Dirty or dirtier.

In 2010 a former Member of the Legislative Assembly in MP, elected on a Samajwadi Party ticket, Kishor Samrite filed a Public Interest Litigation at Allahabad High Court accusing Mr Rahul Gandhi of abducting and raping a girl in his constituency of Amethi in UP. Mr Gandhi denied the charges and the High Court dismissed the PIL on 7 March, 2011 with a fine of Rs 5 million on Mr Samrite. TOI, 1 August. Mr Samrite filed an appeal to the Supreme Court which stayed the High Court order in April 2011. Now, at the Supreme Court hearing, Mr Samrite has claimed that he was instructed by the SP leadership to file the PIL in the first place. He is revealing all this because the UP government of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has termed him " mentally unbalanced " in an affidavit and wants to make him a scapegoat. Mr Samrite says that he was called to Delhi in 2010 " to meet the other senior leaders, who were in Delhi as the Parliament was in session,where he was apprised about the facts of the serious incident that had been reported from a village in UP and was requested to file a writ petition in the nature of of PIL in Allahabad High Court." Considering that he is a politician he must be exceedingly naive. Firstly, he should know that you should never take on The Family, especially on such a grave matter. The BJP was in power for 6 years and yet did not dare to investigate the Bofors scam. Secondly, being a politician himself, he should have known that you never trust an Indian politician. Whether he thought that he would be rewarded with a safe seat from UP we do not know but he should have had some written guarantee before venturing to take on The Family. We saw how Mr Yadav's father set up Ms Mamata Banerjee before the presidential elections, appearing with her in front of the media and then stabbing her in the back after just 24 hours. We do know that Ms Dimple Yadav, wife of Mr Akhilesh, was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament from Kannauj which was vacated by her husband. Not one party put up a candidate against her so the voters were deprived of any say in who should represent them in Parliament. She had lost in May 2009 from Faizabad. It is possible that, after SP's thumping victory in assembly elections in March, other parties are already calculating the chances of forming a government in Delhi with SP support after the general elections in 2014. On 26 July one Prabhat Kumar Pandey filed a case in Allahabad High Court against the election of Ms Dimple Yadav claiming that he was kidnapped by workers of her party to prevent him contesting. Should we believe all these allegations of crime, perjury and betrayal? Who knows. However, there is no filthier creature than an Indian politician who is dirtier than a cesspit. How to get rid of this infestation that is the question.