It is unprecedented that the winter session of the Parliament was paralysed continuously for 3 weeks because of 2G spectrum scam. Last time, the parliament was disturbed for 19 days for brokerage of cannon deal. The opposition has warned the Government that it would place its demand of investigation of the spectrum scam by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in the budget session. It means that the fate of the budget session would be similar to this current session. BJP is satisfied with itself to be a reason of deadlock of the parliament but the reality is that there were legislative works also going on. The Govt. has offered to form a committee under the chairmanship of a retired judge to investigate the irregularities in the distribution of spectrum during NDA regime. It cannot be said that the formation of such a committee would create a pressure for BJP or not but it is clear that the effective argumentation on issues of corruption could not be done in the parliament due to the adamancy of the two sides. The political parties do not seem concerned in solving the corruption issues rather they are busy in accusing each other. Meanwhile in this boring scenario, an institution namely Transparency International has again given India the first rank among the most corrupt countries. Though everybody knows that corruption is the biggest hurdle in the development but nobody comes in the front to eliminate it. Overall, the Right to Information Act. launched by the Govt. to control corruption has failed to be effective in checking corruption. The cases of corruption are by and large the same in number as ever before.
The spectrum scam is upsetting because it involves many politicians, bureaucrats and industrialists. When the tapes of the corporate lobbyist Neera Radia became public, the faces of many esteemed people turned dimmed and Ratan Tata started issuing clarifications. His clarifications however were fully dismissed by another industrialist Rajiva Chandrashekhar. Tata replied against all the charges imposed on him; but irregularities in the spectrum distribution became more complex. But it is for sure now that cases of obliging the Govt. and influencing its decisions through lobbying are going on for a long period. Ratan Tata has even questioned the process of spectrum distribution during NDA regime on which High Court also seems to be agreed. At present, it is difficult to say that the scam of illegal distribution of spectrum would be ever uncovered as the Govt. is so indifferent to its investigation. Instead of finding the truth of the matter, the Govt. is trying to hush up the reality. Corruption cannot be stopped easily in this current stage. An agency must be formed which must work in its own way to combat corruption without any influence and intervention on the part of the Govt. At present CBI or CVC both are under the control of Govt. CBI raided the residents of A. Raja and his colleagues only after 13 months of the filing of the report. The reason of this delay lay in the fact that the green signal of Govt. came only after it was pressurized due to public debate on the matter. A section of politicians sitting in the high positions are exacting money from the corporate world in the name of political compulsions. From the whole episode it is clear that if corruption flourishes at the apex level, it is bound to flourish at the lower levels as well. Corruption can be uprooted only when the public at large take initiatives in its hand and wages a war against the corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and industrialists.
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