Excerpt from a speech by Sitaram Yechury in Parliament in 2013 in response to a statement from the then PM Manmohan Singh
'A very, very grave affront to Indian parliamentary democracy and political morality'
'Why don’t you go to the court, and, file a Public Interest Litigation on the basis of this evidence? Why don’t you do it?'
The PM accepts "full responsibility" for the "error of judgement" and says he is accountable for the appointment of Mr PJ Thomas as the CVC but leaves many questions unanswered.
'... with the Indo-US Nuclear deal, with the strategic partnership that you are building with the USA, are you prepared to face the threats of Taliban and Al Qaeda reaching our shores? The attacks will come from outside India because you are seen as
I have told you in plain English that I don't consider these as offices of profit. We need to unambiguously define what is an office of profit. This is only a one-time solution. This cannot be a permanent solution and let us work for that permanent
But, says the CPM ideologue, 'we need to probe objectively and thoroughly any exercise of undue political influence, any commission of impropriety, any violation of domestic Indian law.'
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