As Pratap Bhanu Mehta (IE,28/9/11) explains, " The Prime Minister has
distorted the entire structure of ministerial politics by not
frontally owning and defending the decision not to auction 2G." He
does not own it because he knows it is not the right policy. In the
UPA there is no collective responsibility. PM presides over a
coalition based only on power not on any principle or even policy.
That is why he explained away many misdemeanours of his colleagues as
"coalition dharma". He allowed Dayanidhi Maran and Raja to twist the
telecom policy as they wish. Both of them got approval from FM and PM.
Raja sells spectrum in 2008 at the price fixed in 2003 and tells us
that he follows the policy laid down by NDA – the only policy they
picked up from NDA. When the CAG says there is a loss of about
Rs.1,76, 000 to the exchequer, a minister tells us that it is
notional. TRAI refuses to quantify the loss and dutiful CBI has scaled
it down.They all want us to believe that there is nothing good or bad
but thinking makes it so. UPA is bound to fall by its acts of
commission and omission, sooner rather than later. The PM and the UPA
have failed India.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/yes-ministers/852882/
Sept.28, 2011.
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