Recent scams do not make any Indian proud and are a national shame: Lord Swraj Paul

CHENNAI: Lord Swraj Paul, the Britain-based NRI business magnate, said scams that have recently come to light "do not make any Indian proud" and called corruption a "national shame".

Apparently referring to the 2G Spectrum scam and the Commonwealth Games irregularities, Paul in an interaction with PTI last night said, "Corruption should be condemned because it has become a national shame. The most difficult thing is to kill corruption completely."

Saying that the recent scams "do not make any Indian proud," Paul added, "If you have to follow the law, then we have to make sure that the people who ought to be punished, should be punished.

" India has many of the richest people but on the other hand it has more poor people too. Thirty per cent of Indian children still have not got primary education and that cannot be acceptable," he said.

Asking the corporates to be "more honest with themselves", he said, "in corruption, there is always a giver and a taker. It cannot be a one-side story.

"The responsibility of removing corruption should not fall on one side and both the giver and taker should hold responsibility."

Paul, also the Chancellor of London-based Wolverhampton University, alleged education in India has become a business.