Phantom democracy.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, in his analysis, Phantom democracy (IE,9/5) has exposed the democratic pretensions of the UPA government. The degradation of democratic institutions reminds us the days of emergency " when an executive took on the judiciary on the dubious grounds that it had a mandate". In the case of Coal-gate, the judiciary mandates CBI to investigate, and when the CBI prepares its report, all those ministries which are being investigated, read the report and make changes – changes that the Supreme Court says which pertain to the heart of matter. Indeed, there is no sense of propriety, shame, ethics or common prudence. Mehta rightly lays the responsibliity for the culture of corruption,evasion,lying and contempt for institutional integrity at the doors of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. It only shows that Congress cannot live without power, and power corrupts so much it makes you do all illegal and immoral things.What a fall, my countrymen!
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