Corrupt Leadership - A Reflection of Immoral Social Consciousness

Many have been surprised by the insolence with which Congress has been rejecting the JPC demand. Every insidious trick in the book to stone-wall the 2G corruption investigation has been deployed. Be it to drown the JPC demands in the inextricable tangle of bureaucratic tape and toothless enquiries, or the attempts to discredit the corruption inquisitionists, or the invention of red herrings, or the divagation of the public attention towards the bogeyman of saffron terror. All have been used.

It is not so much that this behaviour is shocking. No! It is not. This blatant convergence of the force of the ruling class, the media, and the crony capitalists, to protect their dark and insatiable underbelly is not their first attempt at obfuscation of justice!

Nor is it surprising, that this class of people have not bothered to palliate their execrable connivance behind the sophisticated veneer of morality and the “Due process of Law”. They have not bothered about the façade this time. This time the wolf indeed is in wolf’s clothing, because the sheeps no longer care.

But it is to the credit of our corrupt leaders who so ably understand their votaries. This political class believes, and with a certain degrees of validity, that it is their core votaries, their militant constituencies, that will deny, obfuscate, defend, and even justify the fiendish plunder of Mother India. These politicians remain assured that their votaries would not question them; forget delivering a punishing verdict for such depredation.

In the present 2G loot case, the complicity of the bureaucrats, of A Raja, and of other phantasmal leaders of India, is increasingly conspicuous. Yet, the near militant obduracy by the Congress party to deflect the demands of an impartial scrutiny of the 2G scam, very putridly indicates the primeval desire to bury the truth, lest it exposes their own involvement in this grimy affair.

This blatant refusal for impartial enquiry depends on the feckless attitude of the Indian voters. It is built on the lack of outrage within an Indian voter. This refusal expects the Indian voter to be confused in the myriad of technicalities. It expects the voter to equivocate between the right and the wrong. It counts on the evaporation of the electoral judgement based on the precepts of rigid morality. This refusal counts on voters to behave as partisans, rather than as patriots.

The continued electoral impunity for the corrupt is a severe indictment on the erosion of social standards of morality and noble conduct in India. It is a foreboding sign, that while scam-artists never get punished, the incorruptible, like IFS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi, have to suffer for their conscience. This is a signal of an affliction. Affliction so deep and minatory, that the very continuity of Individual freedom, the basis of law, and the very prospect of a sovereign India, come into question!
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P.S: Here is an example of voter complicity in earnest. The individual in question is not outraged by the 2G scam. He is happy that the electoral prospects of A Raja, his party (the DMK), and their allies (the congress), are largely unmarred. He gloats at the ignorance of the lay voter, due to whom, the electoral prospects of A Raja have only increased. Presenting you the tweet by handle Dhanushm: