The Supreme Court has rightly castigated the central government for not revealing the names of the Indians who have stashed huge black money in Swiss and other banks. The government is hiding its inability to retrieve the illicit money behind the fig leaf of international treaties which, it claims, oblige it not to reveal the names of the depositors.
The Supreme Court has forcefully observed that stashing black money in foreign banks amounts to theft and plunder of national wealth and is a mind boggling crime. In spite of being reprimanded the Prime Minister says that there is no instant solution to the complicated problem.
It is a painful state of affairs for a country whose 77, per cent people earn less than Rs. 20 a day, that unbelievably gigantic amounts which could have been utilised for alleviation of poverty, promotion of education, improvement of health conditions, provision of shelter to the homeless and development of infrastructure are lying in foreign banks for decades and governments of rich exploiting western countries are making full use of those funds.
Wikipedia has revealed that up to 2007 illicit amounts deposited in Swiss banks alone totalled $5700 billion out of which $1400 billion (25 per cent of the total) belongs to Indians, our own Qaroons and Shylocks who want to bleed the country to death or use the poor Indians as their slaves. One can understand the enormity of the problem when this amount is converted into Rupees and it becomes Rs. 65,800 billion or 65,800,00 (65 lakh crore). If this is brought back to India we can provide jobs for crores of our people, can have tax-less budgets for more than a decade and build excellent infrastructure which can boost economy in an unparalleled way.
Unfortunately the corporate sharks who have a firm hold on government will never allow it to happen as it is they who hold the reins of power. We are faced with a moral crisis of greatest magnitude, which is the result of selfish materialism and worship of wealth. On the one hand the civil society must rise unitedly against this loot, the Supreme Court must pursue the case vehemently and the well wishers of the country must wage a relentless jihad against corruption, selfishness, materialism and worship of wealth. The Muslims have a special duty to rescue the country from this moral cancer. Are they ready to act?