If the Assam Govt. so wanted, public prosecutors in Assam could at
least make sure this guy made a >huge mistake in making Assam his
venue.
*** Don't ask me :-). I won't be the one to give assam govt. , a
clone of GoI operating with its blessing and sustenance, a pass.
'criminal politicians'
*** Deriding the ''criminal politicians' is a cop-out, an easy way
to wash one's hands of the mess. These 'criminal politicians' are
not extraterrestrial bodies imposed on India by intelligent-designers
from outer space. They ARE Indians, put in place of power and
sustained by that vaunted desi-demokrasy and the Indian Constitution.
And the results are telling.
The fact is Ram, Indian governance is in shambles. Have always been
so. Just getting worse by the day.
It is a SYSTEMIC problem and requires a complete overhaul of all its
parts. And India is NOT up to it, Ramchandra Guha's verdict
notwithstanding.
C'da
I agree. This is one of the worst things that is wrong with Indian
politicains. When the question of 'criminal politicians' and of
divulging ill-gotten gains was brought up by the Supreme Court -
even MM Singh 'Warned' the Court of overstepping and the term
'judicial activism' has made its way into India too.
Now, I know there are many Indians thinking about this and are
embarrassed, At least they are now thinking about accountability.
BTW - why didn't the state govt (Assam) arrest this guy and charge
him with capital murder. If the Assam Govt. so wanted, public
prosecutors in Assam could at least make sure this guy made a huge
mistake in making Assam his venue.
Just my thoughts
--Ram
On 5/11/07, Chan Mahanta
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The following heart-rending plea from the Sentinel today . I am not
holding my breath there will be ideas forthcoming from 'Citizens'.
It is unlikely Tom Friedman would volunteer. Ramchandra Guha
probably doesn't think any is needed. How about NRA Netters :-)? Any
taker?
cm
Crime and Politics
There is no use talking about ''crime and punishment'' in this
country. This is so because most of the hardened criminals afford to
go scot-free despite the so-called rule of law being in place. This
rule of law, however, does exist - but only for ordinary citizens,
utterly powerless, so very voiceless. Add to this the oft-repeated
fact of politicization of crime - a step ahead of criminalization of
politics. So when Prabhat Singh was murdered in broad daylight in
Guwahati on Tuesday by Manish Ranjan Sharma alias Munna, hailing
from Bihar, allegedly at the behest of the son of an influential
Bihar MP, what has come up yet again is the manner in which
criminality has corrupted the contours of Indian politics. Not only
this. A hired goon from Bihar enters Guwahati and kills on the basis
of instructions allegedly given by his political mentor in Bihar -
see his audacity! That a love affair was the root cause of the
murder, does not in any way justify such heinous crime. What it
proves is the increasing criminality in the society, thanks to the
majority of politicians who have worked on different crime designs
to sustain their political careers basically because by nature they
are given to criminality. The advantage for them is that there is no
bar that restrains people with criminal background or criminal
propensities from contesting elections. The irony after about 60
years of Independence is that our Parliament and State legislatures
are teeming exactly with such a class of people. There is one more
aspect: even seemingly clean politicians - clean in their individual
lives - seek the help of, and then patronize, criminal elements in
order to cling on to power, because power has already corrupted
them. Such politicians are no less a part of the process that makes
a blend of politics and crime. It is time one stopped such forces
from hijacking the nation. But how? It is for the citizens of the
country to decide.
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