Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Fight against Corruption

In my earlier post, in the backdrop of Arab revolutions, i had mentioned that people coming out on street can be possible in India only due to law and order issues like terrorism and gap between rich and poor. But in April, just after the world cup, Anna Hazare was instant rage. All and sundry supported him as rightfully we should have against corruption. People had candle marches, social networks went beserk...
So finally indians have said enough is enough for corruption. Or we are still like sheeps in the herd , herded by manipulators in the system with their new media tools.
There is a whole conspircy theory about phenomenon behind Anna movement. It was timed perfectly. Monday after world cup win on saturday. Media had over exposed itself on cricket frenzy. They needed new fodder. There were many fasts in Delhi which fail to catch even 100 eyeballs. What was different here? was there a media role to promote and highlight. If so who was behind and who were beneficiaries. Not all questions were answered but any logical mind can extrapolate. Not that i dont respect Anna Hazare. His issue is noble. He is a trustworthy guy who has taken rich maharashtra scoudrel politicians. Though some say he is stooged by maharashtra opposition (non congress ncp parties). Congress blames him for RSS sympathy. He was framed in false cases for sure. The faces of anti corruption movement are respectable: kiran bedi, kejriwal, bhushan, hegdes. Congress played its dirty politics as usual to attack the leaders of this movement. Last but not least he was attacked by idiots like mahesh bhatt who had only one point of objection that he praised Narendra Modi. whats the connection between that and anti corruption movement. what positibes has modi got into for gujarat is another topic. for that matter what nitish kumar has done to bihar progess is another matter.
But the movement had a specific agenda aboutr Lokpal Bill.Thats again a positive thing. You cannot have vague points to agitate. Lokpal bill with proper norms can be effective bill to fight corruption. some thought leaders argued that just like any other law in India this bill can be manipulated by those who have manipulated and milked indian system for last 64 years. What can a law do? But being a civilized democratic society we can only resort to lawmaking. Another criticism against Anna Movement was that it will undermine parliamentary democracy with sort of pressure tactics used by its leaders. Who were these people who criticized anna: digvijays, pawars, sibals, and whole set of incumbents who are known to be champions of special kind of politics, manipulation.
Then came ramdeo issue. First government wanted to explore if they can use ramdeo movement to fizzle out steam from anna movement. Moment both Anna and ramdev showed solidarity it cracked down badly. Its a blot on indian democracy. In fact we indians are used to congress version of democracy as in case of emergency. What made government motivated to use high handed ness is to douse fire before it builds up and then save ts skin using majority in parliament. It also knows that public memory is short and election in 14 will be fought on different issues. 3 years is long time in politics. Though state elections in states like UP are year away but in those states congress does not have any chance.
So its now for public to drive the fight against corruption for next 3 years. There seems no vaible alternative to congress as we see bjp today in shambles. But we need to give chance to get clean candidates elected. we need to cleanse system. The educatd should come in political mainstay. Let the parties who have milked india with corruption have civil society alternatives. Let there we revolution by leaders like anna, bedi taking constititional posts apart from just being watch dogs....

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