No doubt the sudden and mysterious deaths of people associated with Vyapam are alarming, but we must, as dispassionate readers, allow for the possibility that some of them died the natural way (“Medical college dean found dead”, July 6).
Vyapam as such is the symbol of the terminal rot in our systems of governance. The political implications of this scandal for the ruling BJP are obvious and its claim of being a party with a difference is on the line.
J. Akshobhya,Mysuru
It was not very long ago that prominent members of the BJP proclaimed that the NDA government’s biggest achievement was that there was not even a whiff of a scam in one year of governance. Such virtuous self-praise has now been squarely eclipsed with reports of one major disparaging story every other day. The Vyapam serial, and unaccounted for, deaths remind me of 10 people assembled on an island and killed one after another in a mysterious fashion, as portrayed by Agatha Christie in her absorbing novel, And Then There Were None .
It is odd that the top leadership of the BJP has fallen silent. The “don’t care attitude” is rather disconcerting.
S.N. Sarma,Bengaluru
