Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right

Mon Aug 12 13:47:50 2002
Name:O.P. Kapur
Email:omprakashkapur@rediffmail.com
Your Views:There is no need for Mr. Naik to resign. He has followed the system prescribed by Hon'ble Supreme Court. In fact he should be awarded Bharat Ratna for devising a system to short-circuit the system envisaged by the Court. However, wherever the system has got short circuited,the Hon'ble judges, who were appointed chairmen, should be brought before an appropriate authorities to answer the charges of succumbing to pressures, if at all. If we are at all sincere to root out corruption of this nature, it must be made compulsory to advertise teh list before the same is finalised, so that everyone knows it at the initial stage itself who is doing what. The discretionary powers vested with Ministers, for whatsover matter, must be withdrawn, if we want to make the system honest. Why any discretion for items involving commercial considerations? Why allotment of lands/flats to Minister/MPsx/MLAs/Beurocrats be the discretion of some? Whjy not these be advertised and allotted for best price. Afterall, the land belongs to everyone of Indian Citizen. Dishonest allotment robs us all.

Mon Aug 12 13:53:42 2002
Name:Rajesh S.
Email:rajesh_sarma1@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Mr. Ram Naik need not step down as he has only been carrying on a practice started off by the Congress. The Congress is responsible for all evils in this country.It advocates one theory for itself and another for others.

Mon Aug 12 14:10:24 2002
Name:Shreedhar Patwardhan
Email:shreedhar01@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Nothing wrong since Congress is doing since 1950.

Mon Aug 12 14:20:29 2002
Name:Vikram Vir Singh
Email:vikram.singh@maxnewyorklife.com
Your Views:he should insure that this is given to the oil companies to be given on bidding as they see fit. else he should go.

Mon Aug 12 14:27:26 2002
Name:shailesh
Email:shailesh_tiwari1@rediffmail.com
Your Views:yes because he has allotted the petrol pump to his relatives and party persons. people like him should be punished and sent them to behind the bars so next time no one would dare to repeat this mistake again.

Mon Aug 12 15:00:09 2002
Name:v.vishwanathan
Email:vichu@rediff.com
Your Views:Why should Mr Ram Naik resign? BJP is bold enought to cancell the allottments though the recommendations have also been made by Congress and CPI(M). I feel the Congress and CPI(M)should be thrown out of politics as they are self oriented and hold the country to ransom so often. Their Mr Jaipal Reddy should resign as it is the same mouth which was critical of the Congress a couple of years back.

Mon Aug 12 16:12:32 2002
Name:RAMAKRISHNAN
Email:RAM58_@HOTMAIL.COM
Your Views:Corruption is part and parcel of Indian society. A person who is not corrupt does not survive in the world which is full of hypocrite people. The socalled politicians who make the parliament look like we all are shameles people. They have got their own rules. If they are charged with corruption, criminal activities, nepotism etc. they are free to go scot free. When the supreme court framed rules for their conduct and eligibility these so called puritans of all virtues in life became jittery and framed their own rules to be eligible. Why ram naik is alone blamed for all the confusion vis a vis petrol pump scam. we have seen people who were having nothing, not even a good house to live on rent, now owning palatial bungalows, running around in latest cars etc. When people like a village officer or a tahasildar takes rs.100/- bribe the newspapers/media go to town blazing the corruption of them. But when the political masters are corrupt or caught with their pants down, they blackout the news. What happened to Hindu chief N. Ram and Chitra Subramaniam who brought out the Bofors papers, no more exposures. They bask in reflected glory of yesteryears. God save this country

Mon Aug 12 16:17:08 2002
Name:satish kumar dwivedi
Email:satishkdwivedi@hitmail.com
Your Views:there cannot be smoke without fire. The cancellation of the allotments by the PM is indicative of something fishy. Moreover one wrong does not justify another wrong. Even if one agrees that Congress was also involved in the scams when in power. it does not give BJP the license to endulge in similar plunder. What is more astonishing is that while Ram Naik claims credit for all the good things in his ministry, when it come to the present scam, he is pleading ignorant. Now even if he is ignorant, ignorance of a scam right under his nose does not absolve him of the scandal. Had he taken up the blame if nothing else on moral grounds, the BJP could not have lost face.Even now he should own up the responsibility on moral grounds and order a CBI inquiry as demanded by the opposition.

