You know I was waiting for someone to raise this point. It really is easy to think that this is an 'efficiency' problem. Shave off 1% of the economy but if growth is 7% we should still be able to manage to do good (forget that with power of compounding and long term effect for the time being.
Lemme tell you a little story. Nigeria was a state that got independence from colonial rule like many other countries at the time. It was expected that it might become successful becuase they had loads of oil. There was however a problem- a very strange yet simple issue- The Nigerians had a proverb that proved to be their undoing- no sensible man would not spit out the
juicy morsel that good fortune placed in his mouth. The fact is that when their leaders became corrupt, they had no incentive to check them since they knew from their culture, accepted as reality that 'no one is going to spit out a juicy morsel'. This allowed corruption to grow unchecked with no one really confronting it; anyone questioning it as stupid. Pretty soon the corrupt leaders were fighting with each other ruthlessly for the 'juiciest morsel', military coups followed, state collapsed and by 2014 Boko Haram was incharge. Despite lots of its oil being exploited like Saudis, they are among the poorest in the world. That's what corruption does to you.
The problem with corruption is very very different from what you think- it really is the most dangerous issue for a country- it destroys the system that holds it together. And when BJP supporters say that 'BJP Corruption is different from other corruption', it is equal to the juicy morsel logic of the Nigerians. AT least there was agreement before that country is corrupt and we need someone to fix it, not that it should be accepted.
@WAR-rior I'm heading for a ban