Liberty Equity Sustainability

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Politicians must just be in just politics. They and their relatives should be prohibited from doing any business with the Government.Parliament must legislate on this subject of politicians  owning businesses  and doing business with the government.

In most of the corruption cases large scale loot of  the nations’ scarce resources have been sold for a pittance to businesses in which the politician or his kith and kin had a stake  . Politicians should be debarred from supplying goods and services to the government through business entities in which they have  a stake.

Let him do business if he so desires entirely with the private sector where he has to succeed purely on merit and not by way of extraneous benefits through privileged positions  of political power.

The out of turn spectrum  sale , the mine  lease allotments ,Lavasa  projects, Adarsh scam, have bared it all. The discretionary quota was abused to favour the kith and kins of politicians in power. Discretionary quotas are meant for helping the vulnerable. And the politician exercising the power must not ignore the spirit of the special quota power. Violators of this spirit must be punished forth with and the  undeserving beneficiaries must be  called upon to return the benefit gained out of such corrupt decisions, to the state .

Through decades we have seen the politicians playing the game of privatisation of profits and nationalisation of losses. Large scams have benefited the business interests of the politicians while government revenues suffered.  Parliament must enact soon a legislation on the subject of debarring  politicians and their kith  and kin doing business with the government at least till such time the government comes out  of businesses, established in the Nehruvian era of socialism in all and sundry fields that is now causing a great drain on public finances.