By D N Singh
Someone, none other than Geroge Orwell had commented that, politics is about opportunism and deceit.
Senior Congress leader, Anand Sharma’s abrupt exit from the Congress on the grounds of being sidelined on certain issues, do smack of that, opportunism.
Straight from the field of journalism to the rank of the top echelons in the hierarchy, and being catapulted to the ranks of cabinet minister, observers feel that, he cannot hide behind any excuses of losing his shine suddenly.
All through being a Rajya Sabha member, Anand Sharma, has never been a leader from among the people and nor had he any grass root political footing.
Yet the Congress had given him the ladder and offered the ministerial berths in the Congress led government in India.
To make an exit at this point when the state of Himachal Pradesh is shortly going to the polls and the General elections are due in 2024, it appears little dyspeptic that on mere grounds of being sidelined, he should flee the Congress ship when it is in the rocking in a bad weather politically.
For a senior leader like him, there were ways to ventilate his feeling before the leadership before relinquishing position as the chairman of the Steering Committee for HP.
Worse have come the things when there are rumours regarding his possible entry into the BJP. That would be a mistakable exit and a very incomprehensible entry into a party that is being talked about.
