Finally J.P.C!

So finally it seems that congress will constitute the much demanded JPC, if not as an admission of guilt or put the houses in order but to save the precious time of the house and let the budget sail through easily. Now if we analyse this stand, why now and why not earlier.

Why now, because the mood of opposition was increasingly becoming uncompromising and uncooperative more destructive and the disastrous part was that the blame was being put on the congress at large, since many of its partner in the ruling coalition were in the favor of JPC, thus the congress position became paradoxical where it was defending the coalition at its own personal electoral cost.

Had the budget session been spoilt, it would have been virtual defeat for the coalition and congress would have been assumed single biggest hurdle in this, and definitely the creditworthiness of congress as a coalition magnet would have hampered, that in turn might have hurt the future probable coalition partners.

The very constitutional position of government was at stake, in democracy, no matter what the rule book say but the underlying spirit is that people wish should be honored and is bigger than established government itself, since politician are the representative of people and majority of them wishing such committee, it became increasingly difficult to ignore them.

P.M. doesn’t present himself before the PAC, but Dr. Manmohan Singh agreed to present himself before the PAC, as this became clear, it was now foolish for congress to oppose the formation of JPC as it wanted to protect PM from being present before any committee.

As the number of scam increased dramatically, and the cobweb of 2G scam was seems to be spread to so many unknown people and agencies even unknown to the ruling establishment, it became urgent for the congress to clear the air and save itself from the unknown responsibilities, thus it hurried to constitute the JPC at this stage.

Why not then, because congress miscalculated the range of scam and undermined the strength of opposition earlier, it thought that with passing time the opposition will get diluted.

Upcoming election in few states and importantly in Tamilnadu where Raja card would have been quite crucial, given the clan politics and close proximity of Raja to the Karunanidhi , has the major role in hesitant behavior of congress since it never wanted to embarrass its important ally.

Mandate of JPC is very wide compare to PAC, in which any minister or official could be called for and examined, more so it has single mandate to enquire the case in hand compare to PAC which has plethora of work to do, thus JPC can keep constant focus on the case and keep it alive until the case is solved, this distinction of JPC could have given an important weapon in the hands of opposition for over a long period of time, that congress never wanted so it was reluctant initially.

 It was all known that PM and PMO was never informed fully or being followed by the Raja’s and in this scenario making PM fully answerable before a committee was a hard task for congress more so when personally PM is very honest and modest, he could have faced some really tough questions, congress wanted to escape from all these things.

Anyways finally the truth will come out, thanks to political opportunism that finally ruling establishment ceded to a long awaited demand. This is what we call blessings in disguised devil.