Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Congress always wins.

For some unknown reason the BJP, the largest party in opposition to the Congress led government, is determined to let the Congress escape any punishment for the numerous cases of larceny that it has carried out in the last 8 years. In 2010 it disrupted the entire winter session of parliament asking for a Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine the 2G scam. The Congress was steadfast in its refusal. This allowed the Congress to keep the people's attention fixed on A Raja and the DMK which allowed the Congress government of Delhi to escape any scrutiny of its handling of the Commonwealth Games where massive loot has been alleged to have taken place. The pressure on the DMK meant that Congress got to contest its selection of seats in the Tamil Nadu elections of 2011. The Congress and the DMK were routed in those elections which made no difference to the make up of the parliament but now that the DMK was wiped out in Tamil Nadu means that it has to support the Congress in parliament in everything or else end up in prison. The Congress was able to blame the BJP for disrupting the parliament for its inability to carry out economic reforms. Immediately after Tamil Nadu elections the Congress agreed to a JPC because it had got exactly what it wanted. Brilliant strategy. The losses in the allocation of 2G and coal mining licenses were notional but the loot during the CWG and the restructuring of Delhi airport was real money. The CWG loot was under the Delhi government which is Congress and the Delhi airport loot was under the Nationalist Congress Party which is the partner of Congress in the government of Maharashtra. One would have thought that the opposition would concentrate on these 2 crimes but the concentration of the BJP is fixed only on the 2G scam which will be very difficult to prove in court. This has allowed the Congress to hide the Shunglu Committee report into the CWG scam. The BJP is now disrupting parliament on the Coal license scam and is apparently thinking of resigning en masse from parliament in the vain hope of early general elections. The Congress will never call general elections before next April when it will have the chance of bribing the electorate in the budget. Instead it will waste tens of billions on by-elections in the 114 BJP seats in parliament. If it loses all the seats it will not change the equation in parliament and if it wins a few it will claim vindication in all its crimes. It is impossible that the BJP is a party of brainless morons. So has it come to some sort of deal with the Congress in which it will help the Congress to divert attention from all its crimes? In return for what? What is it that the Congress knows about the BJP that we do not? With our lot anything, no matter how filthy, is absolutely possible.

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