It Cost Very Little To Buy India ? By A Retired Colonel

 It Cost Very Little To Buy India ? By A Retired Colonel

The Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam -- one of

the many,has become a side issue of the Diplomat Deviani

case with US Government --in all of which, neither country

is coming out with flying colors. 

Predictably Maharashtra government has rejected the panel report  

in its effort to save the politicians and bureaucrats and in the bargain

also given respite to the uniformed corrupt.

What does it cost to buy India? Apparently, very little

(Written with passion by a Retired Colonel)   (pity, he remains

anonymous -- Ronnie)

"The method of Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scamsters of

Mumbai was disarmingly simple. They simply co-opted in their scam

whoever looked like standing in the way. If we judge the strategy by

its results, it was spectacularly successful. It indeed disarmed everybody.

From just 30-odd members, the eventual group grew to more than a

hundred. Each new entrant not only removed a roadblock on the way

but also increased the size of the cake.                                                                                                                                               

Thus, someone got the land title, someone the extra FSI. Someone got

clearances, someone else made the Army and the Navy objections softer.

They all became members.

The scary bit about the scam is not that it happened. It is that in the entire

chain, there was not one man (or woman) who refused to compromise

himself (or herself). There was not one person whose integrity stood its

ground in face of temptation. Right from the lowly collector, to the

officials in urban development department and the MMRDA, to the

ministers and chief minister, everybody proved over-eager to  do

his bit. About the bureaucrats and the ministers, we always knew.

The really sickening part is that it went on all the way to at least

three service  chiefs.

They all sold their souls. No whistle-blower in the entire system.

Nobody thought something very gross was under way and he should

put his foot down.                                              

 And for what? A sea-facing apartment in Mumbai, worth perhaps

Rs 8 crore. So there, folks, you have the price of this! Country. For a

combined booty of no more than Rs 800 crore, you could buy the entire

system. Our enemies reading about this can now rest their weapons.

The message they get is that if they face the mighty Indian Army they

only need to wave the allotment letters of a plush apartment.

And lo! The battle is won. If the chiefs go for 1000 sq ft of Mumbai

real estate, how much should the poor battlefield commander go for?

A Shanghai penthouse or a cottage in Murree?

I would hate to be a soldier in our armed forces at this moment.

The fellow has just seen Lt Generals being prosecuted for land scam.

Now, an admiral and two generals are part of a housing scam. He is

expected to die on their orders.

If, after this, a soldier winces at such an order, can he be faulted?

The former chiefs have now graciously offered to return the flats,

professing ignorance about the fact that land was meant for martyrs'

families. As if that is the only thing wrong about the deal. It was stinking

from start to finish and if the chiefs could not smell any of it, the forces

have a lot to answer for the kind of persons they select for their top

most posts.

No, gentlemen, you have let down the proud institutions you headed.

You have let down your colleagues who must suffer the suspicions you

have aroused. You have let down your country that decorated you so

much. Worst of all, you have let down that soldier who saluted you day

in and day out. You owe him an apology,not just a glib explanation.

About others, the less said the better. They occupy some of the most

plum posts and yet possess all the integrity of a pickpocket.                                         

It is no wonder India has climbed further in corruption ladder. 

Merely dispossessing these scamsters of their ill-gotten apartment would

be no punishment. They need to be dismissed from service and

prosecuted for being unworthy custodians of our trust." 

 Better still......they need to be tarred , feathered , and dragged

through the streets.....and then drawn and quartered......we are

over populated in any case !

This might happen sooner than we think

Why are we trying to defend that B****   in NY.......let her first

explain how she bought TWO flats in the ADARSH complex....

which was meant for ex-Kargil army families.....let alone where

the money came from