The
present scenario has cemented and formalized the Plunder League to extend even
greater ruin than the good run.
Politicians
across the party-line are deep under corruption allegations. Many of the ruling
coalition members including senior ministers have seen jails. Many of the
non-ruling parties are facing serious allegations.
Many
of the ruling coalition members facing serious corruption allegations
audaciously deny any probe demands knowing they can easily manipulate the
system they run.
Many
of the non-ruling party members don’t face any probe in spite of the serious
allegations owing to the Indian Political Code of Trust as elaborated in
brief by Mr. Digvijay Singh.
This
Indian Political Code of Trust is an important causal element of the
strengthening Political Plunder League.
Do
a random secondary study and you would come to know that almost of the cases
involving serious allegations on politicians where a probe was or is underway
pinpoints some sort of settling of political score or is caused by some
external agency like the so-called media trials or media sting operations.
Almost
no senior politician has ever been finally convicted in the country though the
highest ministerial office, the prime minister’s office, has consistently been
in news for wrong reasons and Manmohan Singh’s tenure has added new dimensions
to this negativity.
A
developing country like India
provides ample opportunities to exploit resources. The return on the deployment
of these resources is supposed to be for every Indian intending to build a
uniformly prosperous India.
Politicians
collude with bureaucrats and businessmen for mutual gains. They suck these
resources out. The crony capitalism swells the coffers of these three
categories (politicians, bureaucrats, industrialists) at the cost of the common
man, who remains at the bottom of the pyramid.
Whenever
there is talk of corruption, the political class always turns evasive, trying
to show the epidemic as some minor aberration.
Now
almost every politician is a millionaire in this poor country. The commensurate
increase in the inflationary pressure is eating into the miniscule income level
rise of the Indians but the income of the political class (and even of their
kith and kin) is shooting up many times.
Almost
every allocation of natural resources, coal blocks, telecom spectrum, oil and
gas blocks, land banks are generating huge ripples of controversies with
serious allegations of kickbacks and system manipulation.
Like
politicians, big businessmen and senior bureaucrats, too, are almost insular to
be subjected to the law of the land for their misdeeds.
It
was the political class that was entrusted to build a modern and developed India when our
forefathers led the country to its independence in 1947.
Instead,
the political class has deteriorated enough to become a corrupt league in
collaboration with the bureaucrats and the industrialists to potentially harm
that vision of 1947.
And
this political plunder in India
is not something of recent origin. It has always been there but its scale is
reaching to the extreme proportions now.
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**An article by P. Sainath inspired me to coin the term ‘Political Plunder League’. The article can be reached at:
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