What Pratap Bhanu Mehta has said in is excellent analysis, "He said, she said" (Indian Express,15/12) can be summed up in a few words, " the bottle-neck is at the top of the bottle". As he has pointed out 'the shrinking moral universe is not a fact of nature; it is a consequence of decisions taken by leaders". P.M. has to answer whether he approved what Raja was doing and if not, what did he do stop him? He has rightly said this does not require an inquiry. Silence is not golden but indicates complicity.
Simlarly, if National Advisory Council does not undermine the government, how can JPC undermine existing institutions ? Nobody can dispute his observation that 'every single institution in government now carries an odour of consipiracy'. A few schemes for poor with astronomical amount of money would not solve the problems of the 300 million poor of the country. They don't empower the poor but make them depend on periodical doles ( 100 days of work).The worst failing of our PM is not coming clean and thereby 'he has undermined any reason to trust so-called good men'. This is the result of pursuit of power at any cost by all parties, especially now by UPA in this case. This is one of the seven social sins mentioned by Gandhiji, " politics without principles". This is not the India of our dreams.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/he-said-she-said/724893
December 15,2010.
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