Let’s take the
trend-setting and norm-establishing deeds of the breed of politicians of this
generation who are neck-deep in corruption but are refusing to budge, who are
in denial of their wrongdoings even if it is proven beyond doubt, even if it is
there for everyone to see.
We have, here, the ruling
coalition of India and its leading party, Congress, in the driving seat topping
the corrupt-pack, with its high-profile leaders zooming to be in vogue of new
highs of corruption and manipulation of the public office.
And this all is happening
under the ‘able’ guidance of the prime minister of India, Mr.
Manmohan Singh and his office, which has become exceptionally active, an otherwise comfortably numb prime minister.
Our dear Manmohan Singh and
his ‘MS Office’ have enriched us with such many developments
in the last few weeks and Manmohan Singh is clearly emerging victorious in the
latest incarnation of the Indian politics that is bold, brazen and
immune to any criticism, even if a justified one in the public perception. The
list of his gems adorning the list of corrupts is long, from Suresh Kalmadi to
A Raja to Ashwani Kumar to Pawan Kumar Bansal.
While the development of
the long list did involve some cases of surrender by the politicians when they
had no other option left to manipulate and continue clinging to the power, the
recent high profile cases of Manmohan’s two trusted aides, who incidentally
come from his home state Punjab, Minister of Law & Justice Ashwani Kumar
and Minister of Railways, Pawan Kumar Bansal, are representative
of the new thinking of the Indian politics that has started believing in its
right to absolute denial, not caring even if they do not have any option left
to manipulate any more.
Now, they simply say they
won’t surrender even if the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court of
India, alleges them of breach of trust.
If they don’t care for the
Supreme Court of India, who we are then to be taken seriously, though, we elect
them and therefore, we give them the power to manipulate?
So the Congress is up, in
arms, in brazen defense of its these two tainted ministers saying they won’t
resign, when they should have resigned already, even if they go by the standard
set by A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi.
And all this is happening
the under the watch of MS-Office.
One of the duo, safe
in the troubled waters, Ashwani Kumar, has subverted the guidelines
set by the Supreme Court. The apex court had asked the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) not to share the status reports of the coal block
allocation scam probe with the political executive. But, as the reports say, Mr. Kumar, the coal ministry and the MS
Office directed the CBI Director, who says he is very much part of the
government (the government that beats the
bush every day claiming CBI’s independent functioning), to modify the
status report in the investigation of a case in which Manmohan and his
government is facing the heat.
Isn’t it like asking a
thief to probe himself and come up with the investigation report so that he
could be sentenced?
The other one, safe in the
troubled waters, Pawan Kumar Bansal, until now seen as
a non-controversial and clean politician, has got embroiled in an age-old scam
of India where, in case of government jobs, a huge sum of money changes hands
before any high-profile and lucrative transfer and posting takes place.
With every passing day,
more and more skeletons are tumbling out telling us how companies were built in
the name of Bansal’s son and wife; how they registered meteoric
growth in a span of few years only; how the main accused in the case, his
nephew Vijay Singla, was so close to him and how he managed his 2009 Lok Sabha election
campaign; and how the Bansal family members share business interests
with Vijay Singla. Being the Railway Minister, appointment for the Railway
Board position for which the bribe was offered comes under directly overview of
Mr. Bansal.
Had there been even an iota
of verity in the claims of Mr. Bansal of being a clean politician, he
would have resigned on the day his nephew was arrested for brokering the
bribery deal misusing his department and his name.
He needed to come out
clean. He needs to come out clean. And so Mr. Ashwani Kumar, and so
Mr. Manmohan Singh, and so every other politician charged with allegations of
manipulating and corrupting the public office.
They simply cannot be
allowed to trade and tread our trust, again and again.
But this bold new breed of
Indian Politicians is doing exactly that. This bold new breed of Indian
Politicians believes in killing every such spirit. And they get support when
they see that we, the voters, are short of options; when they see that we, the
voters, are not able to make informed decisions while electing them.
A good case in point is the
Karnataka assembly elections. Congress, neck-deep in corruption is poised to
win when the votes are counted on May 8 because the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party
(BJP) government has lost its credibility due to massive and widespread
corruption in the state under its regime.
See! We, the voters, are
replacing one corrupt regime with regime of another political party that, in
all probability, is going to lose the next parliamentary elections, due to the massive
and widespread corruption in the country under its regime.
We, the Indian voters, wandering
in the troubled waters, facing the classic dilemma of choosing between Scylla and Charybdis! Isn’t it?
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