Kapil Sibal – A perfect Stooge of GOP’s Clique

While the whole world knows that the current Indian acting telecom minister for his famous zero loss theory in 2G case, now he also seems to be capable of gagging by his arrogance. His complaint is that in the internet space his master is not presented well. And he wants all the social networking sites to do the pre-screening before content is uploaded. Somebody told me that he was a Harvard educated lawyer, don’t know what he studied. And his efforts to impress up on the oligarch are intensified. I have seen a post in Face book which shows Sonia Gandhi wearing Manmohan Singh’s mask, and many other posts which shows Sonia as real master and MMS as a puppet. People pick up their ways to show dissent in whichever is convenient to them and what is sibal’s problem? And nobody has commited an offence against state. In a liberal democracy freedom of speech and freedom of expression is at the heart of constitutional framework and India is one such country in whose constitution there are clearly stated provisions which are meant to uphold the fundamental rights. Now the GOP plagued with many problems right from BOFORS to 2G, people dissent it to the core. In a knowledge economy like ours subjects do know who the reason is for their suffering and they express their displeasure through a convenient medium, apparently Internet- a social networking site. Only Muslim countries which operate based on medieval laws would go-ahead and ban social networking sites and stone woman for adultery.

 Sibal argues that the content posted is defamatory and the sites must not allow it. Let’s go by the standard definition of defamation – “Defamation is the publication of a statement which reflects on a person’s reputation and tends to lower him in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally or tends to make them shun or avoid him” – jurisonline.in

Does posting of such contents lower the person’s reputation in the estimation of right-thinking members of society? I don’t think so. On the contrary it confirms the assertions of right-thinking members of the society. The congress is out to destroy this country in every aspect and the majority opposes it. It seems someone from the staff of networking site using common sense asked him to show a court judgment based on which they decide whether a content is defamatory or not. 


I am really thinking if what Dr.Subramanya Swamy is right. Once he said commenting on sibal’s 2g zero loss theory “Sibal has become a yapping dog of Sonia”. Now he seems to be really a yapping dog of Sonia. Recalling the west boro church case (http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-751.pdf) even when the activists displayed their signs about the dead soldiers in a worst possible way, the Supreme Court stood for west boro church’s fundamental rights and did not pass any strictures. And that should be the guiding principle of a liberal democracy. In this domain we as Indians have to learn a lot from Americans. When a protest is breaking out people burn effigy of a political leader they dislike, is it not defamatory? May be I am not a judge, I think Sibal is. What moral right this govt. has to tell someone to regulate when it cannot regulate itself and going for outright deregulation in every field. Already protests are started in full swing against sibal’s misdemeanor. 


After being victims of GOP’s tyranny for many decades we could see people activism emerging, which means we are improving as a country. And congress’s stooges like sibal cannot restrict it at all. May be congress can try with Emergency-II. I don’t know if Sonia is herself worried about this content posting. All that sibal needs is a chance to prove that he is loyal to the master, instead he should prove that he is loyal to the Mother Land. I don’t know even Indira Gandhi enjoyed such a patronage like Sonia does. Manishankar Aiyar once said that people who go to Akbar road(Congress party head quarters) as people going to circus and the power lies in 10, Janpath road. Until the real democracy functions people will continue to show their dissent and nobody can stop it. It’s time for yapping dogs to realize that we are not living in a feudal society.