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| Happy New Year - 2006 |
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Lok Sabha Speaker, the charismatic Mr. Somnath
Chatterjee, is proving his mettle with his tough stand
on tainted MPs. His task is far from over and it would
be appropriate to see Sonia Gandhi and Lal Krishna
Advani rise over party lines and strengthen the
Speaker's voice in this long overdue crusade.
The tainted MPs can expect no mercy from the Judiciary
which in its own way has being trying to clear the
political rot that has clogged the Indian political
spectrum.
In fact the 10 Lok Sabha and one Rajya Sabha MPs
should not have been allowed to get away with a mere
expulsion but should also have faced criminal charges
and be prosecuted in accordance with law. It is
imperative that such MP's be debarred for life from
holding any public office.
With the cash for questions MPs expelled, Parliament
has to urgently deal and show no double standards in
regards to the other batch of 7 MPs caught negotiating
cuts in the MPLAD scheme. The offence is much more
serious and these MP's deserve to be ruthlessly
hounded out of Parliament.
These seven MPs include our South Goa MP Churchill
Alemao whose versions of facts mysteriously keep
changing by the day. He is pleading innocence by
claiming he was educated in Portuguese and that his
knowledge of English was very poor.
This could be perhaps a reason he did not opt for the
" cash for questions package " and instead chose to
conveniently negotiate a slice of a project under the
MPLAD scheme.
Aires Rodrigues
Mumbai
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