What is happening in Delhi Politics now is the murkiest and dirtiest of bribing
Politics and Congress with SP is the main actor in the scene offering Cabinet
Ministership o JMM Shibu Soren, accused of proved bribery in earlier situation
during Rao's time and a murder of his PA, A State Ministership to his Party
JMM. Ministership for Ajit Singh and naming Lucknow Airport in his father
Charan Singh's name, and now Deva Gowda taking revenge on Bellary mine owners
supporting BJP , demanding Nationalisation of the mines and give a Ministerial
berth for his son Kumaraswamy..etc.
Several other deals too are going on behind the scenes as Congress wants to
cling on to power by any means, foul or criminal.
Has the Country lost its reputation of honesty and integrity by such open
bargainings and support to remain in power? Have the learned and exalted
educationists and former Governor of RBI stooped so low to betray the trust
imposed on him by the people?
Why didn't they have the courage to face the Parliament for discussions of 123
before going to G8, allowing U.S. to place the "top secret" draft in the
website and UPA following it on knowing the same?
Any Govt. which has resorted to these wily and corrupt practices has no
business to rule the Country and an upright President should have dismissed the
Govt. and called the three Chief-s of Defence to take over the Govt. until the
next elections are held.
India's esteem has touched a new low and other Countries are laughing at us on
seeing the manipulations for power!!
--- On Sat, 7/19/08, Dr.V.N. Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Dr.V.N. Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ =>> Jharkhand <<= ] SC permits Bribe taking by MPs but...........'
To:
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 7:07 AM
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The SC by its judgement permits bribe taking by MPs as given in the story
below. However, Removal of some MPs for taking money for asking Questions in
Parliament by Parliament itself indicated that MPs are trying to show
themselves as clean.
But sudden jump by SP to Congress camp, re-naming of Lucknow Airport,
bargaining by JMM MPs esp Sri Shibu Soren who has made a previous record on MPs
bribe case and PM meeting Ambani etc has washed the self cleaning mechanism by
Parliament. Congress is much above all other parties, out to make record on
bribes and Underhand deals and lowering the morality levels of democratic
behaviour. Now added by Sri Amar Singh the Congress Party will surely establish
a new record.
vnsharma
Cross Posting from JAGO-India Group by
"I K Chhugani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..>
Supreme Court Verdict In JMM Case Gives Immunity To Those Taking Money
Manoj Mitta | TNN
New Delhi: If horse-trading is going on in the run-up to the confidence vote,
as alleged by the Left, then it is only the bribe givers who are at the risk of
being hauled up for corruption. Thanks to the Supreme Court verdict in the JMM
bribery case 10 years ago, the bribe taking MPs enjoy constitutional immunity
so that their freedom to vote in the Lok Sabha as they like is not impaired.
All that MPs will have to bear in mind is that when they take bribes to bail
out the government or even to vote against it, they should ensure that they
actually cast their vote. For, according to the controversial judgment
delivered by Justice S B Bharucha, it is the action of casting the vote that
will save them from criminal liability. Such is the expansive interpretation
given to Article 105(2) of the Constitution, which says that no MP shall be
liable to any court proceedings in respect of “anything said or any vote given
by him in Parliament.”
To be fair to it, the apex court was “acutely conscious of the seriousness of
the offence” that the alleged bribe takers were said to have committed in the
JMM bribery case to help the Narasimha Rao government defeat a no-confidence
motion in 1993.
“If true, they bartered a most solemn trust committed to them by those they
represented,” Justice Bharucha said, “By reason of the lucre that they
received, they enabled a government to survive. Even so, they are entitled to
the protection that the Constitution plainly affords them. Our sense of
indignation should not lead us the construe the Constitution narrowly,
impairing the guarantee to effective parliamentary participation and debate.”
As a result, for the horse-trading that occurred in 1993, the SC dropped
corruption charges against 10 MPs belonging to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha or Janata
Dal (Ajit Singh group). But, ironically, Ajit Singh himself could derive no
immunity from Article 105(2) as he had abstained from voting.
SC cleared the prosecution of Ajit Singh along with six alleged bribe givers,
including Narasimha Rao and M Veerappa Moily. The lessons of the JMM verdict
would not be lost on Moily and Ajit Singh, who figure again in the ongoing
buildup to the trust vote.
Why the distinction then between the bribe takers and bribe givers? The bribe
givers were held liable to prosecution because although an MP taking a bribe
enjoys protection under Article 105(2), those who conspired with him in the
commission of that offence have no such immunity.
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