The lesson from Raja’s trial

What worries me is that despite the publicity this trial has attracted, despite the reams and reams of political comment, we continue to skirt around the central lesson we can learn from it. And, this is that we need urgently to evolve rules of transparency in government that will make it impossible for politicians and bureaucrats to do in future what Raja did. He is far from being the only politician in our country to use his ministerial powers to make a successful business career.

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