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8226; The Sunday Express serves as a national watchdog with its 8216;8216;Express Exclusives8217;8217; every week. The expose on Civil ...

8226; The Sunday Express serves as a national watchdog with its 8216;8216;Express Exclusives8217;8217; every week. The expose on Civil Aviations Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy, 8216;8216;Mr Rudy, for a start, can we see reforms here8217;8217;, is a case in point. How can an ordinary tourist leave a five-star hotel without paying the bill? So isn8217;t Rudy guilty of misusing his ministerial position by forcing a private hotel to allow him to leave without paying his dues for a personal visit?

Subhash Chandra Agrawal

8226; It is not sufficient for a Minister to be clean. He has to appear clean in the eyes of the voters too. Considering that it is election-eve, Rudy should have the wisdom and courage to submit his resignation to the Prime Minister 8212; not because he may be guilty but to protect the image of the BJP. In fact, it is Rudy, and not the Congress or CPI, who should demand a CBI enquiry to clear his name.

M Sundaresan

8226; In his column, 8216;8216;What Jaswant8217;s budget means8217;8217;, P Chidambaram has used the cricket metaphor quite aptly 8212; that Prime Minister Vajpayee8217;s first three batsmen Finance, Railways and Commerce Ministers have set a target of 300 runs. But in the present scenario, he is wrong in claiming that the score is not unbeatable. By all accounts, the coming Lok Sabha polls are going to be a clean sweep for Vajpayee and his team. Sensing this, the BJP decided on early polls, hoping to get a near majority on its own.

Madhu Agrawal

8226; Tavleen Singh8217;s column, 8216;8216;From the grand old party to a family firm8217;8217;, held no surprises. Gandhi bashing is all she does. She questions Rahul and Priyanka about their views on our nuclear policy, Nehruvian socialism etc. The brother-sister duo haven8217;t even joined active politics yet. Why doesn8217;t she pose the questions to Prime Minister Vajpayee. He8217;s been a politician for over five decades, and a PM for over five years now. Yet the country doesn8217;t know where he stands on major issues. Is he for or against liberalisation? As for a personality cult in the Congress, isn8217;t the BJP guilty of it too, banking only on Vajpayee.

Roy Skaria

8226; I fully concur with Tavleen Singh8217;s views. Congressmen criticise the dynastic politics of other parties like Samajwadi Party, DMK and National Conference, but are guilty of the same offence. Men of merit have always been sidelined in the Congress. Loyalty has always been given preference. This loyalty came at a price 8212; corruption in the party. It8217;s the ruling party which sets the trend in politics. Having ruled for 45 years, the Congress cannot escape responsibility for corruption, nepotism and goondaism in the country8217;s politics.

Sandeep B Nimbark

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