Jul 22 2008
Nation’s Shame
22nd July 2008 will go down in the history of Indian Parliament (sorry for the capital P this one last time). MPs brandishing cash, cross-voting, and mud-slinging; a Prime Minister not having the courage to speak; a Sikh MP from Bihar exhoring the Sikhs to vote for your own; Omar Abdullah’s crocodile tears; and so forth and so on.
With 15 cross-votes and all in favour of the UPA, imagine what would have happened if the ruling party had not managed to buy MPs. The biggest loser in this is undoubtedly the BJP which has once again proved its incapacity of offering an alternative; it cannot even hold its flock together!
The Congress, already gasping for breath hasn’t won either. It will now be hostage to smaller parties, giving in to their petty demands. Will it be able to push through the reforms the Left has not allowed it to implement so far? If it can do that and control inflation, it can hope to do well in the future.
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I fully agree with the views expressed in the blog, however we as citizens are responsible for it. It doesnt bother us because it is not related to an individual. The common citizen never thinks in a nationalist way and this is the reason why these members of Parliament are behaving like commodities, whosoever pays a higher price can get them. The Supreme Court is also responsible for this. In the infamous JMM case they did not punish Shibu Soren because the act was committed in Parliament. That leads us to believe that you can take money in Parliament to switch sides. I think it will take another fifty years when people will just boycott these shameless creatures and they will be doomed to live in agony. Till then we will hear such stories.