So what law is broken if one uses one's political position to get a cotract ? The law of using one's political connections to get favours. We might not prosecute such a person but do we want him as a minister ?
Another commie trying to put forward arguments to bail out Natwar Singh. The issue is not a legal, but moral one. Secondly, Mr Natwar Singh has made a spectacle of himself, post this casualty and tried to equate India's foriegn policy with his survival. His behaviour has been most churlish and he has shown himself to be a narrow minded and an immature person. After all it is only adversity which shows a person's true character.
well... guess if this has to continue...the country shall not get anywhere. why cant people in india ( back home for me) be honest to THEMSELVES for just a period of 5 years? we can then levarage everything we have and even make the INR the global currency! its just that sham and corruption has gone so deep that we ACCEPT IT BLINDLY now. in the UK where i stay, we do have the share of the occasional government crook...but its never that the common man suffers from it. wake up ! shripad sathe
Commissions and committees in this country have, by and large, been a cruel joke on the people- the tax payers. Justice Pathak, an eminent jurist respected internationally, says one thing about what he has been told about his powers. Kapil Sibbal, a lawyer who has become a minister in charge of science and technology (not law and justice) says something quite contrary on the screen of a TV channel. In the next two days, we should know if truth is meant to emerge- or programmed to be smothered.
A mere allegation on the part of Paul Volker does not make Natwar guilty. Now that Justice Pathak has been appointed to go into the matter, let us wait for the final report. Volker has no power to prosecute as accepted by him. BJP's stance is repulsive as Volker report is not good for every Indian.
I do agree that any kind of probe or investigation would mean a huge expenditure again in terms of foreign visits..revisit.. for a handful of govt officials and investigating team. Followed by another commission when the opposition party comes to power and so on
Best options: 1)Leave aside the report; Leave aside the people/farms named in the report; 2)Let the people named in it defend their case and arrange a clean chit at their own expensed and 3)Let the UN take its own course of action. 4)As far as the Congress party as a whole is concerned, in their own interest they may initiate to gather more information appoint advocate/investigating agency to clear their names. If found guilty, face political consequences. All this at their own cost and not tax payers money.
I completely agree with the author. We are conducting a witch hunt, based on no concrete evidence. The concerned person (Mr Natwar Singh) is, above all, a citizen of India. If he has to be indicted at all, the people of India need to first convince themselves of his guilt based on available evidence permissible under Indian laws. There is no point in getting aggravated just because an American bureaucrat, based on documents available only to him, "thinks" that Mr Natwar Singh might have received money. I think that it is high time that we take ourselves seriously as a soverign nation and not start jumping up and down every time Uncle Sam (or any Tom, Dick and Harry for that matter) start sneezing. This is not to say that a probe should not be instituted. But that should be done only after there is enough prima facie evidence for the same. Till then, Mr Singh should be treated as innocent until proven guilty and not the other way round.
