Katju has reinforced the corrupt patronage system

In all the tu-tu-main-main over Markandey Katju and Arun Jaitley, and the wider political war of words between the Congress and the BJP, one simple fact has been lost sight of: the systemic element of patronage that supports the entire edifice of corruption in India. Katju has chosen to reinforce the system rather than fight it. The issue is not what Katju thinks of Narendra Modi, but how his appointment as Chairman of the Press Council immediately after his retirement as Supreme Court judge...

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