Hawala scandal

Sonia and Advani War against Hawala Raja's. The Delhi plenary is being held at a time when the Congress-led government is facing a series of corruption scandals and controversies. While the political resolution and the statement marking the culmination of 125 years of the Congress party, Sonia Gandhi on Sunday19-12-2010 announced a multi-pronged war on corruption and directed ministers and partymen to tackle the menace head-on. The Congress plenary, which met against the backdrop of 2G, CWG and Adarsh, was turned by Sonia into a platform to claim that the Congress — which has recently been rocked by a series of scams would actually lead the fight against corruption. She sought to give this fight an institutional character by calling for fast-tracking corruption cases against politicians and other public servants, abolishing the government's discretionary powers to allocate land (which she dubbed as the top source of corruption), transparent auctioning of mining leases and state funding of elections. It's perhaps not a coincidence that land allocation and mining leases are two controversies that are also plaguing the main opposition party, BJP, especially in Karnataka. Hence, Sonia was not only exhorting her party to cleanse itself, but was also opening up a front against the BJP which she lambasted for its personal attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G scam. Sonia Gandhi's five-point agenda for probity in public life included transparency in public <b>...</b>