Beware of BJP’s double standards on corruption!

Interestingly, two of our major national parties have finally found a common ground in one thing. Corruption! It seems that their fight is not limited to the race for power in Delhi. Sharing of booty (it is known in many names now such as swindled money, kickbacks, Swiss money, black money, stashed away funds and many more) is also one of their prime targets. For the last one month, both the print and visual media is giving running commentary on the corruption details in India. Prominent among them are the smoky CWG deals, Adarsh Housing scam and the most recent and bigger in proportion, the 2G spectrum scam. My countrymen, if you are fed up with this one-sided show (or you can call them Congress shows), here is a good news for you. The rival to the Congress one-upmanship is none other than the major opposition party, the BJP.


Obviously, the BJP is showing double standards as far as the corruption is concerned. Here we have a chief minister in the south who publicly declares that he has helped his son (this help is deliberate and blatant violation of all the moral laws) acquire acres of land worth crores of rupees. What a daring admission!  And the same BJP which supports this chief minister is clamouring for the head of one of the cleanest (or the only one) prime ministers of India. Yes, we understand that Manmohan Singh should be held accountable for the wrong doings by A Raja, the former telecom minister for quietly sitting over the spectrum scam. However, we know he is in no way personally (or financially) benefitted from the entire episode. (There are other benefits such as the survival of his government.) He was helpless because the DMK was an important ally in the UPA and he had to play his coalition dharma.

However, the BJP, by supporting a corrupt man in the south, has committed a more heinous crime than that of the prime minister. (I don’t give a clean chit to his party.) And they don’t have any moral right to speak about corruption during the Congress regime. I wonder if any party other than the Left parties (Even the CPI-M is stinking in Kerala due to its state secretary’s alleged role in the Lavalin scam.) have the right to speak about corruption in our system.

I wonder if in the long run, these two parties would come together to get a legislation passed to legalise corruption in the country.  Birds of the same feather flock together!