In fact corporates are selling the State and Cabinet posts.
As has been pointed out, Radiagate and the issues involved do not belong to one party.
It is endemic to Indian polity.
Now one group has been caught the other is shouting.
Both are guilty of the same offence.
JP will duck on Yeddiyurappa,Reddy brothers,Shibu Soren et all.
They will keep mum on BJP connections to Radia.
Who knows , they might have had, or still have ,not Radia or some other Kedia?
In the melee there is a chorus for making ‘Lobbying ‘ legal under guide lines, justifying on the ground that is being done in US.
Ask ordinary citizens of US.They are being ruled by sanctioned clique.
Healthy discussions in Parliament on any important national business/policy are enough.What else is Parliament for?Just to get licence to steal?
Unfortunately you can not steal openly.
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“Public anger won’t die down unless the State stops selling itself to corporate interests”
“First, Radia is a lobbyist for some of the largest and most powerful companies in India, but lobbyists exist in every free market economy. It is also true Radia cultivated politicians, journalists and industry leaders to persuade them of the reasonableness of her clients’ requests and to intercede on their behalf with ministers and senior officials. But that too was her legitimate function. The tapes have revealed that she lobbied powerful journalists to help her, and many, though not all, agreed. But journalists have acted as intermediaries on important issues before.”
It cannot even be claimed that A Raja’s indiscriminate allocation of 2G licences did only harm to the country.
Because the fact is that the past six years have seen not only an exponential growth of mobile telephony but also a level of competition among service providers that has brought down the price of phone calls to levels unheard of anywhere else in the world. If we have not heard more about this aspect, it is because the beneficiaries have been the unorganised and unregistered poor.
So, why is India in such turmoil? The answer lies in the cosy relationships within the power elite that the tapes revealed and the fact that none of the people involved were acting in national interest. Radia was not canvassing for a particular policy. She was canvassing for the appointment of a particular person to a particular cabinet post in UPA 2. She was not doing it on behalf of the DMK but for two of the nation’s biggest companies who happen to be facing an oligopolistic telecom market in which most of the business has been cornered by two of their older rivals.
By the same token, while journalists have been part of track-two communications (overt or covert) between Delhi and Tehran, Islamabad and insurgent groups, the common feature was that this was done in national interest. This is something that the journalists who promised to intercede on Raja’s behalf cannot claim.
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