Opinion Runaway investment
The lead editorial in the RSSs Organiser talks about the flight of capital from India.
Runaway investment
The lead editorial in the RSSs Organiser talks about the flight of capital from India. Referring to the overseas plans of big business houses,it says Indian corporates are finding it lucrative to invest abroad. The editorial also says that these industrial big-shots contribute billions to foreign universities where they studied,and wonders whether these are goodwill gestures or PR exercises to create a friendly investment climate while Indian universities starve for funds. India,they take for granted,and behave as if they have a birthright to loot and scoot. The editorial claims that a lot of the investment these industries are taking overseas is partly funded by corrupt politicians who find it safer to invest abroad.
Trial balloon
While the RSS and its alleged terror links have emerged as Digvijaya Singhs favourite topic,the Sangh is also unsparing in its counter-attack on him. A columnist in Organiser is of the view that Singh needs to be brought to justice for fanning communal passions. Calling him a
congenital liar,the article says his statements are not off-the-cuff remarks and that he is an unofficial spokesman
for Sonia Gandhi and is Rahul
Gandhis mentor.
Rahuls obnoxious statement comparing RSS with SIMI the banned terrorist outfit was presumably prompted by Singh who,it is believed,is the head of the partys Dirty Tricks Department. His actions and utterances are exploited by the Pakistan government and its media to spread venom against India and Hindus, it adds. The Panchjanya is also scathing about Singh,asking whether he was a supporter of Pakistan-sponsored terrorist elements.
Whos afraid of a JPC?
In an article on the 2G spectrum scam,the Panchjanya puts the blame for the the parliamentary stalemate on the ruling coalition,saying that neither the government nor the Congress party was interested in breaking the logjam because they wanted to avoid a debate on corruption.
Attacking the government on the scam which has shaken the foundations of democracy in India,the article says that the opposition was right in saying that corruption and the smooth functioning of Parliament
cannot go hand in hand. It says it was only the stubbornness of the Congress party that kept Parliament paralysed for a record 22 days at a stretch. Sonia Gandhis statement that the government does not have anything to hide and would unearth the truth in the scam has been proved to be completely
hollow, it says. While the entire
opposition unitedly demanded a JPC ,the government kept ridiculing democratic norms,it says.
Knowing the fact that its recommendations are binding on Parliament,the government is afraid that even the prime minister might not emerge unscathed. The day-to-day functioning of the JPC and its regular media briefings would
ensure that the issue of corruption is kept alive,which is a big threat to the plans of the Congress,especially Sonia Gandhi,of making Rahul Gandhi the prime minister in 2014, the article says.
The article adds that the Niira Radia tapes have to be seen together with the 2G spectrum scam. The Radia tapes have shown how corporate interests have hijacked the government machinery and how lobbyists have established a strong hold over government,bureaucracy and the media, it says.
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