Indian PM says India is not a scam-driven country
India‘s academic and soft-spoken leader decided that lofty abandon was no longer a sustainable tactic. Singh, a rare and reluctant speaker, sat for an hour-long grilling by India’sleading television editors, an interrogation carried live nationwide.
Singh’s message was twofold: that the government was “dead serious” about rooting out corruption and that the media, which has relentlessly exposed corruption in his coalition government over the past six months, should stop putting the country down.
Response from the main opposition party:
“Nobody for a moment has suggested that he is guilty of any personal misdemeanor,” said the BJP’s Arun Jaitley. “But his culpability is lack of political leadership, lack of assertion and lack of courage to stop corruption when it was taking place.”
I liked the response. Indian democracy has always been dynamic, but it’s matured, too.
Source: Singh says hes no lame duck, and India is not a scam-driven country.
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