Both stings exposed corruption, than why have double standards where one is punished and other one is eulogized? It smacks of opportunist partisan politics. In India, all political parties, in absence of government-funded campaign financing, raise funds for the party in similar manner, than why single out only one party? Therefore, the sting had malicious and political motive. If the motive was reform of party fund-raising, where are these reforms? How do parties collect funds for fighting elections - funds do not grow on trees or collected from average citizens - they all come from vested interests and government contractors and deals - if you put any fund raising transaction of any party to scrutiny, it would expose nothing but ugly skeletons. And in absence of any other campaign-financing alternative, it has been accepted as normal modus operandi in politics by all parties. So the sting was merely a case of personal and political vendetta. The double standards is a case of political corruption, no less harmful than any other corruption.
