3-4 days ago, I had a little E-mail conversation with Mr. Gurumurthy over Swiss bank issue.
(Remember R. Madhavan from film Guru?? Same in real)
Here is the abstract of article –
".....Advani has only questioned why the Manmohan government is not acting now [in March 2009] in tandem with the West which has begun crusading against secret banking. Only now the West has turned against secret bank funds....."
I Asked –
--> If west had not paid any heed to this issue (openly) and if there were
no recession, then was it so that Advani Jee had not taken up the
issue as an agenda?
I, like many others, think that Swiss Issue should be taken very
seriously and should be cleared as early and as clearly possible.
On this, he said –
à I had written in the first one as to how my effort (related to Swiss bank) of 1987 was aborted by arresting me.
It is not easy to make Swiss banks to unlock their secrets. It means compelling the Swiss government to change their law.
It would be possible only if the West exerted pressure on the Swiss.
The West has begun doing only now.
Otherwise we can raise the issue, but that will be only a propaganda.
We cannot succeed. Now we can, if the government does something effective in collaboration with the West. ß
Well, I agree with him that getting information out of Swiss and acting on it is a bit of Herculean task.
Now that the western countries have started hunting for bank a/c and names, Swiss Govt has agreed to expose (only on demand) the list of account holders and related details.
It’s just worthless to ask that why any previous Govt. did not ask for Swiss exposure.
Also, as we know, many of these themselves hold a Swiss A/C!
4 comments:
Firstly, Mr. Advani has no other issues to raise but to talk about 'black money' mainly because NDA govt. has erred in most of the other cases like terrorism(rem. Kandahar chapter??), inflation was high, growth was less and so on.
Secondly, it is not at all easy task to bring that black money back in India - especially, the way Mr.Advani is creating a picture. He needs 100 days to bring that money back. Please understand Indian govt. can do very less about this unless westerners pressurise Swiss govt.
More importantly, was NDA govt. sleeping when they were in power ??!
Let any Govt take any number of days, not only 100, to get back Indian deposits in Swiss. That would be a much greater accomplishment in front of time they would take to do it..and its always "better late than never".
Every Govt is under monetary favours from "who's who", and in turn needs to grant favours like one is 'avoiding Swiss issue'.
But someone needs to stop somewhere and collaborate with West to resolve with it.
I agree. Taking initiative is a good thing.
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i read the whole article in rediff and then in deccan chronicale , that man is something, he is researching this project since so long, and ppl are questioning the timing of projects but i want to tell them that India could have done nothing earlier because they cant exert pressure on foreighn country unless there is some treat associated with it. This is possible now only because after recession WEstern countries have realized that there is lot of money that is parked in swiss accounts that if taken back can be used to curbed recession.And i think India should also jump on the bandwagon and use this opportunity..
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