Mon Aug 12 17:29:31 2002
Name:Prasant Nambiar
Email:prasant_ne@rediffmail.com
Your Views: Yes he is guilty. He should step down from NDA Government.

Mon Aug 12 17:35:01 2002
Name:shakti
Email:shaktichandra@rediffmail.com
Your Views:How can cancellation of allotments help.Ideal condition would have been to put an independent enquiry, that will go through all the dealings and procedures of allotments. Cancellation of all the allotments made after Jan 2000, smacks of intentions to bury the evidence of scams. What do Govt. want to show by releasing the list of names of Congress people, who made recommendations. What do BJP want to show by demanding an inquiry in all the allotments made since 1983. They want to expose previous Congress Govt. But that is nothing new to people of India. All of know Congress has run the country in most corrupt manner. But its BJP that claims to be the party with difference. Is this the difference? And also when somebody says "you have done wrong", your response is "they had also done wrong in the past". If you are party with difference, you should have faced charges gracefully and with responsibility. You should do every possible thing to undo the unjust corrupt decision, instead of mud-slinging. After all we voted you , because previous Govts were corrupt and you are so called party with the difference. This is the difference.. Mud Slinging?

Mon Aug 12 17:46:20 2002
Name:tarun
Email:trip5658@rediffmail.com
Your Views:This is all bunkum and petrol pump scams have been happening for so many years during congress,UF and now under BJP goverenance. It is known fact that the allotment goes to the rich influential people. All major businessmen will have petrol pumps/gas agencies in any city and when you probe most of them will be relative of some politician or leader. This itself shows our system has gone to dogs. Mere cancellation is not going to help but all oil companies should adopt a uniform policy of running these services themselves to avoid the unwanted fingers being pointed out at them.

Mon Aug 12 18:08:47 2002
Name:R.Ranaganathan
Email:rranganathan42@yahoo.com
Your Views:When the opportunity came earlier the Congress also did the same thing of alloting to their people. At that time BJP which was in opposition shouted it as loot etc. Now they have gone beyond what Congress did earlier and now the Congress shouts them as loots. What is the difference between them. All political parties loot whenever the opportunity arises. There are standards for all sorts of jobs, exams etc. But there is none for our parlimentarians. The most arguable thing is they want to set the standards for themselves. Then why not students set for themselves, police for themselves etc. And the way the parliament functions, it is ashame. It is simply a waste of taxpayers money.

Mon Aug 12 18:21:17 2002
Name:kumar vivek
Email:vampirevivek@rediffmail.com
Your Views:no i strongly believe that mr ram nayak is not guilty because until and unless the alligations r proved no one can say that u r guilty . and if that happens then each and every indian politician r guilty.

Mon Aug 12 18:26:18 2002
Name:Abhijit Oke
Email:okeabhijit@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Ram Naik is a man of character. I believe he has not done this. And this has always been going on. So why the cry now? And look who is shouting. The Congress!! They are masters of corruption. I hope he comes out of this unscathed.

Mon Aug 12 18:27:59 2002
Name:Adnan Adeeb
Email:adnana@trisoft.net
Your Views:Its shameful, pathetic and just plain callous on Mr Naik's part to not take responsibility to what has become one of Independent India's worst possible scam !He should have the courage to stand up and apologise for the misuse of the system even if he adamantly announces that he personally has not benefited instead of giving the example of the misuse by the Congress party.

