Press release by Digvijay Singh

Countrymen, Today we should hang our heads in shame. This nation of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and oh yes Mahatma Gandhi has been disgraced today. Our honourable Supreme Court has passed a decision that smacks of communalism and religious bigotry. Ajmal Kasab has been handed the death sentence. I, for one, find it shocking. Does it not dishonour our collective national conscience that a member of the minority committee has been sentenced to death by the highest court of law of a secular nation? Is this what it has come to? This is brazen abuse of the ideals of secularism that the fathers of our constitution had scripted. Are we a Saudi Arabia or a Pakistan, where members of the minority community have no rights? 

Facts first. Ajmal Kasab was caught allegedly during the Mumbai carnage in 2008, this has yet to be proven. I have substantial evidence on how TV clippings were doctored to incriminate an innocent member of the minority community. Who is to prove that he was not one of the victims of the carnage? The very fact that the Maharashtra Police arrested him and kept him in prison for 4 years makes him a victim of the Mumbai attacks. Oh! What tortures he would have had to bear, and that too when he is a member of the minority community! And for God's sakes, he was fed Biryani at a time when even school going kids eat only Subways! Hasn't the country gravely harmed the physical well being of a member of the minority committee by doing so? And to top it all, he is being sentenced to death. What a mockery of justice!

To wash away the sins of this nation, I propose the following-

i. Death sentence of Ajmal Kasab to be cast aside. He will be nominated by my Congress party as a candidate for Lok Sabha for 2014 elections from Mumbai South constituency.

ii. Minority quota of 67% to be introduced for all legislative assemblies and Parliament. This will be over and above the quota for SC/ST/OBC etc.

iii. Mumbai to be renamed Ajmalabad or Kasababad. 

Long Live Madam Sonia Gandhi!