Letters: A tall order

This refers to Rahul Jacob's column "Our rights, whose responsibility?" (Country Code, January 18). The Congress is run by a prime minister who, at the twilight of his career, attributes the economic slowdown to the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Central Vigilance Commission et al. The Bharatiya Janata Party's chief minister of Gujarat, by never having a Lokayukta, runs a full-fledged state to meet minimal poster quality. The Aam Aadmi Party, led by its chief minister burning the midnight oil to recruit a Lok Pal for a state, is left with no time to ponder on macro economics. The conclusion is that with no constitutional oversight institutions breathing over your shoulder, one can run a state with a "caged" variety, and in pursuing a picture-perfect Jan Lok Pal it would indeed be a tall order to run even a municipality; Delhi just being a larger version.

R Narayanan Ghaziabad

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