A humiliating defeat

The Congress thought it would steal the thunder from Anna Hazare’s campaign and thus present itself as the real crusader against corruption — a laughable proposition in view of the fact that the party is the progenitor of corrupt practices in this country — through a hocus-pocus Lokpal Bill. In order to be seen as doing one better than those demanding a strong and independent anti-corruption ombudsman, the Congress got its general secretary and the scion of the party’s first family, Mr Rahul Gandhi, to ‘demand’ that the institution of the Lokpal should be given the status of a constitutional body.

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