Lead us not into corruption.

Another day, another allegation of corruption. This time against Mr Robert Vadra, husband of Priyanka Gandhi who is daughter of Congress President, Ms Sonia Gandhi. Civil society activist, Mr Kejriwal has charged that a construction company, DLF " sold " land worth Rs 350 million to Mr Vadra for just Rs 50 million. Also the same company gave unsecured loans worth tens of millions to Mr Vadra. The question being asked is: what did DLF get in return?  DLF has denied the charges as absolutely baseless. Unfortunately DLF is a construction company and property is where all the black money is so no one will believe them. Congress has reacted aggressively as they always do in spite of being implicated in endless cases of corruption. " Is a business transaction between two private entities duly reported to the statutory authorities illegal? Is it a crime?" asked one. No. Unless one entity was giving an enormous favor to another entity, who is related to The Family, expecting to be paid back a thousand fold by some secret path and the said statutory authorities comprise of a bunch of completely supine, foot-licking lackeys who would readily look the other way for a promotion or a favorable posting. Another one said," Coming ahead of Gujarat and Himachal polls, it shows the so-called civil society groups are morphing into a political party but it is nothing more than a B-team of BJP." In other words, we in the Congress are entitled to loot any which way we want and if you dare to question us we will react with extreme malice. Already there is talk that Mr Kejriwal could meet with a sudden fatal accident. It maybe said that politicians accuse each other everyday, so what. Trouble is that criminal politicians incubate a culture of crime across society as people see criminals being welcomed into political parties and not a single person being punished for the most heinous crime. This Congress led government came into power in 2004. Between 2006 and 2011 violent crimes, including murder, rape, kidnapping and abduction, dacoity, riots and dowry deaths have gone up from 205,656 to 256,329, an increase of 24.6%. TOI, 6 October. Murders have increased by 5.6%, rape by 20% and kidnapping by 86.1%. In 2011 conviction for violent crime was a derisory 28% and in crimes against women a shameful 26.9%. Massive increase in black money leading to ostentatious lifestyles for some people, roaring inflation hurting the majority, an uncaring government only focused on somehow hanging onto power no matter what the cost and an endless list of theft of trillions of rupees for which no one is sent to prison has made people angry and frustrated and has developed a sense of contempt so deep that no act, no matter how repulsive, is shunned. Forget about Caesar's wife, just some sharam and izzat would be nice.