Battle Corruption: Enactment of strong effective Lok Pal - Consensus ...

Battle Corruption: Enactment of strong effective Lok Pal - Consensus ...: The happenings over past few days in the matter of Lok Pal legislation have come as a shock to persons like me who have been crusading again...

Enactment of strong effective Lok Pal - Consensus and not the conflict is the need of the hour

The happenings over past few days in the matter of Lok Pal legislation have come as a shock to persons like me who have been crusading against this evil for more than three decades.
The tone and tenor of team Anna had been  not been conducive to healthy discussions as it was always prefaced by condition that Jan Lok Pal draft had to passed by Parliament. Also, it started to look as if team Anna wanted to venture into political arena in an indirect way by opposing candidates of one party only without realizing that all political parties across the spectrum have contributed more than each other in allowing an all pervasive entity to this menace. Opposing one party  may end in helping even a more dangerously corrupt party to regain the saddle. Is it that team Anna does not want to follow the Gandhian concept of 'ends and means' in the fight for Lok Pal.
The opposition parties have been moved more by the political expediency rather than ultimate national good while devising their strategy wrt  the bill being steered by the government in the house. This is clear from the fact that every party supported the reservations in Lok Pal panel without caring that an institution of the status of the honorable SC had to be kept  at par with the latter in this respect. Strangely, no word comes from team Anna on this sensitive point. Another thing which appalls an observer is that despite realizing that corruption in States is causing much more concern to the common man, these parties are opposing uniform law for Lok Pal as well as Lok Ayuktas. This was team Anna's main point, but the team is not crticizing the role of opposition parties at all.
The crux of the matter is that each stake holder is try to address the concerns of his own constituency giving the concerns of the common man a back seat without realizing that corruption is too deep a malady to be tackled without a well forged consensus  and the above stake holders have to take lesson from the story of a farmer and his four sons. Consensus not the conflict is the need of the hour to clinch this issue for the common good. 

Battle Corruption: Second War for Independence of the Country is on ...

Battle Corruption: Second War for Independence of the Country is on ...: "Mr Anna Hazare has started his fast at Jantar Mantar in view of the failure of the government to satisfactorily resolve the issue of pending..."

Second War for Independence of the Country is on -Long Live Anna Hazare

Mr Anna Hazare has started his fast at Jantar Mantar in view of the failure of the government to satisfactorily resolve the issue of pending enactment of Lok Pal Bill.The government is standing on ego by refusing to agree to include eminent persons from civil society in the committee, comprising of GOM, which is discussing the draft at present.The government is saying that it has to go by its rules of business which do not provide for such broad based committees  and that such a move is unprecedented.The government is conveniently forgetting that it as well as its predecessor governments have made a complete mockery of the system by having failed to get the lok pal bill through in the parliament despite the fact that more than 42 years have elapsed since its first introduction in 1968. This establishes beyond any iota of doubt that the political elite of this country are not interested to create a machinery which will have powers to hook them for their wrong doings in an effective and time bound manner.That there has been a criminal and sinister consensus in this regard is evident from the fact that no political party in opposition ever stalled the functioning of Lok Sabha  in a bid to force the government of the day to be serious on this issue of corruption by steering the bill on Lok Pal. Evidently, the political establishment is the prime beneficiary of this criminal and colossal delay in bringing a proper anti corruption legislation. In view of this background, the government can not the present agitation as premature or having been instigated by vested interests. The fact of the matter is that the vested interests within and outside the government are not letting the honest PM take a rational stand on this issue to clinch it and thus letting the Gandhian  leader use his energies for social and economic uplift of the poor..

This agitation reminds me of the situation building up in June,1975, when Jai Parkash Narayan  was preaching total revolution and had given a call for civil disobedience. The popular mood is as angry as it was in those days as the people of the country  see in Anna Hazare an emancipator who will rid them from being subjected to double taxation in their own country where 'corruption cess' is at much higher rates than the normal visible taxation.

The movement needs a wide support and we as citizens should contribute by becoming its part in an effective way by organizing similar fasts in all state capitals..The demon of corruption has to be caught from its horns and decimated for ever.