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When Team Anna released dockets for 14 Union Cabinet ministers
against whom they have made serious corruption charges, the
game-plan was clear. Without mincing words, Team Anna explained
that there is enough evidence against those cabinet ministers to
start prosecution. The list contains almost all the important
cabinet posts including the Prime Minister.
Before we get into the points raised by Team Anna and the
counter-arguments by the Congress party, let’s have a look at the
list of probable accused in the Union cabinet – Prime Minister Dr
Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, other Union
ministers like P Chidambaram, Sharad Pawar, S M Krishna, Kamal
Nath, Praful Patel, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Virbhadra Singh, Kapil
Sibal, Salman Khurshid, G K Vasan, Farooq Abdullah, M K Alagiri and
Sushil Kumar Shinde.
Congressmen’s penchant for deflecting criticism against the party
by saying that the Prime Minister is clean does not seem to
convince anyone any more. It is becoming increasingly clear to
people that the Prime Minister’s silence and alleged acquiescence
in many cases of large-scale corruption taking place at the highest
levels of governance is just a quid-pro-quo. As long as Dr Manmohan
Singh is allowed to keep his job he maintains a deafening silence
on the corrupt goings-on in his government.
Now it is also becoming clear why Sonia Gandhi
chose Dr Manmohan Singh over Pranab Mukherjee when she wanted to
pick someone for the Prime Minister’s post in 2004. Dr Singh has
risen to the occasion and Sonia Gandhi should be exceedingly happy
about his performance. The CAG as well as the Supreme Court have
pointed out the lapses in Prime Minister’s working when it comes to
large scale corruption happening right under his nose.
On many occasions in the last few days top Congress leaders have
tried to project the clean image of Dr Manmohan Singh as a fig leaf
to cover the massive loot of the exchequer. Narendra Modi, Chief
Minister of Gujarat, during the BJP executive council meet in
Mumbai even mentioned that the falling rupee against the dollar is
not all about the Euro crisis. “Why is that only the Indian
currency is falling inexorably? The currencies of our neighbouring
countries have not been as badly affected by the crisis as the
rupee”, he averred.
Team Anna has been at pains to explain that
they are not making allegations against Dr Manmohan Singh for
taking bribes himself. But his proclivity to turn a nelson’s eye at
corruption amounting to lakhs of crores leaves no one in doubt that
he is only playing to his master’s voice.
Team Anna has also learnt a lesson in management of agitation.
After the fiasco in Mumbai early this year when the turnout of
people at the dharna at MMRDA Ground was abysmal, they have learnt
that people don’t like pussy-footing on the issue of corruption.
People of India would only support an agitation which calls a spade
a spade. That could be the reason for ratcheting up the bar with
allegations being made directly on the Prime Minister. After all,
government officials holding such high positions can be held for
criminal misconduct if they are accessories in corrupt practices in
their office.
Team Anna has also demanded that a Special Investigation Team (SIT)
should go into charges made against Team Anna members. It even
suggested a list of six former Supreme Court judges from whom the
SIT could be formed. This is to make it clear that CBI should not
be at the helm of investigations against the Prime Minister or the
Union cabinet ministers as CBI has always proved to be partisan to
the government.
Even when many of the government supporters in the news media have
galvanized themselves to saving Dr Manmohan Singh’s image, a prime
minister who is seen to support large-scale corruption in his
cabinet in return for keeping his job only means that the worm has
turned. The complete shutdown of the country on May 31 after the
Opposition parties called for a nation-wide bandh to protest the
petrol price hike and the spiraling inflation showed the people’s
anger. As a Team Anna member Manish Sisodia put it succinctly, “if
all the lakhs of crores lost in corruption is brought back and
ploughed into the economy, there will be no need for any petrol
price hike”.
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