Question: What’s the bigger message that comes out of Radia’s conversations?
Arun Shourie: This shows the extent of corporate penetration into government, into the media and into details of policy making.
Democracy survives on counter-rallying power. It survives when there are alternate sources of authority.
But now those have joined hands. There is, what my friend (Union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy has once called, an invisible government of India which is completely stable.
The visible Government of India keeps changing, but that invisible government of India remains completely stable.
That is the real danger because now the Opposition is no different from the ruling party, whichever is the ruling party. The influence of those puppeteers behind the scene works on both sides. As a result, no issue is pursued to conclusion. (2010)
*Don’t we need state funding of parties & elections to minimise corruption?
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