Mon Aug 12 19:00:23 2002
Name:sunil
Email:sun_yaar2002@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Ram Naik is not responsible on the controversial issue of Petrol Pump Scam. Responsible is the previous government who ruled the country for 50 yrs. Ram Naik is the most clean minister in the BJP Ministry till now. Its Congress game plan to make dirty government because congress is not in power & want to fool all the indian people by making such unbelievable scam. So congress is the worst party.

Mon Aug 12 19:02:51 2002
Name:Jai Sree Ram
Email:whocares@hindunet.org
Your Views:What bullshit. BJP is a "party with a difference" and will remain so. It is the party of LK Advani, Hindutva and Naren Modi - very very distinct from any other party.

Mon Aug 12 21:33:52 2002
Name:RKP
Email:randhirpandey@yahoo.com
Your Views:Its difficult to trust any one in Politics (Govt and Opposition together). I would rather question what happen to 'Bofors Scandal', Dear Sukhram et. al. Are our judicial system incapable to bring justice in larger interest of public. Today public is confused and continued mistrust is more damaging to political system of India. In this situation asking giving any public opinion is hard. Equally dangerous is scarping one decision and making no progress. In view simple rule of thumb let minister and govt. official take the decision and they should be accountable for any financial damage or consequences. We should concentrate in scruitnising the rule of the game, if all awaree belong/sympathiser of one party or the other how does it matter? provided they full-filled the set norms. As a media you should report and scrutnise these facts. RKP

Mon Aug 12 23:35:48 2002
Name:Subhash Gangurde
Email:subhash_gangurde@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Sir, looking at way the petrol pump allotted to the BJP office bearers. the petroleum minister must resign immediately.Naik should not wait for some on e to tell him to go away. he should also not justify on pseudo moral ground to retain his ministership.

Mon Aug 12 23:50:02 2002
Name:ashok pai
Email:ashokpai@hotmail.com
Your Views:this scam shares revelations of the old kind. the congress, need not make much out of this as they started the fine art of corruption to be adopted by all the other parties, en masse.

Tue Aug 13 00:00:39 2002
Name:arun kumar
Email:arunkumar@eudoramail.com
Your Views:like all others, from the last 50 years, the petroleum ministry has been a ministry of pain. they all deserve to go. i'd like to see the list of congressmen who reaped the benefits of the most corrupt dynasty of recent times.

Tue Aug 13 00:03:55 2002
Name:sunil k
Email:sunil104@yahoo.com
Your Views:if resignation were to be the norm, all the politicians should go on a permanent vacation.

Tue Aug 13 00:28:20 2002
Name:Anil Peter
Email:kittu_1991@yahoo.com
Your Views:Yes he is. But not just he every petroleum minister may be after 1983 was. Why does the goverment interfere in the allotment of petrol pumps. Instead the ministers should use the time for something good. Let the petroleum companies do it, as per certain norms put forward by the parliament or some body who can do justice. What do retired judges appointed by the corrupt politician's know about a petrol pump. Let them use their retired life for soemthing else good and don't feed these retired judges anymore, when so many youths are wandering for a job.

Tue Aug 13 09:30:54 2002
Name:Neeraj Singhal
Email:nksinghal@yahoo.com
Your Views:NO.. he should not. It is clear that what has happened was not new but merely a legacy, founded by Congress since the time of Pt (maulana) Jawahar Lal Nehru and subsequent congress regimes. What has angered congress & its leaders is that the 100% shares enjoyed by them and there kiths and kin's is now being rightfully shared ( e.g. kargil war widows) by others too. Has one forget the Cap Satish Sharma? Has one forget the allotment of shops on Janpath and Panchkuiya Road footpath. One can see these shops are growing day by day and some are even 20-30 ft deeps and encroached an area of about 1000 sq feet each. Over and above this they have built multi stories over this. IS Ms Shiela Dixit listening? Does she have no role or responsibility in this?

