Bribery claims cloud India parliament ahead of U.S. nuke deal (at Fortune)

Bribery claims cloud India parliament ahead of U.S. nuke deal Three major events happened this week in New Delhi. The first, of course, was that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance coalition (comfortably) won a confidence vote in parliament, which means that India’s proposed and long-delayed nuclear deal with the United States has full parliamentary approval. The second was that the rampant extortion and bribery that have swept across Indian politics in the past few years were paraded in parliament and on television. Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the main opposition party, stormed into the central area of the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) waving thick wads of rupees that they claimed they had been offered to abstain from voting. The third - and equally significant - event was the emergence of... [read full story]