(Ram) Jethmalani, who had unsuccessfully argued for Dutt’s bail before the Supreme Court in the late 1990s and had the privilege of going through the probe agency’s dossier against him in the serial blasts case, did not mince words in waging a battle against his proposed candidature as a Samajwadi Party nominee for the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat.
"He (Dutt) does not deserve to be a Member of Parliament and any political party that sets him as its candidate is totally impervious to the security to the nation," the noted criminal law expert said in a press release. [Link]
Amusing. Very amusing in fact. A classic case of…woh angreezi main khehete hain na "Pot calling the Kettle black".
So let’s get this straight – Noted criminal lawyer/politician Ram Jethmalani is no saint himself. Rightly tagged as ‘the Devil’s Advocate’, Jethmalani has more so often sided with those on the wrong side of the law (technically speaking). Underworld gangsters, drug smugglers, stock market scammers & cold blooded murderers fill up his clientele list. The man is also known for making astounding (read: bullshit) statements to serve his agenda or at times simply to satisfy his hunger for limelight. After all out of sight out of mind no?
His stand against Bollywood’s Munnabhai, labeling him as security threat to the nation, to me appears to be nothing but letmegetbackatya aka a revenge scheme. Why? Because Sunil Dutt & family had found Mr. Jethmalani’s legal expertise to be in-effective back in the 1990s when the TADA case was still hanging over Sanjay Dutt’s Mohawk hair styled head. Since then Dutt Jr. has had the country’s best defense legal team propagating his cause; Farhana Shah, Satish Maneshinde, Karan Singh and V R Manohar.
A flip onto the other side; the only reason I see behind Sanjay Dutt’s political debut is the on-going feud with sister Priya Dutt, who also happens to be Lok Sabha Member representing the Indian National Congress Party. What feud? Honestly this question would be best answered only by a certain Mrs. Manyata Dutt.
Update :
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh said on Saturday that if Sanjay Dutt is unable to contest because of legal issues, SP may field his wife Manyata from Lucknow, according to a PTI report.
"If Sanjay Dutt is unable to contest the polls, we will request the Dutt family to allow (his wife) Manyata to fight from Lucknow," he said. [Link]
Yes and if wife Manyata is filmy busy then there is pet Alaskan Husky. And if Husky is breeding busy then there is the red Ferrari. It’s desi-politics baby!
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Money Money Money
Jan 10th, 2009 at 1:34 pm | #
Bollywood actors are the most hungry people on earth. They just can’t be satisfied. WTF!
HOBO(nickname)
Jan 11th, 2009 at 2:32 pm | #
Let voters decide.
Bolo_India
Mar 15th, 2009 at 2:36 am | #
Dear Sakshi,
I won’t take a statement of Mr. Jethmalani lightly inspite of his own record. Because, I am sure Jethmalani knows more about Dutt than any of us. Plus, rather than risking the security of nation…I would prefer to keep Mr. Dutt out of politics. In any case Politics is no place to start public service. It is just culmination of it…and Mr. Dutt just wants to avoid jail! I hope you have read the transcripts of his conversation with Chotta Shakeel to know how deep routed his underworld links are?
If father found it difficult to bear with his son…how do you expect national should be able to???
sayed asad
Aug 27th, 2009 at 5:57 am | #
Talking to defence ADVOCATE MRS.FARHANA AFZAL SHAH I came to conculusion that Ram Jethmalani is not a saint, in the past he has defended hardcore criminals, Being Devil’s Advocate he would not have protected sanjay dutt in the first place, it seems that Jethmalani wants cheap publicity, and he is jealous too,wherin he was debared from sanjay;s leagal team by Late SUNIL DUTT.