What seemingly started as mere chai-pani has escalated to multi-crore scams (His Royal Son-In-Lawlessness, Oct 22). Corruption is at its zenith. The noises made by the mango people have reached a pathetic crescendo. We helplessly watch the powerful plunder our country. In spite of the odds, the ‘army of one’, Arvind Kejriwal, is continuing his fight. The coming seasons should be eventful.
Amrita Muttoo, Mumbai
Robert Vadra is such a smooth operator; so brazenly has he put down those details with the Registrar of Companies. To drag a public sector bank into the deals was audacious indeed. We’ve seen such legerdemain only in Hollywood films.
V. Mahadevan, Chennai
It used to be ‘Indira is India and India is Indira’. Now it’s become ‘Hooda is HUDA (Haryana Urban Development Authority) and HUDA is Hooda’.
Pankaj Bhatia, on e-mail
If you are talking about Robert Vadra, then make the case for or against him. Why go into all the other possible cases (sure, there are enough of them)? Why would an article start with Vadra but deviate and devote the bulk of its space to bjp and Narendra Modi?
Rajesh Chary, Mumbai
Robert Vadra ceased to be a private citizen the day he agreed to reside in state-provided accommodation and accepted taxpayer-funded security. If the Gandhis were naive enough to believe he was piling up crores on the basis of his acumen—it could not have been entirely a secret to them—they are unfit to have anything to do with governance.
J.S. Acharya, Hyderabad
It’s strange that senior Congress ministers and leaders have fallen head over heels to defend a private citizen. One has never seen so many ministers working in tandem—and to score a self-goal no less!
Meghana A, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
This oligarchic regime needs to be shown the door. But if Kejriwal and Co are to make a lasting contribution, they should bring back to the fold the likes of Rajendra Singh and Rajagopal who left the movement unhappy with its functioning. Dumping Anna Hazare, Kiran Bedi and their simple thinking was the smart move.
R. Saroja, Mumbai
In view of his business acumen, the government should consider conferring a Vyapar Ratna award on him and ask him to head a ‘Revenue Development Board’ to cure the economy.
Pramod Srivastava, New Delhi
Kanti Desai, Suresh Ram, Ranjan Bhattacharya and Robert Vadra. Just shows that it pays to be dear to the first family. Some serious hay was made during their time in the sun.
Venkatesh Iyer, Chennai
Though he was right, Vadra is the wrong person to be calling India a banana republic. His mother-in-law and her coterie are responsible for that.
K.G. Acharya, Mumbai
His station being what it is, Robert Vadra ought to take on Kejriwal’s accusations himself. By relying on a battery of Congress spokespersons to come up with diversionary tactics instead, he has added to the suspicion about him.
M.C. Joshi, Lucknow
No use blaming Vadra. I’d in fact credit his behaviour as he has sought few favours whereas his position affords opportunities for so much more.
Srinivasan Venkataraman, Chennai
Sasikala Natarajan, Jayalalitha’s confidante, applied much the same formula to amass a fortune from the nondescript video shop she ran in Chennai. The Tamil media failed to highlight her meteoric rise—for fear of perhaps offending the iron butterfly at Poes Garden.
Kangayam R. Narasimhan, Chennai
How long can this state of affairs be allowed to continue? There’s a dummy PM, remote-controlled by somebody with no accountability to the nation. In such a scenario, more ‘son-in-lawlessness’ cases will occur and the media will keep playing second fiddle.
Sanjiv, Delhi
