AN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT OF INDIA, PRIME MINISTER, CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA, SUO MOTTO COGNIGENCE TO RESTORE THE POWER OF COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA, WHICH EXISTED PRIOR TO 1976 Raja, through his unabashed corruption has caused a loss to the National Exchequer to the tune of Rs 1760000000000 (1.76 lakh crores) Government’s lethargy in taking counter-terrorism seriously is inexplicable given the threat to national security that terrorism poses. Common wealth games scam, food grains scam, fodder scam, Extravagance of Public Finance vis-à-vis curbing the power and duties of C&AG. The constitution of India provides that the Comptroller and Auditor General of India shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal who shall not be removed from Office, except in the like manner and on the like grounds as a Judge of Supreme Court. The term of appointment shall be for a period of 5 years and the condition of service and salary of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India shall be such as may be determined by Parliament by Law and until they are so determined, shall be as specified in the second schedule of the constitution. The Comptroller and Auditor General shall perform such duties and exercise such powers in relation to the accounts of the union and of the states and of any other authority or body as may be prescribed or under any law made by Parliament. The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General relating to the accounts so maintained of the union shall be submitted to the President who shall cause them to be laid before each house of Parliament . The report relating to the accounts of the states shall be submitted to the Governor who shall cause them to be laid before the legislature of the states. That the present accounting system applicable to most Ministries and departments in essentially external to Financial management function in that the payment made by the treasuries and accounts are compiled by audit and accounts offices under the control of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the basis of initial and subsidiary accounts received by them from the treasuries. This system worked fairly well when Governmental business was limited. With the increase ion the volume and variety of Governmental business and the continual set-up of developmental outlays, this system has proved inadequate to the administration task. The scheme of separation of accounts from audit was to be implemented in selective ministries e.g communication, civil aviation, tourism, industries and civil supplies w.e.f April 1976, where the expansion regarding the expenditures and its audit was felt to be providing certain constraint and thereby resulting into the delay in implementation of the schemes at the relevant time. However by the gradual increase of the power with these ministries, the similar laxity in relation to the procedural safeguard was further provided the other ministries resulting into the defeat of the very purposes for which the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General was given the power through checks and balances. The effect of the aforesaid process has resulted in the departmentalisation of union accounts enacted in 1976 and the transfer of personnel was given effect by the enforcement of the Act no 59 of 1976 from Indian Audit and Accounts departments which was earlier under the control of C.& AG to the newly formed department of Civil Accounts under the Controller General of Accounts under department of Expenditure ministry of Finance. In this manner the office of C& AG which was constituted under the scheme of the constitution of India to provide the restraint to the expenditure disproportionate from its own discretion by the relevant ministries was brought under the ministry of Finance and thereby giving the unbridle powers to the ministers and thereby overthrowing the constitutional mandate securing the safeguard over the whimsical expenditure. According to the legal opinion of the constitutional experts, the diversification of the financial powers to be utilised by the sole discretion of the bureaucrats without taking into consideration the Audit objections, which could have been made under the original constitutional scheme, was directly resulting into the notion of conferring the absolute power to the respective ministry. This was against the democratic, federal and republic set-up of our Constitution. The aforesaid concept of the parliamentarian democracy, providing the fraternity to an individual in preamble of the constitution, was an attack on its basic structure. This has led to an inadequate financial control which would have been benefited to the nation if such power were remained with C&AG in India That it would be relevant to point out that the office of the Auditor General of India was created under the Government Of India Act 1935 for exercising the control over expenditure incurred by Central And State Governments and for proper accounting thereof in such forms and in such manner as may be prescribed by him and he was also responsible for rendering a complied account of receipt and expenditure to the Centre and State Governments and he was also required to submit report on the result of Audit in his Audit report to the Governor- General and the Governor of the States for laying it before respective legislatures . That after coming over the constitution of India the Auditor General was designated as Comptroller Audit General of India under chapter V of the constitution. It is a matter of great alarm that the Union Home Ministry has not taken the draft national counter-terrorism doctrine seriously, and as a result has not even come close to implementing it. This draft doctrine was formulated in 2006 by the Intelligence Bureau in consultation with the police forces of some States and Central Police organisations. The Government’s lethargy in taking counter-terrorism seriously