Friday, November 06, 2009

The recent Madhu Koda scandal raises once again the question (as I believe that I am no novel thinker) :
"Should corrupt politicians be charged with deliberate murder ?? Why??
because they swindle astronomical quantities of public money that could have been used to prevent children from dying off hunger, from getting malnutrition ed, could have prevented suicides of farmers. Aren't these two issues deeply coupled?? Atleast one constitutional machinery (legislature, executive, & judiciary) has to start taking the lives of citizens very-very seriously. As these corruption scandals hold (relatively) less incentives for judiciary so it appears they are the natural choice for the above task. Its time, judiciary makes an example out of these moochers. A precedent has to be set which acts as a very effective deterrent. Nothing less than life sentence for Koda, death penalty even better"

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