Eleven days after they were caught accepting bribes from media persons to put questions in the Paliament, eleven Members of Parliament were expelled from the Parliament. This is a national shame. It is a shock that persons occupying some of the highest positions in the country committed such an ignominious act.

This is evidence of how deep the roots of corruption are in India. While corruptions scams are not new in this country, the fact that it took a form as cheap as accepting currency notes from media persons in return for asking questions in the Parliament, is unsettling and shameful for every Indian. Nobody knows how many such acts have been committed in over half a century of parliamentary governance. Thanks to the new face of the Indian media, such acts have been brought to light after a daring sting operation.

L. K. Advani has termed the expulsion a "disproportionate" punishment! In my view, they must be hanged. In fact, the idiots must feel pretty happy that they werent taken to court and prosecuted on the issue. They've done a disgrace to the Parliament, to the country and the very people they were representing.

The presence of such elements is a threat to parliamentary democracy and must be dealt with an iron fist. The two Houses did a good job in losing no time to expel the MPs. It must serve as a warning to every other legislator in the country that they just cant screw around with public trust.

My congratulations to the media, national and local, on not only this but several other behind-the-sheen issues they have uncovered in the past few years. I hope they keep up and intensify the trend and show more and more reality to the Indian citizen.