Why do Indian politicians love secrecy.

In today's news Google has revealed, as part of its " transparency report ", that on 101 occasions authorities in India had asked for removal of 255 items between July and December of which 130 items because they were considered defamatory. This maybe because corruption has become so all-pervasive in India that the truth will be considered " defamatory ". Even the definition of honesty has changed so that a man is acclaimed as " honest ", when he has presided over the theft of hundreds of billions of rupees, only because he has not taken any himself. The conviction of former Goldman Sachs Director, Rajat Gupta for insider trading has puzzled everyone here. How can he be guilty of any wrongdoing when all he did was help his friend Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group without making any profit himself? In spite of Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parikh and other scams insider trading is rampant in India. TOI, June 19. Apparently, Blackberry is loved by traders because the sender and the recipient cannot be tracked once the message is deleted. There is no shame anymore. The bigger the crook the more he is respected. It is all part of the game and " Sab chalta hai " which means anything goes. Choosing the next President of India is a perfect illustration. Last week SP chief, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav emphatically supported Ms Mamata Banerjee, of Trinamul Congress, against the Congress candidate, Mr Pranab Mukherjee. They jointly declared their own choice of candidate but within 24 hours Mr Yadav changed position and backed Mr Mukherjee. Whether this was planned before hand we do not know but it certainly humiliated Ms Banerjee who has been a thorn in the Congress flesh for sometime. Immediately afterwards Mr Digvijay Singh of the Congress described her as " erratic " and " immature " and Congress MP, Mr Adhir Choudhury mocked her saying," Now Didi is crying after her loss of face as also after losing the political battle. And the Left Front is laughing." Mr Yadav's daughter in law, Dimple Yadav was elected to the Lok Sabha unopposed from Kannauj in UP in a bye election on June 9. The Congress, the BJP and the BSP did not put up a candidate against her thereby depriving the people of Kannauj any say in who they want to represent them in parliament. It is facile to say that the seat was held by Ms Dimple's husband, Mr Akhilesh Yadav who resigned to become Chief Minister of UP. She had lost from Firozabad, also vacated by her husband, in 2009. A parliamentary seat is not a family property to be passed around within family members. This was in effect a political coup against the right of the people to choose their representative. To say that is considered defamatory and that is why politicians hate the internet. How can the parliament be the " light pillar of democracy " when the darkness of corruption has enveloped the country?