NEW DELHI, Jan 23 (AFP) - India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) formally charged three former members of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao's cabinet with corruption on Tuesday. The federal detective agency filed corruption charges against former human resource development minister Madhavrao Scindia, parliamentary affairs minister Vidya Charan Shukla and agriculture minister Bal Ram Jakhar with a court here. The list of charges against the ministers, who resigned from the cabinet last week after learning they were to be prosecuted, was not released by the Tis Hazari Court handling the country's worst corruption scandal. Seven opposition politicians were charged in connection with the case last week, including Lal Krishna Advani, president of the main opposition party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, Indian People's Party). - A veteran Indian politician said in remarks published Wednesday that the army should take over the country's administration because the democratic system had failed. Biju Patnaik, a leader of the centrist Janata Dal (People's Party), said in the city of Bhubaneswar that when the "democratic process showed fissures, there was always a case for other established orders to take over." The Hindu newspaper quoted him as saying late Tuesday that a snowballing bribery scandal involving almost the entire political establishment proved that the parliamentary system had broken down. AFP /AA1234/231405 GMT JAN 96 /AA1234/240412 GMT JAN 96

---