“Youngsters make mistakes”

Yeah, Mr Vajpayee, I agree with you. After all, what did Rahul Mahajan do? Snuffed a bit of cocaine or was it heroine… whatever… the poor hapless chap made a ‘mistake’ …just about a mistake. Not a punishable offence.
These are exactly the kind words of support the country’s youth expect from our senior leaders, who understand their situation and sympathise with them. After all, how will it help if a senior leader says that doing drugs is a crime and criminals should be punished? Will it reform the poor child in bad company? Our leaders know that these youngsters who have gone a bit astray need handholding not punishment.
So, a statement like “such mistakes happen in young age” would go a long way in helping…ummm…well… at least Rahul Mahajan.
In fact, going by that logic, we should free all the “youngsters” `trapped’ in prisons. After all, they too have been arrested for committing similar offences…nay…mistakes. They too fell in bad company and robbed, looted, raped… but then… such mistakes happen in young age.
The police should actually keep a list of these innocent youngsters ready and none other than Rahul Mahajan should free them from the country’s jails when he walks out of the hospital. What a warm gesture it would be!! Showing kindness to these innocent babies lost in the woods.
He will then go on and win a key position in a political party, win an election… smile and wave at television crews that once discussed whether he consumed cocaine or heroin. He will then give interviews thanking god, his father, mother and all those who stood by him at his hour of crisis. His now sensational case will in some time find a mandatory mention in the last para of crime stories on drugs that will read like…it may be recalled, Rahul Mahajan was in the midst of a cocaine/heroin controversy….
But, much before any of that happens, a glossy newspaper supplement or a television channel will have an exclusive interview with Mahajan Jr with a headline: “I have moved on”. Ah! Readers will feel so good to see/hear that.

(I, for the record, admire Mr Vajpayee. But, for the life of me cant understand why he didn’t issue a stern message instead of making himself appear like a doting mother who is so blind to his child’s vices)