The former Union Minister, A. Raja, Kanimozhi and Suresh Kalmadi have been made members of the Parliamentary Standing Committees on Energy, Home Affairs and External Affairs respectively.
Raja, who was arrested in the 2G scam case on February 2 last year, is on bail since May 15 this year.
Kalmadi, an accused in the Commonwealth Games scam case, spent about nine months in jail before being released on bail on January 19 this year.
DMK MP Kanimozhi, also an accused in some cases related to the 2G spectrum allocation, has been nominated to the Standing Committee on Home Affairs.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has been made a member of the Standing Committee on Finance, headed by BJP leader Yashwant Sinha. In the reconstitution of various committees, Tiruchi Siva of the DMK has been made Chairman of the Standing Committee on Industry, while Brajesh Pathak of the BSP has been made Chairman of the Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare.
Keywords: Parliamentary Standing Committees
What a Shame ! we can form committees ONLY of corrupt in any country governed by corrupt - no escape; No way out; accept and adjust only alternative left for us! GOD, are you listening to our prayers - hope you respond and help us !!!
Promotion to Raja, Kani
I once cheated in my 8th grade exam. Can I be apply for membership of Committee for Higher Education, Human Resource(fullness) and Progress by Alternative Means.
Like it not, innocent until guilty.
If any Govt.servant goes to jail even for one day, he is dismissed from service. His gratuity, pension benefits are totally withdrawn. Here, we give the Govt.representatives, Bonus for their having excelled in Corrupt practices. What a shame on the Head of the Rulers of the Country?
I don't want to use any bad words in the public forum. But really
shouted out every word after knowing this decision of the Government.
not surprised at all on the appointnents!Moral standards,niceties have been given up, long back, when tainted politicians were appointed in plum posts like GOVERNORS ETC..!!
natarajan.
This is really height of Indian politics. The politicians who are facing big ticket corruptions, which talks of crores of rupees are being honored by electing them to committees. Nothing is more shameful for the Indian govt. This should atleast open the eyes of Indians who are going to vote in the coming elections. Isn't time to change the face of our Indian politics. The people in power are always winning the battle, we are left to watch their ill doings. Please be more active in changing the our face of politics.
Who has nominated these two individuals. Whomsoever has done so they are completely out of touch with the mood in the nation.Just scanning the comments section of any national newspaper would reveal how much anger there is under the surface.
Shocking news. Are there any moral standards ?
What comment I can make on this shameless government? I have no words.
If a person commits a crime, he is not eligible for govt. job and a govt. employee gets pension only if he works for a minimum period of 15 years. But an MP can be a minister or appointed to committees even after being put behind bars and he gets pension and all the benefits even if he is MP for three years.
Good Bless india --- Pity on this country who depend only of Scam ridden and corruted leaders
The real question is not whether these MPs should be members of
national policy formulating bodies, but whether people with criminal
convictions/charges should remain as MPs – allowed to make national
laws and in charge of national interest?
Given recent national plunders, should citizens not demand changes to
the electoral rules well before 2014, so that in the next General
Election, candidates with criminal background are disallowed from
standing as candidates, AND there is a strict limit on campaign
expenditure so that crooks are deterred from “buying their way into
parliament”?
This is such a disappointing news!! For Country's sake how can we ever
let people like these even get back in Parliament??
This is really really depressing piece of NEWS!!
SHAME!!!!! Law breakers rule this country!!
How can it be legal for those accused to be members of the parliament (or any committe within)? It makes absolutely no sense, and ofcourse it's going to be difficult for a corrupt parliament to make the change to any laws here.
Where is the national outrage? Where's the extensive media coverage? Seems like Indians are so used to corruption at all levels, have generally internalized and accepted corruption to some extent, and otherwise have a defeatist mindset.
It's hard to find positives here, but the hope is that the corruption will affect the corrupt themselves or their children at some point, and they have the power to reform the system. Or perhaps some sense of historical legacy will guide atleast the leaders to try and play some part in eliminating corruption. A somewhat comforting thought is that we Indians aren't alone here - afterall the capitalist, free market system that the majority of countries in the world follow is by itself a form of institutionalized corruption
The inclusion of the tainted in the parliamentary panels only suggests how ineffective the panels will be. Is it a case that the Centre does not have meritorious candidates to nominate in the panels? What a shame!
I found it utterly disappointing to see this news restricted to a mere corner on the printed version of the newspaper.I think that in the wake of showing itself as a neutral newspaper the editors of this eminent group have lost their conscience of giving priority to the news of national importance.
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India has become a wild wild west for the politicians...
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SHAME SHAME SHAME !!!!
Is there anything in the hands of common public to stop this from happening? Or, is it one more thing where we have to sit and take the bitter pill? Who is accountable? Can not we write to some authority at the very least?
By Swaraj I mean the government of India by the consent of the people as ascertained by the largest number of the adult population, male or female, native born or domiciled, who have contributed by manual labour to the service of the State and who have taken the trouble of having registered their names as voters….Real Swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be obtained by education the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
M.K. Gandhi Young India, 29-1-‘25 (India Of My Dreams)
If I commit a crime and there is a case pending against me in the court,
I am not eligible to apply for a government job. Why does this not apply
to politicians??
what i read posted in the comments are true but our govt does not follow it cannot change the country nor the piliticians
Hip hurrah! Corruption is legal.
Are they mad? Or so removed from everyday life that their 'common' sense is no longer that common ? When will this government learn...this reeks of a profound disregard for the connotations and real implications of the insidiousness of corruption, brushing it under the carpet, hoping it will go away, normalizing it. How unfortunate.
