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SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN / The Hindu / June 30, 2011.
In his interaction with a group of editors, Dr. Manmohan Singh made a number of arguments to justify the half-hearted action that has been taken against the politicians, officials and businessmen suspected of corruption - PTI.
Nobody sheds a tear when the police harass ordinary citizens. But with the rich and powerful under the corruption scanner, the Prime Minister now fears a police state.
The Prime Minister and his advisors just don't get it. At a time when the public is looking for an end to the loot of public money, the last thing they want to hear from their government is a bunch of excuses and alibis.
In his interaction with a small group of editors on Wednesday, Dr. Manmohan Singh made a number of arguments to justify the half-hearted action that has been taken so far against the politicians, officials and businessmen suspected of corruption in the telecom, hydrocarbon and other sectors.
First he said the decisions which the media and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) are citing as evidence of irregularities and graft were all taken in good faith under conditions of uncertainty. “If out of 10 decisions that I take, seven turn out to be right ex-post, that would be considered an excellent performance,” he said. “But if you have a system which is required to perform [in] 10 out of 10 cases, no system can be effective and satisfy that onerous condition.”
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Taken together, these arguments tell us not only how far the government is from reality but also how divorced the Congress and its leaders are from the political pulse of the country.2G spectrum issue.........................
Inaction for long is justified with specious arguments!
CAG...............................................
To say CAG has exceeded it brief, again is wrong as CAG only audited the accounts and stated its finding, like any auditor would do!!
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