Poor politicians. Life is getting tough for them.

Ms Jayalalithaa, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, who has been sentenced to 4 years in prison and a fine of Rs 1 billion for corruption, was denied bail by the Karnataka High Court but Om Prakash Chautala, former Chief Minister of Haryana, who is serving a 10 year prison sentence for corruption, was granted bail for ' medical reasons ' by the Delhi High Court and is merrily campaigning for the coming elections. If we judge by the length of sentences then Chautala's crimes would be more than double those of Ms Jayalalithaa and yet he is freely cocking a snook at the courts. Will the court punish him severely by adding another 2 years to his sentence for perjury and Contempt of Court, which happens to be the most heinous crime in India as Subrata Roy has been finding out. For some reason the Securities and Exchange Board of India forbade Sahara group of companies from raising money from the public through debentures although there has never been any complaint from investors. When Sahara went ahead anyway it was ordered to refund all the money to investors, which Sahara claims it has done. SEBI and the Supreme Court do not believe what Roy says so he has been sitting in jail for the last 6 months, while SEBI asked investors to put in their claim for refund. Only 4,600 investors have asked for refund for a total of just Rs 100 million, which proves that Roy has been telling the truth all along. So will he be offered an unconditional apology and compensation for being hounded for so long. We doubt it. Sukh Ram, who was caught red handed, was repeatedly rewarded with bail and Ramalinga Raju, who confessed to looting Satyam, is still out on bail. Meanwhile the Hon'ble Supreme Court has suddenly realised that its order in 2002, banning all mining in the Aravali hills in Haryana has been ignored and widespread illegal mining has been going on with civil servants looking the other way, no doubt for handsome handshakes. The order did not ban mining in neighboring Rajasthan so the crooks just strayed across into Haryana. The Court wants to know the names of the civil servants who connived. What is the use? Does the Court think that it was done without politicians being involved? After all what is the point in entering politics if you cannot become rich. The Congress government in Haryana has been working overtime to legalise Mr Vadra's dealings in real estate. But pesky people are asking embarrassing question under the Right to Information law, which naturally have to be denied. Time was when the aam aadmi knew his place but now they want answers. Life is getting tough for poor politicians. We understand.