Scams and scandals, tapes and taps, theft and trickery, all these and more have dominated the capital's chatter circuit these past few months
Scams and scandals, tapes and taps, theft and trickery, all these and more have dominated the capital's chatter circuit these past few months. It just does not seem to stop. Yet it follows a somewhat pathetic life cycle of its own.
An expos ufffd is always followed by public anger and fuelled by a media circus. Then comes the government's delayed and often apologetic response, a promise of action and some minor punishments for those caught.
A few months of being treated as taintedu00a0and then it's back to normal for the really big fish.
Whether it's the CWG mess, the 'Adarsh land scam', 'housing collapse' or the 'media gate' exposes, this pattern seems to repeat itself. Mostly, it is the 'little guy' who is caught and punished. The big guys, after all, are a part of the establishment and must come back to prop up the bar!u00a0
u00a0But beneath all this there may well be a flood of public anger which we don't see yet. The public will often wait to settle scores, not just once but even twice, as the recent Bihar elections and the destruction of scam-fuelled Lalu seems to prove. Dilli is, therefore, understandably nervous.
Insecure in Dilli The shocking rape of a BPO employee in South Delhi has again unmasked Dilli's anarchic real face. Clearly, crime in the capital is not an electoral issue, unlike in Bihar where women voters outnumbered men in the recent polls.
In Dilli, many women can be raped but it will not make a dent in the composition of the Lok Sabha or even the state legislature.
Delhi Police is beyond the control of the chief minister, and anyway its primary focus seems to be protecting politicians and other VIPS of dubious merit rather than the aam citizenry.
"Ugly Dilli" hits closer to the bone than the dreamy "world-class city" vision being pedalled by its political leaders.
