Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Recommend with responsibility, but not alarcrity


Before becoming the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, Ikbal Singh was a Congress party Rajya Sabha MP and lokking after party’s affairs in Bihar. During his Bihar assignment, it is natural for him to come in contact with several state leaders of the party and Amlendu Pandey was one of them. Pandey approached Singh for the recommendation for the passport for the alleged tax evader Hasan Ali reportedly on the ground that his relation is seriously ill in some foreign country so he has to go to provide him help and see the patient.
Ikbal Singh has already denied having known to the accused in multi-crore money laundering scam of the country Hasan Ali. It might be possible. Because the political leader has professional responsibility to work for the people in need and win their support. But it does not allow the political leaders without knowing the people for whom they working.
It is the responsibility of the political leader to know that the influence he is exercising must be for genuine people and justified work. Political leaders in genral and MP, MLA and Minister in particular must not exercise their influence for some anti-social, crminal and kidnapper who want to use it for their criminal activity.
Ikbal Singh may not have done anything wrong intentionally or for any other motives but what he has done under the influence of the Bihar leader Pandey exposes how carelessly the political leaders exercise their day to day business. PMO has rightly given its nod to ED to question Puducherry Governor Ikbal Singh because it is also not possible that unless and untill without the blessings of some powerful political leaders, the money laundering scam of this magnitude as committed by Hasan Ali can not be possible. There must be thorough probe into Hasan Ali’s tax evading activities and his modus operandi of stashing away thousands crores in foreign bank. Hasan Ali may have stashed black money in foreign banks belonging to others for whom he might be working. All aspects must be probed thoroughly.

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