Nandhi Speaks……
Corruption
and Congress :
A
historical peep into past.
These
are days when everyday one scam comes out in media and people forget it after
few days. To refresh the memory of people let me place the corruption history
of Congress governments.
Jeep
Scam of 1947 : Pakistan invaded Indian territory of Kashmir and Indian army
needed Jeeps to travel in difficult terrain of Kashmir. V.K.Krishna Menon was
India’s High Commission to Britain. Like our Suresh Kalmadi, he placed orders
for 4603 Jeeps from a dubious company. You may ask what is wrong in it ? The
Jeeps were of poor quality. It was supplied after the War was over. Parliament
rocked. Ananthasayanam Iyengar Committee was constituted to probe the scam. It
had submitted its report which till date had not been made public. So the
Congress party which Mahatma Gandhi wanted to be disbanded once independence
was attained and become a Seva Sangh, started serving India with being the
first in bagging the trophy for corruption. Congress also taught Indians that
it can not only rule but can lay precedent to misrule by sending the first scam
report to cold storage.
First
corrupt politician to be jailed 1949 : The then Industries Minister of Vindhya
Pradesh Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh was caught red handed receiving a bribe of Rs
25,000 for renewing a diamond mine lease in Patna. Singh was imprisoned for 3
years. The first Congress leader to go to jail and starting the Corruption
brigade in Congress which now has Suresh Kalmadi as national show piece .
First
bureaucrat to be jailed 1951: There existed a quota for import of cycle parts,
and it was given to a sole importer benefitting that particular importer and in
this scam Union Industries and Commerce Secretary S.A.Venkatraman was sentenced
to three years imprisonment. The great honour of going to jail was conferred on
a Tamil Brahmin bureaucrat who taught the bureaucracy graftology.
Mundra
Scam that hit T.T.Krishnamachari 1957 : Life Insurance Corporation of India was
influenced by Finance Minister T.T.Krishnamachari to lend Harida Mundra of
Kanpur Rs 1 crore by purchasing shares in his firms with no real standing in
order to boost the prices of those companies in share market. Haridas Mundra
was jailed for 22 months. Finance
Minister T.T.Krishnamachari, a South Indian Brahmin had to resign earning the
reputation of first Union Minister to step down and for a Dalit Minister to get
this honour it took time till 2011.
Hasan
Ali of those days Teja Caper 1962 : Liechtenstein bank as safe have for black
money is very much in news nowadays, thanks to Hasan Ali popularizing that bank
and Puducherry Lt.Governor Iqbal Singh helping Hasan Ali get fake passport.
Jayanthi Dharma Teja set up a shipping company with a paid up capital of Rs 200
only. A Nehruvian recommendation got that company Rs 22 crore as loan. Jayanthi
Shipping Company of Dharma Teja pocketed all advance payments in his
Leichtenstein bank account. In this scam finally Dharma Teja was arrested in
London in the year 1970 . Het got six years imprisonment. But he escaped and
like Puducherry absconder Ravi Shah co-accused along with his brother Kamal
Shah who raped and brutally murdered his elder brother Ravi Shah’s wife
Parvathi Shah , Dharma Teja is absconder and Indians forgot this scam too.
Punjab
Scam of its Chief Minister 1964 : Allowing family members to amass wealth
disproportionate to known sources of income may be famous because of
Jayalalithaa’s disproportionate asset case but first Chief
Minister to fall prey to his family’s greed
was Punjab Chief Minister Pratap Singh Kairon. Dass Commission of
Enquiry indicted him and he had to step down from office.
Nagarwala
Mystery of 1971 : After liberating Bangla Desh Indira Gandhi was called as
Goddess Durga by Indian masses. Before 1971 because of Congress party split and
veterans like Kamaraj leaving Congress to start Old Congress which was known as
Syndicate, the Indira Gandhi Government survived with the support of 25 member
DMK Parliamentary party headed by orator Nanjil Manoharan.
Aringnar Anna
inculcated in the blood and veins of DMK cadre anti-congressim but Kalaignar
M.Karunanithi made the historical mistake of supporting Congress to survive,
which he must be repenting now in 2011.
In 1971 polls DMK-Indira Congress
alliance was struck. I still remember as Student DMK leader, the veterans of
Congress like R.Venkatraman, C.Subramanian, Mohan Kumaramangalam and others of
the Congress delegation standing before DMK President posing photographs
without sitting in available sofas to get only 10 Parliament seats with NO
assembly seat for Congress in the alliance deal. In such historical year of
1971 State Bank of India chief cashier got a phone call with someone speaking
in Indira Gandhi’s voice directing him to
give Rs 60 lakhs to her messenger, a former army officer Rustom Sorab
Nagarwala
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