In a season of scams, the biggest one has gone undetected - black money in elections. Politicians shrug it off, saying that historically they have always entered Parliament 'with a lie on our lips'. Except that the lie has gotten bigger. It is by one estimate, the 81,500 crore Rs lie. Many say electoral reforms can tackle this. But we expose how political parties have sabotaged every attempt to clean up a political system rife with corruption, criminality and lack of internal democracy.