Elections & Ethics: Why Two Sports Ministers Stepped Down In Maharashtra & West Bengal |
We live in strange and wonderful times. It is not often that two ministers, both holding portfolio of sports, give up or are forced to give up the ministry within a day of each other. The divestment of portfolios of Manikrao Kokate, who has had an image management problem, with several unsavoury controversies dogging him, and Aroop Biswas’ voluntary yielding of his sports portfolio, has turned the spotlight on political parties finding their consciences just in time when elections come around.
Whether they were pushed or goaded by circumstances, these developments must be welcomed for what they are worth, with the caveat that one or two sparrows certainly do not a summer make. In other words, we count our blessings and keep our fingers........