Cash for Vote Scandal in Parliament
Ultimately
Truth Revealed
The UPA-I govt. almost spend 2000 million rupees in managing the required numbers of members and protecting their govt. it was a well planned move of political corruption which was much more bigger than Jharkhand bribery scandal.
It was ten days long market where numbers of political worker, political brokers and even some political journo were wandering around Raisina hills and trying to manage and bargain those parliamentarians who were finding themselves some bit vulnerable because of delimitation of their Loksabha constituencies. They all were thinking if they manage even a single MP in favor of UPA, their political managers will give them 10 crores rupees, the amount which they will never earn in their whole life. Same way MPs were of the view, they can not get such hefty offer of 50 crores in their life. These MP get about 10 crores under MPLAD scheme in their 5 year terms, if they take 25 percent commission, they will earn maximum 2.5 crore in whole term. If a broker takes 10 crore, they will be getting 40 crore which can easily manage the expenses of more than 10 elections.
This was such a big show of political corruption in the country and the whole countrymen were just watching it. Where was the great watchdog of democracy, the media? One organization claimed that it can not remain observer of these things anymore, so we will sting it.
But ultimately what happened we all know, on 25th of July the money power almost seized the political power of this country. The whole sting operation was proved to be worthless. It seemed as if that media organization was working on deputation on behalf of Loksabha speaker, so it handed over the whole sting material to him. The question is, this was the same speaker who had ruled those 11 MPs who were trapped in the plot made by the cobra post dot com and despite the Supreme Court's order in their favor, this speaker had expelled all those MPs form Loksabha. On contrast to that this was the sting operation of real events, despite of this; only a committee was framed to look into these affairs. Now 3 years have passed away , that committee prooved futile. but ultimately wikileaks exposed that scandal.
Leakages of Wikileaks made a great help for who fights to the cause of public rights in the whole world. It exposed the reality hidden in the secrecy of the many governments of world. After US, it unfolded the coffin of vote for cash scam which occured in the Indian paliament in year 2008.
Very surprisingly at that time even no any political party took this issue on a serious note. Perhaps they think if they were in power, they may have also done this. Many expressed wavering of bundles of notes in the Loksabha have made their head down. The question is until the whole episode was behind the curtain then there was no any shame kind of thing, the moment it was revealed before the public through the TV channels, it made many people's head down. What is the meaning of it? I think all 3 MPs who showed the bundles of note in the parliament, in a way they served the nation a lot. At least people of India were able to know what happens in the corridor of Indian politics. Even a fraction of these things comes before public, people can made up their mind that MPs might have not shown these bundles if they have been paid 50 crores or more. In India everyday numbers of scandal are happening, but it does n't become scandal, because it does not have any proof so that it does not come under the scanner of either media or judiciary. Many things are not talked about because it does not have proof.
Now we come to that central point to all these things, the nuclear deal, in the 2 day long sitting of house, members expressed their chants in favor of this deal, some termed it blockade of our freedom, but in true sense both these issue have nothing to do with the concern of common public, the way thing were being managed, that became the main issue, that was the revealing of political corruption. At time ruling party thought that after a period of six months general election is due and main opposition party is not willing to form govt. Despite withdrawal of support by the left parties, on the one side it was the UPA who was ready to spent billions of rupees for protecting their govt., on the other side it was Ms. Mayavati who with the support of left parties also had opened her treasury to purchase the MPs to form the new govt at centre even for a period of six months time.
UPA could have easily protect their govt., but what it did ? It was her great defeat in her so called win because it was the greatest exhibition of political bribery in the country. Govt. survived technically but morally it displayed the worst kind of thing in the political history of India. It was the height of political corruption when one MP was given fifty crore,. knowing this fact that Jharkhand bribery scandal had already busted in this country when Narsimha Rao govt. was formed with the help of some purchased MPs.
If institution like CBI and CVC were not in the control of ruling party, these events would have been come to the forefront.Whenever one becomes prime minister of this country, he regards corruption as big blockade in the way of country's development, gives many ideal speeches on it, but in the course of time he also becomes integeral part of this system. Not only that later on, he becomes great advocates of this very system. Perhaps Man Mohan Singh is also one of this kind of Primeminister. Now he is saying his government did not bribe any MP which was already endorsed by the mandate which his party got in thereafter elections.
A great thanks to the wikileaks. Now, it is amply proved that politics in India has become a big business. It is legally allowed to spent 40 lakh in a Loksabha election, if you desire more, you can even spent 4 crore and then you can make 40 crore by misusing this position. On the other side it was also proved that formation of govt. is the biggest business in this country. That is why if the formation of a government require a billion rupee, many come to finance it, because these all money gets returned back in less than six months period, so The UPA government did it for the sake of protecting its govt. and on the other side Ms. Mayavati was also ready to spend billions of rupees for purchasing MPs in order to becoming Prime minister of this country for merely six months.
The conclusion is that the whole structure of system has knitted in such a way, where we are not in position to pinpoint anyone particularly for the corruption. But surely we have to start cleansing this corruption from some point. It requires great willpower. The same will power what we have been seeing in our polio eradication campaign, what we have witnessed in the implementation of our new economic policy, which enabled the economy to become more competitive and consumer friendly, the policy which brought the Indian telecom market to open in a big way and it was mobile which reached door to door of even rural areas of country. So far corruption is concerned, it is much bigger issue, and it has to start from some point.There is nothing better than the parliament, the prime center of the power for starting any crusade against corruption. But ironically what we saw how the parliamentarians were bought and sold during the vote of confidence. n
The UPA-I govt. almost spend 2000 million rupees in managing the required numbers of members and protecting their govt. it was a well planned move of political corruption which was much more bigger than Jharkhand bribery scandal.
