Clean and Honest, Really ?
Recently, there is a lot of media hype on how our PM, Manmohan Singh, is an honourable man. There are lot of drumbeats, how this “innocent” man is being unnecessarily maligned the opposition. How his integrity is beyond doubt. How he is Caeser’s wife etc., ad nauseum. You will really puke if you watch the media today about this.
It is shocking that none of the “intellectuals” who run the media in India have asked the question, “Is he really Clean and Honest ?”. I am a lay man who watches reports by the same media on the various acts of corruption by the Italian Maatha and am shocked as to how much of a “willing accomplice” our “clean and honest” PM has been! Yes, folks Manmohan has willingly participated in enabling corruption by the first family of the congress. Let us look at them case by case.
1. CWG: We all know the public loot that happened, case after case the OC escalated costs and our Cabinet headed by the PM simply signed the cheque. Yes, folks verify this fact. This has led to the cockiness of Suresh Kalmadi that “nothing will happen to me, because the PM signed the cheque”. It is shocking to believe that a “Clean and honest” & economist PM will simply not ask the question why does it cost Rs.600 crores to renovate a stadium, when the cost to build a new one is only Rs.100 crore? Similarly, the cabinet secretary was made in charge of restoring order to the CWG and soon after the games were complete, he is no longer the authority. It is back to Kalmadi! No wonder, files are going missing day after day in deal after deal. Imagine, the hurry shown to remove CWG OC from the ambit of the PM’s office. This has been done deliberately, so that Kalmadi will be in charge of the committee when it comes to “assisting” the agencies conducting the probe. Clean and Honest ?
2. CVC: We all know the snafu that has happened with the Central Vigilance Commission. This is superintending body with monitoring power over the CBI. Now there were three names finalized by the committe, which were sent to the selection panel, two were men of impeccable integrity. The third was Thomas, who has a criminal case pending against him. Worse, as telecom secretary, he questioned the jurisdiction of CAG to enquire into the 2G scam and fought it tooth and nail. Now if such a person, is appointed as CVC how can we expect him to be objective in probing issues related to himself? When the leader of opposition pointed this out, she was bluntly told by our “clean and honest” PM, “You can give a dissenting note, we are going ahead with him”. Yes, Sushma Swaraj has mentioned it several times, even in a live telecast of her rally in Delhi this was mentioned by her. Now we have to believe that “clean and honest” PM intended Mr. Thomas to become “born again” and rededicate himself to investigating corruption, after being corrupt and party to huge corruption all his life!
3. 2G: This is the most glaring of all. PM himself points out the potential for illegality and writes to Raja asking him to stop and refer things to the cabinet. Finance and Law ministries object. Raja then says hell with you and goes ahead. With certain firms having DDs ready for Rs. 1600 crores and delivered from banks based in Mumbai at Delhi, within minutes of the announcement. Some employing goons to muscle other firms from coming in with bank guarantees. When this is asked about, our “Clean and Honest” PM replies “I asked Raja, he has assured me that everything is clean”! Shocking, from now onwards we should dispense with all forums of justice, just simply ask the criminals as to whether they did the crime and based on their word prosecute them or release them. Yet, nobody in the NDTV brigade feels compelled to ask all this. You know why after watching all the Radia phone conversations. Even after Raja has resigned, PM meets him pats him on the back reassuring him in various public forums. When asked about all this he displays righteous indignation and says ‘I am ready for investigation by the PAC (alone)” and the media is now falling at his feet. PAC is a body that only audits accounts submitted and has limited powers to expand its ambit. It is like an accused saying, "I will appear only if my case is prosecuted by this judge, with this public prosecutor and this list as jurors." Would we accept this, yet our media slaves call this as “PM’s masterstroke” to establish his “Clean and Honest” nature.
It is wrong to adopt “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy to corruption. If he clearly knew what was going on, then what stopped him from taking action earlier on CWG, stop Thomas from becoming CVC and remove Raja from the telecom ministry. He needs to answer only these questions. He is determined to hide the Italian Maatha who is behind all this corruption. If he is clean and honest then it is only in meeting his commitment to Sonia Maino and no to the nation. Since, for the opposition to ask this question and demand official explanation is possible only through the JPC the government is determined to hide things by resisting it and worse our PM’s media perceived “Clean and Honest” faced is being exploited.
When we all can agree with a PIMP who says “I just ran the brothel, I never prostituted myself” as valid defence against prosecution for prostitution, then we can agree with Manmohan on how “clean and honest” he has been as a defence against corruption. Till then the opposition has every right to continue to stall parliament and agitate taking to the streets if necessary.
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