The most unfortunate part of a democracy is that the law makers often cross the fence, even without measuring the consequences of their misadventures, partly because they think bending the law of the land is just another stratagem that they can execute in the wink of an eye. The WikiLeaks' US Embassy cable exposing the horse trading by the last UPA government, before passing the Nuclear Bill in the Parliament, now opens a bigger Pandora's box. And this time, our honest prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh's integrity is at the highest stake. Now the debate has entered the public domain, as the Opposition leaders in both the Houses have demanded resignation of prime minister with immediate effect. Though we understand that no political party in this country is free of corruption, the only silver lining with them is that when they move to opposition from ruling, they do some service to this nation by exposing the corrupt practices of the ruling party. And this is an infallible global practice in democracy.
This kind of events are not new to political parties in India, and especially for the Congress party, which has a dubious record of horse trading in the Parliament during different points of ruling this nation. But the sad part here is that an intellectual, honest persona like Dr. Singh has finally transformed to a full-fledged politician who knows how effectively he can dominate this political space. At this juncture, one interesting climax of the film Nayak strikes my mind. In that movie, the chief minister Shivaji Rao concocts a murder plot by inviting the opposition leader and fires a bullet to his shoulder in precisely safe manner and finally throws the gun to the latter and then the securities around perceive it an attack on the chief minister, and eventually kill the opposition leader brutally. And the last evocative statements come from Shivaji Rao to his private secretary: You have finally made me a politician. That's not a fictional plot at all, rather a more deep understanding of the larger issues in the society around us that movie makers often portray in various films.
Well, as the sequence of events are unfolding quickly, the bigger question that does haunt us is how deeper is this political nexus? Is it limited to the territory of India or has a wider snarl dictated by global super powers? As the WikiLeaks' cable stories explain, the epicenter of this precarious shocker is beyond the internal mesh. Now, let's delve deeper into the problem. Why was the US embassy in India so much interested in the vote-for-cash episode and even was virtually monitoring the process minute by minute? Why did a Congress party member confirm to an official in the US embassy that cash was ready for bargaining? Why was our prime minister hurried in passing the nuclear bill in the house during a period when he hadn't the majority to show? And recently, why the same prime minister is again vouching for this dangerous nuclear technology when the other developed countries are nonplussed in the aftermath of Japan's impending worst nuclear crisis? There are many serious questions that raise doubts in the integrity of functioning of this government, and also the integrity of the prime minister, being the head of the government. Maybe, the prime minister is not a direct beneficiary of the vexatious growing corruptions, but he can't even prove him innocent in the court of law for the simple reason that he knew what's happening under his nose and pretended not to smell the rot by keeping him at an arm's length. Many infamous examples have shrouded the political space of this nation, be it CWG scam, 2G scam, CVC selection, or the hush-hush behind the nuclear deal. This shows not only an expository version of our prime minister's loyalty to the Congress party and its high command at large, but also unravels his passion for power and position that every middle class person dreams along the trajectory of his life time. If the prime minister survives this political temblor, he would certainly justify the veracity of the allegations that opposition, media, and the public are charging on him.
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