New Delhi: Was Dr.M.Veerappa Moily expected to be shunted out of Low and Justice ministry? Not really. But he made it. He found a way out to join Corporate Affairs ministry, by his loud mouth and bare hands.
He did not work like other law ministers before him. He suspected that there was a conspiracy of vested interests to throw him out of his chair, where he sat brooding, and not forming laws for the country.
On Wednesday, Moily changed his tunes and began singing in loyalty towards Sonia G, and Manmohan, the Lion-hearted PM. He said he was grateful to both for entrusting him with a new job, which was important, and promised to do some good work.
Better than R.K. Hegde, who had lost Commerce ministry and then waited for his name to be called out but in vain-in 1980s at Delhi.
Dalit Moily started like a hare, and slept half-way, with critical arrows falling on his path. No judicial reforms, no LokPal bill, or any new laws. He was talking, not being assertive. with more scams around UPA, he should be tough, as he was extremely important now. M.C.Nanaiah (now in JD-S) says Moily could not keep his team together. Were he more competent, Moily would have been successful, his critics said.