Lot of thinking people have been critical about Smriti Irani's speech due to the theatrical content and antics. They may not be wrong. I go a step further. I don't even like rhetoric. I like Just facts which also should be presented shorn of superfluous verbiage with an approach that is brutally rational. But demagoguery has existed world-wide. Hasn't it? Antics also prevail. The US Elections bear such an eloquent testimony to it. Look at Clinton and Trump how they dramatically gesticulate to the gallery and get even with each other. So why condemn Smriti?
The above notwithstanding, no one can say, she was not prepared. She had done her homework. She was thorough with her facts. She had even sequenced them properly. In a country where even the Parliament is rowdy, and rabble rousing is a pass time in which even the fully employed find time to indulge, where facts get morphed with fiction so quickly, such orchestrated rebuttals are the only way to get your point across.
This time the walk-out was because the opposition was stumped by this sudden volley of facts, temper, emotion and sentimentalism. Kharge to khada hi raha gaya.
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