Thanks to the crazy intervention of politics, even the election of the president of the Bharat Scout and Guides Movement (Tamil Nadu) — which would otherwise have never attracted any media attention — is now in the limelight (Some editions, “BJP’s Raja loses bid to head Scouts and Guides”, September 17). Why does the BJP want to influence even an international movement? Why move away from the clear intention of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the scouting movement, who said, “A scout and guide credential is measured not on the number of badges attached to the uniform one wears but by the character that one holds dear to the heart in serving the humanity with no discrimination of any sort”?
Victor Frank A.,
Chennai