Getting away with it

Sir, - We are led to infer that the orgy of violence and vandalism which followed the conviction of Ms. Jayalalitha in the Pleasant Stay Hotel case is a demonstration by her loyalists of their ``righteous indignation'' at the treatment meted out to their ``beloved leader''. Ms. Jayalalitha successfully stalled several cases filed against her, her former Cabinet colleagues and bureaucrats by employing legal subterfuges or political manoeuvre. Strangely enough, she makes bold to suggest that the conviction will fetch her sympathy votes in the coming elections.

Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav, who is immersed neck-deep in corruption cases, is ruling Bihar through his wife. He brazenly asserts that there is a conspiracy to liquidate him politically. All this only reflects the depravity to which politics has sunk. Electoral laws are utterly inadequate to prevent persons having a criminal record from entering Parliament or the State legislatures.

N. Krishna Murthy,

Cuddapah (A.P.)

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