Volcker Report

Some hard facts that come out in Vocker's damning report.

1] A Congress delegation headed by Natwar Singh visited Iraq in January 2001. Jagat, Singh's son accompanied them in the capacity of youth Congress party worker.

2] Four allocations of one million barrels each was made to the Congress but no individual is mentioned.

3] The delegation handed over a personal letter from Sonia Gandhi expressing solidarity with Iraq regime (get the drift here)

4] "Natwar Contract" as its called in the report made roughly around 12.05 crores profit. "Congress contract" made another 2.93 crores INR.

5] Andaleeb Sehgal a close friend of Jagat was present in the meeting and acted as middle man.

Source : India Today

From above it is clear that the smoke is not without the fire. It is not proved conclusively though and may not be even be proved considering that only limited privileges have been given to Justice RS Pathak committee which is inquring into this scandal.
But that is expected. As it should be expected of a Congress run regime. Congress and corruption have a very healthy relationship and this marriage is now generally accepted by the people of India. People actually expect Congress to be corrupt and such exposes have become more or less mundane in India.

But thats not the point at all. If i recollect correctly , during the NDA rule, the media went out of the way to put the Government on the mat whenever a scandal was discovered. Indian Express carried a seperate link on its website for several days ( i believe more than a year) for what it called the "petroleum scandal". (Which btw pales in comparison)
The Times of India carried editorials after editorials demonising NDA and George Fernandes. The Hindu , off course , as one would expect was hitting Vajpayee below the belt at every opportunity.
Apparently they were doing their duty as a vigilant entity of the society and democracy. Fine.
But where has that virtue of the fourth estate vanished all of a sudden. No hard hitting article, no dedicated links on website, no nothing ! No one barring India Today dared to question the government on this ?

Volcker Report is another classic example of how badly the media in India is skewed in Congress and Left's favour. Unless we have a balance in the media there will never be a possibility of objective analysis of nation's problems. Congress will always be spared and BJP will always be the villian.

Sadly most readers take the journalists on their face value. Whatever is written or spoken by TOI/NDTV is taken as a gospel truth.
As educated individuals we should have the ability to recognise the bias in the media reporting. Sadly even people with good education lack the ability to look beyond the obvious. Most actually do not care and go along with what is fashionable.

Newspapers like TOI and organisations like NDTV are according to me the biggest culprits of our generation. Sadly they also are the market leaders. But India always had wrong heros, didn't we?