06 November 2012, 11:01 AM IST
BJP President Nitin Gadkari seems to be courting a controversy a day. As if all the brickbats he is receiving from all and sundry over dodgy investments in his company/companies is not enough, what with the noted lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani choosing to step down from the party's national executive rather than be in a party with a tainted president, he seems to have raised every political party's hackles by comparing nation's ideologue, Swami Vivekananda with India's most sought after criminal, Dawood Ibrahim.
Anybody corrupt needs to be taken to the cleaners. There is no mercy there. A crook is a crook and deserves the treatment. Gadkari is in a soup currently over suspect business practices followed by the companies he promoted. Like anybody else under suspicion and under the scanner, he deserves no leniency on the count. He needs to be investigated like all others. Despite that, though, I think the latest controversy over Dawood vs Vivekananda is needless.
What did Gadkari say after all? He said that if you compare the IQ of two – Swami Vivekananda and Dawood Ibrahim, they may be similar, but look at what they have used it for. One for nation building and spiritualism while the other used it to excel in crime.
Frankly, what is wrong with what he said? We have gotten into a habit of making a mountain out of a molehill. Haven't we all grown up with our adults constantly nagging us with comments such as: Please use your intelligence for good things? Our moral science books too constantly extorted us to use our minds for constructive purposes and not the opposite. From whatever I have seen and heard, what Gadkari said may seem intemperate in the political context when one needs to weigh each and every syllable one utters, especially when perched on the post of the president of a top political party, he has said nothing out of ordinary, or something that should have become such a huge controversy.
True, he is a politician and with elections round the corner and political temperatures in the nation sky-high, he needs to be doubly careful of what he says. Gadkari is known to have a colourful language and although one would normally ignore that in a normal person, Gadkari, unfortunately does not enjoy that liberty. He has to control his tongue. Too much and needless talk is counterproductive for his own status and also undermines the party he heads that is trying hard to nail the ruling dispensation on charges of corruption.
Back to the needless controversy though, I have always maintained that you need to be bright to succeed in anything. Look at those who have succeeded, including those with known corrupt minds. If you can separate their dirty deeds from their intelligence, you'd know what I am saying.
Look at the terror masterminds, or those who planned the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, for example. Such meticulous planning and then carrying it out with such precision and in secrecy! Could it have been done by a dud mastermind? Never! Except that instead of using the mighty brain for something constructive, the mastermind used it for destruction. He perhaps had an IQ greater than several others we know, but he wouldn't earn our respect. Just like Dawood wouldn't.
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