It is hard to feel sympathy for Chidambaram because as Home Minister he never tried curbing powers of agencies | The Indian Express

It is hard to feel sympathy for Chidambaram because as Home Minister he never tried curbing powers of agencies | The Indian Express

Written by Tavleen Singh |Updated: August 25, 2019 7:26:21 am

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It is hard to feel sympathy for Chidambaram because as Home Minister he never tried curbing powers of agencies

It is hard to feel sympathy for political leaders when they become victims of the system they have created.

The manner in which Chidambaram was publicly humiliated last week was wrong. There was no reason for officials to start jumping over walls in that fake show of diligence. (Photo: PTI)

It was with deep interest but little sympathy that I watched the arrest of P Chidambaram last week. As I watched that small army of officials from the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation enforce their authority on a man who was once their boss, memories flooded back of what happened to me when Mr Chidambaram was Finance Minister. I have told the story in full, gory detail in my book India’s Broken Tryst, but a precis is necessary.