Corruption not new in the country: Amartya.

statesman news serviceNEW DELHI, 26 DEC: Nobel laureate Dr AmartyaSen has said that corruption is nothing new in the country, and that it cannot be associated only with the present dispensation as the story will be the same had there been investigations into the previous governments tenure. He told KaranThaparon the Devils Advocate TV programme: You can shoot ManmohanSingh, you can shoot his successor, but the main problem still remains. You have the satisfaction of two heads that you can hang up in your wall but the problem will remain the same. He said that in a coalition government, the Prime Minister is bound by certain compulsions even as his level of integrity was exceptional. If …