is inexplicable given the threat to national security that terrorism poses. The doctrine stresses the use of pre-emptive strikes and covert action to protect national security. It also puts forward compelling arguments in favour of using adequate force instead of minimum force to combat terrorist activities. More importantly, the doctrine stresses that the country should employ all means, including diplomatic, economic, administrative, legal and military, to counter terrorism. Such a policy has long been needed as in its absence the country has been seriously handicapped on the security front. This has allowed terrorists to get away with many outrages which could have been prevented. So far, especially so under the UPA regime, the country has followed a soft line against terrorism. This is in stark contrast to the hardline stand that countries like Israel maintain for which they have been better off. The United States took strong measures immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attack, as a result of which since then there hasn’t been a single terror strike on US soil. But despite several attacks over the last five years, the UPA Government has not deemed it fit to formulate a strong action plan against terror. This is totally unacceptable and goes to show the extent to which certain political parties are dictated to by vote-bank politics. No one can deny that the provocations for a tough response to terror have been strong. From the attack on Parliament to the shocking fidayeen strike on Mumbai last year, scores of innocent men, women and children have fallen victim to terrorism. These attacks have also created a sense of insecurity among the people which also needs to be overturned and confidence restored. The soft policy of the Indian state has allowed terrorist cells to proliferate in the country and has enabled them to widen their ambit of operations by gathering funds, setting up training camps, and recruiting fresh foot-soldiers to their heinous cause. At the same time terrorist camps have flourished in India’s neighbourhood, both across the LoC and in Bangladesh. These camps should also have been dealt with an iron fist. It is therefore a must for the incoming Government to keep the national counter-terrorism doctrine high on the agenda when it comes to power. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in his Report on the 2G spectrum scam has indicted Union Telecom Minister A Raja in the scandal and said the allocation was doctored to benefit few operators. It is now a well-known and patent fact, excepting to our shameless Prime Minister, dictatorial firangi memsahib, Mu Karunanidhi of Justice Sarkaria Commission infamy and of course the petticoat washers in the Congress Mafiosi Party, that the Union Telecom Minister A Raja, through his unabashed corruption has caused a loss to the National Exchequer to the tune of Rs 1760000000000 (1.76 lakh crores). This has been graphically described by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in his latest Report. In response to the request of some of the Opposition Parties that he should step down from his office,Union Minister Raja has the temerity to say: “I am totally innocent. I have done nothing wrong, I will not step down.” He has contempt for our invertebratePrime Minister. He knows that he owes his office and total freedom to indulge in unfettered Himalayan corruption to the Firangi Memsahib in New Delhi and to no one else! According to the CAG report, Raja ignored advice from everyone including the Finance Ministry and Law Ministry regarding allocations. He has treated the “advice” from the Prime Minister of India with supreme ‘Sonia-contempt’. THERE IS ENOUGH DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE TO PROVE THIS POINT OF OFFICIAL INSUBORDINATION BY MINISTER A. RAJA. If only Mrs Indira Gandhi had been the Prime Minister, she would have immediately flung aside A Raja like a dangerously infectious rag into the Bay of Bengal. I am saying this because I am fully familiar with the manner in which she dismissed the corrupt DMK Government of the very same Mu Karunanidhi on 31st of January 1976. She appointed the Justice Sarkaria Commission to inquire into the massive corruption of the then DMK Government from 1971 to 1976. Justice Sarkaria in his final report declared the then Chief Minister Mu Karunanidhi guilty of corruption on many fronts and recommended his prosecution. The Sarkaria Commission Report was buried alive by Indira Gandhi in 1980 when she teamed up with the DMK to win the Parliamentary Elections. In the same manner, Indira Gandhi’s daughter-in-law, the firangi memsahib is using the might of her political office to bury the colossal 2G Spectrum fraud of Union Minister Raja! Political history repeats itself and Indian Politicians repeat each other with unfailing regularity and unwavering venality! According to the CAG Report the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has been a helpless spectator in the whole sordid affair. Excepting the NEW INDIAN EXPRESS daily in English and DINAMANI daily in Tamil (which also belongs to the New Indian Express Group), most of the other newspapers in Chennai have tried to either downplay the Himalayan corruption of Union Minister A. Raja or completely hide it from public view in one corner of the newspaper. The helpless common man in the street already hit by unprecedented inflation and beaten down and crushed by the ‘scientific corruption’ of the Italian firangi memsahib’s UPA II Government of India owes a deep debt of gratitude to these two newspapers for having reported the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth relating to the 2G Spectrum mega-Fraud as brought out by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. These 2 newspapers are playing their legitimate role as responsible mouth pieces of the public of India. All the other newspapers have sold their journalistic souls for a mess of pottage—I mean Government patronage—by way of Government advertisements.