Why the Indian government is in denial passive mode

Recently I was watching an interview of Honourable minister Chidambaram with Barkha dutt on NDTV. It is painful to watch how casually he or the government takes the issues of national importance. I am using the word government here because home minister is one of the most important post in the government and it matters a lot to the government on the matters of national importance. I will discuss here some particular questions from the interview.

On the issue of invoking NSA (National Security Act) against Varun Ganghi and not against Vaiko, first he argues that it is the matter for the state government to decide. But he adds that Vaiko has remarked similarly in the past so it is best to ignore him rather than invoking NSA. This suggests that there is no rule about how and when to use NSA against someone. This leaves a room to misuse it against the political rivals. Surprising it has not be invoked against Mumbai terror attack suspect Ajmal Qasab who all of us believe is the lone surviving terrorist from the incidence.

The news channels are showing footage of terrorist infiltration and journalist have read the conversation between them where they are discussing about the talibanisation in India. But the Home Minister ignores this just by saying that is the interpretation and no credible source that they are talibans. Does this mean that we need to sit back and wait till we have sharia laws implemented in some part of the country as it is happening in Pakistan. How can we ignore the fact that Pakistan is on the verge of collapsing in the hands of talibans. Our cities are not very far from the Swat valley in the Pakistan.

The issue of nation preparedness against the terror attack like Mumbai is not that important any more. He can argue just by suggesting that the first trigger was Parliament attack during the BJP government and they did not do much to avert such attack so UPA or Congress also need some trigger to do something. Does it not sound like rubbish blame game. It happened after the Congress was in power for four years and it is a question of national security how does it matters which party is ruling?

List goes on and on but his casual style of leading with problem is quite apparent. Probably he does not like the work and life style of the home ministry. He was happy to meet the CEOs and economists in the finance ministry rather than meeting with the police and intelligence officers talking about subject he has no clue about.

We can only say to our politicians please take some issues seriously because we know you are not capable of and willing to facing all the challenges country is facing.