It was ten days long market where numbers of political worker, political brokers and even some political journo were wandering around Raisina hills and trying to manage and bargain those parliamentarians who were finding themselves some bit vulnerable because of delimitation of their Loksabha constituencies. They all were thinking if they manage even a single MP in favor of UPA, their political managers will give them 10 crores rupees, the amount which they will never earn in their whole life. Same way MPs were of the view, they can not get such hefty offer of 50 crores in their life. These MP get about 10 crores under MPLAD scheme in their 5 year terms, if they take 25 percent commission, they will earn maximum 2.5 crore in whole term. If a broker takes 10 crore, they will be getting 40 crore which can easily manage the expenses of more than 10 elections.
This was such a big show of political corruption in the country and the whole countrymen were just watching it. Where was the great watchdog of democracy, the media? One organization claimed that it can not remain observer of these things anymore, so we will sting it.
But ultimately what happened we all know, on 25th of July the money power almost seized the political power of this country. The whole sting operation was proved to be worthless. It seemed as if that media organization was working on deputation on behalf of Loksabha speaker, so it handed over the whole sting material to him. The question is, this was the same speaker who had ruled those 11 MPs who were trapped in the plot made by the cobra post dot com and despite the Supreme Court's order in their favor, this speaker had expelled all those MPs form Loksabha. On contrast to that this was the sting operation of real events, despite of this; only a committee was framed to look into these affairs. Now 3 years have passed away , that committee prooved futile. but ultimately wikileaks exposed that scandal.
Leakages of Wikileaks made a great help for who fights to the cause of public rights in the whole world. It exposed the reality hidden in the secrecy of the many governments of world. After US, it unfolded the coffin of vote for cash scam which occured in the Indian paliament in year 2008.
Very surprisingly at that time even no any political party took this issue on a serious note. Perhaps they think if they were in power, they may have also done this. Many expressed wavering of bundles of notes in the Loksabha have made their head down. The question is until the whole episode was behind the curtain then there was no any shame kind of thing, the moment it was revealed before the public through the TV channels, it made many people's head down. What is the meaning of it? I think all 3 MPs who showed the bundles of note in the parliament, in a way they served the nation a lot. At least people of India were able to know what happens in the corridor of Indian politics. Even a fraction of these things comes before public, people can made up their mind that MPs might have not shown these bundles if they have been paid 50 crores or more. In India everyday numbers of scandal are happening, but it does n't become scandal, because it does not have any proof so that it does not come under the scanner of either media or judiciary. Many things are not talked about because it does not have proof.
Now we come to that central point to all these things, the nuclear deal, in the 2 day long sitting of house, members expressed their chants in favor of this deal, some termed it blockade of our freedom, but in true sense both these issue have nothing to do with the concern of common public, the way thing were being managed, that became the main issue, that was the revealing of political corruption. At time ruling party thought that after a period of six months general election is due and main opposition party is not willing to form govt. Despite withdrawal of support by the left parties, on the one side it was the UPA who was ready to spent billions of rupees for protecting their govt., on the other side it was Ms. Mayavati who with the support of left parties also had opened her treasury to purchase the MPs to form the new govt at centre even for a period of six months time.
UPA could have easily protect their govt., but what it did ? It was her great defeat in her so called win because it was the greatest exhibition of political bribery in the country. Govt. survived technically but morally it displayed the worst kind of thing in the political history of India. It was the height of political corruption when one MP was given fifty crore,. knowing this fact that Jharkhand bribery scandal had already busted in this country when Narsimha Rao govt. was formed with the help of some purchased MPs.
If institution like CBI and CVC were not in the control of ruling party, these events would have been come to the forefront.Whenever one becomes prime minister of this country, he regards corruption as big blockade in the way of country's development, gives many ideal speeches on it, but in the course of time he also becomes integeral part of this system. Not only that later on, he becomes great advocates of this very system. Perhaps Man Mohan Singh is also one of this kind of Primeminister. Now he is saying his government did not bribe any MP which was already endorsed by the mandate which his party got in thereafter elections.
A great thanks to the wikileaks. Now, it is amply proved that politics in India has become a big business. It is legally allowed to spent 40 lakh in a Loksabha election, if you desire more, you can even spent 4 crore and then you can make 40 crore by misusing this position. On the other side it was also proved that formation of govt. is the biggest business in this country. That is why if the formation of a government require a billion rupee, many come to finance it, because these all money gets returned back in less than six months period, so The UPA government did it for the sake of protecting its govt. and on the other side Ms. Mayavati was also ready to spend billions of rupees for purchasing MPs in order to becoming Prime minister of this country for merely six months.
The conclusion is that the whole structure of system has knitted in such a way, where we are not in position to pinpoint anyone particularly for the corruption. But surely we have to start cleansing this corruption from some point. It requires great willpower. The same will power what we have been seeing in our polio eradication campaign, what we have witnessed in the implementation of our new economic policy, which enabled the economy to become more competitive and consumer friendly, the policy which brought the Indian telecom market to open in a big way and it was mobile which reached door to door of even rural areas of country. So far corruption is concerned, it is much bigger issue, and it has to start from some point.There is nothing better than the parliament, the prime center of the power for starting any crusade against corruption. But ironically what we saw how the parliamentarians were bought and sold during the vote of confidence. n
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