Discussing WikiLeaks cables is a complete waste of time

THE INDIANS' tax-payers’ money is going down the drain nowadays following noisy and unruly scenes in the parliament. No important work can be carried out because all the opposition parties have been raising their voice against the government on the issue of WikiLeaks cables, which reported that money was paid in 2008 by the UPA government to survive the floor test.

The BJP leaders find the WikiLeaks cable as the last word from God. By that logic if tomorrow there's another cable saying that LK Advani, who got a clean chit in the Jain Hawala case, had vested interests in calling ‘Jinnah’ the most secular person in Pakistan, then what would the BJP do?

A website can publish whatever it wants and any matter coming out on any website cannot be treated as any concrete evidence to frame charges against anybody and to put the Prime Minister in the dock time and again by the NDA and its allies on something which no one is sure is sheer wastage of the nation's time.

WikiLeaks revelations do not match with the actual events, and only highlight the conduct of NDA leaders under suspicion.

The problem with the BJP leaders is that they have been getting tired, and with no issue now left after the CVC episode got over, they have taken this issue of 2008, which can be probed but then all the three MPs at that point of time didn’t vote in favour of the UPA-I. They all went with the NDA at the time of voting.

It's high that the parliament be allowed to function normally, and the government is given a chance to give its clarification on the issue. Why to create so much of fuss in the House and why to waste precious hours of the Parliament on an issue that's causing so much of unnecessary bad blood.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has already requested the members of the august house to first allow passage of the finance bill and then debate. Discussion can be on every question that the opposition parties think necessary in the interest of the nation.

Discussing WikiLeaks cable in the Parliament is a waste of time and we must not waste precious time hours and tax payers' money any further on matters that have no substantial evidence to prove any charges against the person named in the cable in the court of law.