Darkness glooming everywhere in
the country. This is the contemporary state of the country. The country has
been engulfed by scams. One scam doesn’t terminate and in the meantime the one
suddenly comes out of the womb of mother India to vex the country. Again a gate
has arrived on the shores of the country. This time the gate has come with the
word chopper and has made the word choppergate to become a nightmare for the
whole country.
The choppergate scam is pertinent
to the VVIP helicopter dealing with the british company Agusta Westland. In the
year 2000 the government of India rolled out a tender to buy VVIP helicopters for
the defence minister and his delegate. The government of India set the limit of
the approach of the helicopter to 18000 ft. keeping in mind the elevation of
siachin glacier so that the defence minister could visit the Siachin Glacier.
But after some time India’s first national security advisor Mr. Brajesh Mishra
asked to extenuate the altitude of the approach of helicopters to 15000ft to
annihilate the single vendor condition in the dealings and the same thing took
place. After that the british company Agusta Westland won the tender. So what
is the problem? The problem is the
company paid kickbacks to some middlemen in India and it is also suspected that
the company also gave bribes to the former Indian Air Force(IAF) chief SP
Tyagi.
But now the problem has arisen
from within the Indian government. Mr. AK Antony, Defence Minister of India
without the approval of any other minister sought to dismiss the transaction
while Foreign Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said that the choppers were of
the best quality in their ranges and therefore the deals were not to be
scrapped.
If the government can’t make
consensus within itself how is it going to govern the country.
We need to look at it.
Jai Hind
Jai Bharat
Jai ma Bharti
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