Jaggi sums it up in the end perfectly - Four, since it is no one’s case that either Manmohan Singh or Chidambaram had any personal axe to grind in the Air India, 2G or Coalgate scams, one conclusion is inescapable: these scams had the explicit or implied sanction of the highest political authority in the Congress party – Sonia Gandhi. It is, of course, possible even for Sonia to plead ignorance, or for her partymen to claim that in a coalition the PM had limited powers to discipline partners who were vital to government formation. But the fact that an “honest” PM did not even see it fit to resign and a no-nonsense FM was willing to stand financial nonsense from a junior coalition partner, tells us how low accountability had sunk in UPA-1 right at the start of its life. UPA had a wink-and-nod attitude to corruption and scams from birth, and this fact is difficult to deny anymore. Neither Sonia Gandhi, nor Manmohan Singh nor P Chidambaram can afford to claim innocence anymore. - Jaggi firstpost/india/vinod-rai-scoop-upa-scams-began-within-70-days-of-manmohan-becoming-pm-1709067.html
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:47:03 +0000
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