Honest versus dishonest: Who will win in India?
A large amount of money running into Trillions of dollars was siphoned off to the German/Swiss banks operating on foreign soil. That money must be brought back. However, till now the powers that be are not taking up the case seriously. Unfortunate!
THE BLACK money in foreign banks case pains the honest and the patriotic persons but gladdens the hearts of the dishonest men and women, who find an opening for making more money without paying taxes. The episodes of this nature have been in the eye of the public storm for a long time. Dr Manmohan Singh is the Prime Minister of India and he has been announcing from house tops that he would not let dishonesty have the better of the Honesty. And yet it is the other way round that the wheel of money is moving. Manmohan is a man of money, who knows all about it except how to bring the black money home. He says that international treaties prevent him and the government from making names of depositors of the black money public. Even the slamming by the Supreme Court has gone in vain. The public perception is that names of bigwigs figure in the list of depositors of the black money and our friend, meek Manmohan is bending backwards to throw the veil of secrecy over their names. The legal luminaries are not convinced that making the names of "plunderers of public money" public would harm national interests. NAMES IN PUBLIC DOMAIN It is from authentic sources that over two thousand names of those, who plundered their own country has been listed by an ex-bank official of Germany where the black money was deposited and now the plea of violating treaty obligations becomes meaningless. The government in New Delhi is hiding behind a thin veil where it stands exposed in its ugly curves. Thus, even the fig leaf is gone and the government stands in the nude fully exposed to the prying eyes of the world. It would be in the fitness of things for friends and foes in the government to make a clean breast of it and instil some degree of confidence in the common man in India whose morale is in the boots. The Sanskrit saying is "Yatha Raja Tatha Praja", and that means the common folks would shape their personality as per the personality of the King or the ruler. I am sad to say that in the present case, there is not much to write home about regarding personality of the so called king, who is stealing money from his own national exchequer; who is a liar making false statements to confuse his own people and who is out to save his own skin at the cost of the country. Loyalty is a two-way traffic. If the citizens are asked to be loyal to the King, the King should be equally loyal to the country and its citizens. In the present democratic system, the elected legislators and ministers perform duties of the King and must show loyalty to country. Loyalty begets loyalty. In order to protect some bigwigs, who have plundered the country, the elected ministers must not join the criminals and become plunderers themselves. It is a pity that our prime minister is not an elected representative of the people but one, who was nominated by a powerful coterie. So, his loyalty is to the plundering group and not to the country. Alas! the common man bears the brunt.
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