Politicians, as a class, have failed this Great Nation. The contributing factor is the corrupt bureaucracy. Unless these two corrodaded pillars are broken in to pieces, the belief of the people that the Nation is standing on them can not be dislodged
RE:MULAYAM IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
by Sharan Patil on Mar 07, 2007 06:22 PM Permalink
I always hated SP & Mulla-yam singh. , but I wont understand why only MULAYAM, why silence for others... you cant discreminate one politican & a party.. who gave the (only ) permission to congress to loot india, why cant other will do.. I hate politics coz, it makes u corrupt, the system is like that.. People see politics another business... I feel sorry for the mulayam on seeing witch hunt from central govt, by hook or crook....
RE:RE:MULAYAM IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
by Sharan Patil on Mar 07, 2007 06:31 PM Permalink
SC turned into political football --------------------------------- source: http://www.samachar.com/features/050307-editorial.html
On the face of it, it does appear unfair that the Supreme Court should dismiss out of hand a PIL filed by a senior BJP leader against Laloo Yadav for having allegedly amassed wealth far in excess of his known sources of income but, a few months later, admit a PIL by a Congress activist against Mulayam Singh Yadav.
After all, the plea against both Yadavs was that they had misused their official position as chief minister of Bihar and UP respectively to acquire assets in their own name and in the names of their close family members through corrupt means. In the case of the Railway Minister the apex court quite appropriately dismissed the petition by Sushil Modi, now the deputy chief minister of Bihar, on the very sound argument that the court was not the right forum for fighting political battles. But in the case of the other Yadav, last week the same court, in its wisdom, remitted the matter to the country's apex investigative agency, directing it to probe whether or not the UP CM had misused his present and earlier stints in power to make money through illicit means.
Though the court was at pains to explain that the two cases were different, yet it does detract from the fairness of the judicial system when one Yadav is let off lightly while the other is made accountable to the CBI. The uneven judicial approach does seem odd, particularly when the apex court earlier had frowned upon PILs being filed by political persons.
The PIL against the UP CM was filed by Vishwanath Chaturvedi. Though Chaturvedi did try to conceal from the court his political antecedents, Yadav's counsel pointed out to the hon'ble judges the incontrovertible fact that the plaintiff had not only contested the Assembly poll on the Congress ticket but was a self-confessed party activist. Yet, the court persisted with the hearing on the PIL.
Last week with the election process underway for constituting a new UP Assembly, the court provided Chaturvedi the relief that he in all likelihood was looking forward to by remitting the matter in the court of the CBI. Ordinarily, we might have had no quarrel with the seemingly variant approach in the PILs against the two Yadav chieftains, one arrayed in favour and another against the ruling Congress Party.
In pointing out this seeming duality of approach our sole concern is the public image of the higher judiciary. By allowing itself to be traduced against so very publicly as the SP leadership is now doing, the higher judiciary may have become vulnerable to a very unfair and unwarranted suspicion of double-standards at the hands of a reckless set of politicians. Indeed, the scurrilous reference to the contents of a purported CD by the SP leaders inside and outside Parliament is a desperate attempt to tarnish the image of the judiciary.
It is in the interest of the judiciary itself that justice is not only done but is seen to be done. Unfortunately, the SP leaders would try and convince a section of the people, especially their own followers, that Mulayam Singh Yadav was being hounded as part of a conspiracy hatched by the Congress Party and that the highest court in the land had unwittingly played straight into the party's hands by sanctioning the use of the CBI for a witch-hunt against him. This should have been avoided. Because the poll process is already on, the SC order has become a propaganda tool for both the plaintiff's Congress Party and for the defendant.
While the Congress would triumphantly talk about Yadav's monumental corruption, the SP leaders would try and gain sympathy, painting the UP CM as a victim of a plot to tarnish his image. Even the courts cannot operate in a vacuum. The highest court itself .........
RE:RE:MULAYAM IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
by Kalai Selvan on Mar 08, 2007 05:07 AM Permalink
Who gave congress permission to loot India? BJP of course!! If they are not corrupt themselves can't they make mincemeat of the congress?
RE:RE:MULAYAM IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
by syed mian on Mar 07, 2007 06:57 PM Permalink
Why the congress only-? Very kind of you if you let us know who is not looting-?
