Type “The guilty will not be spared” in Google’s search bar and hit enter. Page after page, the search results display statements made by Indian politicians about their colleagues involved in myriad scams:
- Defense minister AK Antony uses the statement in the Adarsh scam
- So does Finance Minster Pranab Mukherjee about the scum in IPL
- So does Sonia Gandhi on the CWG scandal
- So does the tainted Chief Minister of Karnataka, BS Yeddyurappa
- And so on, and on
Y have to navigate to the fifth page to see a non-Indian use the statement. Indian politicians dominate the results: only after page 19 do the results begin to show the usage of the statement by non-Indians.
The latest to use the device was, Prime Minster Dr. Manmohan Singh, speaking about the 2G Scam:
“No guilty person will be spared — whether he is a political leader or a government official, whichever party he may belong to and howsoever powerful he may be.”
Obviously, none of the people involved in the various scams have been arrested, let alone be spared (whatever that means). ‘The guilty will not be spared’ is thus the automatic, robot-like clichéd reply spewed by the Indian politician: it satisfies no one, it serves no interest, and it signals the scum that normal order of looting the exchequer would continue unabated. The statement only underlines the mediocrity of the Indian politician: he/she cannot even think of a new line to defend his/her colleagues.
PS: a close competitor is the ‘law will take its own course’. It’s funny to see how crooks like A Raja use the statement: they are mocking us, confident that the law will indeed take its own course: not only will they walk free (after, at worst, a token CBI raid or perhaps a day’s arrest if the matter heats up), but will continue to be elected, and one day return to the cabinet.
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