83rd All India Congress Committee plenum kick-started today at Buradhi, North-West Delhi. This is 125th year since Indian National Congress was founded in the year 1885. This plenary session has been inaugurated by Congress President Sonia Gandhi at critical moment in the history of Indian National Congress. The earlier plenum of the GOP (Grand Old Party) during the time of Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister and the shining jewel of Nehru Dynasty was at a moment when the party was out of power. But this time under another lady belonging to Nehru Dynasty Sonia Gandhi, the Congress is in the saddle though not ruling single-handed but in alliance with smaller parties.
The plenum being held at a sprawling ‘stadium’ attended by thousands of delegates from across the nation is being arranged by Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee under the Presidentship of D.P.Agarwal and Delhi Chief Minister and Congress leader Sheila Dixit. Fund crunch won’t be problem for the party to hold such a massive event especially at a moment when the party is enconsced in power the source of fund is widely known to everyone.
Let’s think more about the agenda. Going by the reports it is learnt that the Grand Old Party is set to ‘cleanse the society’ off the grand scale of corruption that has eaten into the vitals of our system. The party can’t stand up to corruption and hence heavy-handed measures are expected to be deliberated upon. The warding off the evils of corruption and the steps to be launched by the party are music to our ears. But the questions needling us like pestering insects are how come a party which finds itself neck-deep in corruption, nepotism and favoritism deal with this hydrae? Mere tongue-lashing and passing resolutions a dime a dozen won’t be sufficient to resolve the perennial threat of this ugly menace.
The party’s sincerity comes into question, when we think back or when we take stock of the happenings for last six months some issues even before that. To initiate corrective steps or to rectify the wheeling and dealing involved in various issues the opposition had to cry foul and demand umpteen times to take action against those involved but we all had the ‘opportunities’ of the party and its prominent leaders like Prime Minister Dr.Singh and UPA Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi dragging their feet hesitating to take action against those caught in the swamp.
Though mentioned several times one is forced to touch upon the issue of the scam related to Common Wealth Games 2010 under the Chairmanship of Congress leader Suresh Kalmadi which drained-off the exchequer to the tune of Rs 70000/- crore, the Adarsh Housing Scheme scam reportedly perpetrated by Ashok Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra and even before these two scams one which had its roots ever since the formation of UPA II govt in 2009 the swearing in of A. Raja as the Minister of Telecom and Information Technology, his spectrum auction especially the alleged embezzlement of funds caused in the 2G Spectrum auction costing the exchequer Rs 1.76 lakh crore the worst ever scandal Independent India believed to have witnessed, yes, supposedly all transpired within one year of UPA II’s five year tenure. True, Suresh Kalmadi had to be shown the door after much dithering since an adamant persistent opposition was bent upon throwing him out in the same vein, Ashok Chavan had to tender resignation that also due to the pressure of constant pressure by the collective opposition and lastly A.Raja-the Great too joined the band-wagon that too holding on to the ministry like a ‘leech’ over the 2G Spectrum auction. How many are waiting in the wings to be dropped, remains a mute question.
It would have been some kind of consolation if all the evils have already been exorcised but no the net of corruption is spread wide and many a big fish in the corporate world as well as the media-world too involved apparently by the alleged sleight of hand by a corporate lobbyist Niira Radia who runs her own institution called Vaishnavi Communications. The wily lady could entrap all the so-called icons or bywords in the field of journalism to get what all she aimed at as per her wishes. And for the successful completion of all deals I wonder the crores that changed hands. Journalistic ethics and values given a go by which had its genesis since the ‘paid-news syndrome’ started swallowing the media-world.
As the web of corruption being spread wide almost all sectors of the society have been caught in the web ranging from politics, corporate, media, bureaucracy, to name a few.
The winter session of Parliament which came to an end last Monday couldn’t transact any business over the govt’s reluctance not reluctance but refusal to order a JPC probe over the alleged 2G Spectrum scam even after the persistent demands of the opposition by the govt.
A govt ruled by such a party – the Indian National Congress – the plenary session of such a party has started today with a vow to wipe out corruption from the body politic of India, is nothing but an eyewash. A ploy to deceive the masses of India, but its leaders should have to bear in mind that such gimmicks are not going to click unlike in the yesteryears.
Rejecting a JPC probe into a scam which shook the nation like a violent earthquake, finger-pointing a State govt led by an opposition party and crying hoarse over the issue and its failure to take action here means resignation is not all a compensation or a remedy. Corruption and malpractices are equally an unhealthy practice in any society and care should be taken to avoid or refrain from it at any cost.
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