MAJORITY VS MINORITY DEBATE
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Comptroller and Auditor General of India-Mr.Vinod Rai is already a messiah for urban elite middle class for his explosive reports on various issues government spending and revenue mobilisation even though I feel he has grossly exceeded his constitutional mandate. He had won many admirers in the babudom with ex bureaucrats defending him from scathing but not unreasonable attacks from a much discredited political class.  He was asked to depose before the Joint Parliamentary Committee where he was grilled on alleged motivated reports inthe 2GScam. It was felt that the constitutional office is being mocked at.  When his deputy-the field auditor in 2G Spectrum issue concluded that the loss if at all in the 2G Spectrum allocation was only marginal due to adjustment for inflation tothe base price of 2001,CAG overruled him and again allegedly made Mr.R.K.Singh put in his signature inthe report which estimated the notional losses at a whopping 1.76 lacs crores. This figure is erraneous in as much as the stated policy of the government of the day was to improve teledensity and not earn revenue.True the officials in the FinanceMinistry questioned the pricing but the decision not to autctionthe spectrum is that of a cabinet which empowered both the Finance Minister and the TelecomMinister to arrive at pricing issues.This is more sacrosanct. SubbaRao as Finance Secretary can not undo a cabinet decision.To do that he should be a cabinet Minister and voice his opposition in the cabinet meeting. 

CAG admirers say that CAG is a constitutional authority and all his subordinates need to obey him. It is the CAG who should have taken his teamalong while submitting his report. Else he should have allowed the dissent note separately and recorded his readings of the dissent.

CAG stoutly defended his inflated figures. In an industry where the total earnings of all telecomcompanies put together is about 100000 crores and at 20% return on sales, the Earnings beforeDepreciation,taxation and amortisation will only be 20000 crores. Assuming 50%of this is due to 2Glicences, the incremental EBDITA is 10000 crores which necessasitates the investor who should have paid 1.73 lac crores to buy this intangibleasset called spectrum as CAG surmises, should wait for 17 years to recover his investment. Only a fool will attempt to invest in an asset with a pay back of 17years( without adjusting for inflation that too)

CAG while speaking at the passing out day parade of civil servants at Lal Bahadur Academy remarked that the present government  has enormous amount of trust deficit. That was a political statement and no one condemned him. He was misusing his constitutional immunity. 

Again in his Hindu college alumni day address, CAG has exhorted the silent majority to wake up and take up issues. He remarked because the majority chose to be silent,  a miniscule minority which has romped home to power dictates terms.He was again making a political statement unbecoming of his office. His dear elite urban supporters always do not believe nor participate in parliamentary democracy while majority of our poor from rural areas come out in large numbers to vote. The elitist opinion is that these rural voters sell votes for liquor and cash.IT is those elitists who are minority and the majority always take democratic exercise more seriously. CAG has some hidden agenda and one could watch out when in 2014, if opposition manage to unseat Congress.,CAG willhave a much more serious responsibility in a future government for all his watchdog functioning. That time, you could see my prophecy about this man's intentions are not indeed for public cause but to facilitate some one to settle politicalissues.

We have seen the indoctrination of RSS idelogy among some serving officers of Army ala Col Purohit, paid publicity mongering by groups likeIndia Against Corruption, even it has reached the highest court of our land when SC observes that the Babri Masjid demolition is just an event and nothing is famous or infamous about it. This portends ill for our national ethoes.

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