More of the same. More corruption. More broken promises.
Are we going to vote these bums out in the next election or are we going to forget and get seduced by Rahul Gandhi's charms and / or find it too hot to go and vote???
The Aam Aadmi Facade
The latter was reflected in the handling of the telecom scam. The Central Bureau of Investigation "raided" the offices of department of telecommunications last year and yet the telecom minister A Raja refused to resign. The murky dealings of various ministers is reflective of the fostering of the culture of crony capitalism, the most blatant of which were the nexus of business and politics in the commerce of the Indian Premier League. Inaction against the telecom minister has been attributed to the exigencies of coalition politics, but the "rent seeking" in sectors such as natural gas, mining, and telecommunications suggests that corruption in high places is more systemic.
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