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Singhvi ‘sex video’: Why the last word may not have been said - Venky Vembu, First Post
Abhishek Manu Singhvi may have resigned as chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee and as Congress spokesperson following the controversy over a ‘sex video’ that allegedly features him, but there’s reason to believe that the last word on this episode hasn’t yet been said. On the face of it, and purely from a legal point of view, there is as yet no evidence to establish that even if the ‘sex video’ that’s gone viral on social media platforms despite a court injunction against its dissemination did in fact feature Singhvi (which he denies), there was any further wrongdoing.

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The UPA 2 government was conceived in corruption – and never really recovered from that taint. Right from the day the election results came in, the back-channel negotiations began for the reappointment of A Raja as Telecom Minister to advance the interests of certain telecom majors (in return for illegal gratification). It was an enterprise which set the stage for India’s biggest corruption scandal and virtually set the political tone for the rest of the four years. As subsequent exposes have established, Manmohan Singh and other key Ministers knew full well that mischief was afoot, but pointedly looked the other way. That was the beginning of the slide, and the UPA government in general – and Manmohan Singh in particular – was mortally wounded from that episode. But rather than press ahead with remedial action, the government slid further into the cesspool of corruption.
Venky Vembu
 

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