The fractured face of George Fernandes

January 30, 2019 10:17

"He would often bristle at the suggestion that he had compromised his principles for power, defected from fiery blue-collar rights mongering to the conformist black shirts. He would pull out the Lohia doctrine as defence -- how his socialist mentor had made a compact with the Sanghis as counter to the Congress.

In a life riven with beguiling chasms between the purported and the real, anti-Congressism remained a core constant to the end.George never found it difficult to justify incompatible alliances because he thought it natural to make friends with enemies of the Congress."

Senior journalist Sankarshan Thakur's ode to former defence minister George Fernandes who passed away yesterday. Do read

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