In addition to A.Raja, former communications minister, another former communications Minister Sukh Ram also has reached Tihar jail. He has been convicted for three years imprisonment in the 1993 telecom scam case. How many more former telecom ministers are going to join these two is anybody’s guess.

As per neo-liberalisation and privatisation policy, the telecom sector has been opened in the 1990s. The entire deals in telecom during the 1990s and 2000s are full of scams, corruption, favouritism and what not? A perusal of the grant of licences to private companies, the shifting to Revenue sharing from Licence Fee, allotment of spectrum 2G as well as 3G, illegal roaming, cheating of the government by the private companies, violation of the companies Act, giving false return to the government to avoid paying full taxes – all these are mingled with the mud of bribery and corruption. The only issue to be seen is which former communication minister is not involved. The neo-liberal policy and so-called reforms have been utilised by the politicians, bureaucrats, corporates and their henchmen to accumulate ill-gotten wealth. The entire situation is disgusting.

When the telecom sector will be free from this stinking corruption? The workers have to move without delay against this bribery and corruption. The Unions have to give the lead.