N. Chandrababu Naidu Quotes
The entire world is talking about a leadership crisis in India. There is monumental corruption. Investigations into cases of corruption are politically calibrated.
Naidu, N. Chandrababu. Quoted in "Leadership crisis in India: Naidu." The Hindu, THG Publishing, 24 Oct. 2018.
He began an anti-corruption campaign, that executed many and jailed thousands. However, the Chinese Party Council has more billionaires than any other national legislature in the world. Most of these fortunes were made via corruption; these high level figures and those of the army by 2014 were not prosecuted. However, it was a start.
The President was a great reformer who faced the corruption problem squarely when he assumed office and made stunning reforms rapidly to where Georgia became a model of what could be done to reform a corrupt culture.
The House Majority Leader Tom Delay, with a history of ethics violations, got caught in some very serious ones and convinced the House majority leadership to change the rules of the Ethics Committee to prevent the minority from initiating any investigations or inquiries. The Ethics Committee was the only House committee that has an equal number of majority and minority members and before this change, either side would initiate an inquiry.
Corruption is rampant in Pakistan like many other developing nations where corruption is a cultural tradition that has existed for centuries. All nations have some corruption including the United States. The difference is the degree and the acceptance of corruption as normality.
Nara Chandrababu Naidu(listen) is an Indian politician and current leader of opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, serving from 2014 to 2019. He was the first Chief Minister of the state after it was divided. Previously, he served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1995 to 2004, before the state's division, and as the leader of the opposition in the united Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 2004 to 2014. He is the National President of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), and the longest-serving Chief Minister (14 years in office) of Andhra Pradesh.