If the Speaker is above all political parties, he had no reason for saying that he did not want to vote on the same side of the BJP. This is a dead give away of his thinking. No one is asking him to support either way, but as an impartial person, he should not comment in this fashion about a Political Party that had been in power earlier.
RE:Speaker episode: Tip of CPI-M iceberg
by satyarthi on Jul 21, 2008 02:21 PM Permalink
After all he is a RED, master in 'double speak'. In the same paragraph, he talks of his neutrality and his opposition to BJP.