Hindustan Times
It started out as a vote to justify a moral stand. It ended up as the bonfire of parliamentary political morality. How long will it be before Indians can live down the spectacle of MPs brandishing wads of cash on the floor of the Lok Sabha? Those pictures, beamed all over the globe, have shamed the world’s largest democracy.The only thing that can be said with
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 10:55 am
Filed under Views · Tagged Congress, democracy, Indians, Lok Sabha, morality, MPs, parliamentary, pictures, political, Prakash Karat’s
One of the perils of being a journalist is that people think you know everything. I am now used to being asked for my views on how UP will vote, how long the UPA government will last, whether inflation will be controlled and if a Cabinet reshuffle is imminent. In fact, as anybody who has been around journalists will tell you, we are usually the most ignorant persons in the
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(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Filed under Views · Tagged BSP, Congress, election, electoral, journalist, Left, parliamentary, parties, people, Rahul Gandhi, regional parties