Tue Aug 13 10:05:23 2002
Name:v.k.srivastava
Email:vijayksri@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Don't know what you are going to do with these views collected from individuals but I thought to make use of this opportunity. For a common man today, it is quite clear that every thing wrong in the society is being backed by the politicians. We have to bear with them with no choice. It is really hard to find a clear politician, practically the whole lot is doing every thing for power. Politics is being dominated by criminals. Some body showing ingnorance about crores of rupees lying in his home... and lot of examples like that. Yes, what has happened in case of recent petrol pump allotment case, the govt. is only responsible. And issues like this are being used by political parties for their gains not for bringing cleanliness in the system. So the question is what we people should do now ...? What is our patience limit...? Let us come together friends and bring some genuine revolution.....

Tue Aug 13 10:15:14 2002
Name:JITENDRA SINGH SHAHI
Email:JSHAHI5@HOTMAIL.COM
Your Views:I don't think Mr Ram naik is guilty, It is the system. hum sub chor hai, to become imandar we may have to call Britisher to rule the country.

Tue Aug 13 10:23:24 2002
Name:U.N.Bhat
Email:unbhat@hotmail.com
Your Views:Mr Rama Naik need not resign.Mr Vajpayee rightly cancelled allottments. The fact is earlier, Congress had allotted to all its people and has no moral right to take on Mr Naik. What is very bad is corruption has set in everywhere and Mahatma's ideals are thrown away. Money making is the order of the day, be it in Municipal corpns,Panchayats irregularity everywhere, honesty is off.Unles we change election funding method and introduce quick judicial system for speedy punishment of even politicians, situation will not change.That is the need of the hour.Our political leaders should walk the talk and should be willing to sacrifice instead of amassing wealth for their kith & kin. All these scams are a national shame. In Bangalore when Loka Ayukta inspected City Municipal Corporations, in each Corporation money was spent but work was not done - allmost all the money went to politicians thru the their agents in the office - Public are cheated. Money making is rampant and that is how lavish spending takes place in elections-even for Corporators election. When it will change? Otherwise we can not progress and become a developed nation-all of us have to work for this, let us resolve.

Tue Aug 13 10:58:52 2002
Name:Mitesh Thacker
Email:mitty@rediffmail.com
Your Views:He should resign from a moral point of view, but going with the overall state of Indian Politics, he should resign only if Vajpayee promises that the next minister would not be corrupt, otherwise does it really matter ?? this is a question, which cannot be answered even by the polling method. Bechari public unfortunately has no right to reject (or do negative voting) for the candidate they think is not capable for ruling them. A dilemma that democracy cannot solve?

Tue Aug 13 11:18:16 2002
Name:snwahal
Email:snwahal@hotmail.com
Your Views:yes Ramnaik is fully guilty and all the congress people are crupt and they have taken country for a ride.Even the media is also crupt and they take side inly if those who favots them with gifts and what not.Whole system is corrupt.shame on our leders and media too and they talk of india and even then do do not feel that they have so|me responsiblity towards nation and to them self also

Tue Aug 13 11:26:23 2002
Name:ajay k srivastava
Email:ajayk_sriv@rediffmail.com
Your Views:yes

Tue Aug 13 12:17:44 2002
Name:dhiraj jain
Email:dhiroo@rediffmail.com
Your Views:yes,he should resign.it is mockery of the procedure of selection of dealers for petroleum products.all the people connected with politician as such are well to do and they take the businness opppurtunity from those who dont have.these people can afford to do some thing else as they are well supported by their respective parties. the deserving people should get this petrol pumps.let there be transperency by open auction.

Tue Aug 13 12:27:19 2002
Name:NAYEEM MANZOOR
Email:nayeemmanzoor@HOTMAIL.com
Your Views:Proofs (newspaper) shows that ram naik is guilty. eventhough govt. has cancelled all allotments, Ram Naik is guilty of it. because, a convict and those who sheltered the convict and those who vocally supported the convict are held in india. eg., when a demonstration was held against u.s. during US's Afghan operation, they were arrested. and no ministers are above law. All should be treated in the same balance.

