Indira Gandhi initiated the concept of Committed bureaucracy and Committed judiciary. While she was able to achieve the former, she did not make much headway with the later.
This UPA government/ Congress Party has mastered the art of allowing ministers, politicians, judiciary and bureaucrats to make money through illegal means and then lowering the boom on them to suit the party's purpose.
The Congress Party has abused the CBI to such an extend that the organization has lost all credibility and its nickname Congress Bureau of Investigation is quite apt. The CBI first allowed Qutrrochi to take away the loot by unfreezing his bank accounts, then let him go and finally has filed an appeal in the SC to withdraw all the cases against him.
The CBI cases against Mulayam and Mayawati were used to cobble up majority in the parliament whenever the Government was under a threat. Now, the Congress Party has allowd DMK to loot the country on the 2G scam, and is now using the CBI case against Raja and Karunanidhi family to bargain for 90 seats in TN. Raja would not have been arrested but for the fact that TN seat sharing talks are currently going on. Compare this with the go slow on arresting Suresh Kalmadi, Sheila Dixit and M S Gill - all Congress party men who were involved in the CWG scam. (On this topic, it is disgraceful that both the President and PM did not deem it fit to grace the opening and closing ceremonies of the just concluded National Games in Ranchi. The reason given is that they dont want to be seen on the same dais as the tainted Suresh Kalmadi, the IOA Chief. But the worthies forgot one thing - that they were insulting the thousands of athletes who have sweated out all these years to be there at the National Games. Either the Government should have had the guts to ask Suresh Kalmadi to not attend or alternatively the President and PM should have attended irrespective. The same worthies attended the CWG games where the same Kalmadi was the OC Chairman and he was as tainted then as he is today. Why did the President and PM not boycott CWG Games?)
The Congress party appointed a tainted Navin Chawla as the Chief Election Commissioner and it was his brief to deliver the last lok sabha poll to Congress. Widespred tampering of voting machines has been whispered around and there is a serious question mark over how P Chidambaram won when he was trailing till the last round in Sivaganga.
Next, the party chose another tainted person, Thomas for the post of Chief Vigilance Commissioner. A guy against who a request for prosecution in a corruption case was pending and a guy who opposed a vigilance probe into the 2 G scam when he was telecom secretary.
Now, it looks like the Congress party had its 'committed' judiciary in ex Chief Justice of India, K G Balakrishnan. That he was corrupt was known to everyone. That he was reluctant to take action against the blatant corruption of a fellow judge Dinakaran, and despite this tried to push him up as SC judge is well known. He also did his best in stonewalling the proposal to have the judges reveal their assets. The matter was taken out of his hands when couple of fellow judges took it upon themselves to voluntarily declare their assets, which made a mockery of the stand taken by the then CJI. The post of National Human Rights Commissioner was kept vacant, overlooking his honest predecessor Justice Sabharwal, for one year to enable KGB to become the NHRC on retirement. It is interesting to note that KGB had quashed the case against Sonia Gandhi regarding her nationality and the false affidavit she filed in the Lok Sabha of her Educational qualifications. Now, the skeletons are tumbling out of the cup board. His sons in law and brother have been found to have amassed wealth during his tenure as CJI, and the IT department is silent on whether he himself has amassed wealth. Even if he hasn't, it is clear that his relatives benefitted hugely by 'arranging' for verdicts against cash payment.
And above all Congress ensured that a honest APJ Abdul Kalam was not re elected as President, but was replaced by Pratibha Patil, against whom there are cases of swindling and against whose husband, there is a case of murder.
So Congress has the damocles sword hanging over all the key functionaries who can create problems for the party and are using it shamelessly to further its interests.
The saddest part is that most of these posts are protected by the Constitution, and unless the person resigns on his own, there is nothing much anyone can do. And these guys are thick skinned enough not to resign.
The charade goes on.
