UP foodgrain scam may require 5,000 FIRs

 UP foodgrain scam may require 5,000 FIRs

Remember the blog post that I'd written about on the UP Foodgrain scam? In case you wish to refresh your memory, take a look at the following link:

• Money to be made at the bottom of the pyramid - This was about a scam which has been going on for at least the past few years, where foodgrains meant for the poor "Below Poverty Line" families are being systematically diverted to be sold in other states / countries. The value of the scam is considered to be over Rs. 35000/= crores per annum. Till date, it is estimated that at least Rs. 200000/= crores would have been siphoned off.

More vivid details are given on the website of Times of India:

• UP Foodgrain scam may require over 5000 FIRs

What is surprising is that, despite the amount involved being much larger than the 2G scam and the fact that the UP Foodgrain scam is apparently still "Work in Progress", the visual media, print media, political parties at the State and Central level, etc. seem to be far less interested in the UP Foodgrain Scam.

Why?

Simply because it does not involve a "Single" Minister or Bureaucrat - It involves a large network of bureaucrats, politicians, etc., cutting across geographies and parties.

Hence, it looks like

• the politicians and/or bureaucrats are keeping quiet because they're not sure about which of their own skeletons will come tumbling out - Had it been a single minister or bureaucrat, the rest of them would have taken a moral high ground to pounce the way they pounced on "poor" Raja!
• the media is ignoring it because the "story" is not as conducive to maximise TRPs and readership - Hence they continue to focus on stuff like 2G scam, the Khap Panchayats, etc.

Moral of the story:

• Let the people at the bottom of the pyramid suffer all they want.
• We'll all proceed with our own lives the way we deem fit
• As and when there's nothing else to focus on, we may choose to revert to this story!

Any comments???

Regards,

N

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