Corruption Watch

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As I was growing up, my earliest instance of corruption scandal <!--emo&:grenade--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/grenade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='grenade.gif' /><!--endemo--> was that of the then Union Minister LN Mishra's Licenses' Scam. The first thing Madam `G' has done was to drop him from her ministry and distanced her government from him and ordered an inquiry. (Ofcourese he was bombed to death at Samastipur Railway Station and nothing news came out after that). Upto her tenure any accused of corruption or any other cognizable crimes were - atleast in public - treated as hot-potato and dropped. Uptil then there was a semblance of public shock against corruption maintained by political parties and public leaders.

When Rajiv was accused of Bofors scandal, he continued in power <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> till the Indian voter thrown him out. As nothing could be proved by VP Singh and party, Congress under the leadership of Rajiv was voted in again, though he himself was belt-bombed in Sriperambadur, near Chennai. And then, PVN was brought in as a replacement to Rajiv, who lasted for five years despite being accused of many a currupt practices. Other, minor premiers who preceded or succeeded him had not much time to prove either way.

Then came Vajpayee, who coolly excused Modi's shameless bigotry, Tehelka Tapes (coffins & caskets <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> ), Judeo's money in camera <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> and what have you and was booted out, albeit in favour of a week UPA.

Sonia's Congress & allies boycotted currupt Union Minister of Vajpayee and now the Vajpayee's BJP & allies (or it is Venkaiah's BJP, read previous two days headlines <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) are raking up the issue of Laloos, et al. Tit for tat <!--emo&:argue--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/argue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='argue.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Yes, this is like pan calling kettle black.

The below link is self-explanatory.
http://www.deccan.com/home/homedetails.asp#Six cases will show if CBI is still free

That is, What makes anybody think or hope that CBI, or for that matter any other Govt. controlled & funded institution, to be free. They have been investigating Bofors since almost two decades now and will continue to investigate all six cases, discussed in this link, for several more decades, till a new generations come into existence and the issue dies out naturally. By the way what happened to that gentleman, who was raided and caught with some two/three crores of rupees in hard cash <!--emo&:eager--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/lmaosmiley.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lmaosmiley.gif' /><!--endemo-->?