The Prime Minister goes hospital visiting, does some ribbon cutting and makes a speech probably and is due to make another speech at a convocation. The place: Chandigarh.
Who gets to die in the bargain? A kidney patient who probably came for dialysis or some medical emergency to the same hospital. Why? Because the all-important Prime Minister's security guards decided the kidney patient was a threat of some sort to their very important prime minister.
Official placating of this incident has been about `ordering a probe' - words that tire me. Every time they stare out of newsprint, don't we know how `long' it takes, and if there is that rarest of rare possibilities of the victim getting justice!
If newspapers decide to follow it up at all in the coming weeks, blame will fall on someone, probably lead to a transfer, and the matter will be dismissed. Will the man who lost his life to high-handedness of some zealous uniformed guys return to life? Did he deserve to die because his country's prime minister was visiting the hospital he paid to get treated at?
We have no answers, do we? I doubt if the prime minister has. As for the news report, it was a 230 worder with two lines that led the piece, in Hindustan Times. I expect no follow up folks.
No comments:
Post a Comment