What happened in the case of PVN being bailed out by JMM MPs? They were also caught with cash which was a direct fall out of their support to PVN in trust vote. One MP even admitted to it.
Those MPs are free and elected again, thanks to flaws in our rules and uneducated or dumb voters, and they were again involved in a new deal this time.
Corruption is a fact in India and elsewhere. We can only shout or post messages. Those who want to make money are doing so, without any punishment by the courts or by the public in elections.
We may choose the least corrupt of all, rather than trying to find the 100% honest politician. Because no politician is 100% honest.
RE:Wated effort, sham investigations, waste of tax payers money...
by All Right on Jul 25, 2008 01:49 PM Permalink
Good points. But the problem in choosing the least corrupt is that: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
RE:Wated effort, sham investigations, waste of tax payers money...
by Demo-crazy on Jul 25, 2008 02:44 PM Permalink
How can we then get rid of it? A communist country like China has death penalty for corruption, but the political bosses never get punished. USA too has stringent laws - again we hardly see any politician getting punished. But I understand from friends that the lower rungs of official machinery are reasonably honest in USA.
In India the scene is bad from top to bottom. Politicians spend unaccounted money, generate unaccounted money, industrialists, citizens, employees all pay for getting work done at various levels. Even in courts you have to pay get things done - simple things like getting a copy of the order passed costs money - otherwise there are delays, files misplaced, etc. The rules are structured to benefit the guilty or are conducive for corruption.
That is why I say, there are no easy solutions. One solution - summary trial in 3 months, no chance of appeal (or, only one level of appeal), if proved guilty confiscate all moveable, immoveable assets, confiscate PF, pension, etc, send to prison for hard labour for 12 years with NO parole. But, NO political party will ever bring such rules into force.
