Breaking News: It’s official. Shivraj Patil is out. The Home Minister’s offer of resignation has been accepted by the prime minister, but people in India are still pissed off, saying its “too little, too late.” According to the Times of India, even Railway minister Lalu Prasad said that Patil’s resignation as home minister over the Mumbai attacks came “very late.”
You would think that, by now, they would have figured out at least some of the holes in the country’s national security. What I don’t get, is when Patil offered to resign back in September after the Delhi bombings, India’s Congress rejected it. Granted, I’m still pretty new to Indian politics–so I’m sure there’s a lot more to say about who how and why–but you’d think that with the flurry of attacks the country has suffered even in 2008, it would have all the more highlighted Patil’s incompetence.
Anger is boiling in India right now… about the government’s lack of preparation despite knowing that attacks were going to happen… about Pakistan’s role in this. Its just a real shame that it always seems to take something awful like this to happen before any real action is taken to improve things. So now they’re going to consider an “anti-terror” body… a bit late, mate.
Well, the newly-appointed Home Minister, Chidambaram, has now got quite a shitshow in his hands to deal with…
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