Forked Tongue & Flexible Factsheet
BY R.K.MISRA In fishing-as in politics-nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his own catch. Hurling muck from the safety of the shore and making it stick may have brought Narendra Modi to the helm of India in 2014 but the Teflon- coated frying pan is itself on fire today . His government faces the filth of the Lalit Modi revelations, the bloodied Vyapam scam and now the Madhya Pradesh Dental and Medical Admission Test taint. Oscillating between maladministrative misdemeanour and crass corruption charges are veteran minister Sushma Swaraj, Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhararaje Scindia , MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, and Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde .After’ pehle’AAP law minister Jitender Singh Tomar landed in the ‘cooler’ over his qualifications,union HRD minister Smriti Irani is next in line for a judicial scrutiny of her venerable CV. Meanwhile, Modi’s anti-corruption plank is in tatters and the school boyish lin