Man of principle's men of ......

Everybody knows that A K Antony is a not a man of speed but man of principles.

When he was the CM of Kerala, he never allowed party men to interfere even in police activities. He even told the truth that minorities were getting undue preference in all aspects of life in Kerala, pushing the majority into poverty. Of course, he was the most hated man in the eyes of the powerful IUML in those days of power sharing.

The moment he was replaced by the high command, the congress workers started sleeping in the police stations, thanks to the CM of replacement OC. They also started ordering the policemen to bring coffee, tea and also wash their laundry. Several mornings saw them waking up from the police stations wearing half khadi and other half in kakki dress. OC was the CM and hence that was the local protocol! Democracy was at its peak!

Interestingly, most of those police station-based party activists were Antony's own group members. One of them even went to the extent of stealing a temple hundi from his home town Siva temple and kept in his close friend's house for days before transferring the contents to his party run co-op bank. He even secured an MP seat using his clout on Antony himself, and won seat from Malabar by a mere 800 votes margin just by hobnobbing with a fundamentalist group whose one time bitter critic was none other than AK Antony. This was,  in spite of the strong opposition from Congress party cadres itself from that constituency to his candidature, but he had the simultaneous support of punyavalan Antony and the Islamic fundamental group.
May be it was not just paradoxical that A K Antony took special interest to get him the MP candidature.

Now that AK Antony is touring the state to campaign for the assembly elections, one is reminded of his own rebuke uttered at TVM airport to his the then confident OC, 'Do not always exploit me'.

Knowingly or unknowingly, A K Antony is allowing himself to be exploited by his own men. Men of the army of moral corruption!

But, A K Antony is an honourable man of principles.