The incident of Mr. Abhishek Manu
Singhvi’s alleged involvement in a sex CD has embarrassed the ruling
Congress Party. This CD made by Mr. Singhvi’s driver Mr. Mukesh Kumar
Lal has reached the media houses and also has been uploaded on YouTube
and Facebook. Singhvi has in fact denied the authenticity of this CD by
calling the story as forged, fabricated and baseless.
Sensing the possible bias and under
reporting by the mainstream media, the netizen activism has made the
issue viral on internet and social networking sites. A facebook group
named Singhvi Video has been created with You Tube links to the
alleged video. In the meantime Mr. Singhvi has got a restraint order
from the Delhi High Court to stop the distribution of the CD. This has
come as a major relief to the Congress Spokesman. Despite the national
debate on his impending removal from the party, according to sources and
party insiders, it seems that the Congress leaders consider this as his
personal matter and will defend him.
The opposition BJP has asked for
clarifications and reportedly preparing a strategy to attack Congress
and demand Singhvi’s removal. It is important to remember that in
February 2012 Mr. Singhvi while responding to the issue of BJP MLAs’
allegedly watching porn in Karnataka and Gujarat, had questioned the
moral base of BJP and had termed BJP as the “Supermarket of Irregularity
and Immorality”. He had asked the BJP that “in the temple of democracy
(assembly), you have pornography”.
The major debate is here between the
issues of personal life and possible misuse of power for personal gain.
It is true that the individual right to sexual conduct is a personal
affair and must be left like that. If this is the case then how we deal
with the issue of “personal is political”. The next editorial in the
weekend will deal with the issues of Sex, Morality and Power.
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