Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Shame of 2G Scam

2G Scam is worth Rs 1700000000000. That is Rs 1.7 Lakh Crores. Who is responsible for it? Many. But the list would start with the telecom minister Mr. A. Raja. The irony is that he is still in his chair. Reason? His party supports one of the most honest men to retain his chair of PM. Do people of India win in the end – corrupt ministers costing it billions while honest Prime Minister sits on his chair? We know the answer.
 
The BJP says that the PM is guilty of not taking a firm stand on 2G issue. The accusation is right.
 
“Prime Minister is guilty of culpability of not taking a stand firmly and not acting beforehand before the damage was done. He is guilty of it and we are charging that,” BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told reporters outside Parliament.
 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-guilty-of-not-taking-a-firm-stand-on-2G-issue-BJP-/articleshow/6988182.cms#ixzz16ILh1BVL
 
The Supreme Court asks the CBI why it didn’t questioned A Raja. It knows the answer but needs evidence.
 
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the CBI why the agency has not questioned former telecom minister A Raja and his secretary in connection with the 2G spectrum scam. “The CAG report is replete with remarks about direct involvement of A Raja in the irregularities,” observed the SC bench.
 
The scam has attained new heights when some Congress-friendly journalists have been found to have played a curious role. We suspected, and now we have proof.
 
Two high-profile journalists, Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi, whose names figure in the tapes, have also been internet and TV celebrities of sorts. But their images have taken a severe battering online since the Open and Outlook magazines published on their websites the tapes of their separate conversations with corporate lobbyist Niira Radia. In the tapes, the journalists are heard promising Radia help for her cause of getting A Raja the telecom portfolio again in the UPA 2 government by talking to their Congress contacts.
 
The dimensions of 2G Scam may be many, but I am sure about two things. Our Prime Minister must have known something and didn’t act in time. He has to face the nation. Secondly, the nation is fed up of corruption and scandals involving our grand old national party – INC. It is high time the party should introspect. Sonia Gandhi should even consider the option of dissolving it – after all, she came to join INC to do something good for it and the nation, not to see the party become the most corrupt political party in this world.

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