Writer T. Padmanabhan slams Kerala govt. for sitting on Hema Committee report
The HinduComing down heavily on the Left Front government in Kerala for failing to act on the Hema Committee report for four-and-a-half years, writer T. Padmanabhan said on Thursday that the “first sin” was committed when what should have been a commission headed by former High Court judge K. Hema was reduced to a committee with powers just to make recommendations. Mr. Padmanabhan said that while a commission had suo motu powers to take up a case and hand out punishment, a committee could only make mere recommendations to the appointing body -- the State government in this case. ‘Fallen idols’ Mr. Padmanabhan mocked the statement of Culture Minister Saji Cherian that he had neither seen nor read the Hema Committee report as an “innocent statement of truth”. Many of them had an intellectual and heroic aura in the hearts of the people,” said Mr. Padmanabhan, while quoting the famous line, “We must not touch our idols, the gilt sticks to our fingers,” from the acclaimed French novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
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