Somnath Chatterjee has certainly raised the prestige and status of the Lok Sabha Speaker's post by the non-partisan and exemplary manner in which he conducted the trust vote over the two days. The Communists have conveniently and outrageously forgotten that the Speaker is above the party and must act in a non-partisan manner at all times. The Speaker belongs to the entire house and not to a particular party. This is as per the Constitution as well as the established norms. The Left has already lost the battle against the nuclear deal and will also face the rebuke of the electorate in the forthcoming general elections in 2009. They are highly unlikely to repeat their record performance of 59 seats in this Lok Sabha as they stand thoroughly exposed for their shallow ideas and empty rhetoric in favour of a false ideology that has been jettisoned the world over!
It is not Somnath Chatterjee but the rabid, ideologue Prakash Karat who is the villain of the piece. Firstly,for forcing the trust vote owing his stubborn stand based on little more than blind ideological hatred of the United States. Secondly,for acting in a vengeful and disgusting manner towards his own party's senior-most and most distingished politician, who is respected across party lines.
