Truth is oh so infuriating.

Our most esteemed Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Mr Virbhadra Singh is incandescent. He has threatened Mr Arvind Kejriwal of Team Anna, the civil society movement fighting against corruption, with a case of criminal defamation. Mr Singh has a grand portfolio but what does he do anyway? What is a micro enterprise? Is the fellow who goes round every evening selling ice cream from a pushcart a micro enterprise? There are millions of such carts selling all kinds of eatables made by dubious " businessmen " under extremely unhygienic conditions. These products are attractive to the poor, especially children, who cannot even hope to enter a proper restaurant because they have been made too expensive by extortionate taxes. Naturally, thousands of children die every year from diarrhoeal diseases. Death of children does not seem to make Mr Singh angry. So what does? Mr Kejriwal has had the temerity to say that he has no respect for this parliament because 162 of its members have charges of murder, kidnapping and rape against them. Mr Singh has no problem sitting next to a rapist, shaking hands with a murderer or sharing a joke with a kidnapper but he is angry because Mr Kejriwal has mentioned it. Oh, we forgot. No one is guilty until proven. Problem is that, since cases drag on for decades, the guilty get away with murder. And kidnapping. And rape. Sadly for Mr Singh an international non-profit organisation, Global Integrity has rated and given points to the Indian legal system and its lawmakers. Individual Candidate Financing gets 28 points. Conflicts of Interest Safeguards and checks and balances in Judicial Branch 45 points. Implementation and Disclosure of Political Party and Candidate Financing - 0 points. Party Financing Regulations - 0 points. Legal Framework 20 points. The report says," Many anti corruption agencies are not independent from the governments they are tasked with monitoring." Mr Singh should note that party and candidate financing and finance regulation have both got zero points meaning that the entire election system is corrupt based on black money. It follows, therefore, that no one has the right to sit in Parliament having got there through illegal financing. Of course, as is usual with our politicians Mr Singh will scornfully dismiss the report as from biased foreigners and claim that " Parliament is supreme ". So it is but by giving refuge to filthy criminals it has made crime supreme in India. If only there was micro sharam or izzat.