Politics can corrupt anyone.

Despite a 20 minute phone call by Obama begging her to change her mind President of Brazil, Dilma Roussef has postponed her state visit to the US, scheduled to start on 23 October, because of cyber spying by the National Security Agency of the US. Brazilians are furious that the NSA was monitoring phone calls and emails of all citizens including those of the president and are debating a bill that will force American giants, such as Google and Facebook, to store data on Brazilian citizens in Brazil. What is the reaction of the Indian government? Nothing. A senior official is quoted as saying," Everybody does it....there is nothing to get worried." Why should they get worried when the Congress is carrying out a sinister Stalinist project which aims to record photographs, finger prints and retinal scans of every individual in the country. Every citizen will have a card called aadhar, with a 12 digit number, which will be unique for that individual. While other countries maintain a database of criminals only, in India everyone will be a criminal with their biometric details stored by the Unique Identification Authority of India, controlled by the most criminal civil service in the world. Ostensibly this is to ensure that social schemes are targeted only at the poor and prevent false claims. In that case only those who are poor enough to be eligible for government handouts should have been told to avail of these cards and not the entire population, as in North Korea and Communist China. Most surprising is that Mr Nandan Nilekani agreed to be the Chairman of this nefarious project and make it successful. Graduating from IIT, Bombay in 1978, he worked at Patni  Computers before leaving it to start Infosys, one of our most successful IT companies, in 1981. He was Chairman of Infosys from 2001-2007 and received the Padma Bhushan in 2006. Why would an erudite man with such a glittering career agree to develop a system like the Stasi had in East Germany? Turns out that he could stand for a seat in Parliament from Karnataka. On a Congress ticket. The Congress has made India one of the most corrupt countries in the world and betrayed India in Tashkent, Shimla and Sharm al Sheikh and yet the temptation of politics is irresistible. Shows that politics can corrupt even the most educated and talented individual.