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A day after the Chief Justice of India, TS Thakur, broke down in front of PM Modi, citing the drastic shortage of judges in addressing the massive backlog of cases with the judiciary, another man entrusted with a similarly herculean task reportedly lost his bearings and got emotional.
Congress leader, Jairam Ramesh, who some say is in charge of overseeing Rahul Gandhi’s evolution into a great leader, visited 10, Janpath earlier today, and burst out sobbing like a little boy in front of Sonia Gandhi. “It is not fair to criticize me for everything he does, Soniaji! You cannot shift the entire burden to me! I write the right speeches. I even print them in big roman fonts. But despite that he goes and says whatever he likes! What do I do?” he wailed, shedding copious tears, while Rahul Gandhi stood by the door sucking on a lollipop with an impish grin on his face.
Within hours of Jairam Ramesh’s breakdown, several other Congress leaders including Digvijay Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Ajay Maken made a beeline to 10, Janpath, and similarly broke down sobbing, mainly to preempt any decision by the Congress President to transfer Jairam’s task to them.
Jairam’s emotional outburst has drawn sympathy from many. Even CJI TS Thakur has admitted that his task is nothing when pitted against that of Jairam Ramesh. “Compared to Jairam’s task of turning Rahul Gandhi into a mass leader, my task of resolving the pending cases is a walk in the park. I don’t know what I was crying about. Now I just feel stupid,” he said.
However, unlike PM Modi who asked the CJI for a closed door meeting to find solutions for pending issues, Congress President Sonia Gandhi firmly put her foot down. “Nothing doing. If you don’t want to be fired, you will continue to groom him to be a great leader,” she said, following which Jairam Ramesh and the others quietly returned to their homes.