ED supplementary charge sheet against P Chidambaram, did UPA dons scam us or not? Nation@9

  • 6 years ago
The 2014 election was fough on the perceived pernicious graft and open loot of 10 years of upa rule. India has become accustomed to scam charges in figures we can't even comprehend or count the zeros too. Coal scam, antrix scam, 2g scam and what not. The criticism of the present establishment over the past 4 years...and indeed the smug satisfaction and dare of congresspersons has been...what happened? What did you prove? Who did you convict? The 2g case, in which the supreme court cancelled licenses indicating that something indeed was wrong, at the cbi court level in proportioning criminal culpability fell through. Today, for the first time, one of the upa regimes biggest ministers has been slapped with charges of taking cash for clearances via his son. The ed chargesheet on p chidambaram is on the aircel maxis fipb clearances, where his son is accused of being the intermediary, and mr chidambaram himself of violating rules to grant them in his position as fm. He's disputed these charges. Now, when we assume that scams do happen in this country but hardly anyone pays...there can be any of 4 reasons. Either they didn't happen, if they did, the people who did them are still somehow so powerful that they're gaming the system or they're blackmailing others with mutually assured destruction or the political will to take them on is not considered the worth of the effort. As indians, we need scams to end and truth and justice to prevail. How do we get there is the question that remains with us, and has since bofors. Let's have another chapter of that conversation.

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