Tue Aug 13 13:00:08 2002
Name:ANAND SODHANI
Email:andeeluv@yahoo.co.in
Your Views: even though this this is not a new scandal all allotments must be reviewed from retrospective effect ie from congress rule and all illegal & favoured allotments must be cancelled even w/o review by any commission enquiry etc this must include maruti dealerships & also gas agencies given to favoured people without merits mr naik must resign & live up to his mr clean image as he must know two wrongs dont make a right.

Tue Aug 13 13:06:47 2002
Name:Dr. Amitava Adhikary
Email:amit246@hotmail.com
Your Views:Yes, Mr. Naik is guilty and he must be sacked immediately. The tragic part is that our motherland is being looted by the corrupt politicians since mid sixties.

Tue Aug 13 13:25:49 2002
Name:akku
Email:akshay_singh@rediffmail.com
Your Views:He should resign and enquiry should be set up to find the truth from 1983

Tue Aug 13 13:37:42 2002
Name:DR. A.M. de SOUSA
Email:anildesousa@hotmail.com
Your Views:India is Too far Gone!! Only reimposition of the EMERGENCY under the current President;with setting up of fast track military courts to try political crimes/fraud/bribery/corruption for a period of 5 -10 years will cleanse this country. Most developing countries are unsuitable for democracy; and the evolution of Democracy is something India can ill afford given the pace of justice and competing corruption. It will be a small sacrifice to live under a benevolent Presidential "Dictatorship" with "Emergency Powers" than to be held ransom to this mockery of pseudo-democracy that is getting India nowhere!!!

Tue Aug 13 14:16:37 2002
Name:Seshi
Email:sashius@yahoo.com
Your Views:Yes, He should resign. It is unfortunate that the present governament is claiming that congress also did the same thing then why can't we? I am feeling very bad by reading our national leaders statements, many are shameless, They can talk anything. The petrolium minister should resign and the governament must release all the names who are involved in this scam. but i know nothing will happen to anybody.

Tue Aug 13 14:44:07 2002
Name:Anurag Banerjee
Email:Anurag_BAnerjee@hotmail.com
Your Views:The fundamental problem is too much economic power in the hand of the govt, hence power to patronise and hence corruption. Only solution is to privatise economic activity.

Tue Aug 13 14:47:49 2002
Name:manjerigopi
Email:manjerigopi@rediffmail.com
Your Views:No. the opposition has no moral right to demand anything in this matter. This is not the first time a petro station/gas agency/telephone connections and other things in demand were given to favourable people by various ruling parties. Pls ask the concerned to checkout the allotments as late as mr PVNs tenure. And how the previous govt. handled the case when the row came up last time. they pretended to be auctioning the pumps. but no bidders were allowed in by the appointed goondas. It looks like the present opposition MPs do not want to conduct any business in the house. They come to Delhi for their shopping or other pleasures. Can anybody justify the number of expensive hours lost by opposition walk out and adjournment over paltry issues. A scheme should be brought out to penalise the MPs not attending house sessions in this way. There cannot be a corruption free govt. in India nor anywhere else in the world. this absolutely true. anybody with a different view live in a different world.

Tue Aug 13 14:54:44 2002
Name:Vishal Kapoor
Email:vishy_kapoor@hotmail.com
Your Views:Let me ask you all...if you find dirt in a glass of water you are about to drink..what do you do? Try removing the dirt or empty the glass and fill it again. Guess and you will get the answer of the posted question. Its simply impossible to figure out one person whether he is a minister or a person who recommends his / her kin for a unwarranted favour. So its better to post our own view rather get misguided by so called People's representatives. In democracy, I have the right to say and so I say that resignation of neither Mr. Ram Naik or the government or for that matter whole opposition is going to make any difference. Why to debate over an issue when a prestigious institution like Parliament cannot expose the truth? I want truth. And I dare to ask...who, Ram Naik or Manmohan Singh is going to give me a clean system?

