This is a trend that has been happening now for some time whether one considers the Rape incident, Sarabjit incident, Beheading incident, economic policy measures. Manifested in statements from Madam.."we have heard the people' etc. This govt has just acted ultimately on massive pressure after really creating mass frustration. This is a completely out of touch set up. MMS is a status quo bureaucrat all his life. He comes in the morning, looks up files, asks for comments and sends them back to the respective ministries. Gives a speech after the rate of rapes is trebled and meekly says, :Women must be respected:/"Fiscal deficit needs to be curtailed' etc with the odd Theek hai sprinkled in between.now New Delhi will be seen to be taking action under public pressure, not because the government has deemed the incident to have crossed a threshold.
MMS frankly is doing a GREAT job within this system. He gets a file from IB that Chinese are parked 27 kms inside Indian LAC. He pushes the report asking for comments to the Foreign or Home ministry for comments and a report. 3 days later a report is tabled to him that the Chinese have gone back 9 km. He tells the Home ministry to look into the matter and maybe even consults a senior NSA bureaucrat Alka Acharya about it, she tells him there is a very successful border management mechanism and these mis-perceptions happen all the time. So he tells ok, give me a feedback if any problems. Meanwhile he is invited to some inaugration of a federation of Industries meeting and he say " Fiscal deficit is to be controlled'. Thank you Sir, i was not aware it should be. Meanwhile someone leaks the Chinese aggression to the media and there is a crises of sorts. Not to be deterred he puts the Foreign Minister to respond and he does calling it an acne. When some press manages to ask MMS about the incident, he says something like 'Yes i heard about it, i think there are some talks on'. He actually we don't realize is being absolutely truthful. He had passed the file and asked the NSA and border Management experts to solve this 'localized' problem. 'Status Quo' relation with China is after all in his perception will/may be broken if we start physically driving the Chinese out without recourse to the 'established' border mechanisms that Alka says has been so successful even though we have lost some 400 sq km of land in Ladhak alone.
You must see everything above is above board. Completely honest and truthful to the established mechanisms, truthful to our own understanding that Shiv is Chinese, that Tibet is Chinese, that Arunachal, and many areas are claimed by Chinese. Yet for 2 decades we have not had a conflict with China, trade has grown and mechanism for these kind of misunderstandings are in place. You see, the PM has put in a 12 -14 hour day and in a big country like India there are myriad problems. For these folks the status quo of keeping China appeased is higher than the rigors that demanding some bleak territory at 17k feet is more an issue. All in the files and books if you notice. Good job MMS!!
(after all Gandhi land, you know) and wait patiently.
the call to the media? 