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You ask retired defence service personnel, from officers down to the jawans. They will readily tell you how much corruption takes place and in what ways, EVEN IN REGARD TO MILITARY RATIONS (FOOD). Some Jawans say that some top generals and ministers could be shot dead if they got half a chance to do so, in this sham of republic of ours.

The New defence purchase policy, announced recently, is nothing but ratifing the corruption to an official routine. the Bofors kings (the Congress party) cannot be faulted as this sort of corruption is in their blood since Mrs.Gandhi's period, in the Nagarwala murder case itself. As rightly advised by the father of the nation, Mahatma, the Congress party should be dismantled.

Loopholes, even when detected as such, are left as they were in the original either deliberately by interested layers in the hierarchy right from administration to ministers, or what is less probable, out of carelessness. The results, of course, are always the same: there could be corruption, the level of corruption being less when the purchase is finished at lower levels, and higher, even astronomical, that shd. be expressed only as a percent of GNP,at ministerial level. Comparative international studies on corruption have put India rather high on corruption level, that is low public morality,and the experts who prepared them say corruption is universal. But, warily enough in official reports, they do not point out that India and so many other countries harbouring too many millions below poverty line can at any time revolut uncontrollably and unleash a blood sea due to the corruption of politicians and administration who ate public money misusing the privileges as trusted public figures.