Hypocrisy at its worst

Recently I heard the congress making a statement that if the LTTE leader is captured, they were looking forward for his extradition and charge him for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. Hypocrisy personified!!

The main problem I have with this is that the congress government has been more or less silent about the whole LTTE issue.(the policy of other government were more or less the same, just mentioning congress because they were the one who maid the claim) They come out with the usual crap that only way to resolve this problem is through dialog, stop the violence etc. It might be true but India could have been much more proactive in dealing with the LTTE issue considering the fact that it revolves around Tamils. If they were seriously interested in capturing the people behind the LTTE and take them to task, India should have helped Sri Lanka a lot more in the form of military aid. Instead for narrow political gains there was constant diplomatic pressure put by India because of certain LTTE sympathizers in Tamil Nadu , whenever some action was taken against the LTTE. Of course, the government’s hands were clean as it was just “concerned” about the plight of the “Tamil Civilians” in Sri Lanka. Now when the Sri Lankan army has done all the hard work and the major LTTE strong hold almost captured we speak about extraditing Prabhakaran! Can there be any act more cowardly than this?

Let’s say that the Sri Lankan government due to some bizarre reason gives the LTTE leader to India, what are we going to do? Sentence him to death and keep him alive for no apparent reason like in the case of Mohammad Afsal, the man behind the parliament attack. The official explanation given my the government is that there are 27 or 26 people in death row and Mohammad Afsal is number 27, the President only after considering the clemency plea of number 26 can go to number 27. This may be true but it sounds absolutely ridiculous. A person who was the master mind behind the attack on the India parliament which epitomizes the India democracy is not punished because of a technicality. I do not think that the situation would have been any different had any other party were in power.  

India as a nation has a lot of problems. Why do we want to add on to these problems? Say that we got the terrorist leader of the LTTE and we are serious about hanging him. I am pretty sure that within no time we would have added one more enemy to our list. Along with LeT, HuJI etc we would have to worry about LTTE and related suicide bombings, not to mention the mood of the LTTE sympathizers in Tamil Nadu. We lost our PM because of the LTTE, but if we were remotely serious of capturing the master minds we would have done it a long time back. I am absolutely clueless why this is being brought up now, may be for some political gains to show that UPA is not “soft on terror”. It’s always better not to get into unnecessary problems