Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer’s article on 28th Sept 07 in the Asian Age warned of the dangers of any nuclear deal with USA and emphasized the need for India to pursue independent non-nuclear options for self-sufficiency in power. While Iyer’s article reveals that he still carries his communist baggage of anti-Americanism (picked up from the days when he was a Minister in the first communist government in the world in Kerala), Ram Jethmalani’s response to Iyer (3rd October, Asian Age) was the response of an out and out rooter of Americanism. What is intriguing, however, is when Jethmalani says, “I say that India does not need bombs. If the Pakistanis or the Chinese have plans to destroy us with nuclear bombs, I would rather allow them to do so.” He continues, “Gandhi’s India will never plan the murder of the human race. Unfortunately Marxist philosophy neither sees the force of moral action nor respects the inscrutable forces of providence which ultimately destroy insane murderers of fellow beings.”
On one hand Ram says we are inadequate to the task of meeting our power needs and have necessarily to cooperate with the US, on the other hand he prefers India being nuked rather than possess even deterrent nuclear bombs.
Senility appears to have finally caught up with the great Ram Jethmalani.
On one hand Ram says we are inadequate to the task of meeting our power needs and have necessarily to cooperate with the US, on the other hand he prefers India being nuked rather than possess even deterrent nuclear bombs.
Senility appears to have finally caught up with the great Ram Jethmalani.
