[HumJanenge] Antony takes on Defence Corruption

Against Corruption - Antony takes on arms lobby. Posted by: "G. C.
Mathur" gcmbinty@yahoo.com gcmbinty Sat Apr 7, 2012 9:22 am (PDT)

In TOI today (07.4.2012) the news titled "Antony in crossairs for
taking on arms lobby?" is inspiring.Last month only, it is reported,
Antony banned 6 top armament companies, including 4 foreign firms
i.e., Israeli Military Industries, Singapore Technologies Kinetics,
Rheinmetall Air Defence(Zurich) and Corporation Defence (Russia), for
10 years and has persistently been saying that defence purchases must
be taint free with warnings that he would not hesitate to cancel the
deals.This is despite warning to Antony for backlash.He is not naive
in the politics, nor he, the known honest, was not appointed initially
for face saving by the leadership as he has only been waiting for the
right time. He was appointed in the background of volumes of
complaints of corruption in the defence establishment.

Nation does look at Team Anna for support to Antony, if not his
leaders, for his fight against the established lobby, middlemen,
foreign governments and firms.

I dare say that no law can checkmate the these in the defence supply
bazaar. The Opposition has to prove its intentions of fighting
corruption by supporting A. K. Antony and his ilks in the Congress
Party. Otherwise, citizens of India will take it that the entire
creation of the situation including false reports on the movement of
mechanized infantry from Hisar and a section of the Agra-based 50 Para
Brigade towards Delhi on the 15th January 2012 is to mislead them.

G. C. Mathur