NEW DELHI: The lack of official response to widespread media charges underscores the popular impression that whereas most politicians may be crooks, this prime minister is not only a protector of crooks but probably in the game himself,” this is how. A Hindu Journalist, Suhil Sethi, writes in The Pioneer last week.
Sethi notes that Rao does not have a full or functioning cabinet even after two years of his rule, there is no defence minister. The foreign minister is so sick that he cannot step in or out of a car unaided, the home minister is a mere passenger. Also, there is no independent industry minister; the things reached such an awful stage that the country’s finance minister Manmohan Singh was sent to human rights conference at Vienna, The Columnist further notes that in political sphere the ruling party has become indistinguishable from the R.S.S. The charges of corruption has reduced the prime minister’s accessibility to people in the same way as Rajiv Gandhi had become inaccessible after the Bofors scandal in 1987.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 16, 1993
