Remember the 'Notes-for-Votes' Scandal?

To me it appears that we have forgotten the serious nature of these allegations. The government response to these allegations embarrasses me and leave me cringing at the hopelessness of the situation. They had gone into complete denial as if it couldn't have happened. But, I had seen the allegations made by the MPs on the floor of parliament. Though, I doubted their intentions in the beginning and for two years I gave the government a benefit of doubt but the wikileaks cable expose has put me to shame and mocked me for being naive.

In the beginning the hoopla generated by the opposition parties and the media, assured me of greater investigation into the matter. But it was denied and slowly the opposition went numb and the media with its short attention span found something/someone more interesting. Let me list out what happened and their reaction so far chronologically:

• Three BJP MPs walked towards the speaker's table with bags full of cash and alleged that Amar Singh and Ahmed Patel paid them to vote in favor of the US-India Civil Nuclear bill
• The Indian News channel CNN-IBN had proof of the deal with video footage and three telephonic conversations
• A parliamentary committee was formed to investigate the allegation
• The committee members investigated the video footage and telephonic conversation and concluded that there are no substantial proofs that the government bribed these MPs
• The video footage and the telephonic conversations were NEVER made public by the news channel or the parliamentary committee
• The media and the public forgot about this incidence and no one heard anything till mid march 2011
• National daily, The Hindu, published the wikileaks cable where a congress leader was mentioned to have shown bags full of ~15 million dollars to be used as a bribe to win the votes, to some US embassy official.
• The government denied the allegation saying that wikileaks is not a credible source!
• The US ambassador to India in 2008, David Mulford, had accepted that cables are accurate and the MPs were presented with briefcase full of money!
• The parliament got adjourned a several times but no investigative committee was formed
• Three months since this incidence, we have conveniently forgotten this incidence and are comfortable with the abuse of our democracy and right to information and justice.

So, what should I make of the situation?

Does this whole country doubt the credibility of Wikileaks?

Or we are just too comfortable at being corrupt?

I have come to realize that the protest and loud shout in public hardly make any difference or change in this country. To me the only right way to go forward is by educating the masses. Is there a way we can create awareness and ask for investigation and justice?