By Badri Raina, ZNet, September 13, 2011
It is a common recognition of Indian “mainstream” politics that however the various off-shoots of the Sangh Parivar may seem to be warring from time to time, they all obey the RSS.
A more macro version of the above is the following: that however the Congress and the BJP may be warring on issue after issue, both these faces of Indian Capitalism obey the Ambanis. And sundry other corporates that have any real clout.
Think of the many recent reports on corruption of one kind or another germinated by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG for short). Apart from the lip service done to this “constitutional authority” by all sections of the political class, the fact remains that its findings are now endorsed, now not by either of the two major parties, depending on how the reports of this body suit or not suit their realpolitik of the moment. Too many instances here in very recent public memory and media exposure to need recounting.
But, as the CPI(M) has just pointed out in a most instructive Press Release, when it comes to the CAG exposure of the corruption engaged in by the Reliance Group of Industries with respect to oil exploration rights and stipulations in the KG-6 deep water block, a pall of eloquent silence seems to have fallen over both the Congress and the BJP. Not a squeak thus far. True guru bhais in this regard, you may say.
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