Sharp, harsh words by the Congress party vice-president, who called the ordinance "nonsense", and said "it should be torn up and thrown aside", broke like a thunderclap over the Prime Minister's official visit to US overshadowing his meeting with President Obama. Although the issue did not particularly undermine the engagement between two sovereign governments that goes beyond domestic flaps, Singh was sufficiently stung by the criticism, in itself unusual considering it undercut the prime minister when he was on foreign soil, to issue a carefully worded explanation.
"The ordinance cleared by the Cabinet pertaining to the Representation of the People Act has been a matter of much public debate," the Prime Minister said, disclosing that the Congress vice-president has also written to him on the issue beyond his public criticism. The government, Singh said, "is seized of all these developments" and "the issues raised will be considered" on his return to India "after due deliberations in the Cabinet."
While one view of the statement was that the Prime Minister was asserting the primacy of the Cabinet (of which Rahul Gandhi is not a member) and its collective responsibility vis-a-vis the decision on the ordinance, others suggested that he was deferring to the vice-president, on whom he is ready to confer the mantle of prime ministership and party supremo. "I would be happy to work for the Congress party under the leadership of Mr Rahul Gandhi," he tweeted recently from the PMO Twitter account.
Such niceties were clearly lacking in the young Gandhi's frontal attack on the Cabinet decision that came with unusually harsh language. The scuttlebutt in the Washington was that far from being impulsive, it was a well-thought out attack that put the Congress Party's Young Turks front and center vis-a-vis the old guard, and placed them at an advantageous position ahead of the Lok Sabha elections a few months from now.
The Prime Minister, unmindful of advice from at least one former aide that he should scrub the rest of his US trip after the Obama meeting and return home to resign, seems intent on completing his US engagements. He goes to New York after his White House engagements for the U.N general assembly meetings, on the sidelines of which he will have several bilateral meetings, including one with Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief.
Unfortunately, at least insofar as the hack-pack trailing him is concerned, all that has been overshadowed by the ordinance flap back home.
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