Our Prime Minister is in a desperate need for a magic wand. Mind you we do have umpteen magicians in our land and if anyone among them shows the generosity he would work wonders and would solve the problems nagging our country within a matter of seconds. It seems he entered the saddle only yesterday otherwise he would not have uttered the magic wand and all such nonsense.
Prime Minister Dr.Singh is at the helm of affairs since 2004. Now it is 2011, seven years have already elapsed still he laments lack of a magic wand to root out corruption and myriads of rpoblems staring in our face.
When he was put in the saddle as PM of India he took vow to root out the corruption from the body politic, he took a vow not to allow any tainted persons neither scam-tainted nor who were charged with criminal cases to be included in his team of Ministers. Please try to recall the names of Ministers in his cabinet then and their antecedents. It would be something funny to say the least. Please recall the brouhaha in Parliament orchestrated by the Opposition to throw out the scam tainted and those with criminal cases pending against those Ministers and the formers' continuous boycott of Parliament.
And the can of worms opened in his second term ie from 2009 which had its origins during the first term - 2004-2007 - the 2G Spectrum case, Adarsh Housing Scam, CWG Scam, ISRO-Devas tie-up, the corporate middle-agent politician nexus - an endless stream of scams and scandals. In almost all the cases the greater court of land had to interfere pass necessary orders and now we find the main villains put behind bars.
Midnight swoop at Ram Leela Maidan
Baba Ramdev, a saffron clad sanyasi along with his thousands of supporters launched a fast unto death, demanding that the lakhs of crores of rupees stashed abroad in various banks by the bureaucrats and politicians be brought back by the govt. On his return from Ujjain to Delhi four Central Ministers rolled a red-carpet welcome to him and at the airport itself all of them tried their level best to prevail upon him not to go ahead with the fast but Swami Ramdev was adamant decided to go ahead with his fast along with his worshippers and followers. Many of his demands it is said were absurd.
His and his followers assembling at Ram Leela Maidan was by non-violent means, they never took to arms and used violent means still the govt first caving into his demand later turning down them and in the dead of night police and commandos surrounded them and used force to remove them from the maidan, arrested Ramdev and and air-lifted him to his Ashram at Haridwar. Even those who were against him joined hands and protested strongly for using force to make the followers flee from Ram Leela maidan many of them lathi-charged and fired tear-gas shells without any provocation. Our Prime Minister must find that it was an extreme step, but was unavoidable. Ramdev has started fast at Hardiwar and in soldarity with him Anna Hazaare entered on a fast at Rajghat on 8th of this month.
Dayanidhi Maran in the dock
Union Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran too has found himself in the dock over the sale of Aircell to Maxis Malaysia. The former promoterof Aircell, Sivasankaran spilled the beans before CBI that during his tenure as Union Telecom Minister Mr.Maran had allegedly arm-twisted him and forced him to sell Aircell to Maxis which was later used for running his domestic business.
The well-known political commentator and Charted Accountant S.Gurumurthy had penned details regarding Mr.Maran's role in the sale of Aircel to Maxis and he reveals that and FIR regarding it was reportedly presented before Dr.Singh who kept it under wraps for forty four months without taking any action. Mr.Gurumurthy chides Dr.Singh mentioining that while the latter is mouthing 'zero-tolerance' on corruption the Maran affair is being kept untouched.
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