No political party justifies corruption in its ideology book. But contrary to the saying, the politicians start taking the allegations of corruption in their deeds like a warrior’s badge on their shoulders. A street scene is created during an institutional appearance over allegations of corruption that will see words like ‘political correctness’ resign from Indian politics. For both the power and the opposition, corruption has been reduced to a mere show of power. Whose authority has become a measure of his institution. After taking the lead in the Anna movement, the revolutionaries refused to ‘there is a further fight’ against corruption. Now that corruption is waiting for its turn in the back row in the electoral arena, speak out loud on the scene of a show of political power during the appearance of Rahul Gandhi in the Enforcement Directorate.
Power corrupts a person…
This bitter truth of political science applies to every ruling party on the globe. From monarchy to democracy or communist government, the allegations of corruption of conduct were leveled on everyone as soon as they came to power. And, when you have held the power of India, one of the big countries of the world for seventy years, then a day was bound to come when you would be made synonymous with corruption, the documents related to you which were in cold storage. Institutions started boiling in the handi.
Every political party in India has been accused of abuse of power. In most of the cases, the charges reach the court till the party is in power. The case of National Herald was registered while Congress was in power and the allegations of fodder scam were registered as soon as Lalu Yadav was in power in Bihar politics. But as soon as the power changes, these matters start accelerating which is also natural. After all, why would your political rivals not want to clear the way for them? Anyway, the party which has come to power by sacking the Congress is active in every organization from contesting elections. This was the effect of his activism.
Rahul Gandhi is being produced in the Enforcement Directorate office in the National Herald case. This is a court matter under the Indian Constitution. That is, if found guilty, the punishment fixed by the court will have to be served. There should be no justification for posters like ‘I am not Savarkar’, ‘I am Rahul Gandhi’ against the action of constitutional institutions. Congress workers, before putting up the poster of Savarkar, forgot that Rahul Gandhi had apologized in the court for the statement using a special word for the Prime Minister.
It can be argued that Subramanian Swamy, who brought the National Herald case to the court, later slowed down. On December 7, 2015, the Delhi High Court had given a stay order in the National Herald case. But this case was not dismissed. Whether the matter is small or big is not the issue. The issue is the attitude of Indian politics regarding corruption, which also prepares the mind of the Indian people. On the issue of corruption, you should silently move towards judicial institutions, then your party starts showing power on the street.
2014 was the turning point in the history of Indian politics when corruption became the biggest issue of elections. After Anna Hazare’s agitation and aggressive election campaign of BJP, it was felt that the atmosphere of the country would change. Seeing the storm of opposition that had arisen against the country’s Jamai’s earnings (Robert Vadra), the common people started to feel that Robert Vadra would be in jail as soon as the Congress left and the BJP came. It should be noted that the case of Vadra predates the NDA government in 2014. Like every case, that case too was going on in the court. But the opposition BJP has shown that corruption greater than this had not happened on this earth before and will not happen in future.
For the first time, the people of the country took the eradication of corruption as a thrill and removed the Congress. Congress lost power but the court cases related to Vadra are going on in the same way. They are not in jail yet. They cannot even go to jail without completing the court proceedings. They may be found guilty or they may go into a vacuum like a coal mine allocation. The issue was so much that the BJP wants to find every crack of the Congress in the matter of corruption and show it to the fullest.
From Bihar to Tamil Nadu and from Karnataka to Delhi, the sad part is that instead of being ashamed of an allegation of corruption, any party takes it as a show of strength. From Tamil Nadu politicians to scam convicts in Bihar. The activists of these leaders and the academic and ideological groups associated with them display them as messiahs. If any leader got jailed and many leaders did not, then there are lawyers appearing in the court behind it. Up to ninety percent of the case depends on what arguments and evidence your lawyers present. In recent times, it has also been seen that in the case of UAPA, if a particular person got bail, then someone is still in jail.
It is better to look at such cases through the prism of caste and religion, also from the point of view of the ability of a lawyer. Recently, a university teacher got bail easily for a remark in the Gyanvapi case, but many people are still in jail in comparatively similar cases. The only reason behind this was that the teacher had to get the argument of a competent lawyer.
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are not the first Congress leaders who have been ordered to appear before the investigating agencies. If we look at the cases on Indira Gandhi in the Janata Party government, then at a glance they may seem strange. But Indira was a strong leader in the eyes of the public, as soon as her political rivals realized that she was no longer in power, she should be convinced of her throne and her being God.
Why should only Indira take the pleasure of arrogance of power, Vikalp also wanted to try his strength as soon as constitutionally right, as soon as he took the oath of the constitution. The Janata Party government may have been for a short time, but it vented its maximum anger against Indira Gandhi. Indira Gandhi also took the disaster brought by the Janata Party as an opportunity and managed to get back her hero-like image among the public.
In today’s era, the Enforcement Directorate’s record of conviction is so bad that it is easily seen as an ally of power. His scope and authority are also such that his work progress is affected by the political weather. In the 2014 elections, Arvind Kejriwal brought a storm of apology in most of the allegations of corruption against Congress and BJP leaders. The courts kept waiting that even if any of the evidences which were moving in trucks in the election grounds regarding the allocation of coal mines arrived on bicycles, then they too should enjoy the pleasure of delivering the historic verdict. But after the elections, these matters got buried in the mine of political lethargy.
2014 had raised an expectation that Indian democracy would become sensitive to corruption. But like most election promises, this too was broken. Political parties are now presenting the accused and convicted leader of corruption in a more messianic style than before. The way in which the questioning of leaders is being made the biggest opportunity for political demonstration, it seems that now weighing corruption on the scales of morality has become like weighing a frog. The party whose leader becomes the accused will jump off the scales and start making their own jumps. Everyone’s mantra is that if we do it, then there is pure conduct and if you do, then there is corruption.
Whether corruption is a big issue for our democracy or the corrupt practices of political parties regarding it, it is difficult to compare. It’s just become a musical chair game. The manner in which the Delhi Police’s workforce reached the Congress Party office located in a very special security area of Delhi is also worrying. In this game of your power and my power, constitutional institutions are being completely weakened. As sluggish as the Enforcement Directorate’s record may be, the demonstration scene created as soon as it is activated is like the Lokpal, a scene of mourning for the lost political correctness.