Friday, December 30, 2011
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.
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.
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