Strange silence over a riot

There is nothing to suggest Mr Gandhi knew of the antecedents of the ‘unsavoury character’ who offered him a ride on his motorcycle or escorted him around the byzantine lanes of Gopalgarh. He can’t be expected to do a background check on every person whom he meets before he meets him or her. That’s logical and stands to reason. Funnily though, or perhaps not, neither logic nor reason is allowed to colour the judgement of those in media who sit in judgement over others and derive perverse pleasure from being seen to be berating the BJP. Or else so much newsprint space and news telly time would not have been lavished on Mr Digvijay Singh to keep us informed of his daily bouts of verbal diarrhoea.

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