Simply put, Indian politicians are shameless. We have had many such expose in the past, Tehelka being the foremost. But nothing has changed. Our political leaders suffer from 'denial syndrome' and will continue to do so.Wikileaks' latest revelation that the Congress lined up money to bribe MPs to win the 2008 parliamentary trust vote has been outrightly denied by none other than the Prime Minister himself. A US diplomatic cable has claimed that an aide of Congress leader Satish Sharma showed a US Embassy employee "two chests containing cash" and said Rs 50-60 crore is ready for use as "pay-offs" to win the support of some MPs ahead of crucial vote of confidence in UPA government over the Indo-US nuke deal.
"I wish to make it clear that no one from the Congress party or the government indulged in any unlawful act during the trust vote in July 2008," the Prime Minister said. Now defending the Congress party is fine, but claiming that no body from the UPA government indulged in any unlawful act would draw criticism. When Mr Singh was not aware of what was cooking in the 2G scam, how could he be so sure about his allies in this case.
The Prime Minister has denied that bribe was paid while the Kishore Chandra Deo committee, which probed the cash- for- votes issue, had insisted that there was exchange of money.
Soon after this, a Wikileaks report accused the BJP leaders for adopting different stands in their public declarations and private conversations on the India-US nuclear deal. According to the cable, the BJP leadership had told US diplomats that its criticism of the US in public was to score 'easy political points' against the ruling UPA. As expected, the BJP straightway denied the allegation and demanded the cables to be probed. It is the same BJP that had previously demanded the Prime Minister's resignation on WikiLeaks revelation that the Congress bribed MPs to win the 2008 parliamentary trust vote.
Our politicians strongly believe in the logical fallacy 'two wrongs make a right'. In the next few days, we will continue to see spokespersons from both the Congress and the BJP, accusing each other of being guilty and questioning the evidential value of Wikileaks.
It's hight time that a law is drafted here which allows voters to recall their respective legislators if they are fed up with them. We dont have a proper mechanism to punish the criminals in politics. It's a huge lie that everybody is the same before the law. If it was so, almost 90 per cent of our politicains would have been behind bars.
ReplyDeleteWhen various probing commissions in India cannot bring forth justice, Wikileaks — which is no legal entitity in US itself, let alone in India — will not be able to do any good or harm to our country. But, it will surely act as fodder for the Indian media to fill in their prime times and editorials.
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