Anna Hazare's call for the need to fight the corruption has awakened and really moved many a souls like us and found resonance throughout India . People from all walks of life came forward to support the noble Gandhian protest of Mr Hazare . This truly tells us the vitality of the issue and how it has been disturbing us all .
Corruption is a challenge. And public agitation is required to shame government. But it is possible to maintain, in reasonable good faith, that the Jan Lokpal Bill is not necessarily the best, or the only solution to the corruption challenge. It may be just a rigmarole .Already we have a complex institutional machinery beyond the interpretational skills of people like you and me .
The bill demands creation of an institution which will be power supreme and can exercise authoritative actions on any institution and command any kind of police, judicial and investigative power. What is the guarantee that this institution with
all good men remains uncorrupted , why as a common man we should exhibit trust on this institution and not in the politicians ? Why should we look upto those few selected endowed with the authorities , who will wield all power to unsurp the current democratic machinery .Probably we can answer saying that the selected few will be really virtuous and selfless beings who have set examples of integrity and
sacrifices that lesser mortals find difficult to emulate .
We look at the politicians with contempt but will be full of respect for this non elected body . Why the need a check on existing government ? There can be no substitute for good people in governance.Politicians can always find some menas to tweak the laws and use it in their interests . No tighter laws would be able to address the corruption ,we have passed laws against dowry but has it stopped ? I dont think just a law is powerful enough to blow the deep rooted corruption menace.Its doing no good except for adding one more abstraction layer ... if manager is not good quality, introduce senior manager; since senior manager does not work, have director; since we can’t trust our directors, have a further CEO, endlessly deferring to new positions at the top of the heirarchy without attending to basics.
Four days and government succumbs to all the demands put forth by Anna Hazare , agreed that demands were perfectly valid but the whole way of achieving it ,we as citizens, not be subject to the moral coercion of a fast-unto-death on this issue.
There are others who have been and might resort to fast until death , the righteousness of this is really boggling . I am deeply moved by Anna Hazare's call for the need to fight corruption but I just dont agree with the form and partly with
the substance of his agitation.
We all get hit by corruption and infact we are the ones who are nousrishing this plant of corruption . Its the common man who aids and abets corruption .Whenever we are on the wrong side of law we find ourselves bribing police , when we need to get some document related stuff done, were the ones passing money under tables . Anna Hazare has done his part , now I think its our turn , we all owe to the veteran a promise to keep the momentum of his started revolutionary act . Let us all cut the
roots of corruption and stop bribing rather than waiting for a magic to happen to vanish corruption .
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