SCAMSTERS have never had it so good. Under the protective umbrella of Sonia Gandhi, in the cover of the jaded ‘detachment’ tag of the Prime Minister, the UPA ministers and chief ministers are looting the nation with gluttanous appetite. The Congress is so depleted of relatively clean leaders-there is nobody absolutely clean in that party anymore-that, it had to run through a list and finally land on a minister in the Union Cabinet. The same set of people keep playing the musical chair, nobody getting out, only shifting their positions.
The government move to sack Ashok Chavan and Suresh Kalmadi is not even the proverbial fig leaf. It is actually a joke being played by the Congress on the intelligence of the public. Thousands of crores of rupees went down the pockets of people in both the party and government in the name of Commonwealth. And the Organising Committee of the event took out full page colour ads in obliging newspapers, again spending millions of the tax payer’s money to whitewash their sins. There is absolutely no justification for the ads to appear now, when an inquiry into the humongous scam is already on.
No Congress Chief Minister in Maharashtra has been able to finish a full term. They all have been replaced on grounds of corruption and inefficiency. A state ruled by Congress for decades, except a brief spell by the BJP-Shiv Sena combine has slipped in the national index in many areas. But Ashok Chavan takes the cake in scam competition. Imagine the moral depravity of a Chief Minister who misuses his position to get flats for his relatives, benefits that were meant for the families of soldiers who laid down their life in defence of the nation. And now Congress has stooped even lower, with their rather brash spokesperson Manish Tiwari trying to implicate BJP President. They cannot prove themselves clean so they are trying to tarnish those who appear in public eye as clean. It is to be noted that nothing, repeat nothing, happens in the Congress without the nod from its president Sonia Gandhi and the new power centre called Rahul Gandhi. It was nauseating to see the nominated Chief Minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan telling a TV interviewer that he had gone to take the blessings of ‘Rahulji’.
In corruption Congress follows the generous policy of loot and let loot with its allies. That is the reason why the party has been looking at the spectrum scam with indulgence. The Prime Minister has maintained a pathetic silence on the issue, going only as far as to say he is yet to get the facts on the case.
As Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj pointed out in Parliament, between the two sessions - monsoon and winter - two more scams have come up. Beyond noisy discussions in both the houses, precious little is being done. It is a fact that the career of not one politician has ended in India because of their corrupt and immoral, unethical behaviour. Having come to power, taking oath to protect the people and the Constitution of India, they violate it at every turn and opportunity. At least, the Marcos didn’t come back to power in Philippines and Ershad in Bangladesh is a forgotten chapter in that country’s politics. In India, they go out by one door and come back by another, as in theatres. In different costumes and roles. Recall the way S M Krishna and Sushil Shinde were shunted off as governors, only to be brought back into the Union Cabinet.
Other than these major issues of swindling of public money, the UPA government has to answer for the appointment of the CVC, whose role as Telecommunication Secretary has become more suspicious after the CAG report. It has to explain its reason for appointing the man despite objections from the Opposition. The UPA has to tell the nation why it adopts a double stand on Electronic Voting Machines. The UPA has behaved with utter lack of sincerity in the case involving Satyam hustler Raju. Here again, as in the case of the CVC the judiciary has intervened to restore some semblance of justice. In the grain rotting case too, the court intervened, but the government has taken no heed.
Congress Party has been always soft on corruption. It has encouraged swindling of public money, protected offenders, and secured them escape routes. Why else would the government not grab the offer of the foreign countries to provide names and details of the slush money stashed there? Till date, the UPA has not explained its reasons for not seeking this information. The new title Indian National Corruption Party sits well on its head. From here, it can go on to become the Inter National Corruption Party.
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