CVC QUITS
KRANTIKUMAR DHARMADHIKARY
THOMAS QUITS: A CASE OF SYSTEMIC FAILURE?
While it is heartening to know that the Supreme Court has held “illegal” the appointment of PJ Thomas as the CVC, the cleansing that has started with his resignation should not stop at that. The need is to look beyond the case as that of a single person and instead treat is as a “systemic failure”.
To start with, Kerala Chief Minister has admitted that he went ahead with appointing Thomas as state’s chief secretary in 2007 as he could not “antagonize the entire IAS lobby that had pushed for his appointment.” Had not the Kerala Vigilance and Anti-Corruption department pointed out his involvement in the palm oil case then?
It was this post that eventually led to Thomas’s Central deputation in 2009 and subsequent appointment as the CVC. Thomas claims himself as “a victim of political war” which is vindicated by the Kerala Chief Minister’s statement that he “took up the case and fought alone all these years.” If that had not been correct, Thomas’s name would not have been added in the palm oil case charge sheet later.
Further, the government claims that it was not aware about the charge sheet in palm oil case, a fact supported by the ex-CVC Pratyush Sinha. Then the question arises, if Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj can know about it and raise it at the appropriate platform, why did the Prime Minister and the Home Minister, the other two members of the selection panel, not take cognizance of the same. And now, the Supreme Court has laid down new guidelines for the appointment of the CVC.
What is evident in the whole affair is that it is a classic case of systemic failure wherein there are no tabs whatsoever to cross check and verify a person’s credentials when he is due for appointment to a constitutional post like that of the CVC.
There needs to be debate on related issues that critically point to system failure. The palm oil case has been pending before the vigilance and “an anti-corruption court” in Kerala since 1992. Nineteen long years, and still no hope of a verdict! No wonder, this case was never included in the dossier sent by the Kerala government to the Centre, when Thomas was being considered for appointed as a Secretary to the Central government.
The government too now has accepted this particular case as a systemic failure. That brings forth a question: If this being the case, why only Thomas should be singled out? Why only Thomas should quit? What about the system that encouraged a tainted person like him to climb the ladder to reach one of the highest constitutional posts?
The need of the hour is an overhauling of the system. Just like the CVC appointment, there is enough scope pointing to a similar systemic failure in case of 2G, Adarsh, CWG, black money and Pune businessman Hasan Ali cases. Thomas is likely to file a review petition in the Supreme Court? Will the apex court do justice to the complete case vis-à-vis the system?
LT COL (RETD) K R DHARMADHIKARY
Member, Board, Transparency International India (TII) New Delhi
M.K. Gupta
From: KRANTIKUMAR DHARMADHIKARY <krdh...@hotmail.com>
To: Humjanege <humja...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sat, 5 March, 2011 5:15:33 PM
Subject: [HumJanenge] CVC QUITS
Dr. Jagnarain Sharma
Thanks for the message.
It is a great news of the present day corruption in our country.
May God bless the King & the Singh
Regards
Dr JN Sharma
Sarbajit Roy
> May God bless the King & the Singh"
Dear Sharmaji
Don't you mean "Queen / Empress" instead of "King" ?
Empress Sonia and her army of bootpolishing Singhs
(Buta/MM/Montek ... ) are the personifications of corruption.
Where have all the Sirdars (like Kehar and Beant) gone
off to when the nation needs them most ?
Sarbajit
Dr. Jagnarain Sharma
You are not incorrect, as your observations are well conceived.
But leaving behind all politics being discussed, I WANT TO CITE A CASE.
I still remember that when Mr Manmohan singh was Governor RBI.
Mr Pranb was then Finance Minister, who wanted some work to
be done by Governor Manmohan Singh, which he DECLINED .
Again Pranab dada asked Mr Manmohan singh, again he declined.
Then high pressure was used against Mr Manmohan singh, when
he told Pranab Dada that he would rather prefer to resign from
Governor RBI. Then only the matter ended.
I also can understand that circumstances make a man like
that, as you see him today. Now there is lot of change.
The P.M. has regretted on the matter of appointment of CVC.
Yes I also say that appointment of Thomas was wrong.
With regards
Dr JN Sharma
ADVOCATE/ HUMANRIGHTS ACTIVIST
Sarbajit Roy
Gov RBI) demonstrated his pliabillity. Only pliable and rootless
persons (he has never won an election)
are appointed to high positions in Congress of Corruption. The fact
that he is at such a high position is evidence that he is highly
pliable / corrupt.
krishna kumar pande
In our country we have made a system where we see only what we want to see. The nexus of manipulation is costing the country
Prof Krishna Kumar Pande
Director (International Affairs)
Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Moradabad 244001
tmu.ac.in
+9837016153
sushil kumar
| CVC Thomas could be a plain victim, yes a plain victim. Judgments are based on the set of versions that are before the Hon'ble Judges. A tarnished man or woman is always prejudged. In this country , only all round corrupt have the strongest nexus. The honest survive only if they are plain cowards and dumb. The honest and the vigilant are burnt alive.The honest and daring are shot dead. The honest and impeccable are tarnished by engineering complaints against them. The Inquiry Officers are paid many Lakhs to render a Report as required by the system. The honest and whistle blowing are shot dead like Dubey. where where the honest and daring
are --- On Sun, 6/3/11, krishna kumar pande <pan...@gmail.com> wrote: |
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From: sushil kumar <drsush...@yahoo.com>
To: humja...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 9:27:41 AM
Indi Patriot
From: Sarbajit Roy <sro...@gmail.com>
To: humja...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 5 March 2011 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] CVC QUITS
I can cite 2 examples from my personal experience when M.M.Singh (then
Gov RBI) demonstrated his pliabillity. Only pliable and rootless
persons (he has never won an election)
are appointed to high positions in Congress of Corruption. The fact
that he is at such a high position is evidence that he is highly
pliable / corrupt.
On 3/5/11, Dr. Jagnarain Sharma <dr.jagnar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Roy Dada
> You are not incorrect, as your observations are well conceived.
> But leaving behind all politics being discussed, I WANT TO CITE A
> CASE.
>
> I still remember that when Mr Manmohan singh was Governor RBI.
> Mr Pranb was then Finance Minister, who wanted some work to
> be done by Governor Manmohan Singh, which he DECLINED .
>
> Again Pranab dada asked Mr Manmohan singh, again he declined.
> Then high pressure was used against Mr Manmohan singh, when