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Washington Post has a detailed editorial of the fiasco that India has been suffering in its political circles after the release of the Volcker report. The report alleged that our until recently foregin minister, Natwar Singh, and the undoubtably corrupt Congress party were beneficiaries of Saddam Hussein’s “oil-for-influence” or “oil-for-money” program!
Congress has had scams and scandals ever since Independence, it is a big surprise that we Indians have once again voted it into power. Perhaps it is because the rural population is envious of their urban brethren getting richer, but are happy if nobody gets rich.
Famous scandals during the present rule: The KGB episode where Congress has abetted with the notorious Communist agency of USSR and the Bihar, Jharkhand and Goa Governors fiasco.
The Post has aptly said that Congress being in power, India should double up its efforts to gain International credibility at a time when Western powers are attentive to India.
India in recent years has risen in international stature and its relationship with the United States has steadily improved. Still, New Delhi must take additional action to bolster Indian credibility. Transparency International, the Berlin-based corruption watchdog, has placed India 88th among 159 countries on the corruption scale. India, particularly under Congress Party leadership, must take pains to ensure that its officials are serious and honest, and not in the corrupt employ of foreign governments. The government should start by allowing a full and thorough investigation of the information in the Volcker report.
The Washington Post also has this to say about the initial immature response of our PM Manmohan Singh:
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh initially attempted to shrug off the damning information. The prime minister said the facts regarding his former foreign minister are “insufficient” to warrant “any adverse conclusion.” He also called the references unsubstantiated, adding, “There is no evidence. Anybody can write names.” His conclusions seem premature, and do not inspire much confidence in the government’s determination to seek the truth about the allegations.
Fortunately, Manmohan Singh later responsibly stripped Natwar of his Ministerial post and has also ordered an inquiry. But there is some serious doubt as to the credibility of this drama. I, for one, have more trust in inquiries conducted by former judges. But the Post has this to say:
On Thursday, the Indian government announced an independent investigation of the information in the report, to be led by a retired chief justice of India’s Supreme Court. There is great skepticism in India as to the likelihood of an independent investigation, particularly since Mr. Singh remains in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio.
Read my earlier post: UN Reinforces Congress = Corruption; and the editorial.
jai says: India is a great country, it cant be maligned by western people as they are no clean themselves. I think western countries are the most corrupt and their MNCs corporations are the most corrupt
who bribe politicians in their own country to govt officials in Africa Asia& Latin America to get their job done. The institutional racism practised in the west is worse than the caste system in India which is eradicating at faster rate then poverty in China.
If you are colored person in the west you have to live like as 2nd class citizen, even if you are born to 2nd or 3rd gerneration settlers, you are also looked down upon and viewed with suspicion.
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he British had stolen all the Indias wealth to become rich,
Indian craftsmen were handicapped under british rule in order to sell goods maid in England. Indians were butchered like goats and sheeps and systemic corruption was introduced in order to run the Empire.
American and Australian lives on a stolen land obtained by butchering the native Indian & abroginal people respectively, they still are the most disadvantaged section of the society. The African
American are still treated as shit and pariah in majority white America, they are allowed to die without any aid after hurricaine Katrina.
All the world wealth was stolen by West under colonialism in last couple of centuries. Millions of innocents are butchered and slaughtered by the west in World war I & II, vietnam war, gulf war and now Iraq and Afghanistan. The invasion of Iraq is the biggest conspiracy to control Iraqi oil by the western countries.
All the defence deals and arms supply in the west are done by paying kickbacks. Even the outsourcing lobby in the west accept bribes in awarding contracts to India. India is a kid in front of West instutionalised and silent corruption and conspiracy, what is CIA and FBI ?? do you have an answer
You still call yourself clean, its amazing mate.
Government Departments are largely seen as corrupt. And it is not without reason.
Read on:
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[...] First, Congress. A party that is the epitome of political-criminal nexus in India. After much bad publicity, courtesy the Volcker report, almost all newspapers, intellectuals and political parties have been asking Congress to dispose of Natwar Singh. Manmohan Singh, who has apparently learnt his place in the party, came out supporting Natwar, which turned out to be a shot in his own leg. [...]