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The cash-for-votes exposé is most shameful and a devastating blow to the democracy that is already at a very low ebb. This scam will mark a new nadir in the Indian polity.
Dancing to the tunes of Americans to help them realise their selfish interests and indulging in corrupt practices to seek a majority on the floor of the House is most dishonest, and against all tenets of democracy. If the allegations on the WikiLeaks site are to be believed, then people of India have every reason to feel deceived and severely let down by their government.
The UPA-II cannot shirk its responsibility by saying that the government of the day cannot be made accountable for what had happened in the 14th Lok Sabha. It is the same government that is in power now. Therefore it is the moral responsibility of the government to prove that it is clean.
S. Umashankar
Nagpur
Wake-up call
The editorial “The sins catch up” ( Business Line , March 19) is a wake-up call to the ruling set-up at the Centre to make an introspection of its tenability to continue in power after the WikiLeaks exposure of its various acts, especially the bribing of MPs to vote in its favour in the nuclear deal issue.
Even earlier, a number of scams that had surfaced in quick succession had damaged the reputation of the government severely and the faith of the people in the government had been seriously eroded.
The PM's stand that the people's verdict in its favour in the elections in 2009 had absolved it of all previous wrong-doings is indefensible. Will the same argument hold in the case of several other matters like the 2002 pogrom in Gujarat or the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992? The PM should search his heart and act according to his conscience.
T.R.Anandan
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