Great expose by Open Magazine. As the 2G scam headed by A. Raja unravels, some known skeletons are in there too. Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi’s conversations with Nira Radia (a big-shot in telecommunications) were made public. I’ll save you the trouble: Barkha was in on the scam, allegedly. I don’t know if her involvement can be considered not legal, but it certainly doesn’t seem ethical.

Audio links:

http://goo.gl/q05Ni

http://goo.gl/N3oyR

http://goo.gl/dQ3ih

http://goo.gl/SWpUP

http://goo.gl/rNwGF

Alternate link to transcript here.

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It almost feels like I am the only one not in this scam.

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Meanwhile, Manmohan Singh was seen in his office polishing his squeaky clean image. He has commendably stayed away from all corruption and scams — all because of his staunch Gandhian values: See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.

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Each scam/controversy involving the Congress has one victim who is thrown under the bus by the party (to save the party’s image): Kalmadi, Deshmukh, Chavan. This time around, it’ll be A. Raja.

To repeat though, Manmohan Singh remains clean. Everyone can continue forwarding e-mails about Singh being the most qualified head of a country. If you do want to worship him though, I’d suggest not prostrating right under his nose. He wouldn’t notice you.

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Update: Barkha Dutt will likely use the only weapon in her armor: sue for defamation. Journalists who should question the defamation clause in our constitution thereby limiting free speech seem to be the ones using it most often.

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