It is worrying that the ministers of the Union Cabinet feel free to say and do what they like and the PM is a helpless spectator (“Loose cannons”, May 12). Shashi Tharoor had no business to talk about Saudi Arabia as a mediator between India and Pakistan; Jairam Ramesh had no business to speak on government policy on Chinese investment in India; Navin Jindal had no business to speak for khap panchayats that are challenging the law of the land and the Constitution of India.
In case of Jairam, his longer political career than Manmohan Singh and his proximity to 10 Janpath might have made him over-confident, but that can’t be said about Shashi Tharoor or Navin Jindal. Loose cannons can be set right if the PM asserts his authority as he did in Tharoor’s case.
M C Joshi, Lucknow
