It was a clear tactics of BJP top leadership to hide its helplessness in removing its tainted Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yedurappa under the bright shine of its victory in Bihar elections. News of continuance of BS Yedurappa despite media exposing all documents about his misdeeds to distribute public land like freebies to his family-members was shadowed out under other news-headlines on poll-results of Bihar elections. It is significant to note that even BJP’s bigger ally JD(U) in Bi...

Why the ruling coalition is always so averse to the suggestion of a Joint Parliamentary Committee on important matters is not understood. However a compromise formula put forward by Pranab Mukherjee may serve the purpose of a JPC. Mukherjee suggests attaching an investigating agency to the Public Accounts Committee [PAC]. If the government is placing an investigative agency at its disposal, the PAC gets the much needed weapon to work with. As the PAC is headed by the opposition’s Murl...

In the midst of on-going land scam charges, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yedurappa has misused government funds for his self photo-publicity by giving big advertisements in national dailies highlighting major ‘achievements’ of his government. Interestingly these achievements do not list misuse of specific powers to benefit his family-members by giving them costly land like freebies. Continuing in office despite strict-most strictures through blackmail of BJP high-command is perha...