The Pangs of Disgruntled Indian

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Mr. Vinod Rai at World Economic Forum - 2012

Here are some of the links to articles in media, which has extensively covered
Mr. Vinod Rai's attack on government functioning.

Times of India

Government's brazenness in decision making appalling: CAG Vinod Rai

Firstpost

CAG Vinod Rai wants CBI, CVC given full autonomy

Outlook India

'The Brazenness With Which Decisions Were Being Taken Is Absolutely Appalling'

Business Today

Corporate entities need to bring in transparency: CAG Vinod Rai

World Economic Forum

Corruption Reaching Turning Point in India

The Warrior within the Government

Kudos to Mr. Vinod Rai Comptroller & Auditor General of India, for his frank opinion made public on World Economic Forum 2012 meeting here in India.

Mr. Vinod Rai said, "India should provide for more autonomous functioning of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC).

It may be noted that Mr. Vinod Rai enjoys complete autonomy for a fixed six year term. He was appointed as Comptroller & Auditor General of India on 7th January 2008.

Mr. Vinod Rai was born on 23rd May 1948, has a Masters Degree in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, USA. He is a 1972 batch Kerala Cadre Officer of Indian Administrative Services (IAS).

He is a keen player of Tennis.

As Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Vinod Rai has come out with audit reports which have nailed government departments like, the one on the 2G spectrum scam, which led to the telecom minister losing his job and the most recent one being the audit report on Coalgate.

India needs more people like Mr. Vinod Rai, who can take up the government authorities and catch them of their acts which cause a great loss to public exchequer.

Our salutations to the great Warrior.

Click here to know what Vinod Rai said in World Economic Forum - 2012

BJP puts Nation to Shame!!

There are no words to shape up this article, the anger, the frustration and the agony of not being able to do anything as a commoner has left many of us deeply bruised and shaken up the faith in these political parties and the very system – The Democracy.

How far these people are going to stoop their levels has become a BIG question now.

Yesterday after lot of high level drama within BJP party cadres came out a statement clearing Nitin Gadkari of all charges that has been leveled related to his company Purti Group.

The clean chit was given by none other than a Chartered Accountant S. Gurumurthy an RSS man and a close aide of Gadkari. It’s a dangerous precedent before the whole Nation, where allegations of corruption are probed internally and later given a clean chit. If anyone has to go by this then we can all witness a plethora of cases of corruption being probed internally and the definite outcome of the verdict. Who has the audacity to go against the party, and who so ever does either resigned on moral grounds (Mahesh Jethmalani) or grounded by the party itself.

It’s the very party “the BJP” who has always termed CBI as Congress own investigative agency, now what about them? Are they not doing the same? Gone are the days when a politician use to resign amid controversy on moral grounds, but today the morality has taken a backseat, the morality exists, but for others not for them.

If BJP had so much trust in their internal enquiry then why did former president of BJP Bangaru Laxman, got a raw deal from the party then in 2001? The BJP has no answers to it.

It’s time for all of us to see how these political parties behave on a case to case basis. At least there was one solace to see some members of the BJP opposing Gadkari’s continuation as president of the party. Before wrapping up, the damage is already done, however hard they may try to justify their so called internal clean chit, but the message is already written on the wall. Internal squabbling within the party shall cost them their prospects in the coming elections.

So where do the people of this country go from here now? On one hand there is a party which is deep rooted down in scams and corruption. Just dig deep down into your faded memories and look for scams like CWG 2010, 2G Spectrum, Coalgate, DLF – Vadra nexus, Salman Khurshid’s Handicap Scam and on the other side there is an impotent opposition mired amidst their party President’s role in his company Purti Group, other political parties are just showpieces best suited for their own living rooms. Isn't it?