Aren't these action heights of encouraging corruption??
Can't do anything apart from blaming the Govt.? Are we so helpless??
Don't we have right to say/shout loud NO, this isn't right.!!
This is atrocious...You can do a cold blooded murder & get away with it...This is the current state of affairs in India
Democracy is the last resort of a scoundrel!!
Actually this the blackmailing to the ruling party congress. All the corruption is done by these alias parties and image of the congress party effecting. So it is very difficult to rule on country with alias.
Now congress should not afraid from these persons like the former Union Minister, A. Raja, Kanimozhi and Suresh Kalmadi and try to throw them out.
Shouldn't they be banned as they may taper with the evidence against them, in the scams, by utilizing the positions?
Three ministers proved to be at the heart of various scams worth a lot of money and they become members of the standing committee.
This happens only in India.
As Bhuvan has pointed out, we have got used to the rotten smell that we don't feel it any more.
I can't see why foreign countries want to do business with India. Maybe they see it as a place where bribes, big and small can get the work done at various levels.
It is only in India where these politicians who are the main accused in the the telecom and CWG scams are accommodated in such panels to decide on what the country needs to do in Energy, security and external affairs. What has happened to the cases for which these criminals were behind bars for several months? Knowing how the Indian Judicial system works it will not be surprising if the cases are diluted and these people simply let off so that they can aspire for better positions. Imagine Raja or Kanimiozhi as the CM of Tamilnadu !!
China may not have a good judicial system but the system is very sensitive to major crimes or scandals where instant justice is meted out. The head of the Dairy was shot after the major scandal in which milk was adulterated with melamine. This killed several babies and there was a public outcry.
We need such justice to deal with our criminals who also double up as politicians. This may be construed as a cruel comment, but there is no other way !
This is amazing! Earn a few thousand crores in a few scams, spend a few months in jail, and you are sure to score a seat in the Parliament! Now this is LIFE! :D
A student's name is entered in a police register he is denied any government job. There is stringent rules for ordinary government servants if they are caught in graft cases. But unfortunately people like A. Raja, Kanimozhi and Kalmadi who have chargesheeted by CBI for India's biggest scams are nominated for parliamentary standing committee! Kalmadi mentioned to the Suprement court that he was suffering from loss of memory disease and so he could not remember the details of the Commonwealth games contract details. How can he now be fit enough to be appointed to the Parliamentary standing committee? Are all Indians stupid enough to forget the scams at this short period? Do we need the Supreme court again to strike them from the panel like it did for the Central vigilance commissioner?
Such a heart-warming story for all corrupt people in this country ! The sensex should go up on this note!!
If this is the part of UPA reforms spree then they are going too fast.
Unpopular reforms which might yield good returns is accepted. But making
the mass feel that the Govt. really doesn't care much about public
sentiments in their seriousness about fighting corruption is foolhardy.
That does't look good at all
My first thought when I read title of this story was this is an April fool joke. This isn't April. I just couldn't believe what I just read in the story, we never fail to recognize the corrupt. Ever?
What a shame? Out of 542 members of 15th Lok Sabha, not a single deserving Member exists in the house who can sit in these committees in place of above mentioned three.
The whole system is so rotten that we don't even smell bad odor anymore.
It is very difficult to digest, that lawmakers who are alleged with corruption charges and are tainted to their core are in the standing committees. Wondering if opposition parties can do anything about these appointments
Is this legal? That someone who is on bail in an ongoing case of fraud is allowed to be on a parliamentary standing committee? If it is, what happened to moral standing and does democracy make sense??This is similar to the fact that a large percentage of our parliamentarians have a criminal record. How does one retain faith in the system when all this is coombined with corruption scandals erupting every week?
No surprises here! In India tainted parliamentarians can get away with any sin and still get back up to power. And the people are even worse. They vote out a corrupt government and then bring it back to power after a brief respite of five years!
I wonder what message this sends to the people of India and to the rest of the world.
It is ridiculous to note that the accused who are yet to be given clean chits have been made members of the Parliamentary Stg.Committee. What is the aim of the Govt.?
Democracy has worked well for the accused.
Economic offences committed by these highly placed elected reps are
against the public and for personal gains. It is amazing how these individuals find places in Parliamentary Committees? It is an insult
perpetrated by the UPA Govt on the country as a whole. There must be a
law which makes the economic offences as criminal offences and also
bestow the right to the voters to call back the elected reps once it is
reasonably established by CBI that these individuals indeed committed
the offence. God save the Parliament and the country!
This is utterly shameful and disgraceful for democracy. It gives me the feeling - 'sub chalta hain in my India'.
shame on the political parties who have nominated these tainted people.
its only a reminder of our political ethos which is embedded in us. GOD
save Indian Democracy.
Shows the kind of experience needed to be chosen as a member of the parliamentary standing committee...quite disappointing..
Birds of same feather!
What a shame! Is there anyway we can overhaul our judicial system to get
speedy trials? Just sometime back, a jury in the United States gave
speedy verdicts in the Rajat Gupta insider trading trial. Why can't we
have the same in India?
This is a joke, right ?
Surely there are better candidates to these positions than these tainted politicians! This is like spitting on the faces of the public and displaying not even an iota of responsibility and moral judgement.
Of course, this is India. Stranger things are known to happen and will continue to happen.
Regards,
Ramesh
Is there no such thing in this country as speedy trial and then punishments for the guilty?
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