In the famous action movie ‘DieHard’ John Mclane’s wife isn’t sure if
he’s dead or alive after another round of battle with the terrorists. Karl, one
of the terrorists, then walks into the hostage-holding area raving mad, screaming
and smashing everything in sight. She then whispers to a colleague “he’s still
alive”. To the puzzled colleague she whispers her reasoning “Only John can
drive somebody that crazy”. That is true for many villains. Sooner or later they
lose their cool when their best laid plans go wrong. Something like that
happened on TimesNow on the night of February 9 with Teesta Setalvad. The
discussion was on the closure report of the SIT probing Gujarat riots which has
reportedly given a clean chit to Narendra Modi on allegations of his
involvement in the 2002 riots. Naturally, this is something Teesta has been
unable to stomach.
It took someone like Meenakshi Lekhi, a lawyer from BJP who frequently
appears on TV panels, and is an equally feisty lady to drive Teesta crazy and
up the wall when she said: “..She (Teesta) has been repeatedly been committing
perjury before the courts…will send you those 340 petitions”. Teesta’s
response? She rants “That’s a lie, no court has held me guilty of perjury..”
and then she walks out of the show. Wait a minute! No court has held her
guilty? That is surprising because all along she has held Modi guilty of murder,
guilty for women raped and tortured, called him names along with others. If one
were to go by the number of times Teesta has declared Modi guilty you would believe
a thousand courts have held him guilty. Yet, it’s only Teesta who’s not guilty
of perjury because no court has said so. The clip below shows her moment when
Lekhi drives her crazy like Mclane did the terrorist in DieHard:
The whole idea that Modi is guilty even when there’s no FIR against him, even when no court has pronounced him guilty is a rule that is concocted by Teesta and others. In contrast the SIT has indicted Teesta on her fake affidavits and even her own colleagues have filed cases against her on her lies and coercive methods. One hopes Obnoxious Arnab and other TV mullahs learn a lesson: Teesta is unfit to be on any panel discussing justice for anyone. Her washing machine for justice, also known as Citizens for Justice, is more like a Ponzi scheme that thrives on lies, lies and more lies. Needless to say, her campaign has been funded in the past by political parties like the Congress and the CPM according to the page about her on Wikipedia.
Teesta wasn’t alone though. The campaign of calumny was carried out by
Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Sardesai, their TV channels, Shabnam Hashmi, Harsh Mandar, Vir Sanghvi, Sanjiv Bhatt,
Mallika Sarabhai and many more. Some of them are fortunate Modi hasn't prosecuted them for defamation in calling him a 'mass murderer' or 'common criminal'. In Indian media history this has to be the
biggest campaign of lies ever carried out by a bunch of people. Some of them
have already protested the SIT closure report and that Modi shouldn’t be given a clean chit. It is worth
remembering that the SIT itself was an outcome of Teesta and others petitioning
the Supreme Court. As someone pointed out; it is a travesty and mockery of
justice when it doesn’t go their way.
Just in case we forget this same Teesta in a way justified the Godhra burning of 59 Hindus with this comment on the day of the incident: "While I condemn today's gruesome attack, you cannot pick up an incident
in isolation. Let us not forget the provocation. These people were not
going for a benign assembly. They were indulging in blatant and unlawful
mobilization to build a temple and deliberately provoke the Muslims in
India." So because they Hindus were assembling for the temple the muslims were provoked and were justified in the burning of people. It is such sick logic that results in the kind of backlash that Godhra brought about.
In their enthusiasm to please their political masters some of these activists and media celebs had led the Jafri family up a garden path. They led the family to believe the only justice is the hanging of Modi. Everything the lie-mongers claimed has been negated by the SIT. The frivolous affidavits by Sanjiv Bhatt have also been reduced to toilet paper, to put it mildly. It might be worth noting that the complainants withdrew the name of Rahul Sharma from their petition. He is supposedly an anti-Modi cop. For long the conniving media have treated Teesta Setalvad as some super expert on the Gujarat riots. Where justice for the victims is concerned she has probably done the greatest disservice by making destroy-Modi her sole and personal ambition. The undeniable fact remains that the SIT didn’t find anything against Narendra Modi and some others to implicate them in the killing of Ehsan Jafri or other cases.
The media has lost the moral, political and legal battle against Modi
on the Gujarat riots. What new campaign they may come up with next is left to
their conscience. But one thing they must learn is bringing in spurious
panelists with ulterior motives frequently to tarnish someone doesn’t pay.
Teesta Setalvad is supposedly a lawyer. Imagine her walking out of a court of
law when proceedings don’t suit her. Justice Arnab runs his TV channel like a
mock court but walking out on a show because of intolerance of others'
criticism is the final sign of a loser. The TV channels will do well not to
bring her back on again ever. Her fame and game are up in flames! And in all
probability Teesta, with all the cases against her, might see jail far before
Modi, if he ever does at all. In this case, if not the real Arnie the Terminator, our own
Obnoxious Arnie can well afford to say “Hasta la vista” to her or should the
media be telling her “Hasta la Teesta… Baby!”
