WikiLeaks is not the Bible of the cyberworld

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RATAN SHARGA

18 March, 2011

Despite the uproar over the recent Wikileaks exposure regarding cash for votes by UPA government, it is time that an objective assessment is made. WikiLeaks is not the Bible of the Internet, and everything it says is not the truth.

CAN THE disclosures made by a website whose domain is registered abroad and that which claims to be a non-profit organisation, be really accepted? And can anyone vouch for the authenticity of its records?

The website has not disclosed any substantial evidence in order to support its claim, which right now seems to be bogus in the case of bribing four MPs of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) of Ajit Singh in 2008 by the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in order to win the trust vote in the Parliament when the Manmohan Singh government was reduced to a minority following the withdrawal of support by the Left party.

First of all, the information is factually incorrect. There were three MPs of RLD at that point of time and not four as mentioned by WikiLeaks in its expose after which there has been an uproar going on in the Parliament and the opposition parties - especially the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP).

These parties have been asking the Prime Minister to tender his resignation on moral grounds.

Again, the next interesting thing that emerged from this expose was that the MPs were given a sum of 10 crore each to vote in favour of the government, which desperately needed their support for the nuclear deal.

But in reality all the RLD MPs voted against the UPA and they all went together with the BJP at that point of time.

Now, anyone with a little common sense can make out that this entire report by WikiLeaks is a bogus and a piece of fiction because had the MPs voted in favour of the UPA at that point of time, then it would have made this expose news worthy.

How can any MP, after taking such a large amount of money, if the money was exchanged at all, not do what was required to be done for which the money was offered?

Secondly, when the RLD leader and chief Ajit Singh himself denied that any money was paid to him or to his party MPs, the issue ends there itself.

Another expose stating that the Hillary administration did not want to see Pranab Mukherjee as the Finance minister and that Montek Singh would have been a better choice, is also nothing eathshaking.

It seems to be a brainchild of WikiLeaks' team members as they want to become the modern Bible of the cyber world.

Does Julian Assange, the Australian activist and founder of this website, want his WikiLeaks to be considered as the Holy Bible of cyber world? No one knows his intentions and what his website is upto.

Besides there is nothing unusual or something very secretive that has been made public by WikiLeaks. It has, so far, published information on India we all know about.

There were rumors earlier that WikiLeaks would publish the names of all Swiss Bank account holders possessing black money and who are tax evaders. But till date that has not come out. So, to rely blindly on WikiLeaks would be our foolhardiness.