Tue Aug 13 15:12:29 2002
Name:Rajkamal
Email:rrkamal@sify.com
Your Views:Definetly not. If any bribe is involved then only he is. But the facts till date shows that he only favours some party personals. In my opinion, this is not a crime and therefore why should he resign. Obliging his party men is a common practise. How could one make objections for an allotment if allotee is a member of BJP or any other political party.

Tue Aug 13 15:21:29 2002
Name:Vijay Mahulkar
Email:vmahulkar@rediffmail.com
Your Views:He is guilty. He can not hide behind the name of commeettee or Judge. He should take a resposibility of what happened and resigned.

Tue Aug 13 15:29:01 2002
Name:vinod
Email:vinodkumarKG43@yahoo.com
Your Views:No Ram Naik Should not resign... More than the Opposition party, I think it is Journalists who are harming the country... Just to sensetionalize the things and push their markets, they are doing what ever they want ...even to the extent of harming the national interest...god save India from these Journalists who are biased... Why journalists are biased? Is there any selfish motive behind it?..Who is going to control them? Freedom Comes with Responsibility...More than politicians, it is for the journalists to understand it better...

Tue Aug 13 15:47:01 2002
Name:raju
Email:satishkumar@yahoo.com
Your Views:why hang only ram maik all who come in politics are thieves robbers and dacoits who is a person of consciousness which is clear and true I would like to tell all 542 MPs and all the members of all legislative assemblies are dacoiots and thieves

Tue Aug 13 16:26:24 2002
Name:methi raju
Email:irotateu@yahoo.com
Your Views:The Major issue of political lobying is excavated and brought to surface. Now it is an ideal time to remove the govt control over the allotment and make it a open business for any one and can seek directly the dealership from oil company. Ram Naik is not innocent, and needn't require to resign. every political party has used this for favouring their party workers for supporting them as a token of gratitude. Many at time mafia hands in dealing with petrol bunk owners. Indirectly this is evident from the entire episode that mafia and Politicians has links and interdependables. Do we require such set up? no it is not but we cannot do anything unless we bring this market under competitive market like telecom today. Prices should be fixed by the petrol pump owner and not the government. This makes the mafia unprofitable business to enter into and pump owners provide better service to its customers and politicians needn't involve in the allotment of the dealership and misuse their power for corruption. Methi

Tue Aug 13 16:33:12 2002
Name:J. David Rajkumar
Email:daviddark@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Yes...Indeed. Like all politicians, he also proves to be one of the rotten egg in the basket.By this time, atleast taking the moral responsibility of what has happened, he should have quit When he still clings to his chair, with absolute support from the PM and the Home minister, it clearly shows he wishes for power alone, and not the welfare of his party or the people in his mind. India no longer needs a democracy lest people like him to flourish. There should be a military rule at least for five years and let the all politicians rot in the wilderness for a while to know and learn what a real independence is.

Tue Aug 13 16:36:42 2002
Name:RUSTAM Q SHAIKH
Email:RUSTAMQSHAIKH@REEDIFFMAIL.COM
Your Views: Sir, the Bhartiya Janata Party is a party with a differnce. it surely does such things, like accepting bribes but in the sly. all the people involved in this scandal should be severly punished, a bit quickly, for a change irrespective of their party affiliation.

Tue Aug 13 16:45:07 2002
Name:saretha sahadevan
Email:saretha_s1@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Politicians of all cadre ,someway or sometime may have had a hand in this or similiar scams.But as Ram Naik's role in this scam has been proved beyond doubt he ought to be removed from office.The party without a difference has indeed made a "difference". If INC took more than 50 years to get the tarnished image of a corrupt party,BJP has surely created an all time record in such matters.

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