Stop the tamasha

Columnist M.V. Kamath ridicules the ongoing war of words in the ruling alliance. He asks, “Who is ruling this country? Sonia Gandhi? Manmohan Singh? Prakash Karat? Yechury? Karunanidhi? Or is it Ronen Sen, the loud-mouthed Indian ambassador in Washington?”

He goes on to say, “One can’t blame the BJP if it says that mid-term elections have become inevitable. The public is getting increasingly sick of the disorder prevailing in the country... What is now becoming increasingly evident is that the time for general elections has come and the issue cannot be brushed aside any longer. Presently there is a civil war in Sonia Gandhi’s durbar with Jairam Ramesh and R.K. Dhawan opposed to Ambika Soni. At the same time Kapil Sibal and Prakash Karat are at loggerheads and Congress is trying to distance itself from Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on the wheat import issue, even when Karunanidhi of the DMK, another partner in the UPA government, is demanding a cabinet posting for his daughter on terms laid down by him. This tamasha has to stop.”