It also said the credibility of the executive has been "further dented" by the way the higher judiciary has come into play to check the cancer of corruption.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist [CPI(M)] today accused the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of acting as the "handmaiden and facilitator" of the process that was encouraging major financial scams and alleged that the prime minister and Union cabinet are in the "heart" of it.
It also said the credibility of the executive has been "further dented" by the way the higher judiciary has come into play to check the cancer of corruption.
"The 'paralysis' in the government is precisely because the systemic nature of corruption, that is, the suborning of the state by big business, has been brought out into the open," CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said.
"The wages of neo-liberalism are the corruption and the loot of public resources. The government has been acting as the handmaiden and facilitator of this process," he said in an article in the forthcoming issue of party organ People's Democracy.
Maintaining that the 2G spectrum case has "dramatically exposed the nexus between big business-ruling politicians and bureaucrats" which was an outcome of the neo-liberal order, he said "the prime minister and the Union cabinet is at the heart of this process".
"That is why the architect of liberalisation is now directly feeling the heat of these corruption scandals which are endemic to the policies and the framework that he has pioneered," Karat said.
He said the credibility of the Executive has been "further dented by the way the higher judiciary has come into play to check the cancer of corruption which threatens to undermine the whole system".
The government "faced with one corruption scandal after another, ... has tied itself up in knots, first in trying to evade the issue and then improvising to somehow limit the damage", he said.
Maintaining that Congress-led UPA was losing the battle for winning over the people for "its version" of fighting corruption, Karat said this was leading the Congress leadership to "spin the web of a conspiracy" by raising the "worn-out bogey" of BJP and Left joining hands to attack it.
"That the government is in trouble and adrift is recognised by even its greatest supporters" -- the big business, investors and corporate media, he said.
While the big business and its lobbies bemoan the fact that the government has failed to push ahead with neo-liberal reforms, there are dark mutterings about the loss of investor confidence, the CPI(M) general secretary said.
The situation was curious because there was no obvious factor for instability as there was no political threat. While none of the allies have deserted UPA, no party supporting it from outside has withdrawn support.
"Why then is the government appearing to be weak and beleaguered? The answer has to be found essentially in the way high level corruption has been engendered threatening the very integrity and credibility of the government," he said.
The "inability" of the Congress and the UPA government to politically address the issue of corruption stems from the fact that it is inherent in the economic regime which it has instituted. "We saw the eruption of high level corruption earlier under the NDA government with the same economic regime", Karat added.
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