There is a saying that "sunlight is a best disinfectant."
This saying can be used for the current spates of scams and all the allegations of scams.
And to clear all this muddle.. real and hyped, an open system of investigatins can be the only effective way. A Supreme Court controlled investigation could have gone a long way if all the parties have agreed to it. Any investigation by a select committee could end into some backdoor negotiations which will just put the problem under carpet.
But BJP Left and other opposition parties are not interested in this type of openness. In fact some allies are also (allegedly) against the open investigation and they will prefer investigation by parliamentary committee instead.
Despite congress's opposition to JPC for whatever reasons, they have finally agreed to have a JPC.
Good! BJP had their way.
Now as a citizen, i expect some outcomes.
1. BJP alleged that any investigation short of JPC will not be effective. Now that they have JPC, I want an in depth investigations, with the guilty person involved getting caught and CONVICTED in a time bound fashion.
2. BJP consistently made an aleegation that the scam is of 1,76,000 crore rs. They were adament on this figure even though many experts said the figure could vary. BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad also exhorted this figure from time to time on every media forum he could get to. Now the time has come for this 1,76,000 Crore rs to be returned to the government of India's exchequer. I will not accept a rupee less than this. This even meant that they take money from the companies who bought the spectrum who will be then charge it from the people. If the money is not recovered in a time bound fashion then BJP (a) have to accept the futility of JPC in public and should work with government to create a forum to deal with such charges. or (b) should be considered the party to the corruption as it will then be assumed that they got their 'cut' from the backdoor deals. and (c) BJP should agree that the figure they were quoting was indeed wrong and for that they should apologize to the nation .
3. There had been JPC earlier on Harshad Mehta scam which was alleged to be of some 5000 crore. But JPC could not trace the money. This money was lost forever for the nation. Only some beneficiaries were some people who were involved in the JPC, directly or otherwise. Also there were no foolproof recommendations that could have gone a long way to stop such share market scams from happening again in the future But within few years we witnessed a more massive scam in terms of Ketan Parekh scam.
This time, I want JPC to give a concrete suggestions that can stop future scams into 'spectrum allocation' from happening. If they fail in this, then it is a failure of the whole reason of JPC.
I hope opposition do not disappoint me and in fact surprise me by fulfilling all my expectation s.
2 comments:
why this thrashing of BJP ??... 1,76000crore figure was given by CAG , is he appinted by opposition???.....They were just stressing on numbers given by him.....whom do u want them to Beliive ?....ur so-called " experts " who gave numbers rangin from 10k to 1 lakh cr figures ?...y dont u name those " EXPERTS" of yours
@ sandeep even CAG had given many different "estimates".
@harshad the jpc is closed door committee.. once the matter rests there.. it cannot have a public discussion on the floor of the House. Congress's stand was.. lets first discuss this on the floor then, if necessary we can have any committee.. and btw.. there is a PAC on the same ques.
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