma Swaraj vs Sonia Gandhi. Sushma as the avenging Hindu nari, with her sindoor as a political manifesto, speaking fluent Kannada, and vowing to rid Bharat of foreigners. She played her part as a daughter-of-the-soil against her Italian-born rival with gusto, even though she had been pushed by her party into an unwinnable war.
Today, Sushma Swaraj is friendless, powerless and without options. No doubt informally helping out Lalit Modi when the Indian government had taken an emphatic stand against such action, was gross impropriety for a Union minister. It is shocking that someone of her experience failed to understand that extending “humanitarian” help to someone who the government regards as suspicious is emphatically not the Read More
