Jaishankar’s axe to grind against the Congress and the Gandhi family is now out in the open with him coming out saying that Indira Gandhi had transferred his father, K Subrahmanyam out of the post of Secretary of Defence Production and then later Rajv Gandhi promoted a junior officer above him.
Modi’s grouse against the Nehru-Gandhi clan is well-known which everyone in the BJP hierarchy is echoing in the manner of bit players in an orchestra where they follow the conductor or leader. That Jaishankar is also doing this is disappointing since a person who served in the higher echelon of our bureaucracy is expected to have a balance in speech and action and that too coming from the Indian Foreign Service.
Lately, he has been extolling Modi which is not out of place in the BJP since each fall over each other to praise the Supreme Leader but it sounds a bit incongruous since Jaishankar’s illustrious father, K Subrahmanyam, had called out Modi as Chief Minister in Gujarat during 2002 by saying ‘dharma had been killed’ during the riots at that time. Times change, people change but it is a bit unusual for a professional diplomat to become an avid sycophant.
