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Indian corruption backlash builds after 'year of the treasure hunters'
Ruling party plans new law to fight corruption as Indian public's
disgust spreads from tea shops to crowdsourcing websites
Jason Burke in Delhi
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 January 2011 19.18 GMT
It is an image that has become wearily familiar to Indians in recent
days. On the front cover of its new year issue India Today ran pictures
of four men under the headline "2010 – year of the treasure hunters".
Inside an editorial said bluntly: "One word dominated the national
vocabulary [last year]: corruption." The men pictured are high-profile
businessmen and politicians variously accused of graft, complicity or
tax-dodging.
Written by Aroon Purie, one of India's best-known publishers, the
editorial summed up what many are saying from well-heeled Delhi sitting
rooms to bus stop tea shops: "In India, the sheer banality of the word
evokes a sense of deja vu … [but] the size and frequency of corruption
in 2010 made it the theme of the year."
India has seen many scams before, but few have been as brazen and on
such a scale as those that have come to light in recent weeks.
Today officials from the ruling Congress party, aware that the issue
could derail their second term in power, announced plans for a new law
to fight corruption among public servants, including politicians.
Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, promised last weekend to
"cleanse" the government.
Such promises, commentators say, are unlikely to mitigate the disgust
felt among ordinary people. Arvind Kejriwal, a veteran social activist,
said: "Every single scam undermines the faith of people in the system.
There is an explosion of anger in the media. People have tried
protesting but it doesn't seem to work. They are more and more
disillusioned."
The four men on the cover of India Today are accused of various
offences. They all deny any wrongdoing.
Entire article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/02/india-corruption-backlash-treasure-hunters
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