The direction things are being veered around by a section of corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, media and some other institutions of this country buttresses the point that whenever some individual, be it Anna or General Singh, tries to crusade against corruption the mafia bays for his blood with vengeance and ferocity. Anna has been targeted and harassed in a horrific manner and so has been the General. We have seen how some politicians in parliament cutting across party lines asked the government to sack General V.K Singh for the leak of the PM-letter. This charge of the antinational politicians was investigated by the I.B and found to be false. Some days ago there was an insinuation that army had bugged the defense ministry. Then again the General was criticized for revealing the bribery offer. Should not the General have raised this? Now we people are convinced that the CBI is moving ahead in the right direction vindicating the stand of the General. And the latest stuff is a mischievously baseless reporting by some irresponsible media of so-called army movements to Delhi. This is, of course, again being attributed to the poor General.

Now all these happenings do indicate the ominous trend that any one in India taking up cudgels against corruption will be pinned down by the very powerful mafia formations enjoying support from all the pillars of the Indian democracy.  It is encouraging that the defense minister has conducted himself in a dignified manner. We are fortunate to have the defense minister and the army chief the two of high moral character and impeccable integrity.