With that off-the-record comment India's minister for micro small and medium enterprises has kicked off a major row.
A stung Giriraj Singh has apologized via the classic non-apology.
“If Sonia-ji or Rahul-ji have been hurt by my remarks, I express regret.”
Sonia-ji has not surprisingly said nothing. Rahul-ji, of course, cannot say anything because it might break his"introspection" and disclose his top-secret hideout. It has been left to vadra to spring to the defence of his mother-in-law – “a woman of immense dignity” who “has lost her loved ones for the nation.”
But anyway the apology is misdirected.
Waxing forth on the hypothetical case about what it might have been if Rajiv Gandhi had married some other person, has nothing to do with the person he actually married. If Soni wants to find some choice insults directly targeting Sonia Gandhi she'd be better off sampling Dr. Subramanian Swamy’s Twitter feed. Clearly Amit Shah’s about not getting “personal” don’t reach Dr. Swamy’s ears.
If anyone should feel insulted by what Giriraj Singh said it should not be the Gandhis. It should be the Nigerians, the Indian voter and the Congress Party.
That’s who could demand an apology.
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