Former MP Sandeep Dikshit comments on the Army Chief have not gone down too well..Time and again the political class has demonstrated that it suffers from foot-in-the-mouth syndrome. Former MP Sandeep Dikshit, who has been out of the political reckoning for a while now, chose the easy way out by locking horns with Army chief General Bipin Rawat. Mud-slinging in public has become a recurrent feature, spawning a culture where mutual respect and self-restraint have been the foremost casualties. Sensing the tide against him, he realised the importance of choosing “appropriate words” even while expressing his disagreement with General Rawat. The irony is the right to free speech is much abused in this country.

Source: dna June 13, 2017 02:51 UTC