The two main political parties of India – the ruling Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janat Party (BJP) – are so engrossed in running down each other that they are not even conscious of the harm they are doing to the country.
Their “my corruption is better than your corruption” quarrels have thus glorified corruption to be accepted as a way of life. They are not able to see the rot setting in and realize that corruption has gone so deep in the administration that honest politicians and bureaucrats are diificult to find.
Illegal mining in Bellary has been going on for a long time now, back to the time when the Congress government was in power in Karnataka. And this source of corruption has been fine tuned and increasing with every successive Chief Minister of the state.
This practice of illegal mining has reportedly been perfected by the Reddy brothers. On seeing that the State legislature was easily purchasable, one of the two brothers entered politics and became a minister in the Yeddyurappa cabinet.
That Yeddyurappa is corrupt was known for quiet some time, but the BJP preferred to bury its head in the sand because he was sharing the booty with some in the high command. The Congress, on the other hand, because of their own tribe embroiled in corruption issues raised faint voices, but did nothing concrete.
Finally, it had to be the judiciary in the form of the Karnataka Lokayukta which had to pull down the carpet from under Yeddyurappa’s feet. The net result of all this is that neither party – the BJP or the Congress – has any face to talk against corruption.
The Congress defended its 2G scam and the Commonwealth Games scam on the ground that the BJP had its skeleton in the cupboard in the form of Yeddyurappa’s blatant illegal mining scam.
The BJP in turn defends Yeddyurappa scam with the usual “your corruption is bigger than my corruption”!
In other words, neither party is ashamed of admitting that some of their legislators are involved in corruption issues worth in crores of rupees. Neither party is ashamed to admit that their partymen are bleeding the nation blue!
Their present stand on all these scams only compares the degree of sums involved. They are not bothered about the health of the nation.
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