Tuesday, May 07, 2013

We need some explanation.

We can understand Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and Dick Chaney. We can even understand Bin Laden's youngest wife, Amal who " demanded sex 24 hours a day ". TOI, 21 April, 2012. The eldest wife, Khairiah was jealous of Amal who she accused of sticking to Bin Laden like a prostitute who wanted " sex throughout the day ". At least Bin Laden died a happy man. But how do we understand our lot? The Central Bureau of Investigation was asked by the Supreme Court to investigate the allocation of coal mines to friends and family, which according to the Comptroller and Auditor General, could have resulted in a loss of Rs 1.7 trillion. The CBI Director, Ranjit Sinha admitted to the Supreme Court that he showed the draft report to the Law Minister, Ashwani Kumar who made certain changes. " Besides a few changes were also done on the suggestion of the AG ( Attorney General ) and officials of the PMO ( Prime Minister's Office ) and the coal ministry," he said. TOI, 7 May. He, however, assured the court that the central theme of status reports was not changed nor was there any deletion of any evidence. So what were the changes? Were all these fellows correcting mistakes in grammar and punctuation? Naturally, Mr Sinha did not take any minutes of the meetings but was speaking from memory and the memories of his officers. Surely, someone is guilty of perjury and of trying to pervert the course of justice? Will these people be sent to prison? Alas, no chance of that. Politicians, especially of the Congress, and civil servants are immune from any punishment. No such inhibitions were noticed on the part of judges of the Delhi High Court who sentenced 2 journalists of the paper Mid Day, a cartoonist and the publisher to 4 months in prison for the crime of exposing the conflict of interest of the former Chief Justice, Sabharwal's judgements benefiting his sons. And then there is the Railway Minister, Pawan Kumar Bansal. Seems that his nephew, Vijay Singla was caught red handed by the CBI while accepting Rs 9 million from a Railway Officer, Mahesh Kumar to promote him to the Railway Board. The CBI officers were so confident of nabbing him that they took a note counting machine along with them. TOI, 6 May. In today's India Rs 9 million is loose change for politicians and their relatives who count their wealth in billions. The question is, if a man is willing to pay Rs 9 million for a promotion how much money was he assured of making once in position? Seems that he would have been responsible for expenditure of Rs 2.5 billion which is 35% of the Railway's total expenditure. Is it the reason why railways fares were constant while Trinamul held the ministry but started going up immediately the Congress took over? A peeved Congress fellow said that asking crooks to resign is a " disease ". Explanation please.

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