Who
does not like to brag? Each and everyone
in this cantankerous society, requires name, fame, money, recognition, extraordinary
coverage in the media, and many more. One is interested to use his bragging
power to downsize other. Whether you are a politician, bureaucrat, professor,
lawyer, academician, businessman or a common man, it now becomes a style to pinpoint
fault with others work. But the most
pathetic situation is the time of this bragging. When the situation occurs and takes place,
when it creates havoc in the society, brings distress to the common people and
the taxpayers, these braggers keep quiet. No sooner it is over, somehow or the
rather the light glows and bragging starts.
The recent trend of the former bureaucrats is to write autobiographies
to reveal sensitive information to sensitize the society. In the recent past,
Natvar Singh, Sanjay Baru and now Vinod Rai, all are very keen to air their
views of the deficiencies of the then government particularly with inkling to
the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
As
per Mr. Rai’s assessment through his profundity on the subject of authoritative
governance, the loss accrued to the exchequer for 2G scam is 1.76 Lac
crore. Mr. Kapil Sibal, the ex law minister
refused this statement of account and said there was zero loss. To support his figure, Mr. Rai said that “It
is a presumptive loss which people have misunderstood as there is a difference
between presumptive and presumptuous.”
The meaning of presumptive, as per him is a higher degree of certainness,
which is widely used in government’s direct tax code. It is also financially
and legally acceptable. I am not going
into further details about the losses because the government’s own agency CBI
said, “The loss was 30000 crores.”
Very
shortly, Mr Vinod Rai is putting all these sensational news in the form of a
book which may definitely attract a niche of elite, section of bureaucrats, who
are familiar with these types of cumbersome legal and financial worlds. These books may not serve any purpose to the
benefits of a common man, because whatever losses are incurred that is to be
offset by the tax payers hard earned money.
Mr.
Rai indirectly blames Manmohan Singh for his inefficiency to provide a strong
leadership and dictatorial rulings to curb this type of scam. The book will reveal that his weakness to
have an assertive ruling on the then telecom minister Raja, is the root-cause
of these happenings. Many journalists very rightly questioned Mr Rai that why he had not pointed out, these things
during his tenure as CAG? He said that
he has taken up this matter to the ex PM on a few occasions, but it was not
given due cognizance. He also says that whenever Raja used to write letters to
Singh to apprise regarding the whereabouts of allocation of the license and
formalities, Singh promptly replied to him. Under these circumstances, Rai
understood that it will not be prudent for him to raise any more issues because
that would have been an unethical and inappropriate action from the chair of a CAG
I am
sure that the impending book will bring various information of earlier
government’s callousness to combat the financial irregularities. He will be
projecting himself as a crusader of these scams. Now, along with him, the other stalwart
politicians, namely Kamalnath, Digvijay Singh and others are vociferously blaming
Singh for his reticence, administrative weakness and utter failure to run a
coalition government. And, precisely that is the reason of their parties defeat
in the last parliament election.
I
can understand the basis of various opinions
of the politicians, but what makes these politicians turned bureaucrats so
agile, so versatile to air their views just after or immediately after their
retirement from their services. Do we construe that all the wrongdoings of the
past government are only the creation of
Manmohan Singh and his cabinet, and they were only the followers of all
the policies framed by the then respective ministries and ratified by Singh.
Can
anybody buy this logical and notional argument of our erudite bureaucrats?
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But
who is not aware of his this characteristic trait? Can anybody say that Singh is a masterminded
orator? Can he mesmerize audience by his
extemporary speech? No, he is an
economist, erudite, literate and gentleman politician. To handle the scam, its regulations, its
repercussions, the colossal losses to the revenue are not that easy,
particularly by a person like him. And the whole world knows that how he was
chosen to become the Prime Minister.
Further, he was running a coalition government where some of the parties
and their members were almost behaving like rogues.
Under this situation, even he was adopting high headedness; I have my
own doubt whether we could have been avoided 2G scam.
These
books, which are getting published and I am sure that some more may come, will
not serve any purpose of removing the scam from our system. We are classified as the most corrupted
nations in the world and so, a few books by these super learned bureaucrats
will hardly yield any results.
These
bureaucrats will be flourished. Because,
if by any chance, the books are well publicized in the market, their name,
fame, recognition and money will be poured in their kitty So, these bureaucrats have found a novel way
to brag their past activities and put the same in the books, even at the cost
of their ex boss or bosses. After all,
this is the law of life. Brag and climb,
brag and climb and you will definitely reach the top rung of the ladder either
socially or politically. Time will only say, what is what?
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