Corruption is a product a depraved mind. Not with standing all encomia about the vast attainments of this country, it is, in fact, the most corrupt one in the world today. Call it the fastest growing super power, a shining a s star in the world, it is all the same, showing a sharp decline morally.
Globalization has brought the loot mechanism in this country through giant investments and through the unconscionable, ambitious lot. All the big scams in this country actually are deals to loot. The land deals, telecom deal, defense deal, loan waiver, coal allocation deal, mines deal, forest deal, fertilizer deal and many more that are nothing but the loot mechanism at work, where a few networked individuals could just siphon off the public money amounting to thousands and lakhs of crores at one stroke in a shockingly well planned manner! There resourceful operators have a hold over Government Officials and organizations at the highest level. More & more shocking thing is that now, sometime in this country few MP's become CONMEN and CONMEN become MP's.
There is yet another significant difference between corruption and loot. While in corruption, the players involved are sort of something to achieve their desired goal, the loot is methodically conducted by a new breed of fixers who have developed the abilities to do and undo everything. These looters are all those sleek looking, smooth talking 'CONMEN' called fixers, who have learnt the fine art of getting things done at all levels. These are the people who are, well-heeled with best dresses and will be driving in the best of cars, eating in posh restaurants, traveling abroad for holidays and owning bungalows in the best of the locations across the country.
They move in the company of top bureaucrats of the country including top official of CBI & IB, top politicians. Not only they move with them but these CONMEN also safely keep the ill gotten wealth of top politician and bureaucrats and also help getting their wealth invested in land and share market. They are the ones who are always at the right place, at the right time & have the necessary networking that works be it in police, bureaucracy, ministries, parliament and even in the PMO and even in the judiciary and thus they go on making deals after deals and make huge money. More shocking part is that now even the females have stepped into the field of fixing and added their name in the list of CONMEN as CONWOMEN.
Is there really any meaningful way to expose these vultures and deny them all the undue rights and unfair advantages that they usually take in growing more powerful in presence of a weak and dual leadership that the nation suffers fromIJ The CBI should just make public the names of all these big CONMEN and women. They may be few hundred in numbers and spread in all over the country but all the names should be there in CBI websites as undesirable connections.
But the big question is will CBI ever take an effective actionIJ Will the Director CBI ever allow doing thatIJ Or fearing some action from the top, worthy men in CBI will still live in fear, letting the CONMEN move with full gear to tear that comes on their way. Only Director of CBI knows the answer. For the sake of the country, if they don't do it now, the CONMEN will operate more and more and the nation will have to suffer forever. So long the execrable nexus between the politicians, bureaucrats, judicial - religious big wigs and CONMEN continue till then the venal practices will go on uninterruptedly. An effective remedial call for a change in the psyche….Till then” Mea Culpal!
I want CONMAN & CONWOMAN and their associates to remember just one line of that famous song of Indian wisdom” 'Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhee Jaye Tau Kya Hai'' …So what if you get the whole world at your feet , and have already lost your soul…!
Writer is Chairman of